Pimp my Playstation with SD Card Gaming - PSIO Installation and Review
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- Опубликовано: 5 фев 2020
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The PSIO is a mod for your Playstation (PS1) which enables you to load games from an SD Card. Today we review the device and look at the installation method as well as it's features and suitability.
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Question(I don't think you mention this in the video): Does the PSIO support game shark code input? It's not mentioned on the website, but is worth asking about.
@@thecaptain2281 Not at the moment, but you should be able to boot the Game Shark CD and swap discs to then boot codes that way for now.
Thanks for the fantastic review RetroManCave! Absolutely enjoyed it and it was very well done. Extremely professional. Hope you enjoy using PSIO and we hope it brings many more years of entertainment for you and your friends from your PlayStation console. Kind regards, Cybdyn Systems :)
@@CybdynSystems Unfortunately I have the older, better, GameShark for the same port on the back as this device. So if I'm going to replace it, the PSIO has to have the same, or similar, functionality. EDIT; To qualify, I'd love to get one, but I'm not willing to live without my GS and I am not a fan of the CD version.
25 years later and that boot sound still feels like ambrosia for the ears :)
17:52 - That spinning chip with the texture glitching is the most PS1 thing I can imagine
ikr
all what i could think was that, what kind of a secret room in resident evil that chip opens.
Will you take the PSIO chip?
>Yes No
What glitch? It's a feature. That's what's fixed-point math gets you.
It seems like Z-sort issue. PSX doesn't use Z buffer normally. Probably the model wasn't prepared with PSX in mind to account for this.
I haven't subbed so fast to a channel in my life before!! awesome work!! I'm thinking of buying myself the PSIO and installing it sometime in the spring of this year
Thank you and welcome aboard!
Great overview! It's a nice little device. I've installed a couple but don't have one myself. That might have to change.
Now, back to work...
Hi! I just saw your Pocket Money Memory segment in the lastest episode of Toy Polloi's Pocket Memories. I did one a short while back even though I haven't been much of a toy collector since childhood. I collect dvds and blurays mainly now. You seem like a nice guy and did a great video so I subscribed! :)
Hey thanks Tim and thanks for dropping by!
I love these new add on devices for older systems. Breathes life back in to them and makes them available for a newer generation.
Would get one if the price point was lower. But i totally understand why it isn't. Still great job on their end looks like a solid product. Thanks for the video.
Boot screen on ps1 is the best ever. Sound gives me the chills every time
speaking as a pro, your soldering skills are getting better and better, nice work.
Awesome content as always. I plan on supporting you on Patreon when I've got a steady stream of income again (I'm in between jobs at the moment).
Hey that's great thank you. Best of luck with starting or finding a new job
@@RMCRetro Thank you kindly. It sucks not working, though I do enjoy just sitting here at home watching anime and playing games haha
I love watching people mod their consoles with those SD loaders - they are amazing for playing old games and your disc drive not working. I really am only missing chips that allow the passing of HDMI-CEC messages. For instance, turning the push-button on the PS1 into a tap button, wiring a secondary switch to it and that into a CEC enabled RGB output and that into a HDTV. Each time you switch your source to that HDMI channel, the PS1 will boot, go into PSIO and thus give you all your games. Pair that with a wireless controller and you are golden! ...or ask Alexa to "Turn on my PlayStation 1" and just kick back with a controller and wait for the magic to happen, lol. Really love those devices and wish i was a PCB engineer myself to do that on my own. But with a visual impairment, even sodering is not exactly an option - how unfortunate... Loved this video and looking forward to new content! ^.^
Ah man, I've been thinking about getting a PSIO a lot lately. Good timing.
Thanks for the extremely well made and informative video! I was a PC gamer during the PS2 era (played the hell out of them at mates houses, god of wars on brutal! The onimusha series!) but was in primary school when these came out and had my dream console- THE N64! The only console I out grew ! Ended up getting a PlayStation during my mainly PC gaming stage (which persisted but was and is split between this gen and last gen consoles, along with my retro stuff ) and I considered it a massive upgrade with more mature type games.. perfect information but found another one of these type devices by “castlevania games” so need to do more research on what the heck is the difference!
