Or how about the option to use other controllers? Or the fact that the console doesn’t come with a power adapter?

Controllers with analog sticks would have been nice for playing 3D games (the D-pad just doesn’t cut it), especially since the PlayStation Classic cost $100 at launch. I could go on for days about what Sony could have done better. The 20 included games were not the greatest hits gamers were expecting. The PlayStation Classic? Hacking it is the only way to salvage it from being a useless paperweight. Though it’s possible to hack other mini retro consoles, you really don’t need to modify them because they already have a solid library of gems. (We don’t condone piracy and when we refer to adding more games, we’re talking about legally adding them to the extent that the law allows for it wherever you live.) The Eris hack can also fix those games running at a lower frame rate. With the simple Project Eris hack (formerly BleemSync) from the Mod My Classic team, not only can you add more PS1 games (like the ones it should have come with), but it’s powerful enough to run Nintendo 64 and Dreamcast games, too. But like so much unloved tech, modders and hackers have come in clutch, rescuing Sony’s dud and transforming it into one of the best mini retro consoles you can buy in my opinion. Within a few weeks, PlayStation Classics were discounted by as much as half, with heaps of them literally in bargain bins. Gamers like myself were beyond excited to replay classic PS1 games, but instead of a greatest hits throwback, the PlayStation Classic arrived with a lackluster library of 20 games (no Crash, no Spyro, no Tony Hawk – the list goes on) and - get this - they ran with subpar emulation at a lower frame rate. It was Sony’s answer to Nintendo’s smash hit, the NES Classic, released two years earlier.

In December 2018, Sony caved into the mini retro console craze with the PlayStation Classic.

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