Finally got the LSD book. Searched so many years for it and didn't looked much into it so I don't get spoiled. I searched for it for 4 years and saw about 4-5 copies. Super cool and unique stuff in there. Also got the LSD and remixes soundtrack. While it isn't that rare also pretty happy to own it, it's my favorite Osamu Sato album.

A fav of mine and severely underrated classic. I love this game and its bonus level music is still one of the best tracks in a any game lol!

I rarely see this mentioned anymore so thought to give it some love. To this day its still one of my favs in the genre. Was a main staple in my gaming rotation on the original Playstation. Proud to have it in my collection and hey square enix...hint hint its about time for another 😀

Any Einhander fans left out there?

Edit-Sorry, I deleted the topic i just made instead of an edit so here we go again 😆

Finally finished this game

Crossed a few gems off the wishlist today. I was really close to buying Brave Fencer Musashi on eBay, but checked one more store and they had a copy in great shape at a fair price.

Last Raven’s insert had water damage, but I’m tired of looking for it, so I bought it anyways.

Appreciation post

Paid 5 euros, laser is dead but that’s an easy fix. Another project!

I need it in italian but in every version that I found the game stops working after the second or third mission

Internals from Mitsumi Dualshock fit into Dual analog, just needed to attach big motor holder with super glue and swap motor cables as on Dual analog its on opposite side (small motor wrong way on photo)

And you need to trim few posts on back of the controller where are smd components in the way mostly dpad side.

Now I have best of both worlds 😊

Download here.

Description (from the upload page):

This bracket was redesigned for the PicoStation, and covers only the 1XXX “phat” PS1 (PU-8) simply because I don't have another motherboard that is compatible with the mod itself at this time. Lots of 7501s, but sadly none that support it.

After paying an arm and a leg, having a number of XStations under my belt I wanted to give this a shot for a while now. I also didn't want to defile an audiophile console but lasers are dying these days so I had one on hand that has been just collecting dust for years. I've been slowly working at this with multiple things holding me up along the way, such as replacing caps, the prep work of lifting the legs on the chip, all that sort of thing. I also didn't have a larger module on hand for full sized SD cards so I guess you'll have to deal with it! Also note that the SD module does NOT use an extension in this model. It is for use directly in the top bracket. I recommend using male/female pinheaders for quick disconnect as a console servicing convenience later. 

Diagrams grabbed from all over. Props to the community out there but there is still a lot that isn't readily available in a clear way. I still need to come back to this and cut out what isn't needed and include some others but I'll include what I've collected in the files section for now. Here is one of those helpful resources.

This project was based on RetroGameRevival's XStation mounting bracket. I couldn't really find anything decent for the PicoStation out there and this was probably the best that I could find for the XStation so I chose it over all of the others.

Note that the button portion 'sliding door' will need to be filed down to fit correctly. It's a little difficult to get to fit into place. 

These are the type of tact switches I used. 3mm push button.

This video may also be useful for the installation process. The AI generated English voiceover with hilarious random noises is particularly a reason to watch in itself. The bracket in that video is not the one I have edited here, but it shows how to install the portions that go into it. I've been working on this off and on for about a week when I had time and they just happened to be upgrading their setup at the same time. Just stumbled onto it last night while surfing through my YouTube subscriptions.

Just out of pure curiosity, I've created this fan-made detailed poll, blaffed by how many ways you can (re)play the classic PS1 games.

Would you bother to partecipate with an external link?

I experienced times where my Playstation didn't scan my disk, and my only method for it to work is to put something heavy on it just so then it could work, so I can play fifa 12. Which sometimes annoys me because not everytime I put something heavy , it might work. Any tips on how I could get it repaired?

Not entirely sure about where this brochure came from, but this 1995 brochure shows off the capabilities of the original PlayStation before its Sep release and highlights some North American launch titles, and interestingly gives a Sep-Oct release date to Wing Commander III, which wouldn't be released until March the following year

Does anyone remember the Sony PocketStation? It's a tiny 1999 PS1 memory-card-with-a-screen peripheral that was only really found in Japan that ran its own tiny downloadable apps off an ARM7TDMI CPU. As far as I can tell there hasn't been a working open-source emulator for it before and so I built one.

The nearest thing I could find out in the wild was a in progress rust implementation. This one is in C because I want it to be usable for patching holes in other projects - libretro being the first of many.

I've tested it with a .mcr ps1 memcard save that has chocoboworld and it seems to run and save correctly without crashing. I could use some help testing - the emulator comes with a pretty good crash log to so if it does go sideways I should be able to fix it.

You can find the repo here https://github.com/mentalfoundry/pokketstation