Alien Resurrection can be turned into a "boot disk" for playing burned PS1 games
  •  MudMan   ( @MudMan@kbin.social ) 
    46•6 months ago

    “Godsend” is a bit of an exaggeration, considering how many ways there are to get the same result without even going into emulation and stuff, but alright. It’s still a fun bit of history and behind the scenes info.

    •  Perfide   ( @Perfide@reddthat.com ) 
      27•6 months ago

      A lot people like playing on genuine hardware, and this enables skipping a ton of steps to making that possible. For those select people this really is a massive convenience if maybe not a godsend.

      •  MudMan   ( @MudMan@kbin.social ) 
        10•6 months ago

        It depends on what type of hardware. On the right console you could do this in real time with nothing but a jammed opening mechanism. I’ve personally swapped disks on a launch PSX just by learning the right timing and made it work 9/10 times. By 2000 I also knew of multiple places to just get hard mods, but honestly, Bleem came out in 99, so… that would have been my go-to. And now… well, now you can get a MiSTer to run those games if what you want is OG I/O.

        I’m gonna say if you’re a “OG hardware” kinda person, and I’m one, so I should know, you’re also a OG software kind of person. I’ll play a real PSX game on a real PSX for shits and giggles, but if I’m gonna burn a CD I have better ways to get that game to run if I am using bootlegs on any part of that chain. Also, if you’re a OG hardware kinda person, you may be in the same boat I am and have such restricted shelf space that your default PSX vessel is a PS2 because if you can consolidate two consoles into one that’s way more useful than a way to run copied CDs, although that may be a me thing.

  •  UKFilmNerd   ( @UKFilmNerd@feddit.uk ) English
    20•6 months ago

    What the article didn’t mention, and it says in the video, Alien: Resurrection was possibly going to be a multi cd game at one point and the dev was experimenting with the code to get that working.

  •  Corroded   ( @CorrodedCranium@leminal.space ) English
    10•6 months ago

    Argonaut Games’ cult classic survival horror FPS Alien Resurrection has been hiding a secret for 23 years: it contains a cheat code that lets you play backup disks on PS1 without having to mod the hardware at all.