Seems like Amazon making a very ‘safe’ game but the idea of what is ‘safe’ is about 5 years old. The fact that the announcement of it has made barely impact sort of says everything. I tried watching all the character trailers and didn’t see a single thing I haven’t done a thousand times in other co-op/team/hero/horde-mode shooters over the last 10 years.
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i burned fuckin’ hundreds of ps1/2 games back in the day
try 4x and the best discs you can find. taiyo yuden or verbatim always worked well
as for software, cdrwin was great but it’s almost certainly not maintained anymore and i dunno if it’d work on modern windows, assuming imgburn is still good? cdrdao on linux, never found a particularly good osx solution
and yeah it could definitely be the laser struggling more with cdrs
old PS1s are getting long in the teeth now. the non-slim (psone) models are also notoriously fickle. the slim ones are a lot more tolerant. there are a few options for helping with stutters:
a) what idiot said, maximize your burns with the best possible media and burner (imgburn is good, the hardware matters more), slow is good but 1x is unrealistic these days
b) turn your PS1 upside down or sideways. this helps with the thing that the psone helped with
c) buy a new read unit, they are surprisingly not too expensive: https://www.ebay.com/itm/USA-SELLER-New-PS1-PSX-Laser-Optic-Lens-Assembly-KSM-440BAM/292332228760?hash=item44105bd098:g:tpcAAOSwX~dWtOCq
(if you go this route make sure you get the one for your model, they have slightly different ribbon cable lengths and possibly other minute stuff i think)
grim memories of having my ps1 upside down for most of its life
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The main reason I have avoided it is that the only other Ninja Theory game I played was DmC and the combat in that was awful. Oh also maybe the most misogynist game I have played (DmC, no idea on Hellblade), which led me to…not look forward to Hellblade.
oh yeah on the subject of playing ps1 isos, is there any way for a ps2 to load ps1 games from a hard drive? i’m probably going to setup the trinitron and my modchipped launch ps2 again after lockdown ends but yeah it’s really old and i don’t know how long that laser is gonna last so it might be time to pick up a network adaptor
mehhhhhh it’s possible but it kind of sucks.
it has like 40% compatibility with PS1 games, it is an absolute shit to set up, and every game has to be converted.
it’s fine, even perfect for some games but honestly i mostly just said fuck it and stopped bothering
edit: Official POPStarter HDD Compatibility List, Rev 13 - Google Sheets
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Did they stop the free trial month? I also did that and got to play 3-4 games I would not have spent money on otherwise and try out about 4 more I did not know but I never play games on my phone. If you play games on your phone it seems like a great deal.
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also curious about this.
i have a hdd in there atm, but it’s not easy getting stuff on and off. planning to do a SD reader mod.
what i recommend for PS2 is buying a SATA conversion kit so you can adapt the network adapter from IDE. IDE hard drives are getting old as fuck and in many cases won’t last in a PS2 very long - the first one i used died after about 18 months and the second one was already on its way out after maybe 3. i assume these things are only going to get worse - there’s not really a lot of IDE hard drives in production, if any, so you’re getting old stock that’s only getting older. the SATA upgrade kit is incredibly easy. no soldering required, it took me about 10 minutes.
it’s also cheap!
now i have a 2TB drive in my PS2 and it is my favorite thing of all time
if you don’t already have a network adapter or don’t want to modify yours, you can also buy prebuilt SATA ones: https://www.ebay.com/itm/Sata-Network-Adaptor-SATA-Interface-HDD-Hard-Disk-Adapter-Converter-For-Sony-PS2/333414806672?hash=item4da1123490:g:zJUAAOSwDL5d3sbC
the downside here is that the network port doesn’t work - they are just for connecting SATA hard drives to PS2s and don’t allow you to connect your PS2 to a network (afaik)
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Are you just sol if you have a slim ps2?
earliest slims (70xxx) have the proper internals. it’s a 39-point soldering job, though
http://www.maxdiypower.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=80
SMB is extremely good for PS2, though, and there’s always ESR (burned discs) and USB (so, so, so much better than you’d expect for USB 1.0)
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if anyone wants a sample, i use all 4 methods depending on what i’m doing and can make example videos if you’re interested how a given game will work
Internal SATA HDD
SMB
ESR
USB 1.0
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what’s the closest thing to edf5 I can play on my switch
Oh nice, I didn’t know about this. I my ps2 is right next to an ethernet switch and I already have an SMB server so this is perfect!
can you copy games to the drive via smb yeah
does anybody know what synthesizer or instrument library tenpei sato uses? his stuff has a very distinctive sound, partially because of that instrument library and because he bends the pitch of like, everything.
this is what i end up using for melty blood. fmv stuff chugs and load times are slow, but it is way more reliable than a burned disc, and i’m not able to dump the disc to hdd cause of region locking.
my network adapter that i got w the hdd has no ethernet port, so i’m guessing it will be a SATA one? probably makes it easier to replace with an SD reader.
yes, should work
https://www.ps2-home.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2307
i just use a cheap usb-to-ide/sata thingy and do it all directly
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Does anybody have any recommendations for Switch cases? I don’t really need it for traveling, I just want something easy to store my Switch in PLUS the AC adapter.
I found this, but i can’t tell if it has a stand for the switch to lean on like the official case (which i think is a pretty rad feature to have).
Also, any carrying case suggestions. I’d love to stop hauling my PS4 and XBox One S around in their stupid boxes every time I move.
eta: check out this wicked black and pink neo geo carrying case i used to have that’s apparently worth $700 goddamn what.
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