The Sony Playstation 1 was by far one of the most popular gaming consoles to hit the market in the mid 90's, possibly even the most console of all times! This 32-Bit gaming system is amazing, the graphics were unmatched by any console in the mid 90's and the game titles are endless!

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• A fully tested SONY PSX System
• All the Required A/V & Power Cables
• 2 Original SONY PSX DUAL-SHOCK Controllers
• 2 Various Original SONY PSX Games
• User Manuals (only with some)
• As a bonus we have included Music CD's and a Random DVD Movie!

The PlayStation was launched in Japan on December 3, 1994, USA on September 9, 1995 and Europe on September 29, 1995. In America, Sony enjoyed a very successful launch with titles of almost every genre including Toshinden, Twisted Metal, Warhawk, and Ridge Racer. Almost all of Sony's and Namco's launch titles went on to produce numerous sequels.

The console was extremely popular, spawning the so-called "PlayStation Generation". Among many other games, the PlayStation is well known for the Tomb Raider, Final Fantasy, Resident Evil, Tekken, wipEout, Gran Turismo, Crash Bandicoot, Spyro, and Metal Gear Solid series of games. As of 18 May 2004, Sony has shipped 100 million PlayStation and PS one consoles throughout the world. As of March 2004, there were 7,300 software titles available with cumulative software shipment of 949 million.

Nintendo asked Sony to develop a CD-ROM add-on called "PlayStation" for the SNES. However after Sony revealed that they were developing it, Nintendo instead went to Philips. This caused Sony to consider abandoning their research, however instead they used what they had developed so far and make it into a full blown console. This led to Nintendo filing a lawsuit claiming breach of contract and attempted, in U.S. federal court, to obtain an injunction against the release of the PlayStation, on the grounds that Nintendo owned the name. The federal Judge presiding over the case denied the injunction.

sony PSX motherboard (click for larger image)

• Main CPU
  

  MIPS R3000A-compatible (R3051) 32bit RISC chip running at 33.8688 MHz

  The chip is manufactured by LSI Logic Corp. with technology licensed from SGI. The chip also contains the Geometry Transformation Engine and the Data Decompression Engine.

  Features:

  * Operating Performance of 30 MIPS
  * Bus Bandwidth 132 Mbit/s
  * Instruction Cache 4 kB
  * Data Cache 1 kB (non associative, just 1024 bytes of mapped fast SRAM)

• Geometry Transformation Engine

  This engine is inside the main CPU chip. It gives it additional (vector-)math instructions used for the 3D graphics.

  Features:

  * Operating Performance of 66 MIPS
  * 360,000 Flat-Shaded Polygons per second
  * 180,000 texture mapped and light-sourced polygons per second

• Sony originally gave the polygon count as:

  * 1.5 million flat-shaded polygons per second
  * 500,000 texture mapped and light-sourced polygons per second

  These figures were given as a ballpark figure for performance under optimal circumstances, and so are unrealistic under normal usage.
  

• Data Decompression Engine

  This engine is also inside the main CPU. It is responsible for decompressing images and video. Documented device mode is to read three RLE-encoded 16×16 macroblocks, run IDCT and assemble a single 16×16 RGB macroblock. Output data may be transferred directly to GPU via DMA. It is possible to overwrite IDCT matrix and some additional parameters, however MDEC internal instruction set was never documented.

  Features:

  * Compatible with MPEG-1 and H.261 files
  * Operating Performance of 80 MIPS
  * Directly connected to CPU Bus

• Graphics Processing Unit

  This chip is separate to the CPU and handles all the 2D Graphics processing, which includes the transformed 3D polygons.

  Features:

  * Maximum of 16.7 Million Colours
  * Resolutions from 256×224 to 640×480
  * Adjustable frame buffer
  * Unlimited Colour Lookup Tables
  * Maximum of 4000 8×8 pixel sprites with individual scaling and rotation
  * Emulation of simultaneous backgrounds (for parallax scrolling)
  * Flat or Gouraud shading, and texture mapping

• Sound Processing Unit

  Features:

  * Can handle ADPCM sources with up to 24 channels and up to 44.1 kHz sampling rate
  * Could perform digital effects including:
  o Pitch Modulation
  o Envelope
  o Looping
  o Digital Reverb
  * Could handle up to 512 Mbit of sampled waveforms
  * Supports MIDI instruments
  * PC file name format: .PSF

• Memory

  * Main RAM: 2 Megabytes (4 Megabytes on "Blue" development console)
  * Video RAM: 1 Megabyte
  * Sound RAM: 512 Kilobytes
  * CD-Rom Buffer: 32 Kilobytes
  * Operating System ROM: 512 Kilobytes
  * PlayStation Memory Cards have 128 Kilobytes of space in an EEPROM

• CD-ROM

  Features:

  * Originally Single Speed, later replaced with a Two Speed drive, with a maximum data throughput of 300 KB/s
  * XA Compliant

• The Official PLAYSTATION Website

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