Oh no no no PSIO sisters it can be!!!!!
>>12610573The fuck is that? I use Duckstation
>>12610573Is there a PSOne version?I still love my burned CD collection, feels comfy.FreePSXBoot works great through a memory card.
I will wait to see how good the compatibility with the library is. Hopefully it's better than Picostation.
>Preorder <3Looks gay
>>12610573I'll stick with the Duckstation.
>>12610575A solderless ODE. Hopefully it will be GDemu-tier to install.https://shop.arcstation.net/arcstation-ode/
>>12610920If it's good enough, I'm getting one for sure. X-Station looks like a nightmare for my beginner level soldering.
>>12610573>>12610920I haven't seen any of the usual e-celebs post any videos for it yet so we'll see if it's actually real or not.
>>12610573PSIO is the exact reason I don't trust any of these projects until something actually comes out, playstation or otherwise. Hopefully it's good but at this point playstaion emulation is really good even on toasters so it only benefits us with crts. Still might buy one if it actually works.
But does it let you keep the disk drive?
>>12610986No. You have to smash it with a crowbar afterwards.
well this popped up out of nowhere, interesting. would be very nice to finally see some competition to the xstation.
wait nevermind that shit is 200 fucking dollars, fuck that.
>>12611019No matter, china overlords will clone this shit and sell it for 50 in aliexpress, like the GDemu.
Will it allow to save on the ad card? or. Do you still need to use memory cards?
>>12611031And it will shit itself after the first few uses, just like ALL chinkshit
>>12610986If you're drive still works you didn't play the playstation
>PSIO claimed to be solderless>had to give up that claim when they realized there was no way to intercept the PS1's CD drive properly without soldering connections>now another pre-order item is claiming to be solderlessI'll believe it when I see it.
>>12611086whatever makes you sleep better at night, paycuck.
>>12611010??? Are you new to ODEs or something? That's a perfectly valid question, most ODEs require you to remove the disk drive. It being solderless means nothing in that regard either, most ODEs are also solderless, the PS1 is actually the exception in that it's the only system that has no current solderless ODE option. Even the PSIO requires soldering.Anyway seems like it does require removal of the disk drive, pass.>>12611085I don't see how it can do that while being solderless unless it also has you tap into the controller ports or keeps some memory-resident code running in the background which can break compatibility. Just get a Memcard Pro, the Pro 1 is like $30 nowadays.
If this does what it says then mite b cool - there are a number of games i'd like to play but cost waaaay too much to physically buy (yeah no, i'm not paying 70 shekels for a scratched disc with no manual k thnx bai) and after a certain point the device pays for itself.
>>12611563I think the point the other anon was trying to make, was that you can always swap the disk drive back in.
>>12610920>replaces the disc driveGay. Call me when there's a PS1 ODE that just plugs into the parallel port and works with no other modification required.
>>12612826Never going to happen as the parallel port is too slow.
>>12612813Let's be honest here, nobody is going to constantly open up their PSX to swap the ODE and disk drive, especially since those connectors are not designed for frequent insertion/removal and could wear out. This especially holds true if the ODE requires any soldering. I have seen so many console mods marked as "reversible" yet they require things like desoldering components and cutting traces. Yeah, technically you CAN reverse that if you kept the removed components and solder them back on then bodge the cut traces, but who the fuck would ever do that? As far as I am concerned, if it requires any component removal and especially if it requires you to cut any traces, then it's not realistically reversible and should not be marketed as such. By this point anything that does not require literally cutting pieces of the board off is considered "reversible".>>12612849You're an idiot. The PSX had a 2x CD-ROM drive that could read data at 300 KB/s in 2X mode, or 150KB's in 1x mode, the parallel port can go up to 3MB/s, and running off solid state storage means there are no seek times. The reason the PSIO requires soldering is because the parallel port does not have full control over the system to fully override it's CD drive, not because it's soo slow. The board just simply switches some traces between the PSIO and disk drive, it's not some kind of connection speed booster. Games can load FASTER on a PSIO despite it going through the parallel port.
>>12611107>>now another pre-order item is claiming to be solderlessbecause it apparently replaces the CD-drive assembly entirely, ala GD-Emu. pic related.the real question is will it be compatible with ALL models? I've got a 1001 and a 7501 and last I checked X-station only worked on certain board revisions.
>>12613050https://shop.arcstation.net/arcstation-ode/seems to work on all models>because it apparently replaces the CD-drive assembly entirely,I thought xstation also did that
>>12613067>I thought xstation also did thatX-Station still has this small horizontal board you need to solder on, so I assume there are some things it isn't replicating.Thing is, if you ODE is just a drop-in replacement that connects to the original ribbon cables, it should be trivial to make it possible to support the original disk drive too, people made cheap mods for other ODEs to do just that. I hate how nearly every ODE goes the cheap route of not adding in the additional 10 cents of parts to allow for that, the only ones that do are ODEs where it would be more work to make you remove the drive so they let you keep it out of laziness and then advertise that as a feature.
>>12611102I replaced the laser assembly on mine about a decade ago after I had to start turning the PS1 sideways to stop it skipping during cutscenes. Pretty sure I bought one on eBay from China for $9 including international postage and it has literally worked perfectly ever since. I still like playing the games on my CRT TV.
