Alex Mitchell

Alternative PSIO Menu Blocked by Legal Threats

(Update #2: August 14, 2023) In the face of legal threats from Cybdyn, danhas42 has taken the perfectly reasonable course of action to not release LiteMenu or its source code. The PS-IOwned project is—allegedly—still working on their own implementation though, but only time will tell how they react to similar pressures.  (Update #1: August 13, […]

Alex Mitchell

Significant update for PSIO released (Updated)

(Update, June 16th, 2020) Cybdyn has since released v2.6.14 in an attempt to fix a few bugs that were discovered in 2.6.13. Unfortunately, both of these updates have introduced several notable issues, so if the games you’re playing work fine with the firmware you currently have installed it would probably be a good idea to […]

Alex Mitchell

PS1Digital Update: New FPGA, Reclocking Features

On April 1st 2020, Dan “citrus3000psi” Kunz tweeted some updates on the PS1Digital (nee, PS1HDMI) project. The PS1Digital, like the DCDigital, is a hardware modification that adds HDMI ports to compatible consoles by tapping in to the digital video and audio signals on their respective motherboards. While high-quality analog video signals can look excellent on […]

Alex Mitchell

PSIO receives new firmware update (v2.6.12)

The PSIO, a Playstation optical drive emulator developed by Cybdyn Systems, received a firmware update last week that addressed several bugs and improved game compatibility. The changelog is listed below: Recent Changes from 2.6.11->2.6.12 [Bug Fix] Launching by ‘Quick Start’ would not set the HC05 license correctly which would result in some games freezing. [Bug […]

Rany Battikh

PSIO Firmware update (February 2020)

Australian team Cybdyn just released a firmware update for their PS1 Parallel I/O port device, the PSIO:  http://bit.ly/sag-psio Since the latest update back in November 2019, Cybdyn have been hard at work trying to improve the PSIO‘s overall performance and fixing some game-breaking bugs; here’s what they came up with for Menu System 2.6.11/ARM 2.6.7: After changing […]

Rany Battikh

PSIO Menu System Update 2.6.6

Cybdyn Systems have just released a new firmware update for their Playstation ODE, the PSIO. The developers behind the PSIO have been, every since the official release a few years ago, constantly improving its compatibility and overall performance. While a very small percentage of the PS1’s gigantic library is still problematic, most of the games […]

PSIO Available on Stone Age Gamer on Sunday, December 9th at 12:00PM (EST)

Known for it’s epically long wait-list and wonderful (and growing) performance and compatibility, the PSIO , essentially a Playstation flash cart, Developed by Cybdyn Systems is coming to Ohio retro game store, Stone Age Gamer.  In a recent tweet, they announced that sales will begin this Sunday, December 9th, 2018 at 12:00PM Eastern Standard Time. […]

Bob

PSIO Firmware Update

A new PSIO new firmware was released that fixes XA audio playback among other glitches:  http://ps-io.com/news/ In order to update your firmware, you need to log into your account, then get the firmware from:  http://ps-io.com/downloads/ Some people have reported new bugs with this firmware, as well as issues updating.  The team behind it seems very responsive […]