WTB: Complete PS1 dev kit - UK

The internal cd drives are practically useless ( and I have 10 of them ).
You are better off with a cd emulator hooked up to a hard drive. You can always rip CD's to your hard drive to play them.

You probably want to be running MSDOS on the computer, at least to start with. The only DTL-H2000 ( dual ISA ) software I've seen is DOS based, the DTL-H2500 ( single PCI ) is the only one I've seen windows software for.

Software and documents ( even the pdfs ) are the hardest bit to get.
I've never seen anything for the performance analyser ( DTL-H2700 ), it's quite high up on my wish list.

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Ive been following this thread with some interest. What exactly is the Internal CD good for if its not rated very well? Surely if building dev system up you would want the complete 'O.E.' Style kit?

 

It depends on why you are buying it.

The cd drive was mainly used for testing, not while writing the game. You are also better off using a cd emulator as it avoids having to burn cd's. I'm not sure that the cd drives support cdrw or multisession, so burning a load of discs every day is not very cost effective. IIRC you can load files off of the host drive anyway, the only thing you can't do is play cd audio. Which while you are writing the game is unimportant.

If you are buying it to make a complete collection then that doesn't matter.

There is an advantage in that you can treat the devkit as a playstation and not have to worry about troublesome pc software to make it do something. But you can buy a console to do that. I don't think the DTL-H2000 is 100% compatible with all software though. The DTL-H2500 is a better board to get.

FWIW alot of developers used an action replay cartridge with ezoray. I picked up some blue psyq cartridges with some unofficial software on ( I think Sony stopped sn systems from selling them but they had already manufactured a load of them ). They come with a sticker over the psy-q logo.

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Thanks for the info SMF, thats really helped!

Cheers

Lee

 

parris if you have specific questions I may be able to help pm or ym me.

 

Thanks mate, I'll need to obtain the boards first and then see where I stand. I was interested to see that you can use the CDr to run retail PSx software, is that region free?

 

Parris - sorry to dig up an older thread, but can i ask what spec you built the Win95 machine too?

Im hoping to do a similar thing while I search for a PS1 Dev Kit to keep me busy.....

Thanks in advance

 

Thanks assembler, thats very kind. :thumbsup:

 

Sorry I didn't reply, I saw Assemblers response and couldn't really add to it. Just so you know I wasn't ignoring it ;-)

 

Its okay really, i have taken it personally and will no longer reply to any of your posts..........:fresh:

















Ah tits.. didnt really work considering i just did! :110:

 

You wouldn't be the first, I suspect not the last either ;-)