Introducing PlayStation Classic, with 20 Pre-Loaded Games - full library not announced... discuss your must adds

[jace821]

But can you mod it like the mini nes/snes?

If there's an SD card slot to expand storage it will be hacked in no time to run other PS1 games.

 

[OhGoy]

yeah, let's re-release some ps1 games, which already have well functioning emulators, instead of porting and adding backwards compatibility for ps2 and ps3 games, which are extremely difficult to emulate properly or are (currently) impossible to emulate at all

 

[Duncan Hills Coffee]

The Spyro and Crash trilogies, Metal Gear Solid, Silent Hill, and the Resident Evil trilogy are mandatory for me.

Not that it really matters since I have the original PS1 copies for most of them and have a perfectly functioning backwards compatible PS2.

 

[XYZpdq]

But can you mod it like the mini nes/snes?

Yeah an easily exploited PS1 seems like something I might get behind.

Really this also makes me want to dig up whatever emulator I used to run SotN on my toaster.

 

[Sperglord Dante]

I really don't see the appeal of these nostalgia consoles. Why would you pay 100 dollars to plug another thing to your tv that does basically nothing except maybe play a handful of titles not available in the PS store (and even then you could just pirate them)?

 

[MrTroll]

Obviously Capcom told them to gtfo or they would have listed a RE in the initial announcement. If MGS was part of the collection it would include a Dual-Shock instead of the crappy circa-1995 digital pad (ditto for the later FF's, Ape Escape, Silent Hill, Crash 3, THPS, and any other 3D game made after 1998 ). FF7 is on literally every electronic device known to man at this point so that was a given. The rest of that crap... who cares? I predict at least 1 Twisted Metal (worst-case scenario: all 4 of them), Tomb Raider 1 and 2, Suikoden, SotN, Tomba, Harvest Moon, Oddworld, Legacy of Kain, and Tenchu. Maybe Medal of Honor and Syphon Filter (although playing them with the digital pad would be awkward), and Wipeout if they can handle the music licensing issues.

 

[XYZpdq]

Oh man this place I'm downloading SotN from is fucking 100kps. I wanted some retro gaming but not retro piracy.

 

[CIA Nigger]

Yeah an easily exploited PS1 seems like something I might get behind.

Really this also makes me want to dig up whatever emulator I used to run SotN on my toaster.

PS1s are stupidly easy to modchip. I bought a PS1 from a thrift store one day for $5 and the last owner just so happened to install a modchip in it.

 

[CrunkLord420]

This is just going to be another emulator box? Honestly not that interesting.

 

[XYZpdq]

PS1s are stupidly easy to modchip. I bought a PS1 from a thrift store one day for $5 and the last owner just so happened to install a modchip in it.

Yeah, hell I have a modchip and a 900x psx, pretty sure I have an older one with a goldfinger, too.
But fuck burning discs. I'm tired of that shit.

 

[tehpope]

As others have said, PS1 are easy to mod and pretty abundant. Also pretty easy to get a good signal quality out of for 99% of games (I'm looking at you Silent Hill and Chrono Cross for swapping between 240p and 480i for games and menus). Also, ps3 are also abundant and easy to softmod. Also, you can play games off usb or the hdd. Same with PS2s.

Might get one if I see on clearance. Hopefully DS4 controllers are supported since the connectors are just usb ports.

Wipeout if they can handle the music licensing issues.

They could use the Saturn soundtrack for wipeout since those versions excluded the licensed soundtrack.

 

[Gingervitis]

Will I be able to run PS2 games on this via modding? If so, thats all I would need to know in order to get it. Otherwise, I have a perfectly functional Raspberry Pi to do this for me.

 

[The Fool]

I like all the autists in this thread going "what? a product for inferior normies? psh, no thanks, I spent a weekend and all of my allowance setting up this emulator"

 

[NOT Sword Fighter Super]

So...basically the patent has run out and they're trying to keep people from buying third-party shit?

 

[Lipitor]

yeah, let's re-release some ps1 games, which already have well functioning emulators, instead of porting and adding backwards compatibility for ps2 and ps3 games, which are extremely difficult to emulate properly or are (currently) impossible to emulate at all

They sell tho... You think Chris came up with selling empty fanta cans on his own... no he was told by his market they wanted his trash... and he got paid. Just cuz your product is stupid doesn't mean people won't buy it.

I really don't see the appeal of these nostalgia consoles. Why would you pay 100 dollars to plug another thing to your tv that does basically nothing except maybe play a handful of titles not available in the PS store (and even then you could just pirate them)?

Funny you mention it. The only people i've met IRL who have bought these are wives of dudes who have childhood nostalgia mancave basements. So I guess it's a no brainer gift.

 

[OhGoy]

They sell tho... You think Chris came up with selling empty fanta cans on his own... no he was told by his market they wanted his trash... and he got paid. Just cuz your product is stupid doesn't mean people won't buy it.

not saying that people won't buy it, just that it's dumb

people will buy all sorts of shit no matter how ridiculous it is

doesn't make it any less stupid, though

 

[Zaragoza]

I'm playing Spyro 1 in 4k with my PS emulator, no thanks.

 

[Lipitor]

not saying that people won't buy it, just that it's dumb

people will buy all sorts of shit no matter how ridiculous it is

doesn't make it any less stupid, though

I think even Sony knows it's stupid... it comes out dec 3rd... for virtually no reason other than it makes a great Xmas gift.

I'll admit even if you don't want to do emulators, cuz you like the classic feel of plug and play with the original controllers... PS4 and PS3 have basically the same controllers and you can buy all the classics in the PSN store... Hell if you can't afford those systems somehow.. the PS tv has access to the PSN and then you can also play PSP/V games and stream netflix/stuff... for the same price..

It's obviously a cash grab. But people are going for it. Sorta just made the thread to see what people see in these retro console products more than whether or not they're worth it.

It will also be interesting cuz Nintendo intentionally releases far few enough units to make them seem more desirable. I doubt sony can come up with an excuse they can't satiate a market with enough units. So that will be interesting to see how they play it.

 

[Someone in a Tree]

Sony: Oh, yeah?! Well, I'm gonna make my own mini console! With blackjack! And hookers!

 

[sasazuka]

I like all the autists in this thread going "what? a product for inferior normies? psh, no thanks, I spent a weekend and all of my allowance setting up this emulator"

I like the concept of retro consoles, especially when made by the original console manufacturer, for the experience of playing old videogames on a device that feels more authentic than playing games via PC emulator, plus the simplicity factor of being able to play games right out of the box.

The fatal flaw for me is that most of these first party retro consoles don't let me play the copies of games I own on physical media for the original version of the console. I think my 21-year old Playstation I got in 1997 still works but I can envision a point in the not-too-distant future when it won't and it would be nice to have a retro console that could play the original disks as a backup. But that's not this Playstation Classic, unless it lets me hook up an external optical drive via USB.