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Brock2621
Member
BeautifulIt took a while (damn pandemic), but now it's finally here. Unwrapped it a minute ago.
Look at this beautiful machine. I hope it can fit in my gaming setup, it's a little bigger than I imagined.
Were you lucky enough to snag one of these too Gaf?
OrionNebula
Member
Ah, it’s one of them hilarious type of topics
nightmare-slain
Member
i was going to buy a PS1 recently but made more sense to get a PS2.
Monkeygourmet
Banned
Playstation, 6 Pictures
Orta
Banned
Sander Cohen
Member
Happy New Year 1996!
existensmaximum
Member
Nah, RGB and a CRT TV is the only way to play.
Rean no Kiseki
Banned
ANIMAL1975
Member
That's a playstation indeed.It took a while (damn pandemic), but now it's finally here. Unwrapped it a minute ago.
Look at this beautiful machine. I hope it can fit in my gaming setup, it's a little bigger than I imagined.
Were you lucky enough to snag one of these too Gaf?
alabtrosMyster
Banned
I recall lending some anime DVDs to a coworker back in 2000, that guy left the job the following week and I never heard from him again.
I have been much more careful with the lending since then.
Ryuji Goda
Member
Some asshole still has my copy of Black & White that I lend him in 2003.
alabtrosMyster
Banned
Yup that PSX was nice!
sainraja
Member
I still have the original one I got back in 1999/2000 (I know I was late to the console!)It took a while (damn pandemic), but now it's finally here. Unwrapped it a minute ago.
Look at this beautiful machine. I hope it can fit in my gaming setup, it's a little bigger than I imagined.
Were you lucky enough to snag one of these too Gaf?
EverydayBeast
thinks Halo Infinite is a new graphical benchmark
Has ps1 console value increased now that Sony does damage against backwards compatibility?
Trimesh
Banned
HE1NZ
Banned
Not really. They are very cheap. Though finding one in a condition like mine (looks brand new) is not that easy
HE1NZ
Banned
Should I pick PSIO or xstation?Correct, that's the only way to get the real PSX look!
Trimesh
Banned
Depends on which model you have and what you want to do with it. The Xstation has a slight edge in compatibility, but it completely disables the CD drive. It's also more limited in the models it works with (basically SCPH-1002 and SCPH-55x2, since it looks like you're in a PAL territory) - the PSIO will work with any model with the parallel expansion port.
For me, it was an easy choice - firstly when I got the PSIO the Xstation (and MODE) weren't out yet and also I have a large number of original discs. Although I don't have one myself I have installed a couple of Xstations for my friends and the they seem to work fine.
HE1NZ
Banned
Yeah, I specifically searched for 5xxx model. I’ll probably order xstation and hopefully find someone in the vicinity who can install it
8bitpill
Member
I made this mistake with my Dreamcast, 2002 I think it was. My junkie cousin was on the mend (repeat offender since then, and is still alive some how
). I let him borrow it thinking he would invest his time in playing some of the games instead of said choice drugs at the time. Na, he sold it to get a fix. I still bust his balls about it till this day. It's usually every couple of years when he shows up at family gatherings while clean for said couple of months.Just remember kids, never trust a junkie,
.Pennywise
Banned
I much prefer the PC emulation.
WalterSobchak
Member
Don't forget to turn it upside down if or when it stops reading discs properly. Lol , that was the weirdest fix back in the day . I definitely had to rock that method after about 2 years with mine back in the late 90s.
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Trimesh
Banned
That was extremely common on the early models that had an optical pickup sled made of plastic - what happened was that the sled rode on a pair of plastic hemispheres and as they wore down one side of the pickup dropped and the laser beam stopped being at 90 degrees to the disc. This moved the signal read from the disc further and further away from the correct position to the point where it eventually missed the photodiodes in the pickup entirely.
Turning it upside down made the lens assembly drop under gravity to the point where it was nearly parallel again. Sony eventually fixed it by replacing the plastic sled with one made of diecast metal and using nylon inserts for the contact points - it was an obvious design defect, but Sony managed to avoid ever taking responsibility for it.
Sleepwalker
Member
My friend used to open the lid and spin the disc with his finger then close it back up to get his games to read
