Sony's attempt at making a miniature version of one of its old school systems, the PlayStation Classic, has received mixed reviews. Major criticisms have stemmed from the hardware simply using an open source emulator, to the PlayStation Classic randomly having a mix of PAL and NTSC games. Now that the little throwback system has released, users have been tinkering with the software and trying to find secrets. YouTube channel Retro Gaming Arts has discovered that if you plug in a USB keyboard (not all keyboards appear to work, however) into the PlayStation Classic and hit the Escape key, the PCSX ReARMed emulator settings will appear that normally cannot be accessed. From here, you can change certain options, such as showing current framerate, changing the frameskip amount, loading savestates, forcing games to run at PAL or NTSC standards, adding filters like scanlines, and perhaps most interestingly, an ability to "Load CD Image". Multiple attempts have been made to get the PlayStation Classic to utilize this option to boot normally unsupported backups, though no breakthroughs have been made yet. It's only a matter of time until the community finds even more interesting details.

 

[Spider_Man]

Great job $ony, this is yet another evidence that you made this product just to do a quick cash-grab and jump on the classic mini trend ninty just started

Apart from Nintendo didn't start the mini consoles going.

Fucking Nintendo fans again with the Nintendo did it first and Sony copied.

Sega have rights to a third party that have been making mini Sega consol3s for fucking years before Nintendo ever decided to do the mini nes.

 

[the_randomizer]

Sony just pulled an AtGames.

 

[DarkCoffe64]

Lmao, now this is laughworthy.
Bah, that crap ain't good even if you hack it, just nab a psp/psvita and mod that one for ps1 games.
Or just get an emulator on your pc, dunno. Anything is better than that crap.

 

[tech3475]

It’s a shame Sony had to mess this up, the lack of DS controllers has put me off buying one even if it’s hacked.

Would be funny if one of the few things got ‘right’ was the inability to sideload games unofficially.

 

[Deleted User]

It’s a shame Sony had to mess this up, the lack of DS controllers has put me off buying one even if it’s hacked.

Would be funny if one of the few things got ‘right’ was the inability to sideload games unofficially.

once it's hacked we'll likely see dualshock support lol, it has usb ports after all

 

[the_randomizer]

once it's hacked we'll likely see dualshock support lol, it has usb ports after all

And replace it with a better emulator like ePSXe Android for example.

 

[Rabbid4240]

How so? Because people can potentially fix a shitty product?

Im saying that Sony's stupid for doing that.

 

[Ryccardo]

How the Playstation Classic got through Sony´s Q&A in that state is beyond me...

What's surprising? At least one revision of pretty much every Sony product since at least the PS1 was victim of defects caused by poor design or excessive cost cutting in manufacturing...

 

[Spider_Man]

Love people hating it yet still kept their order.

Problem is the ps1 had such a massive library of great games it would have been impossible to please everyone.

End of the day this is not an actual console it's just a trinket that console collectors will collect.

Yes they could have done better putting better games but then that's down to licensing, I can say same on the nes and snes mini, had one or two good games and then shit games.

But it's usual Nintendo fans will blindly defend them......

 

[Sakitoshi]

PCSX ReARMed doesn't even use Gaussian interpolation, but ear-raping point-sampled interpolation for audio.

I though you had already learned to not halfass your answers and investigate properly.

now, don't misunderstand me. we all agree that the psclassic isn't good, but is not because of pcsx-rearmed.

 

[Essasetic]

Sony just pulled an AtGames.

ATGames... What a fucking joke of a brand they are. Took SEGA way too long to drop them.

 

[FateForWindows]

PCSX ReARMed doesn't even use Gaussian interpolation, but ear-raping point-sampled interpolation for audio.

95% sure the Libretro version of the emu supports it which makes it even more disappointing.

 

[Yepi69]

Great job $ony, this is yet another evidence that you made this product just to do a quick cash-grab and jump on the classic mini trend ninty just started

Mini consoles already existed way before Nintendo got into it, especially the plug-n-play emulation arcade ones.

 

[tech3475]

once it's hacked we'll likely see dualshock support lol, it has usb ports after all

Feels like a waste though and it would have been nice to have DS1 controllers with a usb port.

 

[xRemy]

If it's hackable it just makes it more marketable IMO lol

 

[Dr.Hacknik]

We've seen paper clips, soldering jobs, magnets, etc...


But never have I seen something as simple, as literally spending 3secs plugging in a Standard USB Keyboard.... Absolutely incredible.

 

[bahamut920]

Apart from Nintendo didn't start the mini consoles going.

Fucking Nintendo fans again with the Nintendo did it first and Sony copied.

Sega have rights to a third party that have been making mini Sega consol3s for fucking years before Nintendo ever decided to do the mini nes.

And there have been mini Atari and Coleco consoles that literally consist of a controller you hook up to your TV. But they've been a niche business at best up until Nintendo released the NES Classic, so saying that Nintendo started the mini console craze is fairly accurate.

 

[xs4all]

We've seen paper clips, soldering jobs, magnets, etc...


But never have I seen something as simple, as literally spending 3secs plugging in a Standard USB Keyboard.... Absolutely incredible.

It would be funny if Sony outsourced the development of the PS Classic to a fresh out of uni students, then one student decided secretly enable this as an Easter egg and see if Sony's QA would pick it up.

 

[Dr.Hacknik]

It would be funny if Sony outsourced the development of the PS Classic to a fresh out of uni students, then one student decided secretly enable this as an Easter egg and see if Sony's QA would pick it up.

Little did they know, this was just a debug menu the entire time. Which is literally the emulators main menu that has been stripped down.

 

[GerbilSoft]

And there have been mini Atari and Coleco consoles that literally consist of a controller you hook up to your TV. But they've been a niche business at best up until Nintendo released the NES Classic, so saying that Nintendo started the mini console craze is fairly accurate.

Part of the reason why no one really cared about mini consoles prior to the NES Mini *is* AtGames. They basically destroyed the reputation of the mini console genre. Their latest bait and switch regarding the Bandai Namco Flashback is why Sega finally dropped them. (Strangely, having broken music in their entire lineup for the past decade was perfectly fine.)

Besides that, there were at least two pretty decent mini consoles that I can remember:

• Atari Flashback 2 - this one used an actual 2600-on-a-chip and had nearly perfect compatibility. Cartridge pins were labeled on the system board, so if you had the parts and a soldering iron, you could add a cart slot and use original cartridges.
• C64dtv - this also used a system-on-a-chip rather than emulation, and it's possible to add connectors for a keyboard, floppy drive, etc.