PSIO - PS1 Flash Cartridge / MY LIFE IN GAMING

The PSIO by Cybdyn Systems is a flash cartridge for the PlayStation that allows for the playing of game backups, homebrew, and fan hacks from an SD card on the original hardware. Let's put it through its paces!
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[@CybdynSystems]

Thanks for the review My Life in Gaming! Very nicely done. We actually applauded your video at the end. It's actually strange that 'Driver' had problems for you because it used to work fine, so I'm surprised that it's failing again. We'll be sure to take a look into it and get it sorted. 'Jackie Chan Stuntmaster' has always been a problem game since day one, but we're not giving up on it yet. We never give up. The speed of the loading times can also be increased significantly, but it will cause more and more games to fail due to timing issues so we will leave it as is at the default speed. The boot time of PSIO is also quite slow because of the processing speed of the PlayStation CPU. It does a lot of calculations on boot at a speed of only 33.8 MHz and that's with optimised hand-written MIPS assembler code instead of C code. With that said however, some heavy processing tasks could be moved to the internal ARM MCU and calculated there instead which is something we'll be sure to look into at some point. A Memory Card manager program is also in the works and will be released eventually. We would like to thank everyone here who has either gone ahead and ordered a PSIO Cartridge or has simply found the work we have done interesting. It's been a long and tough journey, but we've finally got there and we now have a product of which PlayStation games can be played the way they were meant to be played. From here, we will continue to improve and perfect PSIO. Thanks again My Life in Gaming, and here's to the PlayStation and preserving it for gamers for years to come. Regards, - Cybdyn Systems.

[@everythingpony]

Coll thanks~

[@everythingpony]

Do you know when preorders will open again?

[@erebostd]

Don't you think that praising someone for keeping a system alive and in the same time discouraging the buyers of your product to sell it to extent and preserve the system is a little bit...strange? It's obvious to everybody that you should protect your hard work, but without a method to at least re-register the Modul to a new owner it's a nogo for many people..

[@CybdynSystems]

@@erebostd Anyone is free to sell their cartridge, but if they do, they must include the order information to the new owner so they can access downloads.

[@CybdynSystems]

@StephenBVoices No games are included with PSIO.

[@smgofdvld]

Great video I was always nervous on breaking my console with this now I love this stuff 😁👌

[@carsonky]

3:38.. yikes. I'll stick with PS1 on usb via PS3. Thanks for the video

[@StephanieHua]

So happy you are reviewing this. In this era of flash carts and Optical Emulators... I’ve been looking at the PSIO for about 2 years but never pulled the trigger. Thank you MLiG

[@billyjones6289]

This video was absolutely invaluable to me during the set up of my PSIO. Thanks you so much and keep up the great videos!

[@mylifeingaming]

[Try4ce] Thanks! I was hoping someone could use it as a tutorial!

[@Polyh3dron]

What timing on this. Mine arrives to me in March and I can't wait. I really appreciate it because now I know the work I'll have to put in for my multi-disc and redbook audio games to work on it.

[@JarodMoonchild1975]

Well, I don't know your soldering/modding skills, but I would advise you to check out Voultar's video on the subject, before you dive in. Especially if your skills are at beginner levels. Too much hassle for me, and I don't have the tools or skills to do it, either, lol. A Free McBoot softmod to my "Fat" PS2, is probably the way to go for me. Which would allow me to run games from a hard drive (have to buy), but I admit I would prefer an SD card solution in some way, but I don't think the PSIO is it, hopefully, the modders/hackers will make that a possibility soon.

[@TroutButter]

A day without an MLIG video is like a day without sunshine.

[@nmalinoski]

So, like Seattle, where schoolkids get the day off for sunny weather?

[@aleemabdullah5335]

Brother

[@aaliguy9986]

Amazing video! I've been following the PSIO for sometime and I'm really impressed with how well it works.

[@SNEScapade]

You guys have awesome timing. Mine just arrived today!

[@dan_loup]

Unless the PSIO have some very specific patches, you will get a quite neat surprise on spyro 3.

[@mylifeingaming]

[Try4ce] Neat? Sounds like a glitch you're aware of, not sure if that's neat or bad, haha. What is it?

[@Toblerone5]

@@mylifeingaming I'd presume some anti piracy measures? At least its only the worst spyro on the ps1

[@clochard4074]

I bet it is the anti-piracy trick of the unwinnable game!

[@waluigiscapelli6098]

@@mylifeingaming Spyro 3 has some very devious and aggressive Anit-Piracy code going on in it. If it detects the game is cracked it can do some really silly stuff, like taking your collectibles away, making others disappear, changing the language on PAL copies and other such nonsense. Eventually it comes to a head when you get to the final boss, resetting the game and wiping your save data. For what it's worth it worked like a charm back in the day, back when the game came out it took a couple months for a proper crack to surface, which is exactly the amount of time Insomniac were trying to buy. If you ever want the more details they can be found here: tcrf.net/Spyro:_Year_of_the_Dragon#Anti-Piracy

[@nrgdead8746]

@@mylifeingaming Probably Libcrypt, a copy protection found on some later games, especially PAL games. There's often patches to circumvent them; the System Console can apply those in PPF format. Also, a future firmware might have support for the subchannel data used by Libcrypt, thus eliminating the need for patches. But your standard issue bin/cue set likely doesn't contain the subchannel data; however if you follow the guide on Redump.org you'll get an extra file that contains it. See the CybDyn Forum; there's lots on detailed info on there.

