Chipped ps1

[Stellaboz]

Anyone had one of those back in the day? My old man refused to do it as he wanted to keep the warranty fucking valid on the ps, despite the fact you could get games for fucking pennies over at Ingleston. And he only ever got me the platinum collection games, rarely ever a brand new title.

Any good chipped memories?

[G51]

I had one, was my first ever console. My dad used to buy the games off a bloke in his work.

First game was TOCA Touring Car Championship 2, but the best game was definitely Driver. Spent absolutely ages trying to do a Reverse 180 in the car park.

[Arch Stanton]

Yeah, my son had one. When usenet was in its halcyon days you could download pretty much anything within a few days of its official release via winrar and clonedvd.

[Homer Thompson]

Yup. I also had  the boot CD that you had to run with the disc lid open, fooling the console into thinking it was shut with some paper clip shenanigans, then swapping that disc for a pirated game.

Simpler times

[UAE1929]

1 hour ago, G51 said:

I had one, was my first ever console. My dad used to buy the games off a bloke in his work.

First game was TOCA Touring Car Championship 2, but the best game was definitely Driver. Spent absolutely ages trying to do a Reverse 180 in the car park.

Don't think I ever got past the first level in Driver. 

Can still remember the intro scene where the car is going down round the car park, followed by the police.

Would love to play it again

[G51]

1 minute ago, UAE1929 said:

Don't think I ever got past the first level in Driver. 

Can still remember the intro scene where the car is going down round the car park, followed by the police.

Would love to play it again

It was a great game.

The mission that used to always f**k me over was the one when you're chasing the monorail. Just an absolute b*****d of a thing to keep up with.

[kyle*]

Wasn't lucky enough to have one as a kid, but recently I bought one of those PS Classic units for real cheap and they're rather easy to mod. With a 250gb flash drive you can have pretty much every PS1 game you want  (see the wheel below). Also with RetroArch installed you can easily emulate consoles older than the PS1 and with those ROM files being so small you can have the entire NES, SNES, Genesis, Atari, etc. libraries complete and they all run really well.

The child version of me dreamed of something like this.

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[Homer Thompson]

Don't think I ever got past the first level in Driver. 
Can still remember the intro scene where the car is going down round the car park, followed by the police.
Would love to play it again

The training in the car park? Yeah, I remember spending hour's trying to get passed that.

Don't play it again, it hasn't aged well

[Stellaboz]

I thought Driver was great at the time, probably aged horribly. The last mission with all the black cars was utterly insane though. 

I mind when Driver 2 was released and you could ACTUALLY GET OUT AND WALK! Absolute scenes. Still couldn't run people over though.

[Gaz]

I didn't have mine chipped but had a wee gizmo that plugged into the back and a spring that held the case open. You then let an original disc boot up and then swapped it for a copied one.

[forameus]

1 hour ago, Gaz said:

I didn't have mine chipped but had a wee gizmo that plugged into the back and a spring that held the case open. You then let an original disc boot up and then swapped it for a copied one.

I had the spring one!  Nice wee bit of engineering, looking back.  

[Miguel Sanchez]

Drivers 1 and 2 were good, not hard, and haven't aged badly at all.

[Empty It]

Still got a chipped PS1 and about 4 cases of games although it's in storage at the moment, when it was in the house was great fun to break it out every so often.

First console I ever had dont think I'll ever get rid of it.

[Nutz_the_Squirrel]

If anyone finds one for sale, point me towards it. 

[madwullie]

I did. I also had a ps2 (I think) that died but I managed to get about 9 more months out of it by wrapping it in a towel and forcing it to overheat, at which point the connection was completed by the misshapen overheated bits (I think that's the technical explanation iirc) 

[tongue_tied_danny]

I had a chipped ps1. I got a pirate copy of a game called Thrill Kill, that was never released as it was considered too violent.

It was pretty fucking tame tbh.

[Ron Aldo]

I think just about everyone had their PS1 chipped. I was 7 or 8 when I got mine chipped and, to this day, still have no idea how it was done. I got cheap games though and that's all that mattered.

Not sure if anyone ever encountered the same problem but for a while my PS1 was connected to an old school TV that didn't have a SCART socket. Some of my "chipped" games were the American versions and would be in black and white for some reason [emoji23]. I was amazed when I got a new TV and all my games were then in glorious colour.

[Homer Thompson]

I think just about everyone had their PS1 chipped. I was 7 or 8 when I got mine chipped and, to this day, still have no idea how it was done. I got cheap games though and that's all that mattered.

Not sure if anyone ever encountered the same problem but for a while my PS1 was connected to an old school TV that didn't have a SCART socket. Some of my "chipped" games were the American versions and would be in black and white for some reason [emoji23]. I was amazed when I got a new TV and all my games were then in glorious colour.

PAL v NTSC

The games would have been in NTSC and your old TV didn't support it. The new one did.

UK games are PAL

[weirdcal]

Mine is sat in n a drawer here, would need to dig it out and check it still works.
Nothing better than pc CD writer, blockbuster card and a chipped ps1

[forameus]

21 hours ago, tongue_tied_danny said:

I had a chipped ps1. I got a pirate copy of a game called Thrill Kill, that was never released as it was considered too violent.

It was pretty fucking tame tbh.

On that note, I realised I had Carmageddon on Steam, and I remember that being treated like it was a snuff film back in the day.  Young me thought it was the dogs bollocks with its swearing and violence, but f**k me is it tame now.