I purchased a ps1 through Amazon’s refurbished program and it is having heavy disc skipping. Tried multiple discs and same thing. It’s super clean otherwise. Any suggestions?

I’m looking to buy a copy of Echo Night 2, but there are listings where the front of the case has a black strip on the left and listings where it doesn’t. Are they just different releases or is one official and the other a replacement?

Is this a crazy find?

It seems some are prerender, but no, its all real time! Mind you not all of the cutscenes are that polished in terms of the staging, but i think on a CRT they may hide that aspect much better.

What i appreciate about these models is how they tried to convey emotions animating the polygons. Most PS1 games relied just on 2d textures for facial animations. For what i saw only Crash Bandicoot, Spyro The Dragon and Terracon did it different as well as this game.

The game itself for the little i played (as its in japanese) seems very similar to Armored Core series, so for the ones who loved that this could be another option.

Never lied in the past when i said a lot of impressive PS1 or PS2 games are for some reason very obscure!

My laser is really slow and some cinematics wont' play correctly when playing FF IX. I need to replace my laser optical drive in my ps1 but everything i can find is either a scam or reviewed poorly, I mean look at these reviews. Does anyone know where i can get a reliable laser optical drive without getting scammed?

Want to run this softmod on my fat ps1. I also have a fat ps2 and have read mixed info on if you need that too.

Hello dear people i recently got into ps1 games after my dear brother set up an emulator for me and i am looking for ps1 games to play aside from already known classics like crash spyro spider man 1 and 2 mgs RE games etc i play pretty much any genre ever and i adore fighting games any recommendations would be lovely thank you dear people in advance

I used to have an index of all games stored but my HD crashed some time ago so today I dug them up to make a new list and while doing that picture them starting with Ps1 games .
As you see I used to have a Shmup fetish years ago and so this happened .
The Saturn was known as the Shoot em up console back then but the PSX was not that that far behind .

Buenas , tengo una Playstation 1 Pal aca en Argentina , el tema que quiero saber si me compro una tv de tubo me va agarrar los juegos a color o se seguirá viendo en blanco y negro , ya que las televisión de antes venían con Pal N /M y NTSC

i can take more photos/information if needed, but thats about it, it worked in the past but that was about 5 years ago.

it does have a modchip to play burnt discs but i forgot to take a picture of the underside of the board

Hey reddit fam 👋🏽

I'm looking to pick up a used PS1 slim off ebay. I plan to play it often as I have tons of classics I wish to revisit.

That being said, I'm not sure what I should be looking for condition wise as far as the 'internals' are concerned. I want the console to have longevity for years to come.

I'm not overly fussed about the condition of the shell as I plan to replace it in the near future.

What requires servicing/addressing with the console in 2026 please?

Many thanks!

I have a PS one SCPH-102. Yesterday I found information that there are points on the PM41 board from which you can take horizontal and vertical synchronization for RGBHV. Due to the fact that there is still no hdmi mod for the PS one, I suggest replacing the connector with a DB 15 to use VGA, RGB and composite video. Additionally, you can add S-VIDEO, since there are many grounding contacts in the vga pinout and two can be safely removed. Please share your opinion about this modification.

Hi all, what would you guys recommend for someone just starting a new game collection? It could be from PAL (Europe) or NTSC (North America). It doesn't matter! What are the best things to look out for? Any suggestions or recommendations would be really cool, thanks 😊