PlayStation
| Sony Playstation |
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| Original Playstation with DualShock controller |
The PlayStation (commonly known as the PS1 or its codename PSX) is a home video game console developed and marketed by Sony Computer Entertainment. It was first released on 3 December 1994 in Japan, 9 September 1995 in North America, 29 September 1995 in Europe, and 15 November 1995 in Australia, and was the first of the PlayStation line-up of video game consoles. As a fifth generation console, the PlayStation primarily competed with the Nintendo 64 and the Sega Saturn.
Development of the console began after a failed venture with Nintendo to create a CD-ROM for their Super Famicom in the early 1990s. Game production for the console was designed to be streamlined and inclusive, enticing the support of many third-party developers. In July 2000, a redesigned, slim version called the PS One was released, replacing the original grey console and named appropriately to avoid confusion with its successor, the PlayStation 2.
The Playstation CPU contains a 32bit R3000 MIPS based core at 33.86MHz as the primary microprocessor. Also contained in the CPU is the Geometry Transformation Engine (GTE) co-processor, integrating additional vector math instructions used for 3D graphics, lighting, geometry, polygon and coordinate transformations. Unusual for the time, the PlayStation lacks a dedicated 2D graphics processor; 2D elements are instead calculated as polygons by the Geometry Transfer Engine so that they can be processed and displayed on screen by the GPU. The PlayStation utilizes a proprietary video compression unit called MDEC, which also resides in the CPU, allowing for the presentation of full motion video at a higher quality than other consoles of its generation. The system features 2 MB of main RAM, with an additional 1 MB being allocated to video memory.
Compatibility List
This is the main list of games released for the Sony PlayStation video game system, organized alphabetically by their localized English titles or, when Japan-exclusive, their rōmaji transliterations.
- The list will be filled out automatically once more work is done on a game page template. As such, this page is currently incomplete.
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Perfect: No issues at all! |
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Playable: Runs well, only minor graphical or audio glitches. Games can be played all the way through. |
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Starts: Starts, maybe even plays well, but crashes or major graphical/audio glitches. |
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Intro/Menu: Hangs/crashes somewhere between booting and starting. |
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Broken: Crashes when booting. |
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Unknown: Has not been tested yet. |
