Yep, the addition of this menu left intact reeks of off the shelf port job.
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Apparently, you can easily access the PlayStation Classic emulator settings
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this is a high end toy
and anything that costs less than 100 USD is a bargain.
Also, it's not fair to compare NES/SNES mini price with PS Classic, since majority games on PSC from third-party publishers. In addition, licenses for those games cost more than for games from 8bit/16bit era.
The fact the menu is seemingly only accessible via the Corsair K70 makes me wonder whether that keyboard is actually sending something other than just escape when the key is pressed.
I don't think there is any blacklisting of USB keyboards going on. The two I have tried are not able to access the menu by pressing escape, but their sleep buttons turn the system off and the pause/play button activates the reset option.
I don't think there is any blacklisting of USB keyboards going on. The two I have tried are not able to access the menu by pressing escape, but their sleep buttons turn the system off and the pause/play button activates the reset option.
Mine came before I could cancel. Read this update about the keyboards and almost considered keeping it until I read it needs a specific keyboard.
Nope, it's goin' back.
Nope, it's goin' back.
Makes sense that this would work. It's just an un-modified, off the shelf home brew emulator that normally has this menu accessible by pressing Esc on a keyboard (which is probably what prompted people to try it).
Just goes to show how little effort Sony put into this thing that they didn't even bother to turn off the button mapping for the menu or disable keyboard support. It's one of those rare cases where the term "lazy devs" actually does apply!
Just goes to show how little effort Sony put into this thing that they didn't even bother to turn off the button mapping for the menu or disable keyboard support. It's one of those rare cases where the term "lazy devs" actually does apply!
This is the same exact questions I have. Like, I have a Razor Keyboard, but does that one even work? Why specifically a Corsair model keyboard?
I mean it's just a raspberry pi with unmodified open-source PCSX and some iso found on the internet. Building it yourself will cost you much less and you'll have much better games to put in it. It's probably not too difficult.
Gamekult just tried to enable the framerate settings and such, and the result is like this:
- most of the settings don't work, including the NTSC one
- games still run like trash with everything on
- scanlines do work though
- you can potentially plug in a compatible mouse to play Rainbow Six with (but why would anyone do that)
- they used a Corsair Raptor K50 keyboard to work it with
https://www.gamekult.com/actualite/la-playstation-classic-n-echap-pas-aux-failles-3050811913.html
- most of the settings don't work, including the NTSC one
- games still run like trash with everything on
- scanlines do work though
- you can potentially plug in a compatible mouse to play Rainbow Six with (but why would anyone do that)
- they used a Corsair Raptor K50 keyboard to work it with
https://www.gamekult.com/actualite/la-playstation-classic-n-echap-pas-aux-failles-3050811913.html
Yep, build one last year and paid about 75€ with a 64gb sd card included.
Add the cost of two controllers to this and you got yourself a stew.
Well sorry for being poor and thinking 100 dollars is a lot for a toy.
Second of all, it's completely fair to compare the value you get with one product against the value you get with another in the exact same vein in this case. The licensing fees don't depend on whether or not a game is polygons or if a game is 16 bit.
But hey. Let's assume a majority of the third party games are there because SCE published them in Europe and thus are able to license them into the Classic for cheap. Why didn't they cram this thing with more first party titles they don't have to pay licenses for. Where's Medievil? Wipeout? Parappa?
Remember, this is completely ignoring the fact most of these games already in the PS Classic didn't run great on it's emulator to begin with.
This is strictly the value of the games, as you are fixated on. Did you know that Persona 1 is worth over 135 on the secondhand market? Surely that means the $99 is justified for that title alone.
So, it doesn't matter. Dark1x, save yourself some money and don't buy a keyboard :P
This is the biggest disappointment I've had with a Playstation product ever. I sure hope the higher ups at Sony are unhappy about it.
No need to be sorry for being poor. But still, $100 is a bargain, really.
Also, yes, it's toy, so you are not obligated to buy this. It's not food or clothes.
And I think price is justified, check my previous posts why.
Are you fucking kidding me.
This thing is legendary already.
Are you fucking kidding me.
This thing is legendary already.