Wow Ridge Racer that was a blast from the past !. I had a home phone video cable with Phono audio outputs. So had mine patched into my parents Pro Logic home hifi. Those Ridge Racer tunes used to be banging !.
Lol. I thought the blue tack was your soldered connection. I was loading up to napalm flame bomb you. Nice video. You did a very clean install.
Well done review. I am thinking about doing this to one of my systems now.
Can't argue with free P&P. Great video, I love the console themed content so bagged myself one.
Very informative :)
I found the same with one I had here to install, it isn't particularity stable and quite easy to dislodge.
Larger cartridges like the Xplorer/Xploder by Fire International used a through-hole bolt to one side of the parallel port so that using the ON/OFF switch wouldn't cause it to fall out. The shell they are using for this is based on the generic Caetla / Action Replay form factor; I don't believe any of these had such a bolt to prevent it being wobbly.
Something has been bugging me since I came across your channel and I couldn’t put my finger in it until now. I could see you hosting Model World which was a tv program back in the 70s lol. I loved that program by the way 😂
Looks like fun. I collect old PS1s and paint them. Definitely getting this
@Mykel HardinI love the original PS1 design. I do it for fun. I have an all black one and a breast cancer awareness pink version. Also an all white one. They all work and look badass.
You saying 'wobbling' is hands down my new fave thing
Another great video, nice product will look into for my PS1, but I never knew Ant Attack was released on the Playstation :)
all respect for your efforts.
Thanks
18:08 - This alone shall rule the game industry forever.
Good stuff. Back street engineering lol. Love it!
"Why we're slipping inside it today" and he even said it with a straight face!
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I would love one of these, just a bit too expensive for me at the moment, I will hopefully before they stop producing them
the irony of a modchipped playstation that happen to be police property is not lost on me ;)
It's a theft deterent sticker, your supposed to get your stuff back when the old bill catch the burglars. Not much chance of that happening near Liverpool.
It’s not police property
I thought that it was some kind of "this item is inspected and is ok" type of thing that they usually put on items that prison inmates may be allowed to have.
At least that is the way they do things in Finnish prisons.
@@UberAlphaSirus its not near Liverpool you travel through another 2 towns to get to st Helens from Liverpool. st Helens is actually closer to Warrington than Liverpool
@@TonyTony-xj6uv It's the closest city. I am all out of monkeys, therefor I couldn't give any.
I love ridge racer, many happy hours spent on that game 👍
just imagine owning this kind of thing back in the 90's
Hinuk Mattila if this existed at the same time as the Gameshark... man it would be one the greatest times in gaming. All my discs would be in perfect condition instead of requiring being resurfaced
@@rotor13 I wish I had this knowledge back then. All the cool things I could have done to those consoles back then.. Later on I got a PS2 Slim and tried to get it to boot from a USB if I remember correctly. But I never got it to work, instead I broke the ribbon cable and just threw it away. What a shame!
Back then even a CD burner was something quite rare xD, people were buying pirated disks on the black market lol
You had to know someone who knew someone, especially as a kid
Great video. I've been impressed with the PSIO since I got mine installed and apart from some compatibility issues, it's nice to not have to burn CD-Rs to play translation patched games on real hardware anymore.
I did want to point something out though. At the start of the video you mention emulation in later generations for backwards compatibility. Emulation is used for PS games on the PS3, but not the fat PS2 models. The fat PS2's IO chip is actually the PS1 CPU clocked the same as it was on the PS1 with the same 2 MB of RAM it had on the PS1, and the PS2 also brings the entire PS1 sound chip along as SPU2. On these models of PS2, the system just runs the PS1 title on the IO die and SPU2, and idles the PS2 hardware while it's doing it, which is why the compat is nearly perfect.
On the slim they replaced that IO chip with some weird IBM-made PPC system that emulates the old PS1 hardware, which is why the compat on those newer PS2 models isn't quite as accurate.
A good point nicely shared thank you sir.
