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Someone already hacked the PlayStation Classic!
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I don't think they care if it's hacked.
This whole thing was an obvious money grab.
FWIW the manual injection that the dude in Japan did in the OP isn't something users would be capable of doing, and didn't require him to bypass the encryption of the boot loading. However shortly after he did that the big encryption/signing hole that will allow updates via USB was discovered by a different team. That opens everything up.
I'm hoping this getting opened up boosts interest in making PCSX ReARMed running better. That would result in a better emulator not just for the PSC but also for Switch, Shield, et al.
If anybody here codes for ARM, here's Sony's final source: https://doc.dl.playstation.net/doc/psclassic-oss/
I'm hoping this getting opened up boosts interest in making PCSX ReARMed running better. That would result in a better emulator not just for the PSC but also for Switch, Shield, et al.
If anybody here codes for ARM, here's Sony's final source: https://doc.dl.playstation.net/doc/psclassic-oss/
No need to rush, lol. At the very least, wait for confirmation of game swaps and ports or access to that menu that requires a keyboard without needing a keyboard.
Considering that someone's porting Retroarch to the PS2, I'm sure someone will get something libretro related on this thing. or at the very least, a port of the more up to date PCSX-R core over the out of date version already on the thing.
Well, wasn't piracy one of the reasons that made PlayStation popular?
Yeah, I'm all about being able to load more games onto this device. It's a win column entry for sure.
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Probably; you either needed a mod chip or an Action Replay and a paper clip. Though I'm sure it would've been popular as shit without it. It's not like everyone had access to CD burners back then.
In all honesty, I was probably going to cave regardless, since I do think the form factor is admittedly great.
With regards to the debug menu, is it still just Corsair keyboards that can access that?
Highly unlikely as it would be super obvious.
It's easy because it was a low effort cheap rush job to cash in on the holiday season and the whole mini retro plug and play console.
Eh. I returned mine. Didn't care for the library. I have a PSTV that i got for $30 when they were in fire sale. It has a store (with all the games I would ever want to play), connects to dualshock 4, expandable memory, and plays PSP and Vita games too. I think they're around $100 now. Still the way to go if you want to play ps1 games on your TV I think.
I think I read something on Reddit about someone getting access with a Logitech, but I'm not 100% sure.
Sony's always been a corp out for your money, but that never got in the way of them producing high quality hardware and products, it's something they are known for. Even the products that fail are usually high quality. I don't know how popular it was for casual gamers to add additional games to their NES and SNES Mini's, but if Sony saw this side of it, I think they would make it as easy as legally possible.
Maybe I'm just being delusional and having trouble coping with the fact that they would let this stuff pass QA. Especially the PAL roms, and the compatible keyboards accessing the EMU options. It's a shit show that isn't like them in the least, based on their hardware history.
Lol...fuck it, we made the box look pretty. Just throw some shit on there and call it a day; the hackers will take care of the rest.
Oh sure, but in southamerica pirates sold games like crazy. I bought a lot in that time, I wasn't even sure my games were ilegal (I mean I was young).
I guess, so you can run more games on a freely-available emulator on inferior hardware? Lol.
They always do that on their main hardware like PS4 but this feels like a cheap, fast money grab from them banking on that sweet nostalgia + holidays. I'm getting one just for the looks honestly, they got me on nostalgia
In the US, at least in my area, it wasn't that well known. I knew because my brother and I had a friend into the PC/emulation/game scene at the time that peeped us to the Action Replay superiority over the Gameshark, so we managed to snag one primarily for the DBZ import potential.
Us snagging a burned game or two was just a nice bonus. Other than that friend, most people were mystified that what were doing was even possible.
The closest you'll probably get for now is a used PSOne and salvaging it.
I'm sure one of those Pi case companies will make one like those high quality SNES ones. Like Retroflag, for example. They have the best NES/SNES/Genesis cases out IMO since all of the I/O is in the back and not on the side like some cases have been stupidly doing. I doubt they'll wait long before getting a Playstation one out.
dumb question, and don't kill me - what's the point of hacking this thing when you could get something like a pi for cheaper? is it the case and the controllers?
Just looked up that Retroflag Superpi case.. Now that looks amazing compared to the 3D printed crap all over the place.
Case, controllers, because it's an official licensed product, more of a collector's item but they still want it to be 'usable', etc.
Has a lot of to do with it, and because this is something that's official and even with the most basic of modding or game addition, it's something that's relatively maintenance free for randoms to pick up and play on. By comparison, a Pi, you have to, games and assembly aside, configure everything from scratch. And if you're looking for something Playstation themed, good luck.
And in reality, making a Pi is roughly the same cost. The Pi itself is $40, then you have to factor in power supplies, SD cards, and controllers. Tends to roughly amount to the same amount of money, but with the added hassle of having to pair and unpair controllers constantly if you opt for wireless controllers for the Pi by using ones you already own.
This thing was so lazy...
Not checking hZ and getting slow games?
Public keys used for encryption resulting in pretty much NO security to worry about on the thing?
Yup. Its like the software side of this project was folks who were total beginners. These are rookie oversights.
Not checking hZ and getting slow games?
Public keys used for encryption resulting in pretty much NO security to worry about on the thing?
Yup. Its like the software side of this project was folks who were total beginners. These are rookie oversights.
I mean, you might as well buy the PSClassic just for the case and completely gut the insides, honestly.
Isn't it limited to 1080i?
Yeah.
In general, piracy back then wasn't like today – it wasn't completely "free", just cheaper bootleg copies.
I'm pretty nostalgic for that controller (to me that is the ps1 controller for the most part) so if it's now hackable and runs better than Sony's implementation that would make me want one.
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Yeah I seriously doubt that.
It's happened before.
The author of the emulator for Sega's Smash Pack on the Dreamcast officially leaked info to Echelon, the piracy group that cracked dreamcast games, so they could rip the emulator and release it online. Since Dreamcast games can't be read in normal CDRom Drives, it's not too obvious, but if you network a dreamcast to a PC and browse the disc, you'll find a file called Echelon.txt in the root. Inside is the following:
The final line which says "Respect uncle sonic" is why the Echelon release notes for the Genesis emulator says this:
...but yes, I don't believe Sony did this purposefully lol.
Lol, why home brew so many devices though? At this point, I'm sure you can build a computer that runs the emulator better than all these home brew devices.
Because for the most part, some of these devices have better UI's. Native Retroarch is trash, Steam is trash even with Steam Rom Manager, Launchbox costs money for the console-like UI and moves too slow for some people, Attract Mode and Hyperspin are ass to set up and configure, and good luck finding a version of Emulationstation still being maintained on PC.
Regardless of how easy it is to hack I can't see myself giving Sony $100 for me to completely gut the software. Should'a just made a good product.
Well for my reasoning on the NES and SNES classics, their UI is very very nice.
PS Classic, not so much though.