If still interested in a Classic console for under $40, Amazon Global Store has it for $39.83 $39.93 with free delivery from the US if you have Prime (+$15.81 without).
Amazon AU currently has it listed @ $57.
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With a decent sized USB drive and Autobleem it's pretty good. Just a real shame they didn't include dual-shock controllers…playing some PSone era games with the crappy digital pad is pretty underwhelming (if even possible).
What do you miss besides vibration without Dual-shock?
Uhh… the analog sticks?
@Max999: They came along about three or four years into the PlayStation’s life…a couple of years before the PS2 was launched.
Do the controller of the similar quality as the original PSone?
I'm thinking of buying one mainky for the controllers
@Averell: They're good but feel very light. They're still a lot better than random $10 eBay controllers.
imagine wanting dual shock controllers for a console that launched with no dual shock
Imagine wanting an i7-2600k for a system that launched with no i7-2600k
@i7-2600k: It can boot with a cpu less efficient. Same way the standard controller is inefficient when some ps1 games use the dualshock for better control schemes.
Copied and pasted list of games that support it:
Ace Combat 2 &
Ape Escape
Armored Trooper Votoms (Japan)
Asteroids
Atari Anniversary Edition Redux
Atari Collection 2 (Paperboy, RoadBlasters, Marble Madness)
Bogey Dead 6 (Japan as Sidewinder / Europe as Raging Skies), released at the same time as the Analog Joystick
Centipede
Car & Driver Grand Tour Racing '98
Choro Q Jet: Rainbow Wings (Japan)
Colony Wars (Series, but not Red Sun)
Cyberia
Descent and Descent Maximum
Digital Glider Airman (Japan)
Elemental Gearbolt
EOS: Edge of Skyhigh (Japan)
Formula 1 97 (known as Formula 1 Championship Edition in United States and Canada)
Galaxian 3 (Japan & Europe)
Gunship
Independence Day
Macross Digital Mission VF-X (Japan)
Macross Digital Mission VF-X 2 (Japan)
MDK
MechWarrior 2: 31st Century Combat
Arcade's Greatest Hits: The Midway Collection 2 (used in Blaster)
Missile Command
Namco Museum Vol. 4 (Assault and Assault Plus only)
Newman / Haas Racing
Project Gaiairy (Japan)
Rise 2: Resurrection
R/C Stunt Copter
Shadow Master
Sidewinder 2
Slamscape
Steel Reign
The Need for Speed (supports digital mode only)[4]
Treasures of the Deep
Vehicle Cavalier (Japan)
Vigilante 8
Wing Commander IV: The Price of Freedom
Wing Over 2
Zero Pilot (Japan)
The d-pad on the original (and playstation in general) was the best I ever used. Never liked their approach to the analog sticks, that's where xbox won out. It all came down to the fact that where the dpad is on the PS is the priority spot, and xbox swapped it round.
I agree. The PS D-pad spot is much better for 8 and 16 bit games.
@Stoz: Yeah the PS dpad was always the best for fighting games, platformers and Tony Hawk for example. Once I got an Xbox I have never enjoyed using the PS controller for games like FPS which are analog stick focussed.
I hate the xbox left analogue stick location. It makes sense. But i hate it all the same
Did you know about the Bluetooth adapters you can get to use your dualshock 4 controller instead? I got the mini NES a few weeks ago and I ended up getting one of those adapters. They're about $25 or so, so not super cheap, but they work great. You can use other controllers also, but I have only tried the DS4.
How about the warranty?
I think the general consensus with Amazon is you won't have any issues when it comes to warranty.
Not sure if it did have to go back whether that would be to US or AU, but Amazon is pretty good about it and usually comps the freight.
What about the power supply? Will we need a converter?
Pretty sure this thing is powered via microUSB
As ChillBro says, powered via USB. I don't think the power supply is included in any of the packages. BYO 1A USB PSU.
Here's the manual if you want to have a look.
Thanks for that
Don't worry as stated it's powered by USB but it does come packed in the box. So it's all good to go straight out of the box.
Didn't these launch at $150 or so? With all their issues that was a stretch but this price seems like a decent deal.
$99?
I keep thinking about these consoles, then I remember I have a PC, two XBox One controllers and emulation on it kicks arse. These units still look awesome though.
I keep thinking about these consoles, then I remember I have… no time. These units still look awesome though.
The highly available 2-4am is the best time to game. Sleep 1-2am and 4-5. Works for me and my voices.
