/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.8921108]

what playstation revision should i'm aim for? which one is more durable?

[Anonymous No.8921113]

>>8921108
Duckstation is pretty durable, go get that.

[Anonymous No.8921134]

>>8921108
SCPH-5xxx with PU-18 mainboard relocated the drive away from the PSU eliminating heat issues, introduced self-adjusting servo and still had good video and sound chips.

That's my choice (middle config on your pic)

[Anonymous No.8921136]

>>8921108
If you want the best sound quality then go for the bottom. If you don't care about having the best sound but you want cheats and easy piracy via the expansion port then go for the middle. If you don't give a fuck about any of the above then go for the top. But no matter what you choose you'll have to replace the disc drive unless you manage to find one that's barely been used after 20+ years.

[Anonymous No.8921162]

>>8921136
Sound quality on the middle is no worse, in fact it's now widely recognised that the multi-av audio path was best all along unless highly modified due to less capacitors in the circuit. You'd honestly be better off adding pic related to the middle revision if you want RCA jack output.

t. Reformed PS1 audiophile.

[Anonymous No.8921168]

>>8921113
Kill yourself subhuman shitposter

[Anonymous No.8921218]

>>8921108
No such thing as a reliable disc-based console.

[Anonymous No.8921229]

Should you ever want to mod-wise go PS1Digital and XStation on the same console, there is only one motherboard version that can handle both at the same time afaik.

[Anonymous No.8921376]

>>8921218
There is, and that's Sega Saturn

[Anonymous No.8921428]

>>8921376
true, ps1 had RROD levels of failure except the internet wasn't as mainstream back then for it to become a meme. meanwhile I have two saturns that have been through literally decades of use and both work perfectly.

[Anonymous No.8921434]

>>8921376
isnt the dreamcast reliable

[Anonymous No.8921438]

>>8921434
God no

[Anonymous No.8921445]

>>8921434
FUCK no

[Anonymous No.8921451]

>>8921445
>>8921438
ffuck off, what makes the saturn so good? Saturn cant even play burned games so you have to get an ode anyway.

[Anonymous No.8921479]

>>8921108
I bought a PS1 (top revision) and CRT.
I now play PS2 and GC on the CRT and use duckstation for PS1 games.
I love the PS1 aesthetic though.

[Anonymous No.8921484]

>>8921376
Has some laser issues, particularly on that first model, but thankfully it's pretty easy to fix

[Anonymous No.8921524]

>>8921451
Dreamcasts can't even read games any more

[Anonymous No.8921531]

7xxx

[Anonymous No.8921574]

>>8921451
With use of Action Replay it can.

[Anonymous No.8921609]

>>8921574
>$100 addonn to a $100 console
lol

[Anonymous No.8921654]

>>8921108
Bottom revision has incredible audio quality that rivals high end CD players that cost thousands of dollars. I’d get it if only for that.
I found one at a garage sale for $10 and nearly shit myself. I couldn’t contain my giddiness as I brought it up to the seller to confirm the price and told them I’d buy it on the spot. They had no idea what they had.

[Anonymous No.8921661]

>>8921438
>>8921445
I’ve had a Dreamcast for 20 years and it’s still going strong, fuck off with this meme.

[Anonymous No.8921664]

>>8921108
SCPH-5xxx and install the xStation

[Anonymous No.8921764]

>>8921434
I'm a dreamcast fanboy and even I sold all my shit, they are dropping like flies.

[Anonymous No.8921791]

>>8921654
>Bottom revision has incredible audio quality that rivals high end CD players that cost thousands of dollars.
why are you parroting this shit?

[Anonymous No.8921825]

>>8921654

[Anonymous No.8921826]

>>8921108
Anon ignore whoever's parroting audiophile shit, they don't know what they're talking about, it's all cope from people who all think they have perfect ears but get fooled by simple volume and bass manipulation. This is no Sega Genesis.

[Anonymous No.8921918]

>>8921134
>soul vs souless

[Anonymous No.8921947]

>>8921661
Do they mean the laser? Because mone went out, but I got a 5.20 gdemu for like $100 after tax before they started price gouging them.

[Anonymous No.8922270]

>>8921108
Stop wasting your money on 25 year old plastic with a non-functioning laser anon

[Anonymous No.8922308]

>>8922270
>laser

[Anonymous No.8922569]

>>8921134
The left seems to hide the polygon seams better though. I've seen this dozens of times and never realised it.

[Anonymous No.8922853]

>>8921609
Retro games isn't a hobby for poor niggers like yourself. And before you ask, yes, having more disposable income to enjoy my selected hobby does indeed make me better than you, broke nigger.

