What was this port for?

What was this port for?

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Parallel I/O

my peanus weenus haha

Didn't Sony remove it because users were frying their ps1?

Printers.

Printer.

to connect two ps's for multiplayer

the network adapter, iirc
i don't think the psx ever had a printer, but that's usually what the parallel port was for on most computers

you would use for an extention that allowed you to play 4-player games, like that Crash Bandicoot racing game.

I don't know if anything official used it but it could be used for 3rd party cheat devices and region bypassing, which is partly why they removed it.

How'd they fry it, by plugging something in that Didn't Belong?

Weed lmao

Cheats

Gameshark used it. I remember I had one that had memory cards in it that I could switch between.

Uh the multitap attaches itself through the controller port.

plugging in a printer to your PS1

PS1 could control this walking tank through the Parallel IO port

why would the PS1 attempt to use parallel for networking and not a phone jack?

Walking tank?

The first rev looks awesome

You use it to load games off an SD card.

>that useless empty port on the Saturn will son be where you'd put a flashcart

I love when the useless ports become great for modders

But what was this port for?

because the modem wasn't internal, the parallel port would be to connect the modem to the psx; the modem is the bit that would have the phone jack

SD cards didn't exist in 1997

Gameshark
Multi platform gaming, things like crash up to 16 player units very few if any games supported it.

And finally third party development, you could at one time develop your own ps1 and 2 games.
Ps1 and PS2 both has developer editions. PS1 had a IO port on initial release for those that didn't buy the dev edition, but still had connectors for it. Though it boils down mostly the port was flat used for Gameshark

gameshark

A shitty USB port is more versatile than a phone jack.

>the modem wasn't internal

of course it wasn't, you plug your phone cord into the modem then run the cord into the back of your computer. Your modem was always external

Gameshark used it.
There's another peripheral called VCD Card that also uses it. It was a MPEG decoder that could be used to play VCDs.

They do now.

Just about every console back then was made with expansion possibilities despite the fact that not a single one was ever commercially viable

It was just a selling point to make you think you're getting the potential for more

I know. I can't wait to purchase one. Need to pick up a S-Video cable while I'm at it.

Hiding the weed

USB 1.0 didn't exist then.

People had dial-up which required an RJ11 jack, AKA phone cord

It's gotta be slow as shit

i'm glad we agree

Gamegenie/shark whatever.

Didnt the gamecube have a port below it that ended up never being used?

Faster than CD read speed.

Right, I was making more of an analogy than saying it was an actual USB port. If they tacked on a phone jack and nothing else, they would have nothing else to expand with. Regardless of whether or not they used it for anything, a general purpose IO port is more useful than an inflexible phone jack.

It's so you could play co-op in Doom.

So is the CD.

Cheap Chinese things that would do things like enabling cheats, allowing the play of games from other regions, allowing the playing of burned CD-R copied games, some claimed to hold like 10 memory cards or something, and I'm sure there's more that I don't even know what they offered.

The mini-fridge in the bottom right.

>not burning your money away on RGB
shaken thy head family guy

The GC had a ton of ports that were removed

No? It's just like running games from an HDD.

It's an interfacing port.

Officially it was used as a means of debugging and communication between the playstation and a pc for development reasons.

But in the more conventional side it was used for cheat devices from third parties (gameshark, codebreaker, and many other variant names - hell one even allowed gameboy games to be played on it)

The port was eventually removed over time due to piracy being available through these devices.

this as well for homebrew reasons. the ps1 can do the same but the exception being you have to do some solder work for it to properly function.

its faster than disc read speed. the only issue is you have to still modify the system in a particular way for it to function. just buying it wont make it work.

im autistic, i know what im talking about
here's my (outdated) sony dev collection

>a general purpose IO port is more useful than an inflexible phone jack.
The only devices used for parallel was fucking printers, yea I can do 2 things with an RJ11 jack and 1 with a parallel. I can hook the phone jack to a modem, or phone OR I can use my parallel for a fucking printer

GameShark.
TV Tuner (Asia only).
VCD Card.

They were both used. One was for the LAN adapter, the other was for the Gameboy Player.

>custom component cables never ever

Metal gear?

What did Nintendo meant by this?

do you know if it'll work with any old modchip or does it need to be a specific one

the official dev tool used for it converted it to a standard parallel port for communications. it was cheaper than creating a single cable to interface with it.

pic related. one of the few images we have of one. there is a bloke that snagged the device itself but fuck he paid a handsome price for it

Not really. From what the testers gathered, it still has a ton of compatibility issues.

that port was used to connect Saturn's together. you could play multiplayer virtual on properly. shit was dope

>motion controls were originally planned for the GC
>the wii was originally intended to be two GC networked together

This was a rumor right? There's no way it's even a half truth, right?

whether the port works or not has nothing to do with the fact that parallel is faster than the CD drive

what was it for Sup Forums?

heres the official documentation explaining what the fuck you have to do
ps-io.com/help/
ps-io.com/switch_board/ (at the bottom you have a link to an image for reference)

So you need
-the PSIO cart
-the switchboard chip
-soldering

It was planned to be used as a RAM extension port, though unofficial add-ons were made for other uses (Gameshark/Action Replay, VCD player, etc.).

Supposedly it was going to let you play your Vita games on an HDTV, but the cable for it never materialized. Some guy managed to get it to work though.