[@sirmapo]

This channel is simply awesome.

[@joshuahelmeke]

Thanks to your efforts here, I’ve been able to reach a level of perfection in my life that I’ve been dreaming about since I was a child. Big thanks and a lifetime of gratitude to both of you two. My set up: Sony Trinitron XBR-960 Sony Bravia XBR-65X900C All standard VG consoles up to the present generation: NEC, Nintendo, Sega, SNK, Sony, and Microsoft (all of them modified to the highest audio and video output quality) Pioneer Elite VSX-01TXH AV Reciever Pioneer Elite Blu-Ray BDP-62 (region free) and Laserdisc CLD-99 Players OSSC Line Multiplier DVDO iScan VP50 Polk 7.1 Audio System A few things need improvement and I need to make some minor purchases in order to complete the project, but everything I need has already been ‘installed’. Thanks again for your contribution.

[@RobbyHuang]

Hoooo baby! Mine should be here within the next month or two, so this is good timing.

[@Drinkabeerandplayagameofficial]

This is a really cool device but it’s way more complicated than anything I would want to mess around with. I’d call it a step in the right direction that’s for sure.

[@virginraydevito]

The MLiG guys just don't know what they're doing. As far as mods goes the PSIO is extremely easy to operate and the games are drag & drop. You have to run the multi-bin isos through a program but it takes like 5 seconds.

[@__Guyver01__]

That's what I'm thinking too. It's a good start, but they need to keep going at it.

[@VGALife]

Only thing that's more complicated than most other flash carts is the soldering and there's no getting around that... Fairly easy to hit those solder points too

[@DamienCooley]

I am terrible at soldering but I did it myself with no problems. It's definitely not as easy as an everdrive or something, but it's not something I would classify as advanced or difficult.

[@ericcartman7420]

@@DamienCooley Besides, you can even send in your console and let them install it for you for a small fee. People act like they themselves are forced to do it themselves lol.

[@DhinCardoso]

PS1 together with N64 had a HUGE impact on games and in my life also!

[@ericcartman7420]

Then check out the "" Everdrive64 X7", too. It is similar to PSIO in function.

[@walshja81]

Don't ever change the music. I never get tired of hearing it.

[@the1ucidone]

Kings Field 2 is such an amazing game. Kings Field 1 and Shadow Tower are two other Fromsoftware games that are equally as impressive. Difficult games but fantastic once you get the hang of them. The PSio is an amazing piece of hardware. Thank you as always for being so cool MLiG.

[@ESHIELDS]

Just installed mine last month! Totally cool and worth it!

[@codex_ata2493]

I got in on StoneAgeGamer's original offering, and installed my PSIO in December. I'm very impressed with this product - it was a simple install of 2 cut traces (which can be repaired), and about 8 soldered wires. None of this is difficult or requires lifting IC pins, which could snap off and be difficult to replace. It only took about 30 minutes to install. The directions are about as good as I've ever seen on a product made by such a small team. Also, Try didn't mention this, but you can store the entire North American library of PS1 games on one 512GB SDXC card. I have the original SCPH-1001 RCA PS1 version and haven't come across any issues across the 50 or so games I've played, but I may pick up a later model with parallel port and another mod chip ($7) in case I do have an issue and will just swap the cartridge to the 2nd PS1. As for used copies - just make sure you get the original email address and order number by asking for that info, preferably have the seller forward their email with Cybdym or StoneAgeGamer with that info on it. The serial number is on the PSIO cartridge. Cybdyn isn't against people selling used cartridges - they're against Chinese copying their IP and selling it, given that no one else put the time/effort/money into the R&D to develop it in the first place. I don't blame Cybdyn at all for trying to protect their IP through an extra step in the ordering process. It's not "competition" when it's theft of code, which is what the Chinese do on many products all over the world. Is $125 too much? Considering the NES everdrive is about the same price and the SD2SNES is around $200, no.. $125 from StoneAgeGamer or $150 from Cybdyn isn't at all out of line.

[@airrfourr2400]

As always, excellent !

[@davefekete7187]

i from the new era and this is the best way for me to fully experience it thx my g

[@riggel8804]

Got my psio about a month ago. At the time i purchased it you had to mod it yourself (it took about a year from purchase to delivery). It was my first mod job and i was nervous but the directions were very clear. That's kind of been my experience with the psio in general. Complicated hardware and complicated software but the directions are very clear. Basically anyone who can follow a cooking recipe can get this to work. Overall i am very pleased with the product. Ps. Another great video MLIG

[@riggel8804]

@@oldgraphics, i think thw psio isn't a good fit for our boys at MLIG. They love their physical media and have a ps1 with a good laser. The psio doesn't bring much to the table for them. The psio is a better fit for me. I have one ps1 and the laser is failing and i play all my ps1 games off of burned iso. I don't care much for physical media. I just want to game.

