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Apparently, you can easily access the PlayStation Classic emulator settings
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Oh wow income condescension on era in a thread about one of the worst products out in a long time. Crazy.
PS1 on Vita isn't really emulation, the PS1-compatible PSP CPU, which is included in the Vita, is what runs the games.
Similar to the above situation, the Wii and Wii U's CPU is compatible with GC code.
Wii and Wii U do not perform software emulation for the GameCube - they have pure hardware compatibility with the GameCube. (Hell, the Wii more or less is a GameCube with some tweaks.)
seriously tho, the idea that this becomes a better product by pugging in a keyboard and pressing esc is so hilarious.
Goddamn what a disaster, and the thread even had me change my mind about getting one.
The full modified source code has already been published by Sony here. Most notable changes include many changes for applying emulator settings for specific games, and the games lists indicates they were testing with a much broader range of games that what made the final product. There's obviously also a lot of changes around the interface.
https://doc.dl.playstation.net/doc/psclassic-oss/PCSX_ReARMed.html
All open source software is listed here: https://doc.dl.playstation.net/doc/psclassic-oss
Wow, I am so glad I lost interest in this product after the game list was revealed. The fact that the debug menu is so easy to access with the right keyboard is hilarious to me.
Possible, especially in combination with some mediocre SoC components. It certainly shouldn't be a problem emulating some 20 year old games with a solid performance to this extend, badly optimized emulator disregarded.
Almost "Have you tried turn it off and on again" level, imo.
Still, i really want to know what difference to other keyboard this Corsair keyboards send that makes the debug mode available.
It's been like 24 hours since the thing came out, give it time.
This is only one guy.
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It's not feasible to include the original hardware (which is what Wii and Wii U had) just for backwards compatibility. If that wasn't the case Switch would have had GameCube games day 1.
this kind of bodes well for hacking. i'm curious how far it could go though. like, could we see a situation where the entire emulator and games could be swapped out for something better? because if that's a possibility it's not that bad of a deal seeing as a pi, 2 controllers and a good quality playstation shell would run up costs similar to this thing anyway.
The teardowns of the system indicate that it really is as cheap as possible. Lowest power ARM chip in it, which I think might actually be less powerful than the mali chip in SNES/NES mini.
EDIT: Sorry seems like I am wrong and the classics chip is more powerful.
EDIT: Sorry seems like I am wrong and the classics chip is more powerful.
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In the Digital Foundry review, John states that the components are better than those found on the NES/SNES Classic, he even tells that those could capable to provide decent emulation.
The problem with the Playstation Classic seems to be Software related.
I didn't. I literally took the PSC to the store, tried it on every keyboard they had and discovered that none of them worked (outside of some buttons triggering things like sleep mode or going back to the menu).
For the cost of the games, it is a bargain, just like the NES and SNES classic. buying a PS1 and all of those games would cost you more than $100, even now.
Ouch. A poor, poor effort by Sony. I'm disappointed, but not overly so.
I'm only following along to see how this will shake out as far as hacking it. I'll stick with my modded PSTV and PSP, and regular PS2/3 to play older games.
I have to find a copy of Intelligent Qube posthaste.
I don't think the comparison quite works for several reasons.
1) The NES and SNES Mini actually feature a decent emulator and have a nice array of bonus features the PS Classic lacks (CRT filters, different save states, rewind option). The Minis are competent devices to play the old games, the PS Classic isn't. What's the point of getting a relatively good deal on an array of games when, if you actually care about emulation quality, you're just waiting to be able to replace them with versions that are using a better emulator?
2) The NES and SNES Mini's line ups were actually well-received. On the other hand, hardly anyone seems to be particularly satisfied with the games that are included in the PS Classic. You get a good deal on 20 games, but what's the point if you wouldn't have otherwise purchased most of them either way?
3) In addition to the line up being somewhat lacking, they even put the worst versions of some of the games on it. That's kinda a combination of 1 and 2: If you care about quality, these aren't the versions you want to play or buy.
They may have run into parts obsolescence issues if they based if off the Vita.
Except the initial question was about emulation not backwards compatibility, unless I didn't click back far enough
You gotta love how desperate people are to crack this thing.
