7mo ago

PS1 Games Now Playable on GameCube

www.retronews.com

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.

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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.
- 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".
- 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.
- 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.
- ?

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