/vr/ - Retro Games

>>8589430
objectively the 5501
-upgraded gpu
-parallel port
-serial port
-pu18, most widely supported for all mods
-best aesthetic
unless you're a memer and want to try to pretend you need a 5903

>>8589434
I never heard of the 5903. Is it just a 1001 model mixed witg a 5501?

>>8589430
I had the original but I traded it in after I got a PSOne with LCD screen

It was quite a vibe to get this new and plug it in to the ashtray to play in the car on the way to the beach with your family over the summer

traded in my original PS2 for a PS2 slim too

>>8589445
its a vcd player with a big ass board for vcd decoding
nobody watches vcd

>>8589445
It's the only PS1 model which can play Video CDs, released exclusively in South-East Asian region.

>>8589451
That is pretty cool, but I imagine it just means "more stuff that can fail" since they probably just crapped that out real quick. I have a 9001 and psOne, but I but in a order for a 5501 so I can have option for an xstation later.

>>8589430
I like the 1001

>>8589430
This

>>8589516
Fucking Hiroshima

>>8589430
The one on Duckstation.

An emulator, since it fixes texture warp and vertex jiggle to an extent.

>>8589518
This. The DTL-H3001

>>8589434
This, though I've heard some swear the sound in the first model is better
I can't hear it personally

>>8589518
I've got one complete Yaroze set but I rarely use it, feels wrong to use it as your main ps1.

>>8589553
Do the first models have any bad defects, like the SHVC SNES units for example?

>>8589518
That color looks so good on that form, like it's a tux or something.

>>8589578
and it's matte, it feels nice to the touch.

>>8589578
They went the extra mile with it. It has a unique textured paint job that actually feels different compared to regular consoles and even the dev/debug units that really makes it a classy piece of hardware. Even the controllers have the unique feel to them.

>>8589430
MiSTer

>>8589518
What's this

>>8589684
Isn't that ps1 core still not ready for Showtime like the nes and the snes core are?

>>8589430
idk which ever one plays my fucking games with no issues

>>8589434
First post best post. God truly blessed me when I went shopping for a ps1 last year and the first model I came across was a damn good condition 5501. Soldering was nerve wracking but once I got it done I couldn't be happier. I'm gonna maintain this puppy as long as possible.

A slim PS2.

>>8589783
What mod is that? Am unaware of anything worthwhile besides XStation.

>>8589789
PSIO. Far superior to xstation IMO.

>>8589695
See
>>8589550

>>8590056
>far superior
Oh, I see you’re a retard.

>>8590056
How

>>8590062
Silence xstation poorfag. I'll maintain my disc drive usage and have cool wallpapers I make myself with cool music.
>but xstation holds 4,000 games!
You'll never play 3,800 of them in your life. PSIO holds 1,000 and that's plenty.
>but muh ease of use! Just drag and drop!
Common misconception by non-PSIO owners, PSIO IS drag and drop .iso or bin/cues all work just fine. Creating a text file for multi-disc games takes less than 10 seconds.
>but muh compatibility!
The psio is over 99.9% compatible with the ps1 library. Last I checked there were 2 or 3 games that weren't compatible. I don't remember what they are because they're not worth playing. I've never needed to patch a game to play it.

I simply don't care if xstation loads one millisecond faster or supports "memory card pro" (desu I really don't know what that is nor do I own one but I know compatibility with it is coming to PSIO also if it's not already compatible).

>Inb4 you desperately try to LARP as a PSIO owner claiming you're aware of how misinformed everyone is and you still think xstation is better after not recognizing the soldering or modchip

>>8590092
>muh x vs y
No he’s right, you are retarded

>>8590119
Now you're samefagging lmao.
>"PSIO is better"
>"How?"
>Lists how
>"Omg I can't believe you just compared the 2 fuckin retard!!1!"

It retains more original hardware so it's automatically better anyways.

>>8589553
55xx and first model use the same audio chip.

Satan wants us all

>>8590092
Memcard pro compatibility is pretty awesome, it automatically generates a memory card image or swaps to it for the game you boot up. Never need to worry about swapping memory cards or having one with enough space on it. Maybe one day the psio devs will implement that feature for the poor bastards that own one.

>>8590202
>lists how
Where?
All you listed was things it doesn’t do

>>8590226
I love how I just start a game and all the saving is handled for me. Such a perfect combination.

>>8589789
Slim PS2s have poor compatibility with PS1 games, unless you get the very first model (which itself has overheating issues).

