Cybdyn Systems has just released a new firmware for their Playstation optical drive emulator, PSIO. While the update itself fixes numerous important bugs and introduces some welcome improvements, what piques my interest is that Cybdyn has recently come in to possession of original PSX development boards—something that could account for the substantial re-writes included in […]
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On April 1st 2020, Dan “citrus3000psi” Kunz tweeted some updates on the PS1Digital (nee, PS1HDMI) project. The PS1Digital, like the DCDigital, is a hardware modification that adds HDMI ports to compatible consoles by tapping in to the digital video and audio signals on their respective motherboards. While high-quality analog video signals can look excellent on […]
(Bias disclosure: The author of this article owns a PSIO, which was acquired personally.) The PSIO, a Playstation optical drive emulator developed by Cybdyn Systems, received a firmware update last week that addressed several bugs and improved game compatibility. The changelog is listed below: Recent Changes from 2.6.11->2.6.12 [Bug Fix] Launching by ‘Quick Start’ would […]
Australian team Cybdyn just released a firmware update for their PS1 Parallel I/O port device, the PSIO. Since the latest update back in November 2019, Cybdyn have been hard at work trying to improve the PSIO‘s overall performance and fixing some game-breaking bugs; here’s what they came up with for Menu System 2.6.11/ARM 2.6.7: After […]
Cybdyn just released a firmware update for their Playsation ODE, the PSIO. Earlier this year, while trying to address some persisting issues with the device, the team behind the PSIO released a series of firmware updates that, in its turn, created a whole slew of problems, breaking a few games compatibility in its way. The […]
Cybdyn Systems have just released a new firmware update for their Playstation ODE, the PSIO. The developers behind the PSIO have been, every since the official release a few years ago, constantly improving its compatibility and overall performance. While a very small percentage of the PS1’s gigantic library is still problematic, most of the games […]