[@virginraydevito]

@@oldgraphics They're just bending over backwards to justify their use of CD media (obsolete). Those of us in the know don't have a disc in the house (well, other than Sega CD for the moment lol).

[@mylifeingaming]

[Try4ce] I'm always looking for the positives in a device, but feel I should point out issues where notable. I have to admit I got a little bored making the episode because there just weren't a lot of interesting angles to look at it from. It seems to do what it does very well, but it's a lot of fiddly time-consuming setup for something that other flash carts aren't so picky about. But I do agree that it's very clearly documented, so it's easy to figure this stuff out if you're willing to put in the time. I'll admit that I'm not a heavy flash cart user, but I really wanted to get this one set up right. I wish it offered more than just playing the games, but that's just me. Otherwise I tried to just present the facts.

[@virginraydevito]

@@mylifeingaming You literally pointed out the 3 games out of 4000 that have a couple of bugs. Ones that will surely be fixed soon. That's just confirmational bias. We get it, you wasted a ton of money on CDs and want to justify having a bunch of obsolete discs around your house. Also, you have no problem spending months of time on a 10 minute youtube video but an hour of work on a PSIO is too much? You couldn't even learn basic soldering to do the mod yourself? Seems lazy.

[@ItchyTastyPlays]

I did manage to snag one in March but did not get it until I'd say around the middle and the end of summer. I enjoy it. I don't have much room and the shelf I own is already populated with over 300 games. These flash carts and ODE's really come in handy when it comes to saving some space.

[@diabo69]

i got this in 1994 and stil here on my home and working like a charm :)

[@cyclone159]

Closed source? password protected? Soldering? Way more hassle than it's worth for me.

[@kaisersoymilk6912]

Also, contrary to 2D games, PS1 games are way better when emulated, the original PS1 is useless.

[@madfinntech]

@@kaisersoymilk6912 Wut? Some of us actually really prefer even 3D games on PS1 on the real system and not that emulated look. Have fun if you enjoy that. I like 100% accuracy.

[@kaisersoymilk6912]

@@madfinntech Yeah, some purists do think like that, but the thing is: contrary to 2D games, early 3D games can be vastly improved by increasing the resolution, adding anti aliasing, anisotropic filters, texture filters, de-warping and so on...

[@rikkisan1]

@@kaisersoymilk6912 Well some of us don't want to throw our PS ones in the garbage or on a mantel as a mantel piece.

[@TylerSteven9]

To be fair. it's not like Everdrives and other flashcarts are open source either.

[@atrocity3010]

- Expensive - Old PS1 with parallel port only - Soldering required - DRM - Compatibility issues - Slower boot time Yeah, no thanks. As a pure backup solution I'm not sold on this. Hopefully down the road when lasers and discs are dying en masse, there will be a better product available. I can see the usefulness for patches and homebrew but given the restrictions and issues this seems extremely niche.

[@LVNeptune]

The boot time is technically only slower because it had to read off every single game he loaded on there. If ONLY Spyro was on there it would've came out way ahead.

[@pentiummmx2294]

Xstation > PSIO, but more soldering but fortunately no DRM on firmware and has better compatibility

[@joehdah5395]

Im surprised at the amount of subcribers you have, you have great videos, good upload schedule, and just a high quality channel. Odd

[@arthurallsopp9344]

PSIO Rocks. Love being able to play music CD's while I am playing my games off the PSIO.

[@KBABZ]

This is my first MLIG video to come up since I subscribed! And it's about my favourite consoles! : D I do feel compelled to point out that Spyro Reignited is a ground-up Remake. If it were a Remaster it would have looked similar to if it were running on an emulator.

[@KBABZ]

@@rexthesheep Totally agreed, this downward spiral of terms started IMO with the Crash remake being labelled by Shawn Layden as "Fully remastered" and nobody bothered to think about what he even said!

[@BrandonGiesing]

​@@rexthesheep The divide seems pretty clear to me tbh. Port: 1-to-1 move of the game from one console to another, No changes at all other than the bare min to get it working. Remaster: Game is redone from scratch but has no changes other than internal code and exterior look. Remake: Remaster but with major changes that affect gameplay, story, etc. So for example using Final Fantasy games, the new Final Fantasy VII Switch version coming soon would be a port since it's the exact same game including visuals, the X/X-2 HD Remaster is well a remaster because the game functions the same with just new visuals/music, and the upcoming VII Remake is obviously a remake since they are changing many mechanics (including the Battle system) to be more modern. Obviously some companies don't use the right terms but the actual definitions are pretty clear cut imho.

[@MartinRetroArgentina]

I love, My Life. 💗 From Argentina. Saludos. Bye. 🙏

[@hozus.7330]

11:45 wow, a mention of TearRing Saga in the wild! Never thought I'd see the day.

[@GameplayandTalk]

It's nice to see these things rolling out on a more regular basis. Shame about the required modding, but I'd imagine there are a bunch of folks in the retro scene capable of providing those services.

[@viniciusgomes5147]

Okay, but can you play Petscop with this? Seriously though,I love your videos.

[@MRHDGUY]

i think ill stick with the MM3 chip , if am to install a 20 wire chip to use the psio then i might as well jusy install 7 wire multimode 3 chip and much cheap £5

[@jameshickmottnz]

Love these vids

[@VGMFan20XX]

There are so many steps I forgot what the device even did by the end of the video XD. Neat either way.

[@TheSultan79]

Actually the io port version is also compatible with the game shark that they had for it

[@madfinntech]

Yeah but that's not a Sony endorsed product.

[@EposVox]

Ayyyy I've had mine on a shelf for a while, but don't have the experience to solder it on.

[@sociallyresponsiblexenomor7608]

It's not really hard. As far as soldering work goes it's actually pretty easy.

[@markbessert1883]

Ordered my PSIO from Stone Age Gamer. Bought the console with it already installed. I got it in 5 days. Love it.

[@actionfigurestoysandballoo3831]

Great job, excellent review, thanks men!!! It is a pity that long it is necessary to wait, has to will receive 😀 soon

[@hjalmarjohnson5846]

I like the concept here, but the motherboard tampering makes it a pass for me. That pretty much puts it in line with a modchip as far as user friendliness and console integrity goes. I'm sure a lot of people will absolutely love getting their hands on this, but I'm not keen on adding these potential failure points to my poor lil 1001. I'll stick to straightforward emulation for now. Great video as always guys, and I'll be keeping an eye on this tech as it evolves for sure!

[@ArikIkirA]

This. Also, PS emulation is so high level now, with upscaling, save state, region free implementation, that the pros of original hardware (still understandably preferred by many) are just not enough for the hassle of purchase, installation, conversion of files etc.

[@fernandomartinez4486]

The thing is, the people that prefer emulation, they literally just care about playing the game. I got a PSIO. I know i can play ps1 games like, in a million ways. If i chose PSX/PSIO is because i want to play ps1 games on PS1 hardware. It is just a preference, a whim if you want. Is not for convinience or easiness. In my particular case, is because i want to play ps1 games on my 4:3 early 2000's Sony Wega flat screen LCD TV thru super video with an old Dualshock 1, and a real Memory card. I hope i made myself clear. We know there are other options. We want to play like this. Thats it.

[@hjalmarjohnson5846]

@@fernandomartinez4486 Oh, I completely get what you're saying, in fact I have a number of systems running everdrives for the same reasons you stated (it's not like it's hard to emulate a master system, after all), I just really prefer my solutions to be plug-and-play, in part due to laziness, and partially due to a fair bit of electronic ineptitude. Awesome that you got one running on your system though, I hope you enjoy it (it sounds like you are).

[@datriaxsondor590]

Cool video, but not a fan of their tight and closed approach of handling things. It's going to be cloned. It's simply inevitable. All it takes is one of these knockoff folks to buy it, get their firmware, and it's over. Why make people jump through hoops of any kind, just to download your firmware? Kinda lame. Lastly, the price is a bit ridiculous. I could easily get 3 or 4 replacement drives for that much, which would last me a long, long time.

[@azizchaudhry9544]

@yjd rxc How is that in anyway similar?

[@azizchaudhry9544]

"Why make people jump through hoops of any kind, just to download your firmware? Kinda lame." Seeing as how it was 5+ years of continuous development effort...I could see why they would want to protect their IP. Also, the source code is encrypted so the Chinese would have to break the encryption at the chip level...maybe they will spend the next 5 years making a competing product...

[@monkeywithocd]

@@azizchaudhry9544 Wait wait wait- They encrypted the hardware on a device intended for preserving hardware? As you said, I understand them wanting to make sure they get some reimbursement for all the time they've put into it, but that's just as bad for preservation as, well, actual console developer's practices now days.

[@leftblank]

Datriax Sondor yeah man. Why should they bother spending their time to make these limited run electronics and code the software to run them. Fuck them. I hope the Chinese download the fuck out of their software and mass produce them. I enjoy supporting China and having a worse experience

[@InvictvsNox]

I'm excited for Professor Abrasive's version of this on the Saturn!

[@NoAffinity]

Great ideas for the psio feature wish list! +1 for dithering manipulation.

[@Cowclops]

Your load time comparison on disc vs psio w/ Spyro is well taken, but once psio is booted you don't have any "take game out of system, put in case, take new game, open case, take cd, put cd in system" once you want to play something other than the first game you started. My take away, psio is a hair faster but speed certainly isn't a selling point, but the reliability is. I'm mulling over getting one of these as I have an scph-1001 playstation with a crappy read mechanism, but I can also play most of my games just fine in PS2 so thats why I haven't yet pulled the trigger.

[@Cowclops]

@@oldgraphics I think PSIO's faq explains it best - the device still streams at the ~300KBps speed the system expects from its 2x cd-rom, but seek time is completely eliminated. Which means you do get a nice little bump and the added benefit of no re-reads due to imperfect discs. While I said "speed isn't a selling point" I meant it more like - it doesn't eliminate load times, especially not in FF Anthlogy compared to SNES, but it does still speed it up in human perceptible ways. Its not a revelation, but it does give games a little kick in the boot to get moving quicker.