Thank you for mentioning that, no wonder some of my old games struggle on my slim PS2s! I have a silver fatty now so time to experiment!
i love it, the ps1 & ps2 rules I still play ps2
I honestly didn't understand anything ,but it was a great video quiet relaxing as well.
Reminds me of how bad all the Spectrum memory expanders were, one slight wobble and it would reset the machine.
I had so many speccys,some of the best fun ever hacking alkatraz and speedlocks
Never understood the hype around Spyro. There were so many amazing games for the PS1 that deserve the Remastered treatment.
Interesting video, thanks for sharing 👍👍👍
It’s a nice and simple platformer.
A lot of guys in our late 20’s early 30’s, were babies when the PS1 was new.
It would probably be an good idea to place tactile button (on when not pressed) between the sd card holder power line. So you can eject the card by pushing the button to swap the disc.
I had that gun and it came with die hard, brilliant fun 👍
die hard 2 ;) also time crisis worked amazingly with it
Seeing that psio on the back it reminds me of a zx81.
I remember renting a PS1 and happening upon Demolition Derby. That game was so fun. I also rented the game on N64. :D
SuperFriendBFG
You've remembered the name incorrectly mate, Destruction Derby is the name of the game you're thinking of. :-)
@@RetroGamesBoy78 And destruction derby 2 was the best version.
I guess you could compensate for the wobble by 3d-printing a base for the PSIO. But this is pretty darned awesome!
lax3r has been working on an entire FPGA implementation of the PS1 as well, and has been making large strides towards that coming to fruition in the past couple months.
Exciting times for FPGA, indeed.
Great news!
I sense a PSIO purchase in the near future to allow me to easily play games with translation patches.
Sitting bored on my lunch at work. Then RMC saves the day.
Hurrah! I'm like a meal deal.
@@RMCRetro A 25 year old meal deal, doesn't sound appealing to me. But then again its probably improved in taste.
Just before I forget with regards the wobbly cartridge get a double sided sticky pad and place it between the cart and the ps1. It’s easily removed if at anytime you want to remove the expansion
I have the SCPH-9002 version from 1999 without that port, so it's not for me, but still interesting video.
Replaced the CD spindle recently on my PS1 as the old one had lost all those little plastic peaces in it.
Happened the same to me lol, luckily aliexpress exists
I love the police sticker.
Personally, I never saw the attraction in games consoles. They came at a time when I was interested in other aspects of computers and I had neither the money nor the time to ‘play’.
Even all these years later, I still don’t see the draw but I appreciate that this PSIO will please a lot of folks who still own a PS1 and want to use it again.
Thank you for the video!
same but loved the ps1 but all ways new pc was way better just out of my price range. then I built a duron skt a system heavy over clocked an cache modded so it was a Barton core Athlon at 2.7 2.8ghz with a fx5500 lol. an never thought about consoles ever again.
Red Asphalt is one of my favoraite games ever.
Will it ever be possible to replace the cd drive like the GC loader?
Great vid!
What's the background music you occasionally use in this video?
I was really hoping they were going to announce Ridge Racer 8 as a launch title for the upcoming PS5 because 7 was the last full game we got and it was a launch title for the PS3. But I guess that's just nostalgic wishes and that series of games will remain in the past. At least we can still play the classics
Awesome like
So if I was to buy a used PlayStation from Ebay, where would I find all of the games to download to the SD Card?? Could someone tell me? Seems like all the places that claim to have game downloads, really don't.
I had one with a parallel port on the back but traded it in back in the day for a newer PS model at ebgames. Don't remember if I had an issue or why I did that.
Perfect timing; the laser of my very first JP PS1 just died.
You can use the PSIO’s operating system to set NTSC or PAL video output? Wish I could do that with some sort of modchip, because at the moment I can’t play PAL- only games on my NTSC CRT properly.
BTW, silly question, you said it has a USB port on the side, would it be therotecial possible to play games on it via an external hard drive at all? Having a complete library of PS1 games would be amazing!
Sadly not, you use that with the app on your PC to squirt games into it, it's more of a dev tool. The current limit is 1000 games on an SD card, perhaps a future firmware update would improve on that.
@@RMCRetro 1000 games? would that be like a 1tb SD card for that?
