Sony Ceases Production of PSOne

Gamespot has the news that Sony is no longer manufacturing the PSOne. From the article: "Despite the news, Sony representatives noted today that the end of production does not necessarily mean the end of availability. PS hardware and software are still selling in countries around the world. Even if original PlayStation systems and games are becoming slim pickings in the US, gamers likely won't be going without for long. As part of its PlayStation Business Briefing 2006, Sony last week announced that it is working on an emulator that would allow gamers to play PS titles on the PSP."

Comments

Just emulate it!

[dwbassett42]

Who cares if the actual PS one is no longer being sold? There are good emulators for the PSX out there, ePSXe being the best. Everything is freely downloadable and open-source, except for the actual BIOS files. (Which you'll probably end up getting via P2P) Once you're all set up, you can play any PSX game right on your computer, and it even supports linked play via inter/intranet.

Re:Just emulate it!

[Cal Paterson]

No! ePSXe is NOT open source!

It's closed, and although the team haven't especially ruled out the possibility of making it Free Software, it is currently pretty much win32 only (although there is a GNU/Linux binary: it doesn't work very well).

To my knowledge, the only Free PSX emulator is PCSX, but development has been dead a few years, and I have a feeling compatibility is poor.

Re:Just emulate it!

[Zaatxe]

Taking the chances of having my post deleted or modded way down, here goes the configuration! I'm posting only the video configuration, the audio and CD-ROM configuration are the default internal plugins that goes with ePSXe. Enjoy!

By the way, I don't know if the disk changing will work, I still haven't reached this point of the game.

Plugin: Pete's OpenGL2 Driver 2.6
Author: Pete Bernert
Card vendor: ATI Technologies Inc.
GFX card: RADEON 7000 DDR x86/MMX/3DNow!/SSE

Resolution/Color:
- 640x480 Window mode
- Internal X resolution: 0
- Internal Y resolution: 0
- Keep psx aspect ratio: off
- No render-to-texture: off

- Filtering: 0
- Hi-Res textures: 0
- TexWin pixel shader: off
- VRam size: 0 MBytes

Framerate:
- FPS limitation: on
- Frame skipping: off
- FPS limit: Auto

Compatibility:
- Offscreen drawing: 1
- Framebuffer effects: 2
- Framebuffer uploads: 1

Misc:
- Scanlines: off
- Mdec filter: on
- Screen filtering: on
- Shader effects: 0/1
- Flicker-fix border size: 0
- GF4/XP crash fix: off
- Game fixes: on [00000400]

Re:Allowing PS titles on PSP?

[nbcjr]

No speculation is needed, from TFA: "As part of its PlayStation Business Briefing 2006, Sony last week announced that it is working on an emulator that would allow gamers to play PS titles on the PSP. Details haven't been released yet, but Sony Computer Entertainment president Ken Kutaragi said the games would be digitally distributed." SO... SONY!

Re:Told you so

[SetupWeasel]

The Kirby tilt game probably. It was made for the top loading GBA.

Oh, and any multiplayer GBA game. Of course, that only affects part of the game.

It's pretty much 100%.

[Inoshiro]

That list is about a bunch of games that, frankly, work with models that are SPCH-30001. If you have an SPCH-30001 that's not dead due to the defective lasers that were used in the 1999-2000 production run of 1st gen PS2s that still functions, you're lucky and due for a replacement anyway.

My PS2 plays Final Fantasy Anthology perfectly fine, and brings the load times of the FF6 menus down to something approaching playability, although it's still not as nice as the SNES rom.

From Wikipedia: "Early versions of the PlayStation 2 console were incompatible with both the North American and European versions of Final Fantasy Anthology, although these incompatibilities have since been addressed in later hardware revisions."

Re:Any other obsolete products still in production

[ecc0]

I would love it if I can buy a brand new [...] sony walkman

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