I've been playing nothing but Armored Core and Gradius Gaiden on the jp classic.
Worth every cent...
err... yen.
Worth every cent...
err... yen.
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PlayStation Classic |OT| Also Emulates 90's Europeans Envy Toward US Products
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It all depends on what the interested parties intend to do with it.
They could improve reARMed or wipe it off to put a new, better emulator. Or just make the ability to insert games available and be done with it. Some managed to overclock the CPU to get better performance, but is this a viable, long term solution?
Nothing is set in stone yet and peeps are still tinkering with it.
Armored Core is so damn good. I like playing it on my Vita, but you really need the proper L1/L2/R1/R2 setup.
If you add it, make sure to say this isn't for end users and that it might brick your console if you do anything wrong. If people aren't tech savvy they should wait a bit.
Already out in the wild
https://github.com/justMaku/gpghax
https://github.com/justMaku/gpghax
gpghax
Disclaimer: this can brick your console. Don't use if you don't understand every piece of how it works.
What if PlayStation Classic, but with a game library that's actually fun to play?
1. Adding Custom Games:
Open games/custom.db in an SQLite Editor of your choice. Add new entry to the GAME table as follows:
GAME_ID = numerical identifier, has to be unique
GAME_TITLE_STRING = Name of the game
PUBLISHER_NAME = self explanatory
RELEASE_YEAR = self explanatory
PLAYERS = number of players
RATING_IMAGE = Has to be CERO_A
GAME_MANUAL_QR_IMAGE = Has to be QR_Code_GM
LINK_GAME_ID = leave empty
Then you have to add the actual disc files to the DB. Open DISC table and add new entry per each disc for the game:
GAME_ID = GAME_ID from the GAME table
DISC_NUMBER = disc number
BASENAME = base name for the cue/bin file pair, i.e: SCUS-94426
Save that file.
Then you have to add actual game files, go to games dir and create a new folder with the GAME_ID from previous steps, i.e 21. Inside of that directory you need to put at least those files:
BASENAME.cue (use the BASENAME value from the DISC table, i.e SCUS-94426.cue)
BASENAME.bin (use the BASENAME value from the DISC table, i.e SCUS-94426.bin)
BASENAME.png (use the BASENAME value from the DISC table, i.e SCUS-94426.png)
pcsx.cfg (use the default one from the sample game with id 21)
Running:
Put everything onto an empty USB drive named SONY, plug the usb drive into the port 2 and reboot the system. If everything worked fine, you should see your custom game in the menu.
NOTES:
If you add a game, navigate to it in the menu, close the console, and then remove said game, upon next boot the console will fail to start. You need to make sure to always shutdown the system with one of the stock games selected.
If you don't want to/don't know how to edit the database file, you can just replace the empty SCUS-94426.cue and SCUS-94426.bin files from this repo with your game (just make sure you keep the same name for the files) and it should work somewhat fine.
Credits:
madmonkey, DanTheMan827, skogaby
Please don't put it in OP. the bash file included does not back up the game database before overwriting it. Someone's almost certainly going to break their unit with an invalid regional.db file without knowing how to replace it.
As of now, you should only run games off usb drive by mounting both /GAADATA and /data to /media/Games and /media/data. You can build the usb drive with this: https://github.com/pathartl/BleemSync
Madmonkey (Hakchi team) is right now saying on Discord he will make some tools easy to use and useful to restore the Classic if something goes wrong. Wait those tools if you don't know what you are doing.
Sounds wise not to rush for most of us.
I think there's already been substantially more progress made than some were expecting at the beginning of this week. By Monday, who knows how this will look again.
I think there's already been substantially more progress made than some were expecting at the beginning of this week. By Monday, who knows how this will look again.
Yup. All the talk about this being hard to hack was a load of hot air.
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I think the priority right now is the ability to change the library to whatever we want to.
Tinkling with the emulator should come after, if hackers consider it worthy of their time, that is.
It's true, they left a feature to update the firmware inside of it but, at the same time, there's no way to update it with the specs it has now.
Maybe they wanted to connect it to PSN or something but ended up scrapping it?
There's no networking built into the console.
It might have been a plan to unbrick returned consoles for refurbishment.
I can't think of anything more worthy. It's not worth anything to a lot of us if it can't run games at original framerate like PSP, Vita, PSTV.
