/vr/ - Retro Games

Can it play backups? I thought it was just region free. Also, pretty expensive.

I thought the debugging PS was called yaroze

They're a bit pricey, but not too expensive.
I'd buy one if I cared about playing PSX games on a CRT like the old days.
Cheaper than a PS4 and a lot more fun.

>>1801346
Apparently so. Even on the Playstation Models wiki, the blue debugging consoles fall "Yes" under the CD-R Copies column. I even made a little key. I'm not sure how trust worthy Wikipedia is, though.
>pic related, it's the key

>>1801363
Yeah, that's what I mainly want one. Lowest I found was about $200. Not bad I'd say.
>>1801349
You're thinking of the Net Yaroze, a development kit for experienced game programmers who could create their own games at home.
>pic related, it's the net yaroze

>>1801378
Net Yaroze's just look awesome.
That matte black is nice. It's like it's been painted like an SR-71.

>>1801384
>using a comma
I feel stupid.

just get a regular one and mod it

>>1801384
They do! The black looks sexy. Ha ha. I can only imagine what the console feels like.
>>1801396
I had thoughts about doing this, and that's probably what I might do. But I'm not experienced with soldering at all, and I don't want to damage my original Playstation.

>>1801406
you don't need to physically mod it; try searching for the swap trick or just buy a swap magic disc. i never did it with the ps1, but i used swap magic with my ps2. worked great.

>>1801420
Doing the swap trick can damage the Playstation's laser, if I'm not mistaken. And it could do a couple of other harmful stuff to it. I don't think it's worth it, really.

>>1801315
>I want to purchase one mainly because it can play burned games, and it's region free
A modchip will be around 1/100th the price.

>>1801406
>I had thoughts about doing this, and that's probably what I might do. But I'm not experienced with soldering at all, and I don't want to damage my original Playstation.
You could buy a dozen Playstation consoles and a dozen mod chips and still not spend nearly as much as buying one debug console.

>>1801452
itd be great to have one to fuck around with developing a ps1 game. I got late to the programming party and now I'm stuck working on shitty mobile games.

>>1801464
You can boot code on a retail PSX using a GameShark or equivalent clone. Get one with a PC Comm Link card and the parallel cable and you're set. Just don't expect any modern utilities to load code successfully... I remember having to boot DOS to make it work. All the tools (official and unofficial) are 16-bit executables

Modchip is 4 dollaroos and works on every console.

>>1801448
>>1801452
This is probably what I'll end up doing. Can a mod chip play games from different regions?

>>1801501
With just the chip other regions may show in black and white, but you can do a region mod fairly easily while the console is open for modding anyway.

My advice: Buy. Small. Small. Tiny. Wires.

>>1801364
Wikipedia is based on sources, verify the source.
Then verify that there are corroborating sources if possible, especially if you're going to blow hard dosh on it.