Everything PlayStation

41 readers

1 users here now

PlayStation consoles, games, accessories, gear, apps, history and community.

From the first Play Station prototype through PS1, PS2, PSX, PS3, PSVITA, PS4, PSTV, PS Classic to PS5. Fun, trophies, memories and friends associated with them.

Related communities:

Rules:

Keep it legal
Check out Puppeteer and Tokyo Jungle
Say hi

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

WhoRoger@lemmy.world

Any homebrew enjoyers out there? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 year ago by chalkman@sh.itjust.works to c/playstation@lemmy.world

4 comments fedilink hide all child comments

I've got a softmodded PS2 with free mcboot and the mechacon chip thinks it's a dev unit. Its got a 1TB hard drive full of PS2 games and a binder full of burnt PS1 discs

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] modulartable 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's so awesome! How's the performance as far playing games from the drive? Any drawbacks? Better than disc?

[–] chalkman@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

From the hard drive it actually loads faster even on a physical hard drive. On an SSD it is even better and completely silent, however I have had little problem with noise from the HDD. As for the disc thing it is better for PS2 games as it doesn't wear out the laser. For PS1 I use cds so it boots into the PS1 CPU because I think OPL uses POPstarter to emulate PS1. As is the fat PS2s use the PS1 CPU for I/O so the only part it emulates is the graphics chip.