I know, but even the PS3 could be updated offline either via a game disk or a USB Stick, they could very well release a software that does all the job (formating USB Stick + adding the files) automatically.
Bleemsync tool released
https://github.com/pathartl/BleemSync/releases/tag/0.1.0
Here there are instructions
https://github.com/pathartl/BleemSync
Still doesn't have an UI and you to follow instructions carefully but it's better than before.
https://github.com/pathartl/BleemSync/releases/tag/0.1.0
Here there are instructions
https://github.com/pathartl/BleemSync
Still doesn't have an UI and you to follow instructions carefully but it's better than before.
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Same, just shows the normal game list. On a PAL classic (if that matters)
I remember picking up an original PS1 with a copy of Tomb Raider back in the day after seeing it on a UK TV show,think it was the first 3D game I'd seen,my mind was blown,lol.
Won't be getting one of these though,games from that era have not aged well.
Won't be getting one of these though,games from that era have not aged well.
do we know if we will be able to change saves etc yet i would love to be able to play fire pro wrestling G with english names
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It's getting there! Won't use this one yet, as I'm waiting to be able to add/remove games in the console. But that's great if you want to play games from a USB dongle.
Not yet, hackers are still working on making an accessible program to add/remove games first.
It's looking more and more like there'll be a software solution by the end of the week then, maybe even by tomorrow night? This is great! Only downside is that it uses up the second controller port, I wonder if you can use a USB hub?
Retroarch is already working on the PS Classic. Man, this is going really fast.
People have been trying to use a hub but the console isn't detecting them. You'll probably have to wait until we have NAND access to add / remove vanilla games.
People have been trying to use a hub but the console isn't detecting them. You'll probably have to wait until we have NAND access to add / remove vanilla games.
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Whaaaat! Already?
Is that a stream or something you're looking at? Does it seems to run well?
UK store has both MGS and VR missions I think - they're on my vita and I don't think I've had my PS3 in use for years now
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Progress!
I love that the intro is still intact, however I hope that, in some ways, retroarch can still be used with the OG interface. Like, the emulator kicks in once you start the game.
I saw several of these at Walmart last night. I guess they're not that sought after (I'm not surprised given what was said here, but the general public doesn't necessarily follow gaming as much as we do).
I suspect part of it is down to Sony putting way more units out there than Nintendo did with the NES/SNES classics initially. Those are now sitting on store shelves (In the UK at least) as well.
Yes, that's possible and probable too.
I had a preorder but I cancelled it.
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The thing is that part of the general public does at least a quick check on the internet for reviews/previews and those for the PS Classic are all but glowing.
Just one google search for 'PlayStation Classic Review' can leave a bitter taste to the casual Joe. So I can understand why it would sell less than its two prodecessors. That goes without saying that the 20 games aren't really the best of the PS1's era.
The UI is hard coded to start PCSX. So it'll probably take a while before someone figures out how to make it work with retroarch.
I think there's something to the idea that Sony was never going to make everyone truly happy with the lineup, though obviously they could have done much better.
There are a lot of casual gamers I know who aren't swayed at all by certain games like FF7, MGS, RE, Tekken etc. that are definitely draws for a more hardcore crowd. I sent the list to my girlfriend and she didn't know any of them. My dad only knew Cool Boarders 2. For them the list would have benefited greatly from having like, Crash, Spyro, Tony Hawk, Tomb Raider, but for one reason or another they couldn't get those. I was kind of surprised that so many people flipped out seeing Toy Story 2 in the emulation files, for example. I figured anything licensed was out of contention, but the layman's not going to realize that.
On the flip side, there's not a huge amount the lineup offers to the more hardcore. There's the games I mentioned, and there's a few like Persona or IQ that have resale values through the roof that it's nice to be able to play them cheaply and legally. But about half of the lineup feels more like Sony stuffed it with whatever they could license. The only downright bad game is Rainbow Six, but it's not exactly the best of the best either.
I haven't opened mine yet, but how do the controllers act on PCs? Anyone try them with Retroarch?
They work great with retroarch, you plug them in, program the buttons and you're done(they are recognized as controllers
Have done that, works now. Myself and someone else had same issue with Kingston Data Traveller USB sticks, unsure why.
Is that a USB 3.0 stick. I heard on ETA Prime that USB 2.0 sticks seem to have better compatibility
