Full Speed PlayStation 1 emulation in 1999 - Connectix Virtual Game Station | MVG 

As a Mac user I could imagine!

Too bad he was for the dumbing down of tec and lead apple down that road

@@jackbootshamangaming4541 Yeah he kind of killed the interesting parts of apple

1999 was 6gen consoles time, and the PS2 was on the horizon.

@SNES Nes mmm.....bc you could only afford a snes right?

"ok we'll just make our own" "ok......... waaaait a minute"

sony were very pissed and sued connectix. that lawsuit was lost by sony and it's the reason why emulation is legal today.

Still don't get why. This means fewer playstations they would have to make. Which is good because those are expensive, and more games to sell which is good because those are cheap.

​@@aliasmcgames I bet it would cause easier access to pirated copies of the game, since I don't believe that it wouldn't be easy to modify the emulator to allow burned CDs or even disk images to work.

@@aliasmcgames precisely. Why did sony not take the deal? I don't understand. These people made sure it wouldn't play burned discs if that is what they were worried about (a legitimate concern.) Sony gets royalty !money. They get good press. They get an entry point into the pc gamer market while all but creating a mac gamer base.

Apple is utter garbage now

@@Name_cannot_be_blank don't you get spied on anyway though? If not from the phone itself, from the apps always listening and stealing your data

@@Name_cannot_be_blank Get a Oneplus/Xiaomi phone and install a custom ROM. IMO, this has more privacy than even Apple's products Or get a pixel and install GrapheneOS. Most secure.

@@codydfwn ahh yes, you don’t know the apple permission system You have to ENABLE permissions first for an app And can deny them for specific apps

@@slay3rgamingyt I had no idea we even had extra better ways to combat this... But I'll look into this myself even!

Don't discount the work done by current emulation developers though. They are still doing us all an incredible favor by creating all of this software for free.

@@Carbine64 CEMU and YUZU for me are pure wizardries

@@Carbine64 oh, absolutely, and especially the accuracy of modern emulation is really impressive - I guess I just have an interest in people doing surprising things with by modern standards immensely underpowered hardware.

Let's not forget about Xbox 360 and Wii U emulation, that requires the devs to reverse engineer entire hardware, with custom cpu and gpu, while running with actual decent performances.

First half of this comment is dead on but the second half is nonsense, which completely trashes the very impressive work done by current emulator developers. Not to mention totally irrelevant to the way computing power is used in software design

Hey Mario... U r awesome

Wish this could be ported to the og xbox so the emulation was better

ePSXe always threw me back in the day due to excessive setup Like, as a kid who was still fascinated by just being able to load pokemonblue.gb into SMYGB and just play it, ePSXe asking for everything specified and then just kinda not working made me... not so interested in PS1 emulation. So this woulda been nice

That's true, but if you used the software renderer on ePSXe you'd see it's problems disappear. But software emulation is kind of ugly...so it's a trade-off.

Dope !!!!!

I didn't even know this existed tbh

is that thing legal

@@semihguzelel9966 yes

Oh, do you want to learn about computing story? Then you need to search the channel "Advent of Computing". Don't be fooled thinking you already heard and know the stories it's telling, you actually haven't. That podcast is amazing and almost totally unknown, a crime!

Yes I quite agree!

What band do you like best? Agnostic Front or Madball?

@@nicolausteslaus nice edit... can’t even troll right.

Its very interesting to see Punk Rock MBA comment on something like this and it honestly surprises me. I would love to see you talk about your experiences with this stuff on your secondary channel man

I love your content man! I'd love to see a video on Nintendo-Core !

Why does it feel like the last 20 years was only 10? I can't get over that weird feeling , esp with gaming its like time has flew by.

Said emulator that contains code he wrote for emulation projects several steps re!over, but still relevant in emulating a human mind Which emulated¡mVG would find hilarious.

"Can I have a rig capable of running the MVG emulator?" "We already have a rig running the MVG emulator at home" MVG emulator rig at home: *same but speaking with an American accent*

We have already been working on it, we are in second alpha.

MVG ai In the format of max headroom

OpenMVG-accuracy

Compatibility doesn't mean accuracy, and as a matter of fact none of these emulators were accurate in the slightest (they would often hiccup on trivial matters). Also PS2 is a way more complex machine, while the PSX is extremely simple to program for and has a fool proof architecture.

@@geminirebirth Your name looks very familiar to me, are you the person that did the hacking for the Persona 2 Innocent Sin translation? If so, thank you so much for your work, it's probably my favourite game and I may not have played it if not for that patch years ago. If you're not them, sorry for my mistake!

@@Fanta0846 I am.

@@geminirebirth I see, thank you for your work. I hope you are doing well!

PCSX2 is also sure taking its time, to be fair.

Now this would be impossible but that's funny

@@monsterhunter445 Well we did the "impossible" more than once with various software (shrink wrap machines were good), but hey, it was easier to copy stuff on the mac.

