coleco82 Posted June 28, 2017 Share Posted June 28, 2017 I missed the PS1 train in 1995 as I stuck with my SNES until the end. With the thousands of PS1 games made for it, would a flashback type of PS1 with built in games be worthwhile if AT Games or Hyperkin did it ? If it used epsxe ps1 emulation from the latest version 2.04 I think, it could be a winner. Any thoughts ? If such a device existed here is a quick rundown of what I would want on it. Crash Bandicoot 2Tekken 3Street Fighter Alpha 3Castlevania SOTNFinal Fantasy 7EinhanderWWF Smackdown 2KlonoaCrash Team RacingTwisted Metal 2Gran Turismo 2Ridge Racer Type 4andResident Evil 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flojomojo Posted June 28, 2017 Share Posted June 28, 2017 Sony has made it possible to play a wide range of their Playstation One originals on PSP, PS3, PSTV, and PSVita. They're cheap and they go on sale all the time. Many of your favorite games are already in the store for no more than a few bucks apiece. I missed the PS1 train in 1995 as I stuck with my SNES until the end. With the thousands of PS1 games made for it, would a flashback type of PS1 with built in games be worthwhile if AT Games or Hyperkin did it ? If it used epsxe ps1 emulation from the latest version 2.04 I think, it could be a winner. Any thoughts ? If such a device existed here is a quick rundown of what I would want on it. Crash Bandicoot 2 Tekken 3 Street Fighter Alpha 3 Castlevania SOTN Final Fantasy 7 Einhander WWF Smackdown 2 Klonoa Crash Team Racing Twisted Metal 2 Gran Turismo 2 Ridge Racer Type 4 and Resident Evil 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SIO2 Posted June 28, 2017 Share Posted June 28, 2017 Want a flashback of PS1? LOADING........ 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coleco82 Posted June 28, 2017 Author Share Posted June 28, 2017 I have had a PS1 for 5 years now. The loading isn't that bad. I can't remember the PS1 game with the longest load times was. Small sidebar, how do I separate paragraphs when posting in the forums ? Is there a tag like or what am I missing ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flojomojo Posted June 28, 2017 Share Posted June 28, 2017 Do you have an ENTER or RETURN key on your keyboard? Loading on PS1 was from hell. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacecadet Posted June 28, 2017 Share Posted June 28, 2017 I don't think it's a bad idea, but I'm not sure if even today the hardware and games would be cheap enough to do something like that for $50 or whatever. Maybe $100. I'm sure someone's going to tell me the MIPS R3501 is like $1 in quantity these days, but I mean you've got to factor in the R&D of designing a custom board around it, licensing costs for the games (many of which are still profitable on their own), case and box design, profit, etc. to get to the final price. Plus a lot of PS1 games are a full CD's worth of data (some mentioned above, like FF7, are well more than a single CD) - if you figure 30 games that's about 21GB of required storage. That's not crazy anymore but it's going to increase the price; no Flashback type system has had anything close to that out of the box. I don't necessarily think the availability of PS1 games in the PS Store is an impediment; Nintendo, Sega and Atari have all made their older games available multiple ways, including both digital downloads or separate software packages and standalone systems. It's just another revenue stream. I have a feeling someday we'll see a PS1 Flashback, but probably not right around the corner. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coleco82 Posted June 28, 2017 Author Share Posted June 28, 2017 Thanks everyone for your replies. I just thought with the snes classic coming out in September, this could happen years from now. My guess is that Nintendo will go ahead with a N64 classic edition if the SNES Classic is actually available; and not dust in the wind after 1 month. Perhaps someday there will be a Sega CD flashback or even a 3DO flashback, or even better a Sega Saturn Flashback. I know what we will never see because it would be DOA, a Tiger Electronics LCD flashback. A system like that would be a LOL of epic proportions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg2600 Posted June 28, 2017 Share Posted June 28, 2017 I would think TurboGrafx-16 would be a worthy option for an AtGames. Perhaps Neo Geo. PS1 games are pretty large, I don't know how feasible it would be to do cheaply? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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