[@mylifeingaming]

[Try4ce] It is certainly not slower... it is faster, watch the comparisons again. But the amount it is faster by is quite small overall. Granted, I'd prefer it to not try to grossly outclass the speed of normal operation anyway, because I would worry more about loading errors.

[@waddupjd]

When you gonna do a RGB on the OG Xbox?

[@speakerfreak2301]

Definatly, been waiting for that one for a while

[@Abel-Alvarez]

And the Sega Dreamcast.

[@JMLRetroRoom]

Try the Pound HD Link Cable for Xbox. That’s not all though, now add the mCable Gaming Edition. It makes the Xbox 1080p through antialiasing. See my most recent video. Only negative is the mCable stretches the image to 16:9 but if you don’t capture gameplay then your good as most (modern) TVs can correct this on the fly. It hard to believe but it works. Looks great on Dreamcast as well following the same idea.

[@nmalinoski]

The Pound HDMI cables (for any system) are a hard pass for me. They're good for people who only care about the convenience of one cable to connect their console to their TV or AVR, or for people on a very strict budget; but they are not known for their video or audio quality.

[@waddupjd]

@@nmalinoski well what do you recommend then?

[@HalidesAndHollowness]

That Legend of Dragoon background music around 6:30 is spot on. Love that game.

[@mylifeingaming]

[Try4ce] Glad to hear the Legend of Dragoon fans enjoyed my music pick because I actually haven't played the game yet beyond testing it. :) Looking forward to getting a good dose of pre-rendered background 32-bit RPG goodness though.... someday.

[@zoiks6631]

“You might could argue” is becoming his catch phrase. :)

[@justanotheryoutubechannel]

I’m not gonna buy one of these until they stop it from taking 8 months to arrive. And all the “DRM-esque” copy protection and stuff to make this over complicated and locked down has just made me lose all interest.

[@bowtopostulio]

i dont see why any of that would matter. i love mine and it works great. so what how long it took it to get here, it's here!

[@wishusknight3009]

@Rafal Omnom What a sick comment to make.

[@justanotheryoutubechannel]

Vlad Z You know what, I can understand how you feel. But I’m not really interested enough PS1 gaming to buy into a product like this, considering the flaws. If there wasn’t quite so much DRM, and didn’t take 3/4 of a year to buy, I’d totally buy one despite it being closed-source.

[@leftblank]

Steam has DRM. Every game you buy in a shop has DRM in the form of it being a physical thing you need to get from them. You buying a genuine PSIO means you get the software to run it. Not sure how your thats an issue? You buy a subscription to audible and you need to login to use it right? The only issue you can have is wait time but the alternative is having a console that one day has a broken drive that you can’t use. I hope you keep that loss of interest m8

[@duffman18]

@@leftblank these idiots would rather prefer products like this never get made. They're immature and ignorant and don't understand how things like copyright protect the little guys, protect the creators and artists and make it actually viable to put in hundreds of hours of hard work to make something like this. They'd rather have these classic consoles and games die and be lost to time, with nobody making products like these to preserve them. There's no point arguing with these children who want games and art to die, you can't reason somebody out of a position they didn't reason themselves into.

[@moth.monster]

Closed source firmware and discouragement of reselling? Ew. No thanks.

[@FinalManaTrigger]

You can't blame them for trying to protect their IP, look at what happened to the developer of GDEMU/Phoebe/Rhea... you can find Chinese clones everywhere out there now.

[@ToothpickMan11]

It sucks but it will help with scalpers buying them up and reselling them for 5 times the price.

[@realdragonrude]

that's called competition being afraid of that says a lot about how overpriced this device actually is

[@realdragonrude]

the firmware is also going to end up on torrent sites never try to tell people what they can't do with something it makes them want to do it even more

[@ToothpickMan11]

@@FinalManaTrigger That happened because he didn't meet the demand for his product, it takes months for a pre-order to open and its only available for like an hour so you'd have to monitor the website like a hawk. Then he'd be a dick to people if they messaged him about a shipping date or when orders will open again, he refuses to team up with anyone to speed up production to meet demand. When there's a strong demand for a product obviously the Chinese are going to take advantage of that, now they're easily obtainable and less than half the cost of the original, he fucked himself. You don't see the clones of the USB-GDROM because its available.

[@RaineMan213]

5:45 omg look at all that storage. And it's all almost full. I feel that in my bones.

[@Reluctant_Hero]

The PSIO looks pretty cool and I’d be tempted to invest one had I not recently invest in a PSP Go. Playing official PSN roms of PSX classics at native 240p with a DualShock 3 is awesome.

[@__Guyver01__]

Sounds like more of a hassle than it needs to be.

[@virginraydevito]

MLiG guys just don't know what they're doing so it looks overly complicated. The software/firmware and games are all drag & drop. You have to run the multi-bins through a program but other than that it's ez-pz.

[@FlintG]

DestronAptom Yeah I think I would have a better option to just play them on my raspberry pi.

[@tilerdurpen4135]

But worth it in thr end

[@Mahoromatic]

It really looks complicated.

