Hacking an SSD in a Playstation Classic
The idea:
Having all shoot 'em ups that every came out on the Playstation 1 on a harddrive inside the the PSC, with no functionality lost of the console!Let me start by saying this idea is not originally mine, and i'll credit the persons that have come up with this idea so don't worry! As you might know i only got my PSC today, so i do not have all the parts to start the conversion.
What's the plan?
I want to put a mSATA SSD inside, and to be exact this one:But you can put any size into it, i know that 512GB is supported but i think even more. But for me 120GB is enough. The Playstation 1 is from the era where all games were on CD's so they are all between 500 - 650MB. So this would give me over 180 ISO files, that is way more than there are Shoot 'em ups released on this console. A quick google search told me that there were over 1300 titles released in total, so if you want them all you need more space!
The way you can run games other than the 20 games pre-installed is by running BleemSync, it automates the game database generation proces so you can side-load other games.
A nice video of where they demo BleemSync 1.0 is here:
Note that BleemSync 1.01 is now released and it has some new features like additional controller support.
When i was looking on Reddit on the r/classicmods a few days ago i saw something really cool, someone named viral_dna managed to get an mSATA disk working in a PSC! The orignal posting can ben found here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/..._with_500gb_internal_ssd/
Before him some others also got an extra internal usb port working, and someone also connected a harddrive but nobody before used an mSATA drive and i think that's a brilliant solution that is why i am going to do something like that, with some minor changes.
He is using a very small hub to connect to a powerline and two lines of the USB to make a connection:
He's done a nice job and this is how to looks like:
With a mSATA to USB adapter you can connect the drive to the PSC.
Then used tape to keep it in place and used shrink tubing, this might me wise if you do not want electrical shorts. I think i will design a 3D printable part that will make it fit better and put it on Thingiverse but this would work too:
Now i need a good super small hub and this is the one i'll be using for my project:
It can be found here:https://www.tindie.com/pr...hub-for-hacking-projects/
I'll be ordering the parts now so this will take a while before my next update but stay tuned!
02-'19 Getting the Playstation Classic
Comments
This should get all the european and australian roms on there then.
Lovely project to watch!
Soldering takes some practice but it's a great skill, and easy to learn!masauri wrote on Friday 22 February 2019 @ 19:40:
mmm, soldering isn't my "thing" (no experience) but i would go for a 1tb msate ssd when the price is right.
This should get all the european and australian roms on there then.
Lovely project to watch!
Yeah this is something to investigate, the ambient temp of the ssd should be 35-40 celsius but under heavy load it can go up to 60-70. But i do not think a PSC can put the ssd under heavy load due to the much slower(usb 2.0) reading speed. But i will take it into account and get back to this on my next PSC post.BadpunK wrote on Tuesday 26 February 2019 @ 06:35:
Interesting project. I'm wondering if it wil fit nicely without any heat problems.
Thanks! There are plenty projects coming soon, i'll post a new project next week about building a Visual Pinball cabinet from scratch.
With FTP/SSH, you could open the shell and connect it but making a connection is just as easy.scroeffie wrote on Thursday 30 May 2019 @ 09:02:
how would you update the ps classic ? if the ssd is internal ?
It's not really cheaper, but it was never about a higher speed. It's just because i canGangster wrote on Thursday 19 September 2019 @ 20:04:
This is great and all but with USB 2.0 ports that SSD is not a good idea. You're better off with a microsd card since it's cheaper and will have the same speeds.
Thank you for giving credit where due
I really do need to buy a 3D Printer, great idea to print a mount for it. I almost wonder if you could print right to the shell itself...
Also I use the NANO hubs in my Stealth Mod, they're great!
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