I’ve got a softmodded PS2 with free mcboot and the mechacon chip thinks it’s a dev unit. Its got a 1TB hard drive full of PS2 games and a binder full of burnt PS1 discs
- tmcgh ( @tmcgh@lemmy.world ) English3•1 year ago
I’ve got a similar setup. No ps1 discs though. I use popstarter which is great for some games but the ones I want to play… never seem to work right. In terms of my ps2 collection, I sometimes struggle to decide what to play.
- ModularTable ( @modulartable@beehaw.org ) English2•1 year ago
That’s so awesome! How’s the performance as far playing games from the drive? Any drawbacks? Better than disc?
From the hard drive it actually loads faster even on a physical hard drive. On an SSD it is even better and completely silent, however I have had little problem with noise from the HDD. As for the disc thing it is better for PS2 games as it doesn’t wear out the laser. For PS1 I use cds so it boots into the PS1 CPU because I think OPL uses POPstarter to emulate PS1. As is the fat PS2s use the PS1 CPU for I/O so the only part it emulates is the graphics chip.
- CorrodedCranium ( @CorrodedCranium@lemmy.fmhy.ml ) English2•1 year ago
Heck yeah it’s the reason I bought my Vita