[Anonymous No.8922854]

>>8921113
fippy bippy
>>8921168
holy seethe

[Anonymous No.8922857]

>>8921108
The 5xx ones
Basically they still have the parallel port but don’t have the av ports

[Anonymous No.8922874]

I have the top one mod chipped and it’s been reading discs fine for 25 years. Got tue bottom model last year for a good price as a back up.

[Anonymous No.8922890]

>>8921654
horseshit

[Anonymous No.8923034]

>>8922308
>$200 for a ps1 setup including cables. $260 if you get a memcard pro
>even more if you don't already have soldering equipment and skills
vs
>$350 for a mister that will give you a perfect hardware implementation of ps1 along with dozens of other consoles and arcade boards
HMMMM I WONDER

[Anonymous No.8923052]

>>8921108
is there even anything worth doing with the parralel and serial ports on a PS1 or is that shit just for gamesharks and iso loaders?

My PS1 is the top one and I keep thinking about replacing it just because it's yellow as fuck. I always kind of wanted to get one of those meme audiophile models just because I think the RCA ports on the back make it look cool even though I wouldn't even use them.

[Anonymous No.8923068]

>>8923052
If your PS1 isn't chipped, you need the gameshark to bypass the regionlocking

[Anonymous No.8923075]

>>8923034
>perfect hardware implementation
fpga faggots are the vegans of vidya

[Anonymous No.8923129]

>>8923075
>fpga faggots are the vegans of vidya
now it makes sense why I think they are so obnoxious

[Anonymous No.8923138]

>>8921134
I’m an original hardware guy but holy shit if this isn’t the biggest issue with old consoles. I’m glad I already have all my Playstation shit but hardware variations make it such a nightmare to track things down unless you get lucky or buy consoles in bulk and sell off the shitty variations

[Anonymous No.8923162]

>>8923138
PS1 is pretty easy to tel because of the plugs on back
The hard ones are the MD and the SNES

[Anonymous No.8923213]

>>8923162
how much revision autism is there with Segas? All I know about the SNES is that 1 chip crap.

Personally, so long as my 40 year old electronics still work I'm not too picky about it.

[Anonymous No.8923229]

>>8921791
I think it’s ironic/bait mocking retards who believe clickbait articles like “is your old Nintendo game worth thousands!!?!”

[Anonymous No.8923240]

>>8923213
The thing about MD is the revisions have worse components leading to audio or video becoming distorted

[Anonymous No.8923320]

>>8921108
I see this image and all I can think is 3 girls stacked on top of each other baring their holes for inspection.

Also, I've got the middle one and I've got a Gold Finger cheat device in the I/O port which is also great for playing imports and burned games.

[Anonymous No.8923367]

>>8921434
>LOUD
>not reliable
>controller is only good for fighting games

if it wasn't for the amazing roster of games the DC would have been an embarrassing console to go out on

[Anonymous No.8923370]

>>8923068
Or you could just use one of those memory card exploits like the PS2.

[Anonymous No.8923395]

>>8923213
Some SNESes mainly earlier models have shitty power railing which can result in the CPU being nuked.

[Anonymous No.8923425]

>>8923395
Is there any way of knowing which SNES revisions are fucked?

[Anonymous No.8923559]

>>8921434
Bigtime laser and heating problems, to expand everybody else's horrified answers.

[Anonymous No.8923561]

>>8921664
Do I need to know how to solder to put an XStation in?

[Anonymous No.8923572]

>>8921524
Works on my machine

[Anonymous No.8923587]

>>8921108
Earlier models are shit quality but easy to mod.
Later models are more reliable but not recommended for beginner modders.

[Anonymous No.8923610]

>>8923425
More often SHVC and GPMs. There are a couple mods you can do to prevent this including installing a 7805 rated for 2A.

[Anonymous No.8923735]

>>8923034
imagine being a retrodork who can't solder
lmao couldn't be me

[Anonymous No.8923798]

>>8921434
>>8921451
The Saturn used some custom electronics, and was very expensive to produce, whereas the Dreamcast was almost entirely comprised of off-the-shelf components. In my experience, the Saturn's laser is significantly quieter and more reliable than the Dreamcast's.

[Anonymous No.8923835]

>>8921108
depends on if you wanna do mods afaik the odes are only supported on certain models same with hdmi mods maybe look for one that supports both of those if you wanna do them in the future. I like the slim tho so would go with that if not modding. You can still install modchips for burned discs

[Anonymous No.8923837]

>>8921434
disc drive died on my dc so i dont think so

[Anonymous No.8923880]

>>8921609
thats the cost of like 2 games

[Anonymous No.8923881]

>>8923034
playing the way i want to: priceless

[Anonymous No.8923886]

>>8921791
>>8923229
I think it did at the time of release and was popular with audiophiles for that

[Anonymous No.8924670]

>>8921108
Was this old buddy *that* bad?

