I know this has nothing to do with Pc's but what is the spec of a playstation?

[RobUK]

What is the spec of a playstation, you know processor, Ram, graphics etc?
Also what is it on the playstation discs that identifys them real and not copied, why can't a writer copy the games correctly, without having to get it chiped?

[Swivel]

Hi
I found this:
CPU

R3000A
32 bit RISC processor
Clock 33.8688MHz
Operating performance 30 MIPS
Instruction Cache 4 KB
Data Cache 1 KB
BUS 132 MB/sec.

CD-ROM DRIVE
Data Transfer Rate (DMA TO RAM)
150 KB/sec. (Normal)
300 KB/sec. (Double speed)

Maximum Capacity 660 Megabytes

Features
-Audio CD play
-XA Interactive Audio


DATA DECOMPRESSION ENGINE(MDEC)
Operating performance 80 MIPS

Directly connected to CPU bus

-Motion JPEG-like Hardware Decompression Engine

GEOMETRY ENGINE(GTE)
Operating performance: 66 MIPS
3D polygon transformation: Type Per second
Flat shaded 1.5 M
Gouraud, textured and light sourced 500 K

GTE performs high speed matrix multiplies

HARDWARE RENDERED POLYGONS(GPU)
Rendered in hardware -Up to 360K polygon/sec.

Texture mapping

Flat or Gouraud shading

Backup RAM
-Two removable cards
-128 KB Flash Memory
-OS support for File Save, Retrieve and Remove

Serial Port I/O
- Link Cable Connectivity

MEMORY CONFIGURATION
Main RAM 2 Megabytes
Video RAM 1 Megabyte
Sound RAM 512 Kilobytes
CD ROM buffer 32 Kilobytes
OS ROM: 512 Kilobytes

SOUND PROCESSOR
24 Channels
44.1KHz sample rate
PCM audio source
Digital effects include:
-Envelope
-Looping
-Digital Reverb
Load up to 512K of sampled waveforms
-Supports MIDI Instruments

SPRITE AND BACKGROUND GRAPHICS

Virtually Unlimited
size (up to 256 x 256)
number of sprites on a line
number of sprite images
number of CLUTs
SPRITE SPECIAL EFFECTS
Rotation
Scaling up/down
Warping
Transparency
Fading
Priority
Vertical and horizontal line scroll

Hope it helped

[neo_otyugh]

playstation cd roms are written with a burner that is capable of writing bad sectors, these bad sectors in addition to a country code (written is an area a regualr cd rom cannot read i have been told...) make it hard to make backup copies that work without a chip to falsify some of the data being read by the processor. with the chip changing the pertinent data and a high quality cd copying program you should be able to work around the copy protection that sony has...

[rtyp3]

How about no, don't work around the copy protection Sony has.
How about buy the game and support the companies who make them. That sounds a lot better http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif

[narayan]

It is legal to make and keep a backup of any software, including Playstation games. http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif