Well, after shelving my PSX for a couple of months, it no longer works (discs don't spin). Go Sony! A quality machine that was........

[Blotus]

<div style='font: 10pt "arial narrow"; text-align: left; padding: 0% 5% 0% 5%; '>Not. I was, however, surprised it lasted a whole five years with only skipping and occasional stopping, after hearing others' stories of their PSXs lasting two-three years.


Now, I don't necessarily NEED a PS1 now that I have a PS2, but I always liked using my Pro Action Replay card for Gameshark codes and *cough*burnedgames*cough*. Question: Does the PSOne (the new one) have the same I/O port for Gamesharks and such? I'd go out and check on this by myself but y'know... lazy.</div>

[Eric]

<div style='font: 11pt ; text-align: left; '>Oh come on.....it's no secret that Sony's little game machine is um......bah I'm not getting into it.....As for the port, Sony took the I/O port out of the newer versions of the PSX, so I doubt the PS1 has that port either.</div>

[Ganath]

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>Yeah, that machine was a piece of crap. Mine finally kicked the bucket after four years... shit, my 12 year old NES is in better working condition! Hell, I've seen better working Ataris!</div>

[Eric]

<div style='font: 11pt ; text-align: left; '>Funny you should say that, I pulled out my NES after reading BL's post to see if it still worked, and it did. heh.</div>

[Blotus]

<div style='font: 10pt "arial narrow"; text-align: left; padding: 0% 5% 0% 5%; '>You lucky whores. My NES (1986) just barely survived to see the release of the SNES. There was another poorly-designed system. Wish I could find one of the top-loading ones.</div>

[Blotus]

<div style='font: 10pt "arial narrow"; text-align: left; padding: 0% 5% 0% 5%; '>I know it's no secret, I just thought I'd take one last piss on it as a farewell. But if they took out that port, how the hell do you use Gamesharks with newer PSs?</div>

[Torgo]

<div style='font: 9pt Arial; text-align: left; '>You can always use PS2 modchips.</div>

[Blotus]

<div style='font: 10pt "arial narrow"; text-align: left; padding: 0% 5% 0% 5%; '>Not for burned PSX games or PSX Gameshark codes.</div>

[Torgo]

<div style='font: 9pt Arial; text-align: left; '>Ah, I miss those days. If something went wrong, all you had to do was blow on the cartridge and give it a few taps.</div>

[Eric]

<div style='font: 11pt ; text-align: left; '>Sony does't give a damn about the GameShark, therefor they could careless if you can use it on their system. However Those Interact boys made a PSX GameShark Boot Disk.</div>

[Eric]

<div style='font: 11pt ; text-align: left; '>Taps? I used to step on my system over and over again. HARD in frustration. :P</div>

[Torgo]

<div style='font: 9pt Arial; text-align: left; '>Actually there's a Pro Action Replay that allows you to play burned PSX games and use Gameshark codes. My friend saw it in Hong Kong, so it's only a matter of time before it gets here.</div>

[G-man Joe]

<div style='font: 11pt "comic sans MS"; text-align: left; '>Mine still works...after all these years. Going on six years now? Still occasionally play Tobal No2. Chips are cool. =8^)</div>

[Crono]

<div style='font: 12pt Arial; text-align: left; '>My older american and japanese PSX's have skipping problems, even though i took great care of em (so i agree on the "poorly built" thing). They are the only systems (out of the like 30+ I've got) that ever gave problems.</div>

[EsquE]

<div style='font: 12pt Baskerville; text-align: left; '><i>...is about 6 years old. It skips and heats up real fast but it still runs thankfully (my only modded one). I bought a second one about 2 years ago and it still runs perfectly and gets the most use. The later models were much more sturdy, and the one I got still as an I/O port for my GamesharkGameshark.

If you can find one of the ones like mine, which was the first to come with the Dual Shock controller packed in, it'd be worth getting used. They are made much better and the CD lens rails are moved away from the CPU so you don't have to worry about the rails warping from the heat, which is what caused the skipping in early models. Or you can just get a PSOne if the GameShark is your only concern. They got around that I/O port problem real quick...it'll just cost you the price of a new CD GamesharkGameshark.

All this is yet another reminder of why I'm waiting for at least a few generations of PS2's to be made before buying. They're already making one that uses emulation instead of having the PSX processor inside for playing PSX games. This will likely make the PSX games look much better and take better advantage of the faster CD player...and they don't have the problems of a Bleem where they have to work backwards, it's their own code they're emulating. After a generation of those are out and stable, I'll lay my money down and stop taking advantage of the kindness of strangers with PS2's...</i></div>

[Kupek]

<div style='font: 10pt Verdana, Tahoma; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>Good point, I hadn't thought of that as a reason to hold off on purchasing a PS2.</div>

[Sephy]

<div style='font: 12pt "Times New Roman"; text-align: left; '>Sine, his posts are doing the same problem as someone else had...duplicating words</div>

[Blotus]

<div style='font: 10pt "arial narrow"; text-align: left; padding: 0% 5% 0% 5%; '>Nah, Esque just loves his GamesharkGameshark =)</div>

[EsquE]

<div style='font: 12pt Baskerville; text-align: left; '>...<i>something is seriously fucking wrong with it. If you preview with the Spellcheck, all the words that come up as mis-spelled will have the duplication bug when you post. If you use the spellchecker to correct or add a word, when you post that word will be duped, with the first one having a + in front of it. For example, I tried to add "Castlevania" to the spellchecker, but when I previewed again I got "+CastlevaniaCastlevania". Something is wrong with the way it replaces the misspelled words, or if you don't replace it it freaks out and dupes the word, like it wants to point it out even more. I do not get it, but it needs to be fixed. If people want to use the spellchecker I suggest using it once, then preview without it and delete all the dupes that pop up, then post. Otherwise you get a big mess. My post would have been even worse if I hadn't cleaned it up...I just missed the Gameshark dupe.</i></div>

[Lee S.]

<div style='font: 9pt arial; text-align: justify; '>You think that's bad. Why don't you see what the spellchecker did to my post about Akira in Animetion? I mean, shit.</div>

[Nev]

<div style='font: 12pt Arial; text-align: justify; padding: 0% 8% 0% 8%; '>I know your NES turned into an Atari the same way everyone else's did after two years (anyone remember trying to play games that way?)</div>

[S.Cody2]

<div style='font: 14pt Plakatbau; text-align: left; '>Yeah, mine bit the dust like that too. I saw more flashing red screens than games starting up.</div>

[Torgo]

<div style='font: 9pt Arial; text-align: left; '>Bah! I never hit my children.</div>

[Crono]

<div style='font: 12pt Arial; text-align: left; '>Well, my old model NES's gave me probs when I was younger. But the day I finally used a cleaning kit... it worked fine.</div>

[Ganath]

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>You just don't appreciate discipline. *snaps belt*</div>

[Zeus]

<div style='font: 10pt "Arial bold"; text-align: left; '>Heh, you're funny. The whole reason they made the PSOne was to eliminate the useless space and cut down costs. Other than Gamesharks, what the hell was that port used for?</div>

[Zeus]

<div style='font: 10pt "Arial bold"; text-align: left; '>You're lucky. With any use, they usually break down, especially now. That's why you need a top-loading NES. They rule something fierce</div>

[Zeus]

<div style='font: 10pt "Arial bold"; text-align: left; '>I don't get people's issue with the Atari. I have 3 of them that work fine</div>

[Zeus]

<div style='font: 10pt "Arial bold"; text-align: left; '>I picked mine up in the States for $50 US. I don't know what kind of release they had up here, but I know it was pretty sad.</div>

[Zeus]

<div style='font: 10pt "Arial bold"; text-align: left; '>Memory card slot</div>

[Ganath]

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>Some sort of mod program that worked like a mod chip. Which, btw, came packaged with a Game Shark. :)</div>

[Torgo]

<div style='font: 9pt Arial; text-align: left; '>I know lots of people with an original NES that still works. Even my cousin's, which he treated like shit.</div>

[Crono]

<div style='font: 12pt Arial; text-align: left; '>Well yeah, the top-loaders do work very well (I'm just pissed that they don't have an AV output). I got mine for $50 new when it first came out.</div>

[Crono]

<div style='font: 12pt Arial; text-align: left; '>Yah, same here. And one of them was bought used like a year ago, from someone who admitted to misusing it.</div>