How Crash Bandicoot Hacked The Original Playstation | War Stories | Ars Technica (youtu.be)

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[-] pastel_de_airfryer@lemmy.eco.br 16 points 10 months ago

They also pulled a really cool hack on Jak and Dexter. They were able to hack into the PS1 chip hidden away in the PS2 for backwards compatibility to get some extra processing power!

[-] vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 10 months ago

source? I'd really like to read about this

[-] pastel_de_airfryer@lemmy.eco.br 6 points 10 months ago

I read about it over a decade ago. Something about the game being difficult to emulate because of it. Now I can't find anything :(

[-] million@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Another interesting fact concerning the ps1 chip, Sony used it as an Io controller so backwards compatibility was essentially built in to the design of the ps2

PlayStation 2 software is distributed on CD-ROM and DVD-ROM. In addition, the console can play audio CDs and DVD movies, and is backwards compatible with original PlayStation games. This is accomplished through the inclusion of the original PlayStation's CPU which also serves as the PS2's I/O processor, clocked at 36.864 MHz in PS2 mode.

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