Sony Ceases Production of PSOne 159
Gamespot has the news that Sony is no longer manufacturing the PSOne. From the article: "Despite the news, Sony representatives noted today that the end of production does not necessarily mean the end of availability. PS hardware and software are still selling in countries around the world. Even if original PlayStation systems and games are becoming slim pickings in the US, gamers likely won't be going without for long. As part of its PlayStation Business Briefing 2006, Sony last week announced that it is working on an emulator that would allow gamers to play PS titles on the PSP."
Allowing PS titles on PSP? (Score:1, Flamebait)
Re:Allowing PS titles on PSP? (Score:1)
Either that or a hybrid PSOne/Walkman disc player that connects to the PSP through a USB 2 cable, using the PSP as a controller, display, and speakers. But I will admit that PS1 games that use L2, R2, L3, R3, or the right stick might need to be retooled.
Re:Allowing PS titles on PSP? (Score:1)
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why mess around with mechanical emulators if you can just run the games on your pc and output the picture on the telly through your tv-out cable ?
yeah sure playing screens on a display that requires a magnifying glass is cool, but running epsxe in foreground and building gentoo on the back is way more sexy
Re:Allowing PS titles on PSP? (Score:1)
I'll just keep contributing money to Zodttd's gp2psx project.
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Re:Allowing PS titles on PSP? (Score:2, Informative)
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I am amazed that other PSX emulators like ePSXe [epsxe.com] haven't been ported to the PSP already.
Told you so (Score:4, Insightful)
Sony last week announced that it is working on an emulator that would allow gamers to play PS titles on the PSP."
As I have been explaining since the PSP was first released in Japan, PS1 back-compatibility is the only way Sony can get the number of PSP-compatible titles anywhere near the number of titles compatible with its closest competitor, which can officially run 99 percent of GBA titles.
Re:Told you so (Score:1)
Re:Told you so (Score:4, Informative)
Oh, and any multiplayer GBA game. Of course, that only affects part of the game.
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I don't think that Sony is capable of beating Nintendo at the handheld back-combatibility game. Especially since you don't have to rebuy the games for GBA and DS.
Re:Told you so (Score:1, Interesting)
Re:Told you so (Score:1, Insightful)
Not the same, though. Being able to play the carts you already own on the DS is a plus, as the DS plays legacy GBA carts. But PSP will not play PS1 disks, you'll have to buy them again on UMD. That'll give them a huge library a
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Emulation on PSP? (Score:2)
How Thoughtful, and all I have to do is buy another version of the game should my PSone cease to function.
But that's all... Thanks again Sony.
Re:Emulation on PSP? (Score:2)
Re:Emulation on PSP? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Emulation on PSP? (Score:1)
Would it be a matter of copying a PSOne game from your old CD onto a memory stick, or would it be a matter of downloading (for a fee, of course) a MagicGate encrypted copy onto a memory stick?
If it's the latter, thanks for nothing. Just more ways to get you to pay over and over for the same damn thing.
US customers! (Score:3, Insightful)
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Re:US customers! (Score:4, Funny)
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Re:US customers! (Score:1)
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Sweet mother of God.
clearly, i am missing something (Score:2)
Re:clearly, i am missing something (Score:1)
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/08
Re:clearly, i am missing something (Score:3, Insightful)
http://www.vesalia.de/ [vesalia.de]
Re:clearly, i am missing something (Score:2)
Apparently these guys are making them for coleco. http://www.technosourceusa.com/pr-coleco.htm [technosourceusa.com]
Single unit Plugs into TV. 6 games like boxing, football, and hockey. Also had double unit 2player with 12 games.
I almost picked one up then I realized I'd have to unplug a real console to use it and I was too embarassed to show it to my children.
2.50 might be worth a larf.
Just emulate it! (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Just emulate it! (Score:4, Informative)
It's closed, and although the team haven't especially ruled out the possibility of making it Free Software, it is currently pretty much win32 only (although there is a GNU/Linux binary: it doesn't work very well).
To my knowledge, the only Free PSX emulator is PCSX, but development has been dead a few years, and I have a feeling compatibility is poor.
Re:Just emulate it! (Score:1)
Re:Just emulate it! (Score:1)
I even got it working in ePSXe 1.6, when most emulations forums say only ePSXe 1.5.2 can run Chrono Cross!
Anyway, if somebody nee
Re:Just emulate it! (Score:2, Informative)
By the way, I don't know if the disk changing will work, I still haven't reached this point of the game.
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Re:Just emulate it! (Score:1)
ePSXe is great and the linux version is fine as far as I can tell. But it's true for ePSXe just as it is true for all other systems: for some reason it's still a little weird playing emulators instead of the actual system. The experience just isn't 100% there, even when you have a gamepad and TV-out. I emulate all the time, and I love the ability to play those old games on my computer, but oh how I wish I owned all those original systems.
I can't wait to see this.. (Score:3, Interesting)
To me, this means:
1. The games are downloaded and stored on you PSP. (Yay!)
2. The games are repackaged and sold as PSP games. (Boo!)
3. I'm completely missing the point of why this matters. (Likely)
Considering all the titles available for the PSP and the ability to play PSOne games on your PS2 (acronym central) already, this seems kind of like a scare tactic towards Nintendo for offering free games on Revolution [joystiq.com]. The "Look! Look guys! We can do it too!" mentality, I guess.
Re:I can't wait to see this.. (Score:2, Interesting)
this seems kind of like a scare tactic towards Nintendo for offering free games on Revolution.
That, or it's a reaction to the Nintendo DS's back-compatibility [slashdot.org]. Or it's a reaction to homebrew emulation efforts [dcemu.co.uk].
