I bought two old consoles - ps1 and ps2 (both are slim versions) for about 80$ each. I tried to run my pirated discs on them and they refuse to read them because they're not chipmodded (they read licenced games and dvd movies/audio cds just fine) and I burned about 50 discs and wasted so much time. Original games are ridiculously overpriced, even heavily used ones. Nobody seems to make these chips anymore. Fuck, what I'm supposed to do with this piece of useless plastic junk. I guess there's no way to play old games other than emulating them.
>>109089512you can softmod a PS2 with freemcboot
Emulate, mod, or seek out originals. Those were always going to be your options, anon. Softmods are available for PS1 and PS2, not sure about slim variants.Worst case you can on-sell the hardware if you're not willing or able to put in the work to mod.I had a PS1 slim for a time, it had bad graphics caps which is supposedly super common. I swapped them, then onsold. No problem. I think I made four figures off that unit and a pile of original games I'd found at thrift.
>>109089512Fucking, you can pick up old consoles for $10 and games for less.And you can do disc swapping techniques to run pirated games as well.
>>109089512https://github.com/CTurt/FreeDVDBoot
>>109089512why would you burn 50 discs before testing a single one?I don't really think used originals are expensive.I find the problem with used ps2 is finding original controllers in good shape.the knockoffs usually suck ass.
>>109089561>I find the problem with used ps2 is finding original controllers in good shape.Get an 8bitdo wireless adapter and use whatever controller you find comfortable.
>>109089527>>109089555Ok, thanks, I'll take a look, too bad there's no such option for ps1 which I like more.>>109089534I think that most likely I'll put these on a shelf and keep emulating. Too much of a hassle. I remember when most sold consoles were modchipped or you could easily find a guy who could do this for a price but these so-called "retro" stores are scamming people. Looks like scalpers and hoarders did too much damage and it's too late to find anything good. I just wanted to refresh my childhood memories, immerse myself.>>109089543I in the shithole where I live unfortunately.>>109089561I tested these discs on epsxe. Originals are very expensive in my shithole
>>109089624>too bad there's no such option for ps1 which I like more.A modchip is literally like 5 wires last I checked. Learn how to fucking solder.>epsxeFucking hell, man. At least use a real emulator, literally anything else is better.
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>>109089512loading burned discs on a ps1 is a waste of time anyway. the PSIO works a lot better in my experience though I know there's another one
>>109089512https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005007876562923.html
>>109089624are those used and from private sellers? looks like a reseller.I can find them way cheaper in my cunt.
>>109089782although ps2 games seem to be way cheaper than ps1. ps1 games are a bit pricier indeed.
>>109089624>Ok, thanks, I'll take a look, too bad there's no such option for ps1 which I like more.You should be able to run PS1 games on the PS2 with popstarter (I use OPL to launch them) I've had great success with it.You're right though the PS1 itself has its own difficulties, I'd keep it as a collectors item to be honest.If you need help with the homebrewing PS2home is a good place to start if that forum is still running.
>>109089706>Learn how to fucking solder.Maybe next time, I have no tools nor skill.And epsxe along with pcsx2 works fine, I finished about 120 games with these.>>109089772Thanks a lot, this looks promising, need to find a guy who can solder.>>109089782Just a regular retail shop. These fucks are greedy as hell. Some pricings are fucked.>>109089825Yeah, I'll keep these, I like the smell of the plastic, it's still there bringing me back, I wish mine still worked, I don't remember what happened to my broken ps1 and ps2 when I moved out 15+ years ago.
>>109089512Why the fuck would buy both a PS1 and a PS2? Do you not know that PS2 is fully backwards compatible with PS1 games?
>>109089950>>Maybe next time, I have no tools nor skill.A soldering iron costs 10 bucks, and the skill is trivial to learn and will be useful for the rest of your life.>>109089950>epsxe (...) works fine,No, it doesn't. You just haven't used a good emulator, so you have no point of reference.
>>109089512man, i just use my RPI5 to play PS1 games on it, it can run it even on slightly higher resolution than original PS1
>>109089624lmao 50€ or 40€ for thrash people literally threw it in garbage after they got rid of PS1just download it and emulate it..
>>109089972you cant run pirated ps1 games on the ps1 inside ps2. you can only run them on the ps1 emulator for ps2 as the ps1 hardware is used for the backup loader
>>109091182not him but sure you can, there's a swaptrick to run psx games on the ps2 (natively, not using POPS)
>>109091182You can if it's chipmodded, not softmodded
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>>109089512I know the PS2 is easy to mod to the point you can use USB drives to play games on it but I don't know about the PS1. I'm sure it must be simple to mod a PS1 now though, its understood to the point we have FPGA re-creations of the entire console.