I am however interested in the credits menu, I'm pretty sure Sony outsourced this crap to a terrible hardware producer like AtGames or some shit like that.
Sony has never released such a botched product since they entered the videogames market. What the hell were they thinking... This is clearly the result of new executives being out of touch with Playstation's legacy and just want to cash in Christmas gifting period to get their bonuses next year for driving KPIs up.
Which is sad because PlayStation emulation on Vita is near perfect. Probably because it's partially native and not just emulation.
Yeah, I'm really curious about the credits. Hopefully somebody shares that.
Not for this emulator and not for the architecture Sony uses (ARM).
That's actually interesting. So someone with the Corsair should do something like "xev" on a Linux to see what the escape key actually does on that keyboard and what it sends to the OS.
There's a few things that just don't.... Don't make sense to me at all. Why do only certain keyboards work? Keyboards are pretty universal at this point. And if you could just change the pal games to ntsc why didn't they just say that and save themselves the backlash?? I don't get it.
I have a Corsair K95 Platinum, wonder if that would work or it's locked down to the K75 for whatever reason.
I have a Corsair K95 Platinum, wonder if that would work or it's locked down to the K75 for whatever reason.
Well the toggle doesn't actually make it run better anyways, so there was no real value in that one.
Because PAL games won't magically turn into NTSC games when you turn on the NTSC option. Usually all that option does is force PAL games to run at 60 Hz which can have various results. Some games will run fine but others will have graphical errors and glitches or might even be not playable at all. Also it looks like the NTSC option does nothing in this case.
I missed that detail, so they specifically chose the pal games just because they couldn't do a stable 60fps then huh?
Yeah no that's my bad, I misinterpreted it as the NTSC roms already being on the machine.
Detailed thread (in French, that I'll translate) about what is happening with this mess:
https://twitter.com/Zetsuboushitta/status/1069924696647454722
Essentially:
- The system is running on Android using YOCTO
- The emulator is indeed PCSX-reArmed slightly modified but on a very old base, very badly optimized and badly implemented likely due to a lack of time
- Debug mode wasn't removed meaning that you can access it with K75 type Corsair keyboards or different types of Logitech keyboards
- The "60Hz" mode of the debug settings are just interpolating 50hz into 60hz by duplicating frames. aka it's still trash and isn't close to the original experience
- It seems easy to connect the console to a PC and load PC HUBs in it but as of now not to change the games themselves
- Hacking potential seems limited and overall pointless
https://twitter.com/Zetsuboushitta/status/1069924696647454722
Essentially:
- The system is running on Android using YOCTO
- The emulator is indeed PCSX-reArmed slightly modified but on a very old base, very badly optimized and badly implemented likely due to a lack of time
- Debug mode wasn't removed meaning that you can access it with K75 type Corsair keyboards or different types of Logitech keyboards
- The "60Hz" mode of the debug settings are just interpolating 50hz into 60hz by duplicating frames. aka it's still trash and isn't close to the original experience
- It seems easy to connect the console to a PC and load PC HUBs in it but as of now not to change the games themselves
- Hacking potential seems limited and overall pointless
That looks like a looooooot of overhead for such a simple device.
If it was even "slightly modified", we would see contribution from Sony, since that project is under GPL.
Might explain how it could fail at emulating such simple games with a competent emulator.
Those two points don't go well together imo.
A newer, better optimized emulator core could help this thing.
Shame about the ntsc/pal switch doing nothing though...sigh...it didn't make sense to me anyway lol. Can't wait to switch those isos.
This suggests last minute cut features. Also the fact that you can select NTSC games but they don't run well backs up what people have said before which is that release standard emulation is not that easy, and Sony aren't particularly good at emulation anyway. I reckon that's why PS2onPS4 stopped too.
To be honest Sony's incompetence at emulation puts me off ever getting a Sony Console again. I can't see that they'll ever get their shit in order when it comes to BC.
To be honest Sony's incompetence at emulation puts me off ever getting a Sony Console again. I can't see that they'll ever get their shit in order when it comes to BC.
Vita has amazing PS1 emulation. It's the PS2 emulation thats been more difficult. Has Nintendo emulated Gamecube?