Thanks to a recent update to the WiiSX / CubeSX emulator, PlayStation 1 (PS1) games are now playable on the Nintendo GameCube, offering an exciting new way for retro gaming enthusiasts to experience classic titles.
Wild times!
I’m curious what the games look like, does it retain the PS1 “wobble” or would it look more clean with the GameCube rendering?
i may just be talking out of my ass but i recall one of the dolphin devlogs saying something about the gamecube not having an fpu either. it got around wobblies by being 64-bit or something. if that’s the case, going 32-bit only would reintroduce them.
Duckstation has a way of “removing” the wobble. I don’t remember what technique they use though, it’s been awhile since I looked at it.
It makes the games look way better too. Just play through metal gear solid 1 and was impressed with it.
I’m not sure, but the reasons for being “wobbly” are pretty interesting: https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/5019/why-do-3d-models-on-the-playstation-1-wobble-so-much
If I was deigning an emulator, I’d try to match the behavior of the original system as closely as possible, since people designing a program for that system might have depended on any behavior they observed (intentionally or unintentionally), so I’d keep the “wobble” (or provide a way to disable it, but keep it enabled by default).
There is no ability to benefit from poor texture mapping. The wobbling textures are essentially random. There is a finite number of PS1 games, and no game has ever “depended” on this behavior. Your argument is nonsense. Current emulators have the ability to fix textures.
Fantastic! I have a PS1 game I have been wanting to play. (Never had a PS1.)
Which game is it?
I cannot find it. Crap. I think “Chrono Cross”.
Don’t go in expecting Crono Trigger. Cross was made during the “FF VII is the only way to make RPGs” era.
It’s an odd one. I couldn’t beat the final boss back in the day because I never understood the color/music system enough.
I loved Chrono Cross! Check out Legend of Mana for more PSX RPG fun!
Quick edit: I highly recommend Parasite Eve 1&2 as well!
One of my all time favorites. Emulate it, you’ll love it.
Thank you!
I don’t think you will be able to play the disk, without heavy console modification
Mod the disc; make it smaller.
Is the C stick actually a second analog stick, or is it basically just an 8 way pad with a stick on top?
The c-stick is technically an analog stick. Take apart a Gamecube controller and you’ll see that uses potentiometers just like the left stick. It might have a gate on the stick that snaps to certain positions. I seem to remember something like that when I replaced mine.
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I like how confidently wrong you are.
Screenshot from a teardown video showing that the C-stick is, in fact, a stick:
“Always has been.” Riiiight.
How do I fit the discs in?
But why?
Because
I see.
Blasphemy!
Ah. “There are now ways to run PS1 games on GameCube, if you’re into that sort of thing”, not “Nintendo has pushed a patch and upgraded the GameCube to somehow accept and play PS1 games”.
Well, yeah
Why would you think Nintendo would do that?
I wouldn’t. It’s just what the headline sounded like to me.
It’s a 20 years old console. Nobody expects Nintendo to patch it. Even less to play older games of a competitor…
… I know. I’m saying that I was taken aback at what the headline, to me, seemed to imply and that, imho, different wording might have been better.
I read it the same way.
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