• I’m most familiar with PS1 Homebrew, its almost all available under the “Net Yaroze” name.

    Without a Net Yaroze ps1, you’ll need a TonyHAX/freePSXboot memory card to boot the games. TonyHAX unlocks the region by resetting the disc drive into an unlocked state after Boot. As a consequence, this also allows homebrew titles and less than legitimate copies of titles to boot. Don’t use this for piracy, that would be iLleGaL.

    Archive.org has 3 Net yaroze game jams available, one of which has 83 titles but they usually render black and white. There is also Fromage, a ps1 demake for Minecraft (barely functional, but neat to show friends)

    • KAtieTot@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      This is cool and great!

      Wasted on me because I’ve only got later Playstations 🙃. That does give me some drive to go hunting on my own… hopefully find some treasure.

      • IngeniousRocks (They/She) @lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        If you patch your homebrew ROMs with the 80minute cd patch you can load them in pcsx2. In this case I believe you’ll have full color regardless of if the ROMs are made for PAL or NTSC

        Edit: I actually don’t think you have to do this since pcsx2 doesn’t do anticipate checks, though you’ll probably need access to a PAL bios, which is easy enough to install as a secondary bios in pcsx2