[@__Guyver01__]

@@virginraydevito it's more on hardware installation and initial setup that appears to be the deal breaker, especially all the extra work to get the software unlocked by the devs. Needless gatekeeping IMO.

[@escaperoutebritish]

"requires soldering" And there goes my desire to buy. Real nice piece of kit though!

[@madfinntech]

Noobs, keep using your emulators.

[@ITAMrPink]

Naah, get to tinker with electronics a little bit. Messing with hardware is even more entertaining than messing with software. And it is a software guy telling you.

[@Fahrenheit38]

Got a PSIO sitting in the box, gonna wait till I move out of my apartment in a few months to set it up since ill have space for a retro battle station.

[@velosiped135]

These videos are great, and I hope if you ever do get around to the Dreamcast, you'll continue to do the flashcart/RGB topics separately. What we desperately need is an in-depth Dreamcast RGB video.

[@mylifeingaming]

[Try4ce] Oh yes these will absolutely be separate topics.

[@kristianutomotobing9719]

This game looks gorgeous! 4:23 What's the title?

[@mylifeingaming]

Arc the Lad III

[@RobinFowler1982]

Came to ask the same thing

[@LVNeptune]

@@mylifeingaming I still have mine CIB :) backed up my discs before hand. They have never actually touched a PS

[@MellowGaming]

Try, please, clear some space off you're HDDs. They're all in the red and making me sad.

[@mylifeingaming]

[Try4ce] Haha I wasn't expecting so many people to zero in on this, but I guess some people get stressed about this stuff. I can't delete my project archives though, I need more storage!

[@MellowGaming]

@@mylifeingaming heh. I recently needed some space and after struggling to decide what games or footage I didn't need I remembered that the Elgato software holds onto video and audio files even after I';ve exported them to video. Easy 400GB of space recovered in an instant.

[@tyler6644]

8tb external ftw

[@TroutButter]

Deleting pr0n? NEVAAAARRRRR!!!! ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

[@vasili1207]

Illegal roms..... feds have been called

[@breathofthewild1749]

I really cannot wait for your analogue SG video. Apparently it can do fullscreen gamegear games.

[@mylifeingaming]

[Try4ce] Unfortunately there won't be much about Game Gear in our Mega Sg video because those adapters are not available yet. Hope they come out soon! Maybe we'll do an update video when they do.

[@ZOZO-wf7br]

@@mylifeingaming Any news about the 32X compatibility ? When I contacted them, they told me that they were working on it ..

[@tr3vk4m]

I remember when the PS1 came out I was really excited about it and couldn't wait to try one; I thought I would want one to replace my beloved SNES. However, when I actually got to play one I was completely turned off by actually having to wait for the games to load. I hadn't seen that "LOADING" screen since I was young on my ZX Spectrum and it seemed like a huge step backwards. It is nice to see a PS! finally capable of something a bit more workable.

[@patrickholt8782]

All of this can be yours after 100 simple steps. Think I’d rather just save up my cash

[@Fate2010c]

Welcome to console hacking. This is nothing new with anything old.

[@WhiteJarrah]

9:21 Driver has glitches in PSIO?! Blasphemous!!

[@anonymousidea9119]

Great video! speaking of disc (or in this case disk) based systems, I would love to see an episode on something like the FDSStick, which is a replacement for the Famicom Disk System's Disk drive and loads roms from flash memory. There are also quite a few alternatives, I think there's even one that lets you use a micro SD card, but the FDSStick is one of the more budget options while still offering basically the same features. I think it also lets you read and write official disks with a modified disk system, which sounds pretty awesome.

[@mylifeingaming]

[Try4ce] I have one, but have not messed with it much yet. It's so cheap I couldn't say no.

[@anonymousidea9119]

@@mylifeingaming Honestly, at that price it's an amazing little device. If the disk system had more games or homebrew It could even be a good alternative to a traditional NES/Famicom flashcart.

[@Dimensiom]

My soldering experience actually came from modding Playstation units back in the day of the first modchips. I accidentally broke the CD drive power connector on one, but I was able to repair it.

[@WhiteJarrah]

There's an easier way to play PS1 rips - use a Vita or PSTV running Adrenaline or a PSP with custom firmware. Just a few days ago I started using ImgBurn to rip the games as ISOs and then convert them to EBOOT.PBP using PSX2PSP, which can then be loaded onto the Vita. Works for me.

[@BawesomeBurf]

Well yeah, that's always a great alternative, but the point of this is to run games on the actual hardware.

[@WhiteJarrah]

@@BawesomeBurf Technically it is actual hardware, albeit the actual hardware of several generations later. With the exception of PS4, Sony always went into the next generation with backwards compatibility as a priority. Adrenaline and the ability to load rips of whatever PS1 games you want is a true testament to the Vita's backwards compatibility.

[@ModelJames13]

Yeah but then you can't use the save files on your PS1 memory cards. And you'd be stuck using an HDTV, and those suck.

