Posted by SignOfZeta on July 21, 2025 at 18:15:15 EST in reply to How's your PSOne Combo holding up, SignOfZeta? I'm pretty sure you had one 20 years ago and would play emulated arcade games on it before bed. from Mike Chicago.
Some plastic fell off around the hinge, which I think is common, but otherwise it works perfectly. As for the actual playing it in the modern era…I’d say it highly depends on how much you like PS1. I’m not really a huge fan of PS1 and now that time has gone by I’m less enthused. It just puts out weird video. All PS1. The stuff is jumping all over if it’s 3D. Has weird jpeg looking artifacts on 2D stuff. Load times are worse than nearly every system ever. Most of the AAA stuff has aged like milk. If I wanted to play some PS1 right now and I was ambitious about it I’d probably go with PSP, PSP Go, Vita or some other handheld with a much better screen that’s powerful enough to run PS1 of which I think there about 100 currently for sale. If you like PS1 a lot, want to play discs, etc, I think it’s still a pretty good device for playing those games. The video won’t look any better blown up to 70” or whatever, and it’s portable-ish. The video of PS1 does look much much better in emulation though.
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