Sorry for the bad writing style. Much frustration but not much time and effort went into this text:
Today I, LittleSinchen, decided to make more out of my PlayStation Classic. It’s a decent computer running Linux, so why not use one of the readily available automatic tools for adding functionality? After searching I learned that Bleemsync has been superseded by Project Eris.
Installation is pretty straightforward:
After selecting Emulation Station on the menu it finds and lists all the ROMs and sorts them by system. Fine. None of them started. Black screen → ROM selection menu. Oh well. No Retroarch cores available. Seriously? I downloaded the package and they did not put any cores in?
Well, easy fix, download manually. Wait… It still does not work! Start Retroarch itself, select content and core from the list and the games start. Retroarch offers 36591 options (or some more), neither of them seems helpful. I spent so much time trying to figure things out that I lost all interest in actually playing a game.
Emulation Station again: Now it loads games?! At least sometimes. How do I get back to the frontend menu after starting a game? (Start)+(Select) opens a menu… but it is the complex Retroarch menu itself.
On the positive side: The emulation cores seem to work. Retroarch did not crash. This is more than I got from it any time before. On the 3DS it just went ARM11 crash.
I wanted to play some games with this console – not configure an LDAP-server. I’m too dumb to use Retroarch. But why is this such a problem? Have some standalone emulators:
Choose emulator →choose ROM → play game. Hotkey for settings, savestate menu and exit menu. Easy.
You know what? So many people say the Wii is not good enough anymore. A Wii is cheap, has some very good emulators and is VERY easy to use. Not replacing my Wii as an emulation machine anytime soon.
Today I, LittleSinchen, decided to make more out of my PlayStation Classic. It’s a decent computer running Linux, so why not use one of the readily available automatic tools for adding functionality? After searching I learned that Bleemsync has been superseded by Project Eris.
Installation is pretty straightforward:
- Extract the ZIP to a FAT32 formatted USB drive labeled with SONY, plug in, turn on, wait less than five minutes→ Done!
- Backup drive, reformat to exFAT, restore backup, put ROMs in appropriate folders.
After selecting Emulation Station on the menu it finds and lists all the ROMs and sorts them by system. Fine. None of them started. Black screen → ROM selection menu. Oh well. No Retroarch cores available. Seriously? I downloaded the package and they did not put any cores in?
Well, easy fix, download manually. Wait… It still does not work! Start Retroarch itself, select content and core from the list and the games start. Retroarch offers 36591 options (or some more), neither of them seems helpful. I spent so much time trying to figure things out that I lost all interest in actually playing a game.
Emulation Station again: Now it loads games?! At least sometimes. How do I get back to the frontend menu after starting a game? (Start)+(Select) opens a menu… but it is the complex Retroarch menu itself.
- Everything has a bad bilinear filter enabled. Somewhere must be an option to get rid of this. Either have no filter (big pixels) or some actually working HQ-thing (if enough computing power).
- Game Boy Advance has the wrong aspect ratio. Huh? %Ӥ&$/
- (Start)+(Select) opens the menu (as said above). How do I input (Start)+(Select)+(A)+(B) for saving in Link’s Awakening?
- At least I can now play Conker’s Bad Fur Day without taking the rare, expensive cart out. This thing has more power than a Wii and the emulation core will be more modern. Right? NO! I got graphical glitches the very moment it should have rendered the characters in the intro cutscene and the bar (in game file selection). Argh!
On the positive side: The emulation cores seem to work. Retroarch did not crash. This is more than I got from it any time before. On the 3DS it just went ARM11 crash.
I wanted to play some games with this console – not configure an LDAP-server. I’m too dumb to use Retroarch. But why is this such a problem? Have some standalone emulators:
Choose emulator →choose ROM → play game. Hotkey for settings, savestate menu and exit menu. Easy.
You know what? So many people say the Wii is not good enough anymore. A Wii is cheap, has some very good emulators and is VERY easy to use. Not replacing my Wii as an emulation machine anytime soon.