What are the voices telling you at 4am?
Thats methed up.
I kept thinking about these consoles, then I remembered I had a Raspberry 2 with case. Installed retropie and connected a Logitech F310 last weekend and it kicks arse.
Doesn’t emulate PS1 that well, amirite?
Doing fine with SNES and GBA. Haven't tried PSX though. The main purpose of setting it up was for the kids' school holiday but they didn't seem to be as enthusiatic as I was 20 years ago, being acquainted with the modern day computer graphics.
@DryScissors: Kids don't know our pain.
I had kids of family friends over a couple of years back. Put on the wii u for them and they literally got bored and wanted to play something else after 10 mins.
This is such a good price that I could buy to put my Raspberry inside and use as a case.
Yeah this would still be a decent price for case + 2 controllers
So the board included with this one is not as good as a Raspberry Pi?
I have a RPi3B+ which has been covered with dust on my bookshelf
The PlayStation Classic is more powerful and cheaper, but it isn't as versatile. However, if all you want to do is emulate the PS1 and the popular older consoles; the Classic looks better and comes with two controllers. The crappy thing is, those controllers do not have analog sticks, so you are limited in the experience.
Raspberry Pi 4 was released very recently, which is significantly faster than the RPi3B+.
@FabMan: Thanks. When I played PS1 20 years ago, there was no analog joystick. So I think that should be fine.
Just have to deal with not having a proper on-off switch. Wonder if Retroflag will come out with a PS1 Pi case; their Mega Pi case is pretty nice.
Been this price for ages. It's not a particularly good product
Nostalgia factor is higher on this for me actually (showing my age here).
Though I've got a C64 sitting in a box if I wanted to relive those days (as I do a PS I guess)
Just emulate the games on pc. Google it.
It isn't, but once hacked, its pretty nice as it looks good and can be used to emulate lots of older consoles.
C64 full usable replica coming late this year. Usable keyboard and everything.
Pre-order at EB for $199 though :(
That is an amazing bargain. No need to hack as plays all games off usb out of the box.
Well recommended.
Has the price gone back up? I've been waiting for the C64 to drop in value. I see it as $129.
Can I mod it or whatever and put Crash Bandicoot and Spyro on there?
Yes.
is it easy to hack?
Yes
@lostn: Yes, it’s only stores on the USB drive you use, so if you don’t plug it in it will be original.
They could have given us dual shock controllers and Ape Escape. What a wasted opportunity. Don't know what they were thinking.
According to someones comment I read Sony doesn't own the licences to the decent games. Shame ☹️
They own Ape Escape.
But still, the dual shock includes rumble.
MGS is included and that game is better with dual shock. It breaks the 4th wall. There is even a part where Naomi tells you to put the controller on your injured arm, and she'll make it feel better (she does that by vibrating the controller). This amusing part will be lost without the dual shock. Psycho Mantis also shows off his powers by making your controller vibrate.
You don't want to control 3d games with a d-pad.
They developed it and published it, so no.
Can only assume they were thinking of building it down to a particular price point (ie as cheaply as possible).
Dual shock controllers means motors, higher power requirements etc.. At least having the analog sticks would have been nice though.
The saving would be at most a few bucks. And the result is a far inferior experience, which even hurts their brand. Everyone maligns this PS Classic as opposed to the NES and SNES which get a lot of love.
I think they did more damage to themselves than they would have eating up a few extra bucks to get dual shocks. The price has been slashed by 75% already, and quite fast. Nintendo's mini consoles held their value and sold out quickly. They were scarce and being found on ebay for hundreds of dollars. Sony on the other hand had quick price cuts. They lost a lot more money from the price cuts than they would have putting dual shocks and better games in.
Bad idea.
Possibly the worst part is how they used PAL versions of some games (in all regions) even though the outputs is forced to 60hz. Also how for some games it can't maintain the game's original (either 30 or 60 fps) frame rate even though the less powerful Pi 3 can. The PC Classic can actually maintain the proper frame rate if you hack it and load on a fixed version of the same open source emulator it uses.
When it's $20 I'll bite
Got mine for $29 new from JB
Wow $24.99 USD From $99.99 USD 6 months ago. Sony must be losing money big time on these.
It took probably less than $10 USD to make one, with cheap labours working non-stop in factories of course.
The games need to be licensed from other publishers. The roms don't come free unless they are first party.