[Anonymous No.8924689]

>>8924670
Nah, best controller too

[Anonymous No.8924890]

Was there another PSX before the bottom one? I haven't seen a PSX IRL in, like, 22 years, but I coulda sworn mine had a coaxial thingy.

[Anonymous No.8924913]

>>8924890
The very first japanese model also has an s video port

[Anonymous No.8924927]

>>8924913
Y'know, I didn't want to say it, but I may have had the Japanese one because my brother liked getting shit before their US release despite neither of us being able to read Japanese.
I don't remember what S-video is, so I'm gonna look it up and get back to you, thanks.

[Anonymous No.8924938]

>>8924927
This thingamabob looks familiar, the thingy to the left that plugs onto the other thingy to the far left. I don't know the words for things.

[Anonymous No.8924945]

>>8924938
Misspoke. The thingies to the left and far that plug into the thingy that sticks out of the back of older CRTs without a/v inputs.
Forgive my retardation.
Anyway, I think that's the one we had with a gameshark or something for the back port and a 28-in-one memory card and a dex drive.

[Anonymous No.8925250]

>>8923367
>controller good for fighting games
True but not the one it shipped with though.

[Anonymous No.8925296]

>>8923034
>$200 for a ps1 setup including cables
anon what are you smoking

[Anonymous No.8926220]

>>8923162
>>8923213
Genesis is easy, just make sure it's a Model 1 that says "High Definition Graphics" on the top. Otherwise the audio is garbage.

SNES 1-Chip is a bitch to find but it only makes much of a difference if you've RGB modded the system.

[Anonymous No.8926223]

>>8921376
>>8921451
Saturn cost $100 more than the PS and Sega didn't cheap out on build quality. Meanwhile Dreamcast launched for $100 less than the PS2 and while the early PS2s had problems, Sega was definitely cutting corners to keep the cost down and make a next-gen system competitively priced with the current offerings.

[Anonymous No.8926283]

>>8925296
He probably means with an xstation and installation

[Anonymous No.8926286]

>>8921162
I bought an off brand one of these several years ago from ebay to play TimeCrisis. I had no idea how rare they were and a huge deal if you want to play light gun games

[Anonymous No.8926394]

>>8923213
>>8926220
Some of the model 1 Genesis boards, I think VA1 or VA2, had bad implementation of analog filtering which led to the volume being too loud and having severe clipping. I don't remember the details.

I think it was the model 1 VA4/5/6 which is considered the best, depending on whether you want TMSS (the lockout rom that says "developed for sega" on boot) or not.

Model 2 is all garbage except for the VA2/2.3 which uses a real ym2612.
I think there's some audio fix that can make the sound less garbage, but you still have to deal with some effects sounding completely different, and that fix makes the sound super clear instead of the bassy, soft sound in the model 1s. The only saving grace of the model 2 is that some later models fixed the column scroll bug (leftmost column glitches when doing column scroll, you can see it in a lot of games that do full screen rotation, like the pirate ship in Streets of Rage 2).

[Anonymous No.8927372]

>>8921451
>Saturn cant even play burned games
You literally only need a rubberband to make it able to play burned games.

[Anonymous No.8927462]

>>8923034
>bro buy my shitty emulator with steps
no

[Anonymous No.8927916]

>>8926394
>>8926220
interesting. seems like I have the genesis that doesn't say high definition but still has good audio, which is nice. I have no idea what revision my snes is, too lazy to take it apart and check.

[Anonymous No.8928209]

>>8921134
Oh wow I got my PS1 in September 96. I guess I dodged a bullet there.

[Anonymous No.8928317]

>>8927372
thats wrong. you need a $80 cart. Rubberband? You're retarded

[Anonymous No.8928967]

>>8921434
Dreamcast stinks. Power supplies overheat and shut down. And yesterday my disc drive died while playing. DC is cheap rubbish.

[Anonymous No.8928995]

Anyone remember the Sephiroth code from ff7? Yeah, get the gpio versions.

[Anonymous No.8930757]

>>8928317
Ever heard of disc swapping?

[Anonymous No.8930762]

>>8924670
Oh, an actual PS1

[Anonymous No.8930901]

>>8921108
Had the disc reader on the bottom one fry out on me back in 1997.

[Anonymous No.8931175]

>>8924670
It's peak console aesthetic, unmatched to this day.

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