Even though I'm in the land of PC hardware now, I wrote about all things PlayStation for a chunk of my early career. As such, I could not resist the siren song of this hardware project that brings the original PlayStation 1 bang up to date. HDMI output, USB power, wireless controllers: it's all here in a snazzy blue shell inspired by the original dev kits!
I do enjoy a teardown video, and Elliot Coll of YouTube channel The Retro Future delivers here. He first disassembles a very crusty-looking SCPH-5502 PAL region PlayStation, revealing old mod work from a previous user—it's a bit like finding a fossil-rich strata in sedimentary rock.
These old hardware mods introduced NTSC region compatibility, plus the option to play games burned to a disc, but Elliot instead opts to work from a blank-ish canvas. After sending the original PlayStation shell off for a much-n...
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