>>8590646
>poor compatibility
I have exclusively used my slim PS2 to play PS1 games since like 2005 and haven't ran into a single issue.

I heard the first batch of ps1s had music quality that got the attention of audiophiles
SCPH-1001

>>8589430
>best variant of the Playstation 1?
2? best variant?

>>8589430
Don't care. Gotta catch em all.

>>8589434
Imagine being a member instead of a memer

>>8589469
No, they're very reliable. I've had several and never had a problem. One thing the member neglected to mention is that they're white.

>>8590708
It was, and is, mostly a meme.

Wish the one with s video out was compatible with x station

>>8589430
This one is my favorite. My only real complaint about it is that it doesn't have a serial port, but I've never been presented an opportunity to use a link cable before anyways.

>>8591274
Which versions don't support s-video?

>>8590092
The PSIO lost all relevance when it needed a fucking mod to the hardware to work right. If you're going to hardware mod the system regardless then why not just use an Xstation? If the PSIO was actually plug-and-play then it would be a different story.

>>8591323
I think he means the early model which had an s video port on the console itself.

>>8591337
Yes, that's what I meant

>>8591329
NTA but I've been trying to figure out why people hate the PSIO so much. I can't install an Xstation on my 7501 and I've been trying to find real examples of people having compatibility issues but I can't find much. I don't really care if I'm replacing the drive itself or mounting a cart on the rear, if it allows me to not be dependent on lasers from China.

>>8591493
Just buy a different ps1 and qn xstation anon, psio is shit, the developer is a cunt the firmware is hardware locked and hasn't been updated in over a year, meanwhile xstation just works.

>>8591297
Fun fact, PSONE who was realeased in 2000 sold more than both the Xbox and NGC, sitting at 28M units.

>>8591741
sauce?

>>8589430
I have both the PSone and the final model of fat and neither has ever given me any issues. I primarily use the fat because it just feels higher quality. I like how the disc drive doesn't just pop open like on the PSone, for example.

>>8591337
>early models
This definitely wasn’t a thing in the west

fuck you xlosers

>>8592293
cope PSIO tranny

>>8592329
shut the fuck up retard

>>8592337
YWNBAW

>>8592293
PSIO is so awesome that DRM came before bug fixes.

>>8589518
None shall ever touch.

>>8589550
Better known as the Net Yaroze.

>>8591741
I saw that posted here a couple weeks ago and was shocked. I guess looking back I remember seeing them for sale until at least like 2004 where I live
>>8591760
Damn, I've never run into that problem with the disc tray popping open. I can't really argue with the quality though; it's definitely a lot harder to accidentally yank the original model around with the controller

>>8592340
You will never be happy, just full hate you have to release by attacking others. You'll die alone, in your mid 50s, probably from a heart attack, alone, unsatisfied, full of hate, just as you are now.

>>8592383
>Damn, I've never run into that problem with the disc tray popping open.
I should explain better. It doesn't just pop open on its own. What I mean is that when you open it, it just quickly pops open while the tray cover on the fat model opens smoothly and slowly.

>>8589430
duckstation

>>8590646
there's a very small selection of games that it can't play and none of them are games that anybody's going to miss

>>8589695
Net Yaroze. A devkit for regular people, that you could actually buy from Sony and not from the shady corner of failed studios street.
Came with documentation and unlike the botched ps3 linux you had access to the graphics api.

>>8592405
Ah, I see. The PSone definitely feels more like a Discman than a PlayStation, true

>>8591337
Why did the 1001 have RCA jacks when the unit as an AV out cable? Is it simply for proprietary reasons?

>>8592618
Nice thing about the psOne is not needing to worry about the internal power supply screwing up. Downside is needing to use a brick like the psp's charging cable.

>>8590646
>>8590703
>>8592496
There's only like three PSX games that are jacked up on the PS2 Slim iirc. I keep a PSone around because one of the games with issues on the Slim is one of my favorites, Gradius Gaiden

>>8590646

The OG phat PS2 has PS1 hardware inside of it, hence better compatibility. It even goes so far as to support some PS2 games - in other words, those PS2 games won't run properly on slim models.

>>8592496
I dunno, I remember liking that Italian Job game.

>>8592620

>>8592592
Sony just let anyone buy these? That's pretty cool.

>>8592606
Care to elaborate?

>>8590709
>Playstation 1?
>2? best variant?
can anyone please inform?

>>8594527
Comborino moar stronk then xbox

The emulator of course lol

Give it a little bit of this:

https://modmyclassic.com/project-eris/

And you have the Ultimate Emulation Box.