Just woindering if it would just be easier to mod a PS2 to play PS1 games, you don't even need to open one up now to do that with a Free McBoot memory card.
Depends on the game really the ripped size varies greatly up to about 700mb max. Yes that's an option but stick to a fat PS2 so it's using those same chips rather than emulating.
@@Larry Tbh the ps2 softmod method uses emulation and it's really buggy + if you dont have a fat ps2 you can only use USB 1.1 (aka 200KB/s) or smb which requires a pc connected through the Rj45 port. You can't play burned cds, and even tho the ps2 has ps1 hardware that uses officially when you insert an original ps1 disc, there's no way to use it to play ps1 ISOs as of yet sadly :c
Oh, you got to try Lomax in Lemmingland if you're into 2D PS1 games, absolutely beautiful looking title.
Also, The Italian Job, not brilliant by today's standards, but it looks like Rockstar testing the waters wether they could make a 3D Grand Theft Auto for the system.
Thanks Larry I'll check them out!
Lomax is so damn hard! I need to give it another chance though.
When selecting NTSC mode, do American and Japanese games actually run at 60Hz and full screen on a UK console? Great video, I've wanted a PSIO for a while, a may get one now. I'm not good at soldering though.
They sure do. The video rate is set by the game.
I recently sold my SCPH-7001 for quiet a nice bonus price, just because people going into the PSIO backups.
Greace poblem was common in PS CD drive as it dries out. I remember. And lense was very weak. Compared to modern dvd drives.
Hi, Would you be able to explain the RGB Color Range a bit for me please? I had a Modded PS1 when I was a Kid. I knew it was HardModded and played CD's (Although I may have used the Quick CD Swap Hack) Anyhow, I bought FF9 on Release, but it was so much Cheaper because it was from a Pirate that owned a Shop on a Market, 300 miles away from where I live. When I brought it back home, Disc 1 was Color, 2 was B&W, 3 Color, & 4 Didn't even run. - is this some kind of Pal vs NTSC / Multiple P2P Server Download thing? Thanks RMC!
8:13 Oh yes, always make sure to keep your tip nice and clean
You know it
What does the Mini USB Type B port on it does?
Is it possible to play with Cheats, like GameShark?
I remember before I had my Japanese ps1 modded I used to do the swap trick.The game would be inserted and then the ps1 logo would appear and you waited for the disc to stop and grabbed the game out of the ps1 and slammed in your incompatible game and it worked.
There is some sort of high-pitched noise when you speak in the beginning. But well, I do have a PlayStation 1 with a parallel port and I would like this mod. But I think it's just too expensive. And I already have a modchip anyway.
What's the music in the background? During tear down?
i have a chipped one too, chip is held on by sticky tape, it still works.
i need this for my modded psx for audio use!
The whole disk change simulation gives me heavy nintendo vibes, i wonder how long it will be till someone 3d prints a NES/SNES/N64 Style Backpack case for the PSIO
Owner of the product offers great customer service , I was unable to install the switchboard but cybdyn provided assistance and got it up and running in no time . Great product and excellent review
Removal of enclosed 🐜 voids your warranty !
I was given a PlayStation that was already mod chipped. Still have it might look into this thanks.
I hope Monkey Hero works with this. Such a great Zelda clone.
It sure does! :D
You may have missed it, but the music in Ridge Racer started two seconds late after the announcer says "Go!" This is due to a bug in the CU2 processing from multi-bin merged game images. Cybdyn is currently working on this, but has been a standing issue for a while. There are still also a lot more compatibility issues than 99.9% makes it sound, but the upcoming firmware update sounds promising. One more thing, Cybdyn doesn't do switch board installations anymore, but as you said it's not hard to find installers around the world.
That is an interesting spot thank you! I'll keep an eye out for updates
@@RMCRetro If you want to fix them now you can try to manually edit the CU2 files to fix the timing, adding 2 seconds to each audio track (not the data track), though it's probably better to wait for the update for both the PSIO menu and the Systems Console utility, and redo your CU2s.
What Microscope do you use i checked the amazon link but can't see it thx.