[@WhiteJarrah]

@@ModelJames13 "Yeah but then you can't use the save files on your PS1 memory cards." Yeah you can. Just get a memory card to USB adapter, copy your memory card saves over to the PS3, and then transfer those PSone saves to your Vita or PSP. "And you'd be stuck using an HDTV, and those suck." If using a PSP, just connect your AV or component cables to a CRT with those inputs. If using a PSTV, get a HDMI to AV or HDMI to component converter.

[@ModelJames13]

Oh yeah I forgot about those things.

[@ZachAttackIsBack]

Oh, the irony: a product designed almost exclusively to facilitate the theft of intellectual property is heavily locked down with DRM.

[@1337Shockwav3]

So, if they had kept it a personal project instead of a product all would be cool? I can already hear you cry "_someone_ should make a SD-card interface for the PSX".

[@user-bz1nc4ly7w]

There is nothing to steal now. All Playstation games have been ripped long ago. The guys are doing a good job, allowing to play games without devices with mechanical moving parts.

[@ZachAttackIsBack]

@@user-bz1nc4ly7w Interesting logic. Does that mean the only people guilty of theft are those who initially ripped the disks and put them online? Along similar logic, if you rob a bank, then give money to your friends several years later (they are aware it was stolen), are the friends guilty of theft? I mean, there is nothing to steal now. The bank lost its money long ago. I do agree with you, though, that a solid state device for playing formerly spinning-disk based media is a good idea in the long run.

[@madfinntech]

What? No.

[@monkeywithocd]

I would say, rather, that the irony is that it's designed to preserve the original hardware, and that heavily locking down necessary parts of the product (not *exactly* DRM) is a huge problem for preservation. I would hope that they have plans to release the files for everybody should they go out of business, but relying on that is, again, rather bad for preservation.

[@PadChords]

That disc swap technique is clutch. Chrono Cross required you to change discs during gameplay--you can't save your game, swap, and reload like most other titles. It absolutely _had_ to be done during normal gameplay, defeating most bootleggers. With the PSIO method, you'd still be able to play the game through to the end.

[@datriaxsondor590]

Defeating most bootleggers? lol Who didn't have a mod, that could handle these swaps, by even 1997? Pretty sure they defeated, hardly any bootleggers. Unless they were using those initial garbage parallel port mod devices.

[@floridaman7206]

Awesome vid as always guys! When are we getting best video quality for Dreamcast?

[@b16da93]

I rather install a new optical reader and play my "back ups" then deal with all this BS.

[@elonburgers5308]

I could forgive the DRM if the thing wasn't $150. I hope the Chinese make a cheaper clone.

[@madfinntech]

I hope you'll wait forever and still don't get an equally good product.

[@elonburgers5308]

@@madfinntech nah that's ok I'll just keep using CDs since they don't cost $150 dollars even if I bought a thousand of them.

[@mikearaujo377]

@@madfinntech Yeah, keep giving assholes your cash. I'm glad money has a tendency to flee from idiots hands.

[@LVNeptune]

The Chinese actually made a MORE expensive clone. It's pretty funny.

[@AndroidFerret]

Hi.. Cool vid... I have over 4500 games on my handys... And i love retro gaming... Thanks for this idea... Maybe gonna buy a new used ps1 again

[@tjanas]

Got lucky with a less than 2 week turnaround in December from shipping my PS1 to Stone Age Gamer and getting it back with the PSIO and switch board installed.

[@KrazyKrzysztof]

$150 for this shit plus u gotta solder . I'd avoid. A hacked ps3 is great for PS1.

[@WednesdayMan]

True with a hacked PS3 you can use PS2 games, PS1 games, and PS3 games. that means you can play the First Persona all the way up to Persona 5.

[@NiGHTSnoob]

The PS3's emulator for PS1 games isn't the best though. It's not awful, but the video output leaves a lot to be desired, and it's definitely not as good as the PSP/Vita's or many PC emulators at this point. A hacked PSP Go with the dock or a PSTV is probably the best non-PC option for PS1 games on a TV without discs and that doesn't require internal modification.

[@Joakin44]

@@NiGHTSnoob plus ps3 displays games at 480p iirc instead of 240p

[@stefanurquelle7736]

@@Joakin44 What about the a PC Groovymame setup running at 15khz?

[@Joakin44]

@@stefanurquelle7736 that's a very good option as i heard, you can display your games at 240p in a crt tv or arcade monitor with groovymame

[@natr0n]

I just stick with a ps classic. Less hassle more fun.

[@UltimaOmegaZero]

I would agree with that more if it wasn't for the various issues the PS Classic has.

[@natr0n]

@@UltimaOmegaZero Well I use retroarch. I have 0 issues. Also, anything I can think of retroarch can do.

[@merlingt1]

LOL! ....wait we're not even in April!

[@sleeprene]

natr0n wait, you got retroarch on the ps classic?

[@natr0n]

@@sleeprene Yeah. There are many videos on it.

[@IceDelight]

I kinda want one but my modded PSTV also plays PSOne games perfectly. Great video as always, but I think if you're gonna race the two consoles, getting the disk off a shelf and inserting it into the console would be the equivalent of going through the PSIO menu and typing the games name in search ;)

[@mylifeingaming]

[Try4ce] I thought about that, but you'd also have to factor in time getting the game ready to run on PSIO too, so I decided to start from power on... logistically the only way I could really shoot it anyway.

