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Sony Ceases Production of PSOne

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the psnomore dept.

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."

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  1. Just emulate it! by dwbassett42 · · Score: 4, Informative

    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.

    1. Re:Just emulate it! by Cal+Paterson · · Score: 4, Informative

      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.

  2. Re:Told you so by SetupWeasel · · Score: 3, Informative

    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.