So dose this mean you could put your tracks own track in gran Trianon?
Where can I get PSX ROMs? I need ".CUE" format, thanks!
i still have PS1 and works great still
oh the irony "i went to load point blank and i got a blank screen" lol
Amazing piece of technology. Nice solder work. I need to get me one of these. How do you get your hands on all of the PS1 disc images?
Archive.org
It's a shame there isn't an option to use a boot disc of some sort on already modded consoles, instead of adding yet another chip. Otherwise it seems likely simpler to boot images from USB/HDD on a soft modded PS2, with the bonus of component output (useful for capture cards).
what is the song in this video i have heard it before?...
I wonder what happened to my Playstation, maybe it's still around somewhere! Think I sold it to a mate to help pay for a Voodoo2 3D card back in the day...
It seems most people crack open PS1's and find they've already had a modchip installed.
The parallel port is interesting, I wonder if Sony ever had any ideas for it.
Tbh i bought in the last few years 4 PS1. 3 of these were the big ones and the latter was the mini one, all of them except the latter one had modchips (funny thing is that i thought ps1 accepted burned discs without a mod required bc of this lol)
What is this system console tool? is it available to download anywhere?
I think the parallel port on that playstation handles 3 megabits per second, not megabytes. But yeah still ample speed considering 150kbps is 1x cdrom speed. A 20 speed cdrom is possible and thusly circa 2x DVD movie speed.
Grate video but not for me this i have many ways of playing my back up ps1 game but what's this rom item for the gamecube my lasers gone and can no long use it so my be a good one for me to be able to play the games I have
Red Asphalt is the very game that I would buy this for.
Great idea! Shame it's so expensive though. I reckon they'd move heaps of them if it was even $50 less. For $150, I'm not that keen :(
GitarStu it’s definitely meant for those who really want to continue using the PS1 hardware itself instead of using a PS2 or Backwards compatible PS3, or one of the various emulators.
I’ve actually got one. I waited a few weeks because I sent my PS1 to them and when I got it back, it was very well done. The wires were all nice and straight, the solder joints were perfect and it boots up great.
It is a shame that this hadn’t come around sooner. But I’m glad I have one.
I’m keen to buy another and try my hand at doing the install myself as I have been practicing soldering and am confident I can get it done.
In all I spent about $160 US for it.
It was expensive, and I don’t use it often. But I’m glad I have a piece of gaming and modding history.
yeah, i'll just emulate, beetle psx on retroarch is where it's at.
So they bypass copy protection, but draw the line at bypassing copy protection from the CD Drive? Also, surely the thing should have a nice change disc button instead of ejecting and re-inserting the SD card...
That would be a nice feature
How does Ridge Racer Turbo version run on PSIO?
Blu tack? The chip in mine was just wrapped in toilet paper and some sticky tape and stuffed in there. Still works tho. But the PSU is acting up unfortunately
Great, informative video as always RMC! - thanks! - Tipped, have a coffee on me... :D
Thank you sir, I went for a flat white with some shortbread 👍
I want this for all disc based consoles, disc drives sooner or later die (I'm still sad and angry that my dreamcast's laser died a few years ago). my ps1 still works fine, but I'm not enjoying it, I don't play it because I don't want to waste the laser... and when I play, I'm nervous all the time like I'm doing something "bad". I play more ps2 because I load the games from the computer's hard disk using a LAN cable, so no laser wasting involved.
I really wish I had kept my PS1; modchipped and complete with an Xploder FX cartridge in the IO port. Speaking of which. the wobble on the PSIO could be fixed easily. The Xploder had pins that socketed into the Playstation and a screw that secured it. I see no reason why they couldn't implement the same thing.
18:30 whats the (full?) music name [after te boot logo] ?
On the March - Brendon Moeller
Next time you have to deal with old tape residue, try a few drops of zippo lighter fluid (or any generic brand) instead of IPA; it works miracles! And usually no hard scrubbing required. Don't worry, it won't damage the board.
Edit: spelling
I've heard rumours of a hdmi out mod for the psx but only for certain models
as i understand it there is a similar device in the works for the saturn(though from a different group).l