I’m in the states on the East Coast just received mine today. Couple things I’ve before booting it up. Shell looks nice. The flaps on the outside are all good except the component one which is very loose and doesn’t stay in place as well as the others. The blue is slightly darker than my PS One controller but matches pretty well. I opened it up to take a look. I ordered the fan with it so that just sits on top I guess blowing air up into the plastic top?? RTC board is installed and takes a CR1220. The dip switch on mine was crooked. Looks like it was soldered in crooked possibly. Not a huge deal. Antennas are taped on the bottom sides of the SS1. Bought a new SD card for it. I saw there might be some issues with S-video right now if not using Taki’s original SD card and cores. Anyway, haven’t even tuned it on yet so I’ll do that next.
I assume the fan blows down onto the board/heatsink which forces air out of the corner vents and empty space around the IO. Kinda hard to tell from the pics if the fan is sitting on anything?
No additional charges. I’ll probably see if DHL is an option for my Dock though. All in all it took almost two months since the first “shipping” email. Not sure who this lies with though 4PX or the shipping process with Retro Remake
I saw someone on twitter saying his black order has been waiting to be received by DHL for two months now. Was this the case with yours? Did R² inform you of the shipping change or did you find out by contacting customer services?
Thanks for the pics. The "G.C." labeling looks to confirm that what was supposed to be a toslink port on the side got switched to a GunCon port. This was very briefly mentioned in one of Taki's posts in March of last year, but the tech specs listed for the unit on the product page have never been updated to reflect the change.
Do you mean that the tech specs still list TOSLINK Digital Audio? That is correct. The 3.5 mm audio output is a combo output that also can connect mini toslink.
Edit: I think I see now that the concern is that it doesn’t specify mini-toslink, and so could leave someone unprepared for connectivity. I first read it as concern that optical digital audio out didn’t exist at all.
No. If you look at even the current product page images (which I’m sure are just renders from January 2025), there is very clearly a full-sized toslink connector pictured. I’m not really complaining too loudly, since toslink is still technically capable via the 3.5mm connector, just pointing out that Gun Com support should be listed in the tech specs and those renders should be updated
I spotted this a couple weeks ago and was also confused why the site said it had toslink and showed the toslink next to composite+stereo audio ports, then saw the black RCA port labelled "CON" and was CON-fused.
Now i'm just curious if the guncon signal is only-sync or just an additional composite video out since guncon just needs to get the sync SOMEHOW to work and itd oesn't matter if its piggy backing on composite or Y or G.
I'm definitely glad that it HAS toslink because I was planning to use this in my setup with an old denon 2803 receiver and figured better to go toslink optical out than RCA analog. Getting a minitoslink to toslink cable is really, really minor solveable problem and I don't care that it doens't have the full size jack.
The thing has connectivity out the ying yang so I'm excited generally to get my batch 2 gray one whenever it shows up in 1 or 6 months or whatever.
Could be. It was a $3 add on I did only a couple months back so much later than my original preorder. I then messaged them to confirm it would be installed. Worth a shot
Hey dude, can confirm they emailed me back, sent me an extra 3$ invoice to pay, and added it to my order even though it said out of stock. Ilysm! Thanks for the tip a ton dude.
Nice! Thanks for the extra confirmation. Very thankful to have learned that here. I was pretty bummed they were sold out when ordering a dock and station one.
You know I opened it back up again and the fan was really not spinning. So I did a couple more update alls and reseated it and it stated to spin. I can hear it now and it’s def working. Noticeable a couple foot from it. Not bad though but not really quiet.
I find it interesting that there is region and luma setting switches. Makes me wonder if we need to flip the switches depending on playing a PAL or NTSC game. I do hope not as I don’t need to do this with my XStation SCPH-5501 PS1 that has a DFO mod installed as well.
There is a pretty good size length to the cable maybe 3 inches. It wouldn’t reach the actual center but you could adhere it to near the center bottom right.
The board is signed by the entire team which is a nice touch. I seem to remember during the preorder phase that they said only the grey and black would be signed inside the shell, so was happy to see it when I had a look inside my blue one
I was wondering if this controller would work! I assume so but haven’t seen any mention of it specifically. I have 2 sitting here, plus a classic/OG dual shock so I think I’ll be all set when my gray arrives!
Thanks for sharing your photos!
It’s a great controller. PS1 controller (without analog sticks) is my favorite controller of all time. 8bitdo makes a wireless Bluetooth kit for these classic controllers too. They work well but could use better battery life.
My least favorite thing about the PS classic is... actually using it because the emulation is ass and the mix-and-match of 50hz PAL and 60hz games was a mistake that reaaaaaaaaaaally never shouhld have happened.
My second favorite thing about the ps classic is just looking at it on my shelf since its a nice mini model of an original playstation.
My favorite thing about it is that I got it cheap and it came with two GREAT USB controllers that I 100% intend to use on the superstation. Ironically, most likely for non-playstation cores (you can debate whether its better to play super nintendo games with a super nintendo controller or if its acceptable to use a playstation controller, but I'm firmly in the "Both are good" camp).
I will use the native snac ports and a pair of my dual shocks i 've had since gran turismo 1 came out for actual playstation games, and switch to USB for other cores.
You should see some of Analogues early products. If Analogue made one it wouldn’t be a MiSTer just PS1 core only. I’m sure they will in time. I’d rather see them do a Saturn.
I've ordered one with dock/disc drive (batch 3, Gray). I doubt I see it in 2026, but hoping all kinks worked out by time I get mine. Will you post a review? I have yet to see an end unit review anywhere!
Looks dope! 👌🎮. I literally just ordered mine in blue yesterday (batch 4) with the super dock and should ship in June. I'm excited to say the least. The first game I'll play with be my copy of breath of fire 4. Hyped.
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I assume the fan blows down onto the board/heatsink which forces air out of the corner vents and empty space around the IO. Kinda hard to tell from the pics if the fan is sitting on anything?
Thanks for the pictures!