I dig mine, it's a little weird with some games though. So like, I put Mupper Monster Adventures on there, and it won't load through the normal UI, but plays fine through the RetroArch interface, like, what the shit?
Anyway, other than that one game and the occasional crash in some others, the thing works a treat for all the PS1 games you sold years ago and downloaded the ROMs of in the years since ripped your own legal copies of the ROMs in advance.
do you know if this thing uses bilinear filtering to make it look less pixellated? I hate that smeared effect and would rather it look pixellated.
idk, I'm what the kids call a moron.
I have used other emulators with smoothing features before though, and while there may be options in this one, out the gate it definitely is not smoothed up. Like everyone is a janky jagged pixely mess and I love it.
Cheers OP, got 1…
I Was looking into the USB hub mod to enable 2 players..
Then i thought, what games from PS1 used the 2nd player control? I Could only think of some driving style games/split screen…
Can any1 name good games where i should bother with the hub mod?
Or simply live with just 1 control & USB stick in the other port?
fighting games, brawlers. Bomberman?
Now that micro USB OTG cable with power pass is supported using the latest mod. Means you can now plug any USB drive into the rear using the OTG adapter. Overcoming the problem using many USB devices due to the 100mA current limited front ports. Leaving the two front ports free for controllers. No need for a USB hub anymore.
Cool, wasn't aware that the rear port was actually connected to the USB internally, presumed it was simply a power port…
Good to know, cheers @g12345567
Tony Hawk 1/2/3/4, South Park, Gran Turismo 1/2, and that's about all I really played a lot of in split screen. Really up to you if you wanna make your console into a little Frankensteinian box just for the odd sesh of THPS2 though.
Future Cop LAPD (Coop or the tower-defence like competitive mode)
Crash Bash
Crash Team Racing
Metal Slug X
If you're tech savvy and know how to use Putty and Linux, you can add games to the console it's self, and replace some of the shitty existing ones.
Yeah been looking into the Bleem thing… The PS Classic is Pretty useless without it TBH…
Now CTR is a game worth mucking around for split screen, defo…
I went with @g12345567's idea with the split cable, give that a go & c wot happens.. Alternately i'll open that bitch up & do some USB modding :)
Thx guys for the reply's…
Bought one. Have low expectations for this due to how badly Sony dropped the ball (PS1 has some amazing games and many didn't make it). But for $40, I'm ok with writing off that money if I don't like it. I just want it for the novelty.
This guy was pretty impressed with this 128GB build of Autobleem.. Can go all out with a 256GB build with 520+ games too.
Worth it as a collectors piece only? Does anyone think it will appreciate ever? Lol
Given how fast the price dropped, I don't think it will appreciate.
The PSTV dropped super quick, then vanished from all store shelves, and now goes for roughly it's original RRP. Never know, could happen here too.
-Day one purchaser of a PSTV. :'(
You're right.
Both the PSTV and this Classic even if their price goes up, very few will actually be wanting one anyway so no one batted an eyelid at the price gouging from resellers. So I guess, don't be that guy.
If you're buying it only to scalp with it later when it's unavailable, the demand for it will be small. You'd be lucky to sell it.
These are available at jbhifi for $39 dollars, if you'd prefer to just pickup.
Same 59
The richest man in the world does not need my money. Would prefer to pay a little extra for local if anyone finds a deal let them be known. Amazon killed our bookstores with calculated predatory pricing and no gst to our schools and hospitals. Well played amazon. However, I am not buying in to a future of what equates to the retail equivalent of antitrust. I will support local with local jobs within reason. I am so old fashioned!
Out of Stock :(
If you don't have a raspberry pi and want a retro console to play Nintendo up to SNES + GBA and PS1, this is much better value than a raspberry pi. It gives you:
1. Controllers with enough buttons for up to SNES and the non-dualshock PS1 games
2. Onboard 16GB storage (no microSD required)
3. It's less fussy about power supplies, an old 1A charger is enough. I can plug mine into my TV USB port lol.
4. A really nice case.
5. From memory, an HDMI cable.
You're looking at > $100 and a lot of time if you want to replicate this with a raspberry pi.
I saw a few mentions of c64 mini on sale, has anyone got a working link to aus delivery?
I've been keeping my eye on this for the last couple of weeks. I don't believe any was on sale by Amazon.
Back in stock this morning 9/7.
Cheers, updated
You know, it’s not that bad. At $40 it is a steal.