The good ol' 90s!

good ol' Blockbuster days. rent the game, copy it, give it back like the following day.

me: **uses bitwise/bitshift to extract rgba values from 32-bit color** haha i’m so smort emulator devs: **creates dynamic recompiler to translate between machine code at run time to speed up emulation** this isn’t fast enough, and sometimes the polygons are 1 pixel off compared to real hardware **sigh**

me: installs windows. "im so smart" developer: creates a virtual machine to run the pc on the pc

@@myface6739 mood, also: someone even ported windows 95 and dos to webassembly so you can emulate windows 95 **on the browser** and play dos games ***on the browser*** meanwhile I can’t even make my printer work properly lmao

Hahahaha!!!

Very possible. No point in reinventing the wheel when you already have a working one.

Possible, but not in its entirety. The PSP emulation uses no dynarec (it's all running virtualized code, since the instruction set is pretty much identical) and includes several brand new pieces like MDEC hardware decompression.

Pops leaked and you could package any PS1 iso with it for a PSP. It was cool.

both the PSP and the PS1 uses a MIPS processor though?

@@DominicGo yes, the only difference are the coprocessor instructions, which are emulated via software on PSP. The rest of the code can be executed natively with some adjustments.

I still use mine for writing papers. Useable still, but limited enough to prevent my ADHD from getting the best of me.

What do you mean by "especially for the time"? That WAS the time, it was the beginning of a golden age of physical and software UX. That implies that it would be even better if released today, which I think is a hard argument to make.

if i remember correctly bleem has smoother graphics as compared to vgs but vgs is not buggy as compared to bleem

Dc2 was buttery smooth on vgs until you hit the underwater scenes that had full screen distortion effects. Chrono cross was perfect except the square button quick menu which did not show. -amazing how I still remember these details after 20 years

Vgs just worked. Bleem died too early and i remember i always had issues with epsxe and its plugins. 3 out of 4 times some important plugin just didnt work. One great advancement in pcsx reloaded was that they added some basic plugins to the emulator itself so you wouldnt need to fetch them separately.

I've played Warcraft 2 dark saga on it and it ran better than epsxe

ePsxe is still kind of ass though

Thought the same thing. I imagine their fear is this emulator could play pirated games more easily. Even with the precautions they took

Sony (and Microsoft and Nintendo) usually only sell console hardware for a loss in the first ~2 years. By 1999 Sony were making loads of profit with the PS1.

@@ps5hasnogames55 loss at the beginning of the generation. Break even on sales midway. And hope by the end, with hardware revisions and the cost of components coming down, to recover the losses at the beginning. If it's a very successful generation towards the end, they should be seeing profits, but the hardware will always just be what enables selling licensees rather than the profit center itself.

Absolutely true

u forgot the part when they wanted to BUY the bios license from sony... so they lost even that money lol.

thats what he said

Do they? In fact they are pretty capable machines but whatever, boo Apple bad

And Windows is still a colossal piece of shit.

At one point in history, macs were known for being decent gaming machines... I wish Apple would take gaming more seriously besides art indies and MTX titles re-made for Apple Arcade. Nothing is wrong with art indies but it saturates Apple Arcade lmao

yeah Macs gaming prime was in the mid-90s and early 90s. But Jobs didn't really care about gaming on a Mac

Half the stuff he says I don't understand but feel smarter after watching his videos :)

I would caution against making such an easily debunkable statement. Have you not heard of channels like My life in Gaming or Digital Foundry or Framerater? OBJECTIVELY SPEAKING those three channels do much more research than MVG does (when was there framerate analysis on MVG, when was there hour long interviews with dev teams of retro games, COMPLETE library reviews, etc)? As far as console and handheld emulation goes, sure, you can make that case, but as far as a gaming channel goes? This is all opinion based I know, but you brought in objective criteria so standing my your comment is a bit of a losing battle there when I could find two channels (there are more no doubt) that provides more data and more analysis. Is it better data or more relevant? Maybe not, but that's not what you are talking about here. I love MVG, this is one my my favorite channels, but claiming he does the most research is an uphill battle. Even Shane at Rerez often goes much more in depth, lol. And let's not forget, his videos are usually less than 15 minutes long, whereas most "gaming history" channels have longer videos (MLiG or Slopes Game Room videos are rarely less than 20 minutes long for example) so it's a similar thing with smartphone reviews in the sense that there's a threshold of "your video is too short for me to take seriously since I know hew well a half hour can be filled up talking about this product" thing.

@@awesomeferret bro it's just a opinion, what caused you to write a essay lol. Not everyone follows the same channels but I'll happily check out the ones you suggested

@@shorifahmed an obsession with accuracy and too much time on my hands I guess. Not much of an essay (try turning in a college essay that only take 30 seconds to read like this does) but I get your point.

@@awesomeferret man we got too much free time on our hands now, stay safe.

