![]() Nintendo doesn’t officially support adding games to the NES Classic, for example, but people have been doing it since shortly after the system hit the streets. If there’s one thing we know about the retro gaming/emulator community though, it’s that where there’s a will there’s a way. But if hackers figure out a way to load other ROMs, it seems likely that the emulator should allow you to play them - although some extra work might be required to get them to work with Sony’s user interface and it’s not at all clear how locked down the platform will be. Officially Sony is saying the Classic ships with 20 titles and that’s all you get. Maybe this means it’ll be possible to sideload games onto the PlayStation Classic.You could get a similar experience by using PS1 game ROMS on the same emulator ( PCSX ReARMed) on compatible devices with ARM-based hardware, or the related PCSX-Reloaded on devices with x86 chips. ![]() Whether that’s a testament to the ingenuity of third-party developers or to Sony’s laziness is open to interpretation. Instead it grabbed an emulator created by enthusiasts. In other words, when Sony wanted to put out a micro console to celebrate the 25th anniversary of its classic game system, the company didn’t develop all the technology in-house. There’s one interesting nugget in Kotaku’s report though: the PlayStation Classic relies on an open source PlayStation emulator to handle gameplay. For the most part they seem impressed with the system, maybe a little underwhelmed by some of the games included, and mixed on whether it’s a good idea for people to spend $100 on a device that plays a bunch of 20-year-old games. It’s set to ship in December, but Sony held an event recently where a handful of journalists got a chance to spend some time with the system. Sony’s PlayStation Classic is a $100 retro game console that looks like a smaller version of the original PlayStation and which comes with 20 games pre-loaded.
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