PlayMad takes PSOne portable, shouts out to Sega's Nomad
By Darren Murph 
posted Feb 26th 2009 10:50AM
posted Feb 26th 2009 10:50AM
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posted Feb 26th 2009 10:50AM
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or you could just 'fix' a psp and play all the ps1 games you have owned in the past in ISO form. Modding a PSOne is quite useless at this point.
agreed
or fix yourself up a real nice Japanese account, with Japanese PSN cards and whatnot. They have a few hundred PSOne games on there, including Metal Gear, as shown above.
I like how its so much bigger than a PSP, too, and PSPs ain't small
since when does modding compete with ease of acquisition? the guy made something cool; give him props.
agreed, i will give props to the modder for his effort but if he could do something like this then he should try more current machines which would be more useful.
useless maybe... except for that whole 2nd analog stick issue. However, Suikoden I-II, and Megaman 8/X4-6 would be exciting to get down with on a softmodded PS1.
looks nice and all, but id rather stick with my hacked psp and play my ps1 collection off that instead
Second set of shoulder buttons + not dealing with popsloader sounds nice, but I'll stick with PSP. Much better packaging, and I prefer ISOs over discs.
Yeah, and then there's the whole no exposed disc rotating rapidly directly behind your hands thing.
Did anyone else get a nostalgic tingle when it booted up?
Aaaah memories...
NOMAD! Oh dear God, I remember a kid at my daycare who was the envy of all when he pulled out the Nomad and started playing Sonic 3. I was AMAZED. Wonder what the battery life on that thing was :X
I had a nomad...a long time ago. It was horrible. There was an adapter (sold separately) for it that was pretty much essential if you wanted to play anymore than an hour or two. It completely drained 6 AA batteries in no time.
Once again proof that it's entirely possible to do 2 analog sticks, it's just that SCEJ is run by tards.
That's much larger than PSP and a different shape, so it doesn't prove it was possible on PSP
They already got one of these called a playstation portable + ps1 emulator.
Holy shit, what's with all the comparisons to the PSP here? What kind of moron would build and play with a system like this if their goal was to emulate? Emulation doesn't provide the same experience as running on original hardware, because it doesn't reproduce every single facet of the original machine at a 1:1 ratio. Let's not even mention all the games that run glitchy or are just plain broken. Why can't you kids just shut the hell up whenever a portable like this is posted on Engadget?
Goddamn.
most ps1 game emulate perfectly fine on the psp. i have yet to find a 'glitchy' ps1 game for the psp. i have 1 or 2 that are missing music but out of 50+ thats hardly any. also the psp can be connected to a tv and outputs ps1 game fine on that too.
Ditto, with DAX's POPSTATION Almost ALL psone games play at full speed on the psp. Hell I've been playing EA's Thrill Kill all month. You know the never released game that an EA dev leaked onto the net over a decade ago... They thought it was too violent, boy were they wrong.....
zcubed, if you "found 1 or 2 that are missing music" then I'd wager you *have* found "1 or 2" glitchy games...
a perfectly smooth running game with or without music is still a perfect functioning game;). i usually listen to my own music while i game anyways. i would define glitchy as having issues to play a game smoothly ie framerates, graphic problems etc. plus these games weren't nostalgic where u need music to feel the game in its entirety. the classics all function 100%.
LMAO at the exposed disc! Now that's what I call bare-bones construction.
Balls for attempting the mod, but points deducted for not carving the disc edge into a sawtooth design so you can cut deli ham with it.
Am I the only one that noticed the extra set of buttons on the bottom? What's the point of having two sets of the same buttons?
Those are the volume and contrast adjustment buttons for the LCD.
It's nice, needs a backplate but still nice. soon there will be a PS2-Portable the new psp4. it will play psp, psone and pstwo games all downloaded to it's internal HDD from the PS2p Store. Gotta love progression. also it's about damn time for a portable ps2.
Way to keep on top of things engadget! this particular portable PREDATES bacterias intoplay by over a YEAR. and to all the people talking shit about "why dont you just emulate" and whatnot, you are completly missing the point. its like saying "why bother restoring that classic car when you can go buy a new one.".
simple answer to the car comparison is that the classic car will probably last longer and has a nicer look to it compared to a new car. building a PSOne mod has neither of these qualities compared to a psp.
It depends entirely on the quality of the build. while its true that handbuilt PSone portables will never be as small as the PSP i think they can look very nice and what exactly are you basing your claim of them not lasting as long on? as far as i know the playmad is still out there working just fine some 2 years after G-force finished it.
i was basing it off of the idea that the mod would be using a cd laser and the psp would be using an iso on a memory stick that is easily replaceable. i have had plenty of lasers give up the ghost on me and a PSOne(do they make those anymore?) is probably more prone to failure with its age.
Someone is going to have to figure out how to either efficiently enclose the cd in the body of the device or compress the data down to a smaller CD form factor before I'd consider this.
I woke up on some girl's floor in Philly after New Year's eve and found that I had made my bed on what felt like rocks, but turned out to be shoes and soft (hard) pretzels, and was using a Nomad wrapped in a t-shirt as a pillow. Needless to say, I freaked out when I realized what I found (quietly, because girls were sleeping and I'm a gentleman) and proceeded to play Sonic 3 muted for 15 minutes until the AAs took their own lives. I dug through drawers and laundry in search of more juice, but then I realized I was raiding the apartment of some girl who's name I was curiously unsure of, and silently slipped out. A bit later, as I walked down Chestnut St. sipping a Chai latte from Cosi, I realized the one mistake I made that would have easily made this morning into my top 10 favorites of all time:
I should have stole that Sega Nomad.
What on earth? G-force built this like three years ago! Kinda behind the times there Darren...
It WAS an awesome portable, however.
Yeah, that's weird. You're totally right. That video was posted on youtube over two years ago.