Sony Playstation (PSX PSOne, PS1) rom and tech questions

[seastalker]

Having skipped the Sony Playstation generation of gaming, I've had some fun on AutoBleem on a PSX classic and have original hardware now for PS1/2/3. 

 

First question (I can and will look it up, but feel free to jump the gun if inspired): Why is the first Playstation console generally named 'PSX' instead of 'PS1' like it is for all successors?  There was even a PS One revised console, and in other history the name PSX was given to a Sony DVR. 

 

Second: REDUMP's PSX dat file seems to have been updated TODAY. Anyone know a good .DAT to .XML converter or do you already have a good up to date .XML to use for Rocketlauncher or otherwise to organize roms? Hyperspin's Hyperlist XMLs seem years old so I hope some may advise if I should be using an XML of No Intro vs Redump. I am sure a Smokemonster pack would be LONG away from reality.

 

Next, a question on best archive file format: I am not familiar with the .PBP file format the Playstation Classic Autobleem image I have uses instead of bin/cue etc. Is this a disc image like a .CHD conversion? Does Autobleem support .zip or bin/cue? Currently, my REDUMP library is .zip which I'm happy to keep for any emulators that might support them and only unzip when needed to burn for original hardware.

 

I will also be playing with PSX on a PS3, PS2, PSOne, PS Classic and PC Emulation.

 

Thanks!

[Tanooki]

Well it just was called PSX by Sony back in the day, and it was codenamed Playstation X by Sony as it was their first and potentially only as they didn't have a crystal ball there.  Later once PS2 came out, they kind of really screwed it up in the memory of many reconning it with the PSOne(mini) that sold w/ or w/out the LCD combo, making it worse years later with an actual Japan only PSX system that was a DVR combo PS2 system: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PSX_(digital_video_recorder)

 

Can't help ya with swiping stuff, I've got a very small set of PS1 games, all legit, though I will say if you are smart archive.org would have everything you need in a massive set of big files, or by individual games hiding within.

[seastalker]

Thanks for clearing things up in answering the first question. That is a funny business decision. I suppose Xbox didn't do much better with naming.   I answered the third part on my own- sort of.  Indeed compression is used when converting REDUMP bin/cue files to .PBP, but I have yet to find if that makes it LOSSY or LOSSLESS in terms of converting back to bin/cue (think MP3 vs FLAC). To be archival-standards safe, I will keep my zipped bin/cues which at least saves some space over unzipping. I wondered why the ".PBP" extension name instead of ".PSX" then learned this file format is what the PSP handhelds use as if the games were official PS store purchases. I suppose ".PSP"  was taken already? Anyway, ETA Prime has a great video on said file format which is good for easy disc-swapping in emulators for multi-disc games. It would be interesting if you could somehow burn .PBP files to a CDR and play them on a real PSX.

 

Does anyone know the current number of games if following the Hyperspin model of USA, then European exclusives and then Japanese playable and translations etc.? 

[Osgeld]

yes the PBP is a executable playstation portable file, not just a disk image and can be anything from simple programs to game launchers or bootable disk images, I think but am probably totally wrong but I think its Playstation Binary Package

Edited May 11, 2020 by Osgeld