Game Shark

there was initially a plan to use it as a peripheral port. theres plans and images of a UMD attachment that used that port.

the device itself never happened after the concept but the port itself is a modified port of another device port. they changed the pins so it works different.


again im autistic for sony shit. you could ask me nearly anything and i could probably answer it

it was for an accesory included with gravity rush 2

;-;

source for that shit nigger

There were external mod chips you could plug in to that port for playing pirated discs. They also did crazy shit like let you browse the files on the disc itself. I remember this vividly because I found it also played the FMV files on Final Fantasy 7 discs so I loaded up that scene of the Highwind being fucked up and pausing at the part where Tifa is making a lewd face and you can almost see up her skirt (pic related)

Well, one was used for the Broadband Adapter and one was used for the Gameboy Player. It ended up with only a single unused port.

>Famicom Disk System
>Satellaview
>64DD
>Game Boy Player
>That plastic Wii stand

It took Nintendo of Japan until the Wii U to stop making shit that goes under the console
I miss it

this is the render

this was back when people were calling it the PSP2 (and internally its still called that so it's not surprising to me)

again, it never happened since they instead just made it all software ended, making the whole point of a peripheral useless

is that a signature on the bottom right one?

yes.
its Keiji Inafune

since then ive added a vita testkit and ps4 testkit to the collection

Where the shit do people even find these
My dream is to own just a fucking 64DD and that costs a fortune

>and internally its still called that so it's not surprising to me
This is where you're wrong dumbshit.

>disc

lmao get this fad shit out of here

>tfw I'm actually interested but don't know what to ask

Uhm... what do GP0 4Ch and 5Ch opcodes actually do? (they are line related)
Is there a DUART (two 9pin serial ports) expansion thingie like the one in ?

that's fuckin badass dude nice one

you plug a Cisco rollover cable from your computer to the i/o slot on the ps1. Then if you're using a CLI program such as PuTTy or TeraTerm you could get into the console line of the playstation. From there you would configure a host name for your PS, passwords to protect your console lines and VTY lines so people couldnt Telnet or SSH into your playstation to hijack it.

Once those basic configurations are done you can assign an ip address to the playstation, or if you were thinking ahead of the times you could turn your PS into a DHCP server to relay with a client and use it to issue ip addresses throughout your house, of course NAT and PAT would be configured as well because we were talking ipv4 back in these days.

If you wanted to get fancy you could establish OSPF adjacencies between MULTIPLE playstations throughout the house and play multiplayer games together. Also its advised to set up some extended Access Control Lists towards the destination interfaces to block traffic of your choice. HOWEVER make sure you allow your OSPF adjacencies otherwise those ACL's are going to block them and then your adjacencies will go down, and your playstations wont be able to talk to each other.

Now it was common back then for people to establish RIP instead of OSPF, however I wont go into RIP since its not really relevant anymore.

Pretty sure what he meant is the network card which in phone line Internet era it was known as a modem because there wasn't such a thing as the modems we know today. Believe it or not, pcs connected to the phone jack on the wall.

External memory slot. :^)

Is this shit as expensive as I think it is, or do you actually work in a position where you'd have honest access to PS devkits?

what
speak english fag

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SDK refers to it as such shitlord. If teh SDK is calling it a fucking PSP2 then it's called a fucking PSP2. Even the updates are called PSP2UPDAT.PUP. Even the firmware check on PSN is "psp2-updatelist.xml"

Unless you can tell me that sony calling the system a PSP2 in their current state is not calling it a PSP2 then you can go fuck yourself.

no fucking clue for the opcodes. i barely touch that shit.
as for the port, no but you CAN make one yourself pretty easily unless you wanna go for the Net Yaroze serial cable which has the standard 9 pin serial on one end and the serial i/o port on the other for comm

heres a 360 devkit with sidecar. google it because its easier and im almost out of room to type

its expensive. vitas and ps4s are bricks too unless you abuse the exploits available. however from a hardware standpoint the vita is fucking rad because HDMI out on that fucker (devkit only and prototype with a psp go design as well - that model even has the SD card still)
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keep going. i have lots of free time

GET HIM

is the green ps1 rare?

think there is a port on the wiiu itself as well as the gamepad

this is complete bullshit

whats funny is that people actually believe sony would ever make something to be this functional

the motion controls are true no idea what that second part means

do you know what I was really describing?

Isn't that for the charging pad?

yes and no. yes because its developer only hardware. no because its easy to locate still. the blue ones are better

-Blue DTL-H100X - Development station (region free, all burned games accepted)
-Green DTL-H120X - Debugging station (region locked, burned games accepted. region patches work)
-Black DTL-H300X - Net Yaroze (region free + system specific region only on the Net Yaroze. Burned discs not accepted - boot card and boot disc required to use)
-Blue DTL-H110X - Slim PS1 dev/debugging station. Literally a fat blue shell but the PSU is that of a slim PS1 PSU instead (might be region free - accepts burned discs)

anything else?

yes...

Did that border around Continue serve any purpose whatsoever? I kinda have some strange memories about toying with the PS1 so much as a kid that I saw SCE logo inside there, and then the console locked, or restarted or I dunno.

Some games have settings which can define the amount of available RAM, are there indeed PS1 revisions with more or less RAM/VRAM?

lol thats what everyone thinks

the gold parts are for the charger

forgot pic

good, star poster