>>109091318i'm not really up to date on it, but what i do know of;- swaptrick, these have been known of since the console was new in the mid-90s, where you swap a real psx disc out for a copy at specific times during boot to load a backup or foreign disc- modchip, there's two/three basic kinds i know of, the original kind which are always active, these are old enough that later psx games actually check for these and so one way to work around that was to add a physical switch to the console to disable the modchip after a game was booted. later modchips ("stealth") turned themselves off after boot so this wasn't required. these days there's open source modchips like the psnee which can be flashed to extremely cheap microcontrollers are require only a few wires to be soldered.- freepsxboot, a memory card-based exploit which requires only a specially-programmed memory card be inserted to run unsigned programs, including backup loaders. there's a few ways to make such a memory card, or you can buy a memory card already loaded with the software
>>109091318>>109091378tl;dr, if you don't mind opening the console and soldering a few wires, then a modchip is pretty easy to do, otherwise, if you want keep your warranty (lol), you could do a swaptrick to load up some software to make a freepsxboot memory card instead.
>>109091378i think most people would prefer not having to fuck around with CDs
>>109091452well there's also ODEs (optical drive emulators), which bypass or replace the optical drive, but i don't know much about them. i don't actually play my psx much these days, but its' optical drive still works.
>>109089512Anon, there’s a high chance that even a modded PS2 won’t play the games you burned. They’re notoriously picky about burn speed for backups and it sounds like you did zero research. I’ll tell you what you need to actually use though cause burning backups to play on PS2 hardware is for noobs. Buy a freemcboot card and an mx4sio. Freemcboot is a soft mod that runs on a memory card. They sell pre installed memory cards online so you don’t have to put in any effort. The mx4sio is another memory card shaped device that allows you to slap in a microsd card for loading backups or pirated games from the second memory card slot. Make sure you find a compatible microsd, some just don’t work with it. Throw all your games on the microsd, then defrag the microsd (I know that sounds weird but the PS2 needs the files without fragments) and you’ll be off to the races.
>>109091452you only need to do it once in order to get freepsxboot set up
>>109091474Also, do yourself a favor and return the PSX. The PS2 always played PSX games natively so it was wholly unnecessary to buy one.
>>109091474Also worth mentioning, if you don’t mind load times you don’t need the MX4SIO and you can load backups from a USB flash drive or portable hard drive. The PS2 has show USB ports however, so that’s where the mx4sio comes in cause the memory card slots are on a really fast bus
>>109089512test
>>109091494there's technically a handful of psx games that don't work 100% perfectly on the ps2, but it's really a technicality.the ps2 contains a real psx cpu (at least until the very last slim ps2 models which emulate that too), the ps2 always emulates the psx gpu, and the rest of the system, the differences don't matter for any casual user however, for the most part it's a benefit, because you can opt for practically the same experience, but are also offered the option of faster load time and/or texture filtering as well.
>>109089512No one in their right mind installs modchips these days, that’s why they don’t exist anymore. Use freemcboot instead
>>109091524not him but i've never heard of this. i've seen something like this on the gamecube (sd gecko) but never on the ps2. granted i really haven't felt any need to keep looking into it after i got a network adapter for my "phat" ps2 with hdloader and later openps2loader.is the ps2 memory card slot really faster than usb1.1? that's pretty surprising, i've saved enough games to get the feeling the ps/ps2 memory card bus was not very quick. loading games from a pseudo-memory card is quite strange to me, but at the same time, i did feel bad for people with slim ps2's who couldn't run games from a hdd (i know there's a complicated mod for early slim ps2s to add a hdd to them)
>>109091608Yeah, it is much faster than usb 1.1. It’s a good thing too because even a PS2 Slim with a dead optical drive isn’t obsolete, you can load games from the network or from the memory card slot. Obviously you can use the USB too, it’s just really slow.
>>109091687that's pretty cool. i'm glad slim owners have another option. how does it compared to a hdd on the network adapter?i've done usb and network loading just out of curiosity but they were nowhere near as quick as an internal hdd.
>>109091804It’s seamless, only slightly slower than the max theoretical speed of a 4x dvd. The network adapter is even faster, but the mx4sio once configured doesn’t ever require reconfiguring which is the main benefit. The Ethernet is faster though.
>>109089534>not sure about slim variantsSame thing
>>109090922Yeah, I even looked at them close and the cases were full of scratches and even cracks. Fuck these scammers.>>109091284Love that game. The food serving and crane minigames drained my nerves.>>109091318Usb 1 is ridiculously slow, cd/dvd is more stable and faster. Thank you for the other suggestions.>>109091474Thank you for another advice, I'll order one of available. I have a couple of Sandisk SDXC/extreme microsds.I found two useful video about softmodding.https://youtu.be/9okfVdxinkY?si=0fpm_iHOh-Tg14krhttps://youtu.be/Cpy_JmSGv68?si=meZqUppcoSVib58yFor ps1 you some a licenced game, burned cd that has "unirom" patch and a second memcard in the 2nd slot. Then you need to fixate the button located near the lid hinge with a tape to let make disc spin while the lid is open, then you need to insert the original disc and when it starts spinning slowly during the "Licenced by" logo screen swap it with the uniroom disc, when the uniroom disc starts spinning slowly repeat the process and when you get to the unirom menu swap it again. It needs to be done only once. The you need to patch the second memory card by clicking "install - freepsxboot to memcard". Burned games can be launcher only via the 2nd memory card unirom menu.For ps2 it's even easier, you simply need to patch the iso file with FDVDB patcher then burn the disc and that should do it. I hope I'll get it done and shed some nostalgia tears.