That's not a criticism either, I'm in the same boat and my purchase hinges on it. I think fundmanetally and in theory this is a super appealing product, just handled and packaged badly enough that people still want it, subject to being able to fix it.
I was seriously so excited for this thing, even with a less than ideal lineup. They really screwed it up and the worst part is it all seemed very avoidable.
Even if all we can do is switch the PAL ISOs for NTSC and fine-tune the emulator, that would make this an instant buy for me.
If classic mini consoles - and the PlayStation Classic especially - are any indication of what the future of games preservation entails, I think I might be tempted to try emulation again for the first time since, like, 2005.
You're kidding me, the reason I cancelled my pre-order was due to the PAL version debacle. And you're telling me with a simple keyboard command I can easily switch over to NTSC?
So disregarding anything related to cracking, I'm most curious as to whether NTSC versions of the games actually run well. After watching Digital Foundry's video, it seemed like the theory was the games couldn't consistently hit 60FPS so capping at 50 with the PAL versions may have been a solution. I want to know if that truly is the case. If the games actually run fine, maybe I'll just order this thing then and tinker around with the backend.
So disregarding anything related to cracking, I'm most curious as to whether NTSC versions of the games actually run well. After watching Digital Foundry's video, it seemed like the theory was the games couldn't consistently hit 60FPS so capping at 50 with the PAL versions may have been a solution. I want to know if that truly is the case. If the games actually run fine, maybe I'll just order this thing then and tinker around with the backend.
Likely going to keep my unit because it looks great next to my NES and SNES but they screwed this one bad. Hoping something good come from it.
Until then I will continue to enjoy PS1 gaming on the greatest emulation machine in existence, my 3.65 ENSO Vita.
Until then I will continue to enjoy PS1 gaming on the greatest emulation machine in existence, my 3.65 ENSO Vita.
Sorry everyone resetera is being a bit silly at the moment.
Anyway, I was wrong and the machine is indeed more powerful than the snes mini. However, it seems like the emulator they used really isn't suited to low power systems. Makes you appreciate NERDS efforts with the snes and nes minis.
Anyway, I was wrong and the machine is indeed more powerful than the snes mini. However, it seems like the emulator they used really isn't suited to low power systems. Makes you appreciate NERDS efforts with the snes and nes minis.
I think there's two appealing positions for this product regardless:
- Non-casual or Casual gamer - Nostalgia. They might not play video games heavily but did happen to play the Playstation 1 and see this product out in the wild, boom, purchase. All cause of memories from back in the day etc. The box does enough advertising for the product and its already appealing enough for them to be like "I need this in my life". These might also be people who don't understand things that an enthusiast like us here on ERA do have knowledge about. They may also need heavily read Kotaku, IGN and the rest of those types of sites so they might not know the negativity behind it on forums etc.
- Enthusiast - We understand that this product is *not* great by any means, we understand the ROMS aren't the running the way we want them to run and that this might be half assed essentially. *BUT* we want this product to succeed enough where we want to fix it ourselves and find workarounds to switch ROMs etc.
Oh so it is Android, not GNU Linux? I had a suspicion but it's sad to see it confirmed. Well in that case it's back to the shop my unopened system goes. This thing isn't even worth hacking.
Isn't that last point more of conjecture? It's been out one day and not all options have been explored. If the debug menu was accessed, perhaps the is can to and an exploit can be created that can be inserted via the usb slots and a flash drive
Just sad to see. They could've easily created a fantastic mini console. :(
PS2 is probably my all time favorite console, they'll probably fuck that up too.
Wake me up when I can add both Parasite Eve and Vagrant Story to it.
What exactly is income condescension?
Honestly this is just a race to mod the thing at this point. Once the first person breaks out and is able to make some custom firmware it's all over, and we can really see what possible with the thing.
The main benefit of it is those 20 games, some of which are quite pricy in the used game market.
The main benefit of it is those 20 games, some of which are quite pricy in the used game market.
At a certain point don't those become the same thing? In the case of the 360, and Xbox One both of those had "Backwards Compatability", but it was always through emulation of the Xbox OG. Just like Xbox Ones emulation of the Xbox 360.