[@TheKrazyKat89]

You linking to your Backloggery is very unusual... And also totally on-brand.

[@atomicbrain9401]

No better feeling than pulling a game out of your ass and placing it in the console for an evening of gaming.

[@benew4555]

This product looks like a total waste of time and money!

[@rockhyde7775]

That was a cool invention. Love to see it for Sega Saturn.

[@rockhyde7775]

Mechanical drives, I get what you are saying. More and more of us are moving to digital media (and/or flash cards) to play retro games (some of us are too lazy to pick up old games and some might be insanely expensive, I do the same too but I do both, whatever game is on my flash card I happen to see the real thing of, I delete it off my flash card and get the real thing if you know what I mean) but some of us still collect old video games.

[@KieranGee]

I have and love this device, it really does have a high barrier of entry though.

[@retrorevolutions4590]

dam i need to get one of these for sure

[@lokman02naza17]

12:50 I smile because I spend too much time hearing the music in my childhood.

[@TrimeshSZ]

Just FYI, it's only certain old NTSC models that lock up when you switch them to PAL - the original production machines with the VRAM based GPU can switch modes with no problem. Unfortunately, these are also the units that suffer from color banding on gradients, so you can't win them all. Also note that the SCPH-7501 (which has a parallel port) is based on the same chipset as the SCPH-9001, so the video performance should be identical.

[@joshmartimez2235]

I considered buying this but have no soldering experience Maybe in the future ill pay someone to do the wiring and give this thing a shot. Great video.

[@iHD01]

Damn! Thank you! I dont own a PSIO but now i can make eboots from redbook audio games :D

[@one100billneoone4]

Awesome product. Just received mine 2 days ago and installed it last night and........ it WORKED!!!! Would it be too much to ask to put up a game list of the the games showcased in your video? Thank you for the awesome videos!

[@sneydervalenciahuaman4879]

SON LO DE MEJOR LO MEJOR, GRACIAS MUY BUEN CONTENIDO SALUDOS DESDE SUR AMÉRICA

[@RenoFriends]

Hands up for the Legend of Dragoon background music!

[@ITAMrPink]

Hell yeah! Grassy Plains, first heard in the Prairie! Such memories...

[@actionfigurestoysandballoo3831]

PSIO really excellent device. All did according to the instruction, the master established switch board without any problems. I also wrote down games according to recommendations and everything works without problems. I so understood a small amount of games can not work, but so far did not meet such. Also in the company constantly work On compatibility, I think that all problems will be fixed. Very standing thing!

[@zekossss]

I fuckin love this channel.

[@afropowa1598]

Welp I am hype for the episode about the PS2 flash drive coming soon, hopefully.

[@S4vman]

Awesome video guys. Also, request RGB 211: Xbox.

[@clawofthefallen]

Can't wait for a similar system like this or the gdemu to happen on the sega saturn.

[@justadude420]

Damn. This is more than i want to do. But its cool that it exists.

[@TarzanSpeedruns]

I’m so excited you guys have shown some of the games in the Hots Shots Golf series 😂 I literally grew up playing 3 and 4 and I still revisit the game and I’m still pretty good. I’m interested to know if you play it fairly often or if it’s just a game you show off in PlayStation episodes.

[@mylifeingaming]

[Try4ce] The first game in the series I played was Hot Shots Golf Open Tee on PSP (which I got because I loved Mario Golf on N64 a lot). I've actually been playing that again a fair bit on my Vita here and there over the past year. The only other one I've put much time into myself is World Invitational on Vita. I was impressed by how easy the controls in 2 are based on my familiarity with Open Tee!

[@christuckwell3185]

I think the speed running community might be interested in this, as the faster load for cut scenes and still running on legit hardware.

[@DhinCardoso]

It's always like that! The price for being the first supporters is a long wait until announcement and you actually using it! And than comes the compatibility issues ~ and if u from US had thought times, imagine us from Brazil! I'm still managing to find a doable purchase of Analogue's Super NT =/

[@-argih]

I think some unnoficial third party dance mats actually used the paralel port together with the controller ports, at least i had one with both of the plugs. Pretty interesting dispositive, maybe it could become a x-mas gift for myself this year

[@BeerBellyDK]

Does the internal module conflict if you are using other peripherals with the parallel port? I'm thinking cheat cartridges such as the xploder/xplorer or gameshark. I realise that you couldn't use the PSIO at the same time, but i wouldn't want to mod my trusty old PS1, if i can't use my Xplorer cartridge with my regular disc games after the mod. :) I haven't seen anyone talk about this yet. I'd also like to know if you cab still use the PSIO on a system that has been chipped to play backup discs..

[@akiriki97]

3:04 Later PS1s tend to be a bit brighter than earlier models. I noticed it when booting to a PlayStation logo with the 9001 where the red becomes slightly magenta than the 1001, at least on my Toshiba CRT using s-video cables. However, it's pretty negligible to say whether one looks better than the other ☺