I might never get one myself but have been curious for a while now, those in the know is there a way to hack the PSX and make it region free and change it to English?
No mods for PSX exist - there was effort to get Free McBoot working on it but I don't think it went anywhere. Check Assemblergames - that was where it all happened iirc.
I sometimes get mixed up with the "lingo" with old PlayStation models. Man, there's the Original PlayStation, PS1 (PSOne), and PSX. I went into a retro game shop and mistakenly asked how much a "PS1" was going for, but I wanted to inquire about the Original PlayStation.
You can prepare a Free McBoot memory card and use it on it. but the access to the internal HDD is limited.
If you want to acquire one to use it you'll be better off getting a SCPH-500xx or lower PS2 and the network adapter to install an internal HDD and FreeHDBoot.
@SylverReZ find me ONE community that is free of drama and politics. even video games forums (like this one) have politics section. and for some reason gamers still take consoles/brands wars seriously. even as a kid i never took the console wars bait despite being a nintendo kid.
nah, discord is also a shithole. discord is good only if you have your own community with your own rules. or if you re lucky to find some groups that arent shitholes.
as about forums, when i recently revisited some old forums i used to be regular and seeing how immature most members still are i was like "Yeap. Nothing of value has been lost.". Unfortunately it's the good, comfy forums that ended up dead or shut down, especially because of internet centralization.