nice to see an aussie hacking team showing some love for the older consoles

 

I dunno if this legit lol, I remember when this started. The guy who started it had no knowledge on the whole subject of FPGA's or even coding, he pretty much just wanted to get a team to do it for him because he didn't have the knowhow to do it. He ended up quitting the forums a few times lol.

 

didn't the golden finger (and other such devices) use the serial port to load back-ups?

-another world

 

this loads backs up as an ISO file, not a CD-R

And in terms of something official, I don't think anything supported the serial-port

 

there is nothing like the feeling of playing on the original console

 

Can't that be said for pretty much any console excluding the PS360 (and perhaps the PS2 in some ways due to power needs)? It's possible to emulate a lot of consoles, but if you have a working original somewhere, what would be better than the SD loading capability, especially with the lens problems that present themselves after years of gaming. If something like a SD loader was made into a commercial product and didn't cost an arm and a leg, I'd buy it just for the fact that I could stash all my PS1 games into a box somewhere and keep only the console on my TV set.

 

good to see progress is being made now.

 

I have to say, there's a shit-ton of personal bias there. The whole "Paypal closed his account for being involved with modchips, so that means he's a scammer" alone shows that the article needs to be taken with a grain of salt.

 

Yes, they were generally sold as "game enhancers" and were basically knock off Gamesharks/Action Replays with the added function that they'd stop the disc from spinning to let you do the disc swap method. They usually came with a little spring to keep the lid sensor pressed so you could keep open the lid to change discs. Didn't work with multidisc games unless they let you save at the end of the disc.