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Lorfarius

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phillv85

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I never had issues with my PS1, it's still working now. It's a mid-lifecycle one though, one of the ones where they removed the expansion port so I couldn't stick a gameshark in for easy running of bootleg games. My launch model PS2 however had a dead laser/disc read errors after a few years. The PS1 almost exclusively played "backed up" discs, whereas the PS2 was all official releases, it was devastating to me because I was only about 19 at the time it died and the £250 or whatever it cost to replace was far more than I was earning each week back then. At least the PS2 prepared me for what was to come with the Xbox 360 :facepalm:

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RastanSaga

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I'm not going to complain, because the lady was lovely and kind and helpful....but....driver 2 has one disc and a wrong disc....all the money I've spent on games...I'd sooner be playing a £1 game right now!

 

Micro machines is fun...never played on ps1 before (I think)

 

It isn't for me but I never imagined I'd be so taken by a mini ps1 and screen.

 

I might buy one for myself down the line.

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ianinthefuture

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Does anyone know of any folk offering XStation/PS1digital fitting services?

 

I'm staring at it, thinking of doing it myself, but it might be a bit too steady-handed a job for me. And 8bitmods is asking just shy of £200 for both fitted; a bit rich for my tastes. Will's Console Mods would be my choice, but he's not available right now. So yeah, in the market for other solder soldiers.

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Alexlotl

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2 hours ago, ianinthefuture said:

Does anyone know of any folk offering XStation/PS1digital fitting services?

 

I'm staring at it, thinking of doing it myself, but it might be a bit too steady-handed a job for me. And 8bitmods is asking just shy of £200 for both fitted; a bit rich for my tastes. Will's Console Mods would be my choice, but he's not available right now. So yeah, in the market for other solder soldiers.

I hadn't kept track of these. That PS1 Digital looks incredible! 960p with slight borders on a 1080p screen is my favourite way to play 240p content. Quite tempted to just splash out on a pre-modded console and revisit the PSX RPG library, once they're a bit more widespread.

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On 02/11/2020 at 11:11, kiroquai said:

My PS1 collection is coming along pretty nicely.

 

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Is there a reason you're collecting what only seems to be PAL games? You know they're letterboxed at 50Hz, 17% slower, and it's not really possible to force them to run at their correct speeds or aspect ratios, right? It's not like Saturn games which can be forced to run at 60Hz, the slowdown and letterboxing are hardcoded into PAL PS1 games' actual code.

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Lorfarius

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1 hour ago, Sketch said:

 

:unsure:

 

Is there a reason you're collecting what only seems to be PAL games? You know they're letterboxed at 50Hz, 17% slower, and it's not really possible to force them to run at their correct speeds or aspect ratios, right? It's not like Saturn games which can be forced to run at 60Hz, the slowdown and letterboxing are hardcoded into PAL PS1 games' actual code.

 

I've got a few full collections on the go for different systems and always go with PAL. For me its always been a case of that's what's familiar, playing something that plays at a different speed feels off and I struggle to get into older games when I've had them before. Sonic is probably the best example, it might have faster music and play much quicker over in the US but to me it just feels like a mess :lol: Think it's a matter of just going after what you really enjoy. Doesn't stop me from picking up the odd US game that never came out here.

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Aye, I mostly go with US and Japanese stuff where possible, but I've no desire to get rid of my old PAL games. I'm playing a PAL copy of Big Ol' Bass right now, a completely unoptimised game, and after about five minutes I stopped caring about the attendant conversion issues. 50hz is still a big dealbreaker for me with shmups, fighting games and some other competitive genres, but I'd never tell someone not to buy the PAL version of a game if it was the cheapest and most accessible one for them. (However, I'd inform them that the Japanese versions are the cheapest most of the time. It's such a delight picking up a game with a low language barrier for £7 when it usually goes for £50-100 here!)

 

And yeah, there's also the appeal of having the version that was around when you were a teenager, with its particular presentation in terms of the cover art and manual, the uniform spine, etc. Though the cases definitely do suffer from being bulky but flimsy, an oddity the PAL Dreamcast took and ran with...

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Also rad boxes for PAL DC, and why I have a collection of those despite having a region free console. Those big chunky blue and black (PS1) games look great on a shelf and I mostly just don’t give a fuck about NTSC optimisation. Grew up without it, don’t care. I say say mostly because N64 is the exception.

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Kevvy Metal

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20 hours ago, Sketch said:

 

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Is there a reason you're collecting what only seems to be PAL games? You know they're letterboxed at 50Hz, 17% slower, and it's not really possible to force them to run at their correct speeds or aspect ratios, right? It's not like Saturn games which can be forced to run at 60Hz, the slowdown and letterboxing are hardcoded into PAL PS1 games' actual code.


I have a fairly health retro games library that has almost zero PAL games in it on any format, but almost all of it was acquired during the ntsc-uk days. 
 

What you have to realise though is that a collection and an actually useable software library aren’t one and the same thing. 

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