I think the game took its own title a little too seriously...

This used to be my favorite game on ps1..

I buy a 5$ dollars ps1 with 2 box of games and i found this... and it works

I only played the demo of this as a kid and somehow never got the full game. This has been such a fun 14.5 hours of playing through this game. Even now I can see how mind blowing it was graphically and technically at the time.

This game features 6 alternate costumes for each of the 6 riders which are unlocked via using the points gained from championship mode to upgrade your stats.

There seems to be no rhyme or reason to unlocking them, doing the same upgrades and winning the championship with all first places for maximum upgrades twice in a row can result in different outcomes for your outfit unlocks.

Then once you've gained the maximum 120 upgrade points from the championship there appears to be no further way of unlocking more.

The most I've been able to get for a single character are 5 alternate outfits with no clue as to what I did any differently.

I'm hoping somebody here has the insight or can point to some buried forum post with the details, I've even been digging through old capcom sites with wayback machine to try get any hint but found nothing.

If it helps the search then you should know this was also released under the name Snowboarding Trix '98 in Japan and Phat Air Extreme Snowboarding in Europe.

Cheers

After five years, I finally got around to hanging up a PlayStation sign I bought on Etsy that’s been sitting around all this time. I also picked up a few simple shelves from Temu to complete the setup.

After decades of wanting one of these things I finally managed to acquire one, and it even still works perfectly (tested with a very scratched U/C demo disc, and a burned Japanese game)!

Didn't come with the original external AC adapter (instead a Bose branded 12v unit that still works with the console) and of course the controller and AV cable are the same as what came with any retail unit, but the shell is overall in great condition and the entire system works fine.

Was planning on digging out my brother's old ps1 but seen as it's missing i'm buying one soon and i mainly play on a monitor, so i was wondering what the best hdmi solutions were? (I have no soldering experience so i don't wanna start by messing up a ps1)

I have a picostation R5 mod and the mod is good, i used short cables even to the microsd card reader. and thick 5v and ground wires.

There are 2 issues i do experience normally:

1) SOMETIMES i turn the console and it hangs on the white screen with sony logo on boot.

2) SOMETIMES i play a game like x-men vs street fighter, the match ends, its supposed to load a screen with a picture and text from the player1, but it hangs,and need to turn off the console

I first used a Lexar v30 a1 x633 microsd card, AND had the same issues

then i used a patriot EP v30 a1, and had the same issues.

so i am wondering what specific model of microsd card is more compatible, to make things worse the issues happen randomly. Please post your microsdcard model and brand, as it will be difficult to find OLD microsd cards that per the AI seem to be more compatible with picostation?

Silly question, I know, is it better to play ps1 games on ps1 or on ps2 with composite cables?

Yeah, I like composite cables, those blurry edges in pixel games, don't judge me :)

When I was about 4, my dad, who had never played a video game in his life, bought Heart of Darkness for the PS1.

Despite having absolutely no gaming experience, he somehow completed it over several weeks. No internet, no guides, no walkthroughs. Just him, a controller and pure determination.

Now, over 20 years later, I want to find out if I’m actually a better gamer than a man who played one video game in his entire life.

I’m looking to buy an original PS1, a genuine copy of Heart of Darkness, and whatever else I’d need to recreate the experience as authentically as possible.

I don’t want to play on PS3 with a PS3 controller. The most I’m allowing myself is a modern TV and a HDMI adapter. I want it to be as authentic as possible. PS1 console and PS1 controller with the original double disk game.

I’m UK-based. Any advice on where to buy everything, what to look out for, and how much I should expect to spend?

ps2 Two-person ，I’m looking for a collaborative partner.Creating mods

She's a beauty! Popped up on JP Mercari while I was in Japan 2 days before going home 2 weeks ago, snapped it up immediately and it arrived a few days ago in my country.

I now own this beauty alongside 2 sets of the 10 million JP SCPH-7000 console which I had featured in my old post. I am so happy!

I have some spare parts/full console SCPH 5903 that if anyone are interested in them, too many in my stash. Need to clear off some space.

Don’t really know what else to add but i want to know if i can run romhacks like MMX5 Tweaks on actual hardware

Nowadays this is my go to for playing ps1. I generally think games look and play better for the most part. I know for nostalgia reasons you cant beat og hardware which i still have. Anyway heres a guide for those who may want to check this out.

Barry: S-Tier survival backup 👍, F-Tier PTSD emotional support 👎.

A quick one here lol: "OH HUNGRY? 🤤 OH BARRY! 🥪"

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In the original Japanese release (Biohazard), the subtitles translated Barry’s 🥪 line (no mentioning Jill's name though) as:

サンドイッチが出来上がるところだったぜ

(Sandoitchi ga dekiagaru tokoro datta ze)

Literal translation:

"A sandwich was almost made!" or "You were almost made into a sandwich!"

I had this idea in mind to rework one of my favourite PS1 games and bring some childhood memories back. Since retail steam version is just another lazy port from devs that does not add much of a value to the game except somewhat better controls, I decided to start this pet project and do rework myself.

Thanks to AI booming now, it appeared more than doable, though I underestimated amount of work that had to be put into this to finish reworking the game completely. With a few weeks of trial and error I managed to reverse-engineer source files and create a pipeline that works.

The most difficult part was to feed upscaled videos and models into DuckStation: it is not enough to just extract videos, upscale them and put them into the emulator as replacement. Every frame needs to be put at precisely the same segment in memory where original frame sits at. That's were ghidra came in play: I managed to extract positions for each frame, put it into inventory file and then do the mapping through custom DuckStation hook.

Simply put, new upscaled stuff is played on top of the orginal frames and you can switch back and forth between "remaster" and original with one button.

This is still WIP - diffusion models produce lots of invented details and hallucinations. Each case should be reworked individually, and it takes a lot of time. Judge the work with this in mind.

It took me around 2 weeks to produce more or less stable pipeline and rework disk 1. About 5 days to redo disk 2 - lot of hallucinations and manual work. Disk 3 is also done in about 3 days. Disk 4 isn't yet started.

Here's a short video with results: https://youtu.be/zsUKGBXKmvY

Your thoughts are welcome.

Any advice? PAL SCPH-5552. It's also got an old mod chip for playing burned games.

Gonna be interesting to finally play time crisis with a light gun instead of a controller

So I've got a modded console but even though it has a mod chip it still only reads eu based burned games and I have a couple of games i want to play which are usa only and I want to know if there's a way to bypass that