>>8594539
>Comborino
what is that? what is in your photo?

>>8594752
The "Panasonic Q" Gamecube that Accepts normal DVDs, and the PSX DVR that comes with a built in PS2.

Both of them are very rare, and only ever sold in Japan.

>>8589518
why are you black?

>>8589556
fucking use it for something man. someone else would die for one

>>8594948
>only ever sold in Japan
so they play only japanese games?

>>8589430
Beetle SW hooked up to my 15khz CRT via component cables, and a modern Hori controller.

>>8594595
My games keep resetting to use the default core in autobleem. How can I make it to where I can change the default core to one that is actually decent?

I was a late adopter because poorfag family and my PS1 is a 9001 model, how bad is that

>>8591741
I know about this, but I would like to read more about psx/psone era form 2000 to 2006

>>8596969
Not bad by any conceivable metric because your family had a PlayStation, my personal favorite video game console

>>8596969
You don't have the parallel port, I guess.

>>8597662
The console was popular enough in Japan to warrant companies to realease games for it until 2006 under the label PSONE books and PlayStation The Best, a series of realeases where they put the games in cheap plastic cases with the manual outside of the case, the game would still sell in the 50k units range wich show how popular the Play Station was, also they where a crap ton of anime based game wich where pretty good like One Piece, Inuyasha and Prince of Tennis, not to mention that big hitters like DQVII and DQIV where realeased after both the PSONE and PS2 where out, so technically you could cheat and say that the best selling game of the 6th gen in Japan wasn't DQVIII but DQVII.
Honestly is a shame that we don't see so many great Japanese games on PS like back in the day, Namco and Capcom along with From Soft still realease good games but the input is not nearly as good as it used to be when PS was King, now days is nothing but a shadow of it's former self.

>>8593743
Yeah, it was to encourage game development in the public. They were pretty damn costly though (like $800 or close to that) and they only appealed to hobbyists) but they could also play games of any region. A lot of PSX magazines would include net yaroze games with their demo discs. Most of the games were either tech demos, proof of concepts or really really bad but there’s the odd few that were really quite special and a few devs actually got their start making NY games. This one here is called Terra Incognita which is this weird puzzle/RPG/platformer thing. One of the guys who made it, Mitsuru Kamiyama, went on to join Square and directed one of the FF spin-offs

>>8596969
Nothing wrong with it, it just can’t be used for a lot of mods

just use your phone.

>>8592642
They only have the CPU and sound processors, unfortunately, so the graphics processing is still emulated, leading to graphical issues in some games. Can't beat original hardware.

>>8599645
Isn't this why there's no dithering on the PS2

i dont know anything about individual consoles’ technical differences but i love the psone’s design. i also have a serial port ps1 with a broken laser i was thinking about putting an ode in

>>8599653
which side is the laser on?
left or right?
if it's on the left, don't bother

>>8599663
i checked and laser is on the right, scph-7001 model. havent actually looked into any ode compatibility since right now i use tonyhax and burned discs on my psone

>>8599686
7001 sucks

>>8599707
in what way

>>8599709
it doesn't suck it's just most likely incompatible with xstation

What's the difference between 5500 and 7500? Those are usually the models people recommend on forums

>>8599582
That's fucking awesome. I would kill for one those, I wonder if people still make homebrew stuff with those models today.

>>8599718
thanks anon I'll do more research in the future

>>8589518
I saw one of these at a thrift store like 10 years ago priced as a normal PS1 and I had no idea what it was until years later, I thought it was just a custom or something

>>8589430
Got the slim on release that just won't die.

>>8599649
I think it's the "smooth texture" option fucks the dithering up.

>>8599931
I don't think that's what I'm talking about anon
the original PS1 has a screen covering dithering effect

>>8599792
550x guarentees all mods will work on it. 750x means that mods may work on it depending on the board used inside.

>>8599796
I don’t think so. The console itself was mainly just for running the games you made, all development had to be done on a computer and the thing came with software to help you along. I doubt they run on modern setups though but that’s not gonna stop some people

>>8589430
Ironically a PS2 because of it's backwards compatibility.

>>8599649
There's still dithering. It's obvious in games like Crash Team Racing.

>>8600665
It must be a GameShark code or something I’m thinking about

>>8589430
Playstation can be emulated on various operating systems today.

Can playstation run windows or some other operating system other than its own?

>>8589434
I have a 5501 with an xstation and ps1digital I installed myself.

Literal perfection

I love smaller console revisions. I modded my PSOne and just burn discs. I don't play enough ps1 games to warrant a whole ODE.