Re:I can't wait to see this.. (Score:2)
Anything short of making the games available for download to the PSP seems like a terribly bad move, especially with third party solutions either alrea
Re:I can't wait to see this.. (Score:1)
Re:I can't wait to see this.. (Score:1)
a lot of PS games are big
And a lot of them aren't. Particularly, Zoop is about 3 MB, and the rest is CD audio that could be compressed for use on PSP. Sure, that's an edge case, but a lot of PS1 games are similar (under 100 MB data track plus lots of CD audio).
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rip? (Score:1)
and Sony is going to just give you access to all those games for free?
In the ideal world, I could stick a PS1 game in my CD drive and rip it, creating an encrypted iso that is locked to my PSP unit.
Re:I can't wait to see this.. (Score:1)
One game per memory card. Wee.
"2. The games are repackaged and sold as PSP games. (Boo!)"
The PSP has fewer control buttons than the PS1 controller. It also has a wider-aspect screen and stronger processing capabilities. I'd rather they repackaged it to make it more PSP friendly and smarten up the graphics a little bit.
"3. I'm completely missing the point of why this matters. (Likely)"
Actually, I'm missing the point as well. This smells an awful
Oh fawk! (Score:1)
Dual Shock and other PS1 Controller Oddities (Score:3, Insightful)
PS1 had digital pads before Dual Shock (Score:3, Insightful)
How will they be able to emulate the twin Dual Shock joysticks, as well as the L2, L3, R2, and R3 functionality.
In-game remapping for titles that support it, or in-emulator remapping. I'm guessing that Sony will just skip the more complex titles that require analog sticks. Besides, half of the PS1 game library (including such classics as Parappa the Rapper, Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo, and Final Fantasy VII) was made before the Dual Shock controller and thus doesn't know that L3, R3, and the analog st
Sad day for a PS1 collector... (Score:1, Insightful)
Still a great little system. I've got over 200 titles so I don't have much of a need for the newer systems. However I will be continuing my collecting on the PS2 platform.
Here's to more games!
They're stopping now? (Score:2, Insightful)
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"PS hardware and software are still selling in countries around the world. Even if original PlayStation systems and games are becoming slim pickings in the US"
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Thankyou for pointing that out.
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Its still in its box. Being kept for ebaying in twenty years time or so.
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A more viable product... (Score:1)
They should realize that their UMD format is not going anywhere :p
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Scissors (Score:4, Funny)
Reminds me of the old technical support story of the person using a pair of scissors to make the 5.25 inch disk fit the 3.5 inch drive.
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ps2 backward compatible (Score:1)
if you still insist on a ps1, i can sell you mine call me
ps2 not 100% backward compatible (Score:5, Interesting)
get a freaking ps2 for 140 bucks.
Not entirely. Several PS1 games do not work correctly on the PS2 [whirlpool.net.au]. I'm guessing this PSP emulator won't be 100% compatible either, just as the Nintendo DS isn't compatible with link-cable-heavy GBA titles such as The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords and Pokémon.
It's pretty much 100%. (Score:3, Informative)
My PS2 plays Final Fantasy Anthology perfectly fine, and brings the load times of the FF6 menus down to something approaching playability, although it's still not as nice as the SNES rom.
From Wikipedia [wikipedia.org]: "Early versions of
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Steve Ballmer declares victory (Score:1, Funny)
Upon hearing the news from Sony, Steve Ballmer declared victory, looking back to his pre-XBOX days when he made the following comment:
I've done it before and I'll do it again! I'm going to Fucking Kill(TM) Sony!
-Steve Ballmer, 2002
Ballmer then spoke with his staff, who informed them that Playstation 2 has been out since 2001, thus making the PS1 essentially obsolete since before the XBOX was released. He then vowed to Fucking Kill(TM) his staff as he continued down the list of things to Fucking Kill(T
Sega (Score:3, Interesting)
I'm still holding out for Sega to do the same with the Game Gear and Master System, Alex Kidd in Miracle world here I come!!
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Even smaller (Score:2, Funny)
Ironic (Score:4, Interesting)
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Re:I run epsxe on my laptop (Score:1, Insightful)
Re:I run epsxe on my laptop (Score:1)
By the way, why would you like to play when walking around? I sure hope you don't live in a place where's other traffic too..
The best thing about using an emulator with a laptop: not having to buy the
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I admit e
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Price will continue to make the PS1 attractive. (Score:3, Insightful)
While the price for a PS2 has dropped considerably, the even cheaper PS1 is still the only real option for a person who has not much cash but want's a good console. Add in the vast pirated library of PS1 titles, and the PS1 will be an oddly vibrant video game platform for quite some time.
What PSP REALLY means (Score:5, Funny)
Please... (Score:1)
Good riddance.
What?!?!?!? (Score:4, Funny)
Slashdot is losing its traditions...
/. traditions (Score:1, Funny)
I refuse to believe that until I hear Netcraft confirm it!
PS2 emulation anytime soon ? (Score:1)
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Emulator will make you rebuy the games (Score:1)
Re:Any other obsolete products still in production (Score:2)
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And it is still outselling the Xbox.
Re:Any other obsolete products still in production (Score:2, Informative)
think about poorer countries (Score:2)
Re:think about poorer countries (Score:2)
Most of those PS1's are pirate systems that are cheaper than the real thing... and will continue to be available. Just look in the gaming section of MBK. You won't find any officially licensed Sony hardware, but you will find a lot of cheaply printed cardboard boxes holding slightly-too-bubbly PS1 systems.
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