Comment on Run Your PS2 Library from a $50 Memory Card Effortlessly

• Redkey@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  What ShinkanTrain said. The last a read about it, the PS2 only switches into PS1 mode on a trigger from the optical drive subsystem, and then most of the memory and other hardware used to run homebrew is deactivated. AFAIK no-one’s yet found a way to trigger the change in software and keep the connection to wherever you’re loading your game from.

  I believe that on certain revisions of the console, MechaPwn can overcome the protection, but you still need a “Playstation 1” CD in the drive to actually run something, as ShinkanTrain wrote.

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• RamenJunkie@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I modded my PS Mini for PS1 games. Its pretty simple.

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  • Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Hell yeah, that sounds awesome. Does it have native composite video out? I wanna play on my crt without using an hdmi converter

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    • RamenJunkie@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Its HDMI only.

      The Wii someone else suggested may be a good way to go, I think they are fairly easy to get a hold of. I have not personally modified a Wii yet but its next ony todo list for console upgrades.

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    • ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Do you happen to have a Wii lying around? It can do actually pretty decent PS1 emulation nowadays, and supports analog signals (including 240p)

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      • Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I do! I’ll have to play around with it

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• ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  You can use POPStarter to use the built-in software emulator, but it’s not great. There’s also FreeMcBoot if burning discs isn’t a problem.

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