I'm assuming these cracked copies were able to play copied games as well?

@@no1DdC Not sure. It was over 20 years ago.

I play vgs in a fcking amd k6-2 550 MHz, with 512 ram, and 8 gb maxtor hard disk, true happiness, i play all famous games possible.

And now, duckstation

and then halo become a microsoft game

@@HoldmyApplejuice But they still released it on Mac, afaik. Imagine a world where Halo was a Mac exclusive....

in my 266mhz PC Bleem not runned well, connectix was the solution. In Brazil we used this a lot

same here. i remember trying bleem and it was a complete disaster with Final Fantasy Tactics. had i known about VGS PC version, i definitely would have been able to play without issue as it runs fantastically on a g3 233 i acquired not too long ago.

Idk why but openemu runs like ass on my late 2011 Macbook pro

Cuales?

@@Pwnulolumad MGS, Silent Hill, Gran Turismo 2, Final Fantasy 7, Parappa, Vagrant Story, Breath of Fire IV, entre otros.

Feliz navidad.

Within the time I read this, he said utilize

what happened to bleem ? i think we need another video on bleem, i like it as compared to vgs coz if i remember corretly it has some options to smooth the graphics but it was buggy

@@iplaygames9837 They literally went out of business trying to fight the copyright lawsuits. They had no money left.

? How was Bleem affiliated with Microsoft? And no to the outcomes being similar... The stories are very different....? Bleem won all their lawsuits, it was the legal fees that killed them. In contrast, connectix did win all, and didn't die in a similar way, it was bought out and dissolved (a worthy goal for many businessmen, creating a company that can be sold for a lot of money is often the actual goal). Is Audible a failure? By your logic, it would be, even though it's a company that was effectively shut down and is now just another service Amazon offers. Same goes for obvious stuff like RU-vid even.

back then every year hardware 2x as powerfull as your 1 year old one relased for pc not like now

@@cin2110 I mean a decent PC can run Switch(2017) games pretty well, then again the Switch is weaker hardware than the Xbox/PlayStation gen equivalent. Also OG Xbox(from 2001) emulation isn't great even now.

Technically not true thanks to the Switch. That doesn't mean much since the Switch isn't much more powerful than the Wii U or Xbox 360.

? How does Microsoft have anything to do with this? Maybe I'm reading it wrong, I don't know. Sure sounds like you think the Xbox 360 could officially emulate PS1 games, which of course is not true, so what am I supposed to think here?

@@awesomeferret he's saying *Virtual PC* (a product that ran Windows virtual machines on PowerPC Macs, which Microsoft acquired from Connectix) was used to help emulate original Xbox games on the Xbox 360. he didn't say anything about Virtual Game Station (the PS1 emulator) lol

@@ps5hasnogames55 ah, I see.

meh to be fair it's not like internet was really a true beast yet, and it's no where NEAR what companies today or even 10 years ago try to pull :P

Ultimate CHAD move they did there. Sad that we lost this emu at that time.

"THAT'S ILLEGAL" ahh.. that's for the courts to decide 😎

Most likely it was a 60-70 something years old boomer at sony the one that had the brilliant idea of buying vgs while pcsx and epsxe existed too and piracy was already rampant in poor countries..... They should have licensed the bios, ask for a % of the sells and forget about it. Maybe even try to bully the open source alternatives to help vgs.

They weren't too happy about that!

Also Sony: if you can't beat your competition, buy it!

Also Sony: Censors tiddies, free speech, and throws a hissy fit when they see Spider-Man on stuff Disney is allowed to promote the character because they own the non-movie rights to him.

Nintendo hit hard it will be difficult for him to do that

MVG alread announced he won't do many videos on the switch because of nintendo already has filed many bullsh!t copyright claims against him

pcsx runs almost all games fullspeed

@@omegarugal9283 yeah even on my celeron N3350 (kinda hate it) edit: use ePSXe the PCSX2 is better for PS2

Try Duckstation it's new great PS1 emulation from man who previously help develop Dolphin and it's still get update unlike ePSXe

@@bhirawamaylana466 I mean does it really need updates tho? What else do you expect from a PS1 emulator..

Right now, Beetle PSX and Duckstation are the best PSX emulators. But if you're curious, be on the lookout for Avocado and PCSX-Redux (another PCSX fork) Be also on the lookout for Laxer3A's PSX MiSTer FPGA core.

well, bleem has already gotten plenty of attention on youtube unlike connectix

+1 for Bleem. Always wanted to know more about it

Bleem is mentioned in the video.

@@goob8945 LGR has a video about Bleem. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-MFY9Kv1c4-Q.html

I've literally never heard anyone call the clamshell a "toilet seat"

@@TorutheRedFox that was the "internal" name from the rapairs department back in my younger days haha great little machines .. pretty advanced for the time.. wifi in 1999! yep

@@covert0overt_810 lmao