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dangiu / PicoMemcard

Emulating PSX Memory Card (or controller) using a Raspberry Pi Pico
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Play CD backup from picomemcard. #33

Closed tomudo closed 1 year ago

tomudo commented 1 year ago

Sorry for asking a stupid idea. Is PS1 has capability to play CD backup from picomemcard in the future?

dangiu commented 1 year ago

Not a stupid question, but I don't know a precise answer... Let me elaborate. It may technically be possible to do, but it would require writing some sort of low level code that the PSX would execute to mask all the calls to the CD reader and redirect them to memory card. Although this in itself is very difficult (and at the moment I don't have the knowledge to do it myself), what concerns me the most is the fact that the reading speed of memory cards are abysmal. Meaning that even if it's possible, games would end up being terribly slow in the loading process.