That’s the exact same turn of events that lead me back to real hardware. I started with the SNES Classic Mini and after modding it extensively still felt unsatisfied and ended up buying a Super Famicom and SD2SNES.
As for the PS1 last year I picked up an NTSC PS1, dropped in a PAL PSU and installed a PSIO. While I understand the firmware is a bit frustrating in practice it really isn’t too bad. Maybe I’m biased because it’s an Australian product 
Is Suikoden 2’s front inlay (PAL) supposed to be printed on a cardboard? It looks legit but I’ve never seen cardboard used on PS1 front inlays.
I was thinking of buying a PSIO prior to the X-Station being announced. I will definitely NOT buy a PSIO now.
I don’t know much about the product, but they deserve to get fined and lose their business over that. Their responding tweets even show they’ve doxxed people and tried to defend it.
Apparently they’ve removed the language, but that’s absolutely reprehensible.
I would never buy a product from them and I would openly advocate for no one to buy their products from now on.
Well that’s a new one. I’ve never seen terms of use that had that language before.
There’s some legitimate criticism to be leveled at cybdyn’s practices and Matt’s conduct on twitter.
That said the pile-on on Twitter was kind of embarrassing.
(not me!)
This is almost always true, but it shouldn’t take away from outrageousness of what they’ve tried to do.
One of those things that I can certainly see where they were coming from, but they should have/would have known better if they stopped and thought about it for a bit first.
Lesson: don’t say anything you might later regret.
Playing Resident Evil 1 on my vita.
Either I’m getting bad at games or this game is a lot harder than I remember.
It’s technically a hard game.
I feel bad because I didn’t give Resident Evil: Deadly Silence (DS port) a fair shake, wasn’t the most portable-friendly game though. But given the current global situation it may be a good time to revisit…
Today was a rainy day and I just started a new job and haven’t quite gotten used to the hours so rather than be productive I thought I’d dig out my old spare PS1 (a PAL 5502) and bring it back to life. I’ll probably throw in a switchboard for the PSIO and keep it as a spare.
Here it is after about an hour or so of cleaning - I’m quite happy how it turned out.
Much better!
Looks great! Man, the design of this box is so iconic and so nostalgic. I would love to have one but I really only have so much space and can’t bring myself to take up the room on my shelf when my region-free PS2 works just as well. It’s silly but the one thing I really miss is the boot-up sequence. I have a 2.1 audio system with a sub and I want to hear that BWWwwwoooooowwww-WWWWwwwooooowwwwwnnnnnn… sound on it. 
I know what you mean it’s a beautiful design. It has such a lush 90s hi-fi feel to it.
I know what you mean when it comes to justifying having one hooked up - I was originally using a chipped PS2 to play my PS1 games but as it is a PAL console it’s actually kinda fiddly to get games to run at true NTSC as you need homebrew to reset the clock synthesiser to the right frequency before you load a disc.
I’d love to use mine but I’m a component snob so I use my PStwo.
The PS1 really screams classic Sony design language in its chassis design, but even the original controller hasn’t aged a bit and would still look aesthetically pleasing on a coffee table today.
Was never a huge fan of the psone but its appearance definitely fit in with some of the more ‘chic’ Sony consumer products of the time (portable CD players, phones etc).
