The original Sony PlayStation made big 3D waves when it was released on this day in 1994.
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Thedrew’s PS One redesign (left), PS One motherboard (right) (Image credit: Thedrew ) The original PlayStation wasn’t built to be particularly compact, but later revisions like the PS One managed to get pretty small, while retaining CD media compatibility. However, console hacker Thedrew has managed to condense that already dinky PS One revision motherboard down to less than a quarter of its prior size. This custom PlayStation motherboard is the smallest ever made, according to Hackster , and perfectly timed to celebrate today's 31st anniversary of the console's release.
Watch On Thedrew’s creation is an “Original hardware for the win” design. Sure, it could have gone much smaller if the project had been propped up by an FPGA , a modern SoC with an emulator , or some similar electronic/software concoction. This is the real deal, though, with original PS One rev PM-41 chip packages onboard. In other words, it uses Sony ’s original CPU, GPU, SPU, RAM, and BIOS chips.
With these components in hand, Thedrew designed the most compact supporting motherboard his skills and resources would allow. The current working model is a quarter size of the PS One mobo, says the console hacker in the above video. Actually, Rev.1 of the compacted mobo measured just 73 x 59mm. That gives us the following rough comparison:
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- https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/playstation/SPONSORED_LINK_URL
- https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/playstation/enthusiast-modder-celebrates-playstations-31st-anniversary-in-style-creates-smallest-ever-motherboard-using-genuine-chips-redesigned-pcb-is-less-than-a-quarter-size-of-the-already-dinky-ps-one-revision#main
- https://www.tomshardware.com
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