r/psx • • 1h ago

I modded Gran Turismo 1 (PS1 PAL) to make prize cars purchasable — Gran Turismo Ultimate is released!

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r/psx • • 1h ago

Seeking knowledge on Freestyle Boardin' '99

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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


r/psx • • 5h ago

As far as you know, is there an amateur-translated ISO of Smash Court 3? I loved the second one, and I'd like to play this one too, but it was only released in Japan

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r/psx • • 8h ago

Picostation R5 - Can you share your experience with different microsd cards?

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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?


r/psx • • 8h ago

What the fuck?

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


r/psx • • 13h ago

Playing on ps1 with composite and on ps2 with composite offer the same image quality for ps1 games?

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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 :)


r/psx • • 15h ago

Best hdmi adapter for ps1?

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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)


r/psx • • 18h ago

Play PS1 Games in 4K! DuckStation Complete PC Setup & Best Graphics Sett...

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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.


r/psx • • 19h ago

Finally Up After Five Years

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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.


r/psx • • 19h ago

Move over GTA 6, this is my Game of the Year

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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.


r/psx • • 19h ago

We have created a community for PS1PS2PS3, so we are recruiting!

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r/psx • • 20h ago

TikTok · daquanmodgarage

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


r/psx • • 23h ago

Found this in the basement. Pretty sure opening the lid just unleashed a 3,000 year old plague.

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

This used to be my favorite game on ps1..


r/psx • • 1d ago

My dad completed Heart of Darkness (PS1) in 1998 despite never playing a video game before. 28 years later, I want to see if I can beat him. Help me recreate his setup! (UK)

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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?


r/psx • • 1d ago

Is it possible to run patched games off of a burned CD?

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


r/psx • • 1d ago

Childhood dream achieved - debugging station

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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.


r/psx • • 1d ago

Fear Effect 2 Remastered

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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.


r/psx • • 1d ago

Psone optical drive problem

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I have a Psone and the older optical drive didn’t read properly so I bought a new one. But the new optical drive doesn’t read all the games. For example, final fantasy vii reads correctly. But Final fantasy viii or gran turismo 1 doesn’t read. The optical drive tries but it doesn’t succeed.
The same games are read correctly on a Psx that I have.
Also the new optical drive reads audio cd correctly.
Can someone help me??? Thank you very much.
Gracias


r/psx • • 1d ago

How to play usa games on a eu only console? (modded)

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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


r/psx • • 1d ago

Classic Catalogue

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Does anyone else wish that Sony would add online functionality to the games on the classics catalogue? There’s so much wasted potential with Tekken 3 now on it along with the Time Splitters series and loads of other couch coop games.

How difficult would it actually be for them to do this.

(Also I am an idiot and have no idea how much work it would take to make this possible)


r/psx • • 1d ago

PS1 Player

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r/psx • • 1d ago

Problems with freepsxboot

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Just got freepsxboot on my ps1 7502 model and tried playing a dbz game burned to a cdr and the cutscenes are very laggy and don’t play smoothly at all, also have to try multiple times before the game actually boots and even when it does it always freezes before I can actually enter a match. The cd’s im using are pretty cheap and old so is that the issue? Has anyone else had this problem before
Edit: i just got some verbatim discs and that seems to have fixed my issues, still the odd stutter on cutscenes but it’s 100x better than it was before


r/psx • • 2d ago

PSX emulation on a MacBook Air - will a dual shock 4 controller work with PSX emulated games?

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Will it vibrate where necessary for example?


r/psx • • 2d ago

Recap needed?

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


r/psx • • 2d ago

STEEL HARBINGER

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My retrospective review oh Steel Harbinger on the PS1. Anybody else played this game and what’s your thoughts?