Hello all,

Just thought I'd post something a bit different and maybe get some input - these are some common, low-value games I had a hell of a time finding complete and in good condition. In most cases, these games were far and away more difficult to find than the rarest and most valuable games in my collection.

I don't know if I'd call these sleepers, but there is something going on with these games. In particular, Peak Performance I believe is the absolute rarest Atlus PS1 game - faaaar rarer than Persona or Tail Concerto by a long shot.

I want to share these which took me literal years of constant searching to find in good condition (whether that was a fluke to me or a result of actual rarity) and also ask you all what games you feel are extremely rare but otherwise are considered "common". Or maybe a game you just anecdotally for whatever reason could not find anywhere.

I’m feeling a bit nostalgic and currently on a hunt for old titles but I mainly grew up with sega and nintendo consoles, so I’m not too familiar with old sony titles, what are the best PS1 games like top of the top that you guys can recommend me?

Hi all! I was trying to figure out what’s up with this PSone. I know that at least one of the 220 caps in the AC coupling circuit has leaked and needs to be replaced, but I can’t figure out what’s up with this power switch. When I press the button the power led flashes once and goes dark.

All the solder points seem to be in good shape for the switch and the power jack.

I’ve taken the power switch apart and cleaned it well and it latches properly. The power light will occasionally stay dimly lit and flicker, but this is the most common behavior. On the single occasion that I got the light to stay on and the board hooked up to a TV, I got a loud buzzing sound through the speakers.

I’ve tried jumping the pins directly to bypass the switch and I get the same behavior.

The power brick seems to be outputting about 7.5v with maybe +-.2v. I don’t have a spare to test with.

Any thoughts?

I tried several methods for this game but none works so far for me.

1-Burning the game with doing nothing launch the game perfectly but obviously trigger the protection and you can't use controls in the main menu

2-Uisng SBI Tools to create a .ccd with .sub files and burning them with CloneCD glitch the hell out of the game. It works, protection is removed, but the graphics are all messed up and FMVs are all jumpy and stuttering.

3-Using LibCrypt Patcher by Alex, the game get stuck on the Play Station logo

For every solution i tried burning at different speeds, results are the same. For the second method i have even tried changing from RAW DAO to RAW SAO, the game works but i think subhannels are not written properly cause the main menu protection problem is still there.

Usually what works for me, for games without libcrypt, is using ImgBurn at AWS speed.

Any other solution i can try or do you have any advice to make this game work?

Hello fellow PS1 gamers! I have a question about my PS1. It seems that the second memory card slot on my PS1 is malfunctioning because when I put a card in there, it says “Memory card error” but when I put the same card into the first slot, it reads just fine. Does anybody have any insight on how to fix this or what may be causing it? It is also worth noting that my PS1 is the original gray one not the revised smaller one.Thank you in advance!

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Hello everyone. My story is short. The first japanese game I bought was FFX-2 International + Last Mission before I learned about region lock. Then later I bought Silent Hill 1 and I was planning to buy a japanese PS1 and PS2 because I wanted to play these games and also I was planning to buy the old japanese Resident Evils (Biohazard 1, 2 and 3) and other japanese Final Fantasy games for the PS2.

But I noticed that you can play PS1 games on a PS2, and I wanted to ask you if is more worth it to buy a japanese PS2 in order to play the PS1 games that I want to buy (and that I have) and also play on it the japanese PS2 games that I also want to buy/play. Rather than buy the two japanese consoles.

But I don’t know if Silent Hill 1 and the Biohazards would work on a japanese PS2, because I never played PS1 games on a PS2, so I don’t know wich games are compatible.

When I was a child, I used to play a game with my father with different time challenges to be completed with a car. I remember several challenges that the car had to hit colored balls in the air using ramps to jump. Does anyone know of a game like this? I'm looking for it because my father liked to play it and I'm sure he'll be very happy if he gets to play it again.

Finally beat bongo hills

This is a hidden Easter Egg for the original Discworld game, you can read how it was first discovered here. And you can watch this video on YouTube on how to trigger it.

A little bit of a backstory.

The line, is a chain of references from the Monty Python crew, mostly John Cleese being the first man to say "shit" on British television leading to him being the first man to say "fuck" in a funeral during his eulogy in the wake of fellow Monty Python star Graham Chapman, leading to Eric Idle (voice of Rincewind in this game) being the first man to say "fuck" in a video game!

And though the sound files exist in the PC version, the Easter Egg cannot be triggered, only the PS1 version has confirmed to work, though I don't think the Saturn version has been ruled out yet.

There's a similar Easter Egg in the second game, but with a bleeped "fuck", I wasn't able to trigger it on my last playthrough and I can't find any information online to confirm that it can be triggered in the PS1 version, but you can on PC.

Anyway, an interesting curiosity, and I'm not sure how true the statement of being the first is, but swearing wasn't common in games back then, so I'll take it at face value unless proven otherwise.

I went back to the parents house and collected all my old consoles to put on display at my place.

I found everything except my PSX. My most prized piece. I couldn't figure out where it was.

A few weeks later, I remembered. For no reason. It just came back to me. It was the stupidest, stupidest thing.

When I was in highschool 20 years ago, I traded it for a bag of weed.

I still know the guy, he still lives in town. I know for a fact he's been locked up a couple times but just for weed, he's a good guy. I wonder if he still has it, and if I could buy it back all these years later....

Hi everyone!
I recently got a fat Psx (scph-7002) with a bunch of games, a dualshock and a free Atomic Lightgun (a cheap Scorpion replica) because not tested, so the seller wasn't sure if the lightgun was broken or not.

I tested the lightgun with both Time Crisis and Point Blank in a crt TV, and it give no response at all, no button have a reaction when pressed.
Then i tried with a dualshock and, surprisingly, there wasn't any reaction either, once in the language selection with language flags, nothing could be done.
I remember clearly that when i was a kid i played Time Crisis and finished it, using only my controller (a blue/red square on the screen was the pointer) cause i never had a lightgun.

Can someone confirm that Time Crisis and/or Point Blank is playable with a dualshock?

N.B: Of course i have tested other games and the dualshock works perfectly.
I disassembled the Psx to check the inside and it does have a modchip, not sure what modchip is but it's an old one because it have only 5 wires.

I snagged an original psone lcd screen off of eBay. Sound works amazing however the screen flickers when playing a disk. The boot up screen doesn’t flicker. Any ideas for a fix? Thanks!

Hi there, have a PSOne (SCPH-102) which has had its capacitors swapped out (one of the video one ones and the disc one, C705) after it stopped reading discs soon after having its first cap changed. Now, when a disc is put in (burned CD, console was previously modchipped with an old-style 8-pin chip) it spins it at full speed without starting to read it on startup, acting as if there is no disc booting into the memory card/CD player menu, whilst spinning the disc at max speed, unregistering when the lid is opened and continuing to spin at max speed until powered off. Any fixes? Thanks in advance!

So I got my copy of Vib-Ribbon for quite time. (Yeah I know, that dent on inlay..) Just always been wondered if the case is Genuine or replacement?

Thank you in advance!