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A PSOne In the Palm of Your Hand

Sony’s original Playstation wasn’t huge, and they did shrink it for re-release later as the PSOne, but even that wasn’t small enough for [Secret Hobbyist]. You may have seen the teaser video a while back where his palm-size Playstation went viral, but now he’s begun a series of videos on how he redesigned the vintage console.

Luckily for [Secret Hobbyist], the late-revision PSOne he started with is only a two-layer PCB, which made reverse engineering the traces a lot easier. Between probing everything under the microscope and cleaning the board off to follow all the traces in copper, [Hobbyist] was able to reproduce the circuit in KiCAD. (Reverse engineering starts at about 1:18 in the vid.)

With a schematic in hand, drafting a smaller PCB than Sony built is made easier by the availability of multi-layer PCBs. In this case [Hobbyist] was able to get away with a four-layer board. He was also able to ditch one of the ICs from the donor mainboard, which he called a β€œsub-CPU” as its functionality was recreated on the β€œPSIO” board that’s replacing the original optical drive. The PSIO is a commercial product that has been around for years now, allowing Playstations to run from SD cards– but it’s not meant for the PSOne so just getting it working here is something of a hack. He’s also added on a new DAC for VGA output, but otherwise the silicon is all original SONY.

This is the first of a series about this build, so if you’re into retro consoles you might want to keep an eye on [Secret Hobbyist] on YouTube to learn all the details as they are released.

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Miyoo Mini Plus

By: hoek

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Short story about my Steam Deck

By: hoek

Hello 0ut3r Space visitors! Today short article about my Steam Deck. Last year I preordered highest version (512GB NVMe SSD) and on 27th of June it arrived! Of course with my luck it has screen issue and I had to send it back and wait for exchange. About two weeks later I received new one,

"Control 2" Is Officially Happening

By: Gokul G
Control 2 Is Officially Happening

Remedy Entertainment has announced that they are making a sequel to the award-winning game "Control". The game is currently in the concept stage of development, and it will be built on Remedy's own Northlight Engine.

According to the newly signed agreement with 505 Games, Remedy will self-publish the PC version of the game, and 505 Games will publish the console versions. And, the revenue generated will be split evenly.

Rami and Raffi Galante, co-CEOs of 505 Games said in a statement that "We are excited to deepen our cooperation with Remedy and continue the success story of Control together. Since its launch in 2019, Control has sold over 3 million copies,"

"Control is the biggest investment 505 Games has ever made, so it has a special place in our hearts. We are grateful to the whole player community that has made Control such a long-lasting and loved game, and are even more excited to bring out Control 2," they added.

Control garnered over 20 "Game of the Year" accolades, including IGN's 2019 Game of the Year, and was nominated for 11 BAFTA Games Awards.

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