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

Still blows my mind that they did this but no one has been able to do as good a job with the N64 in the 25 years since!

I am not an expert, but I think mixing the terms "recompiler" and "emulator" interchangeably is incorrect. At the time the emulation was done right in the moment, with little saved for later. But I guess they are blurry terms.

I wish I’d known about this. I wasn’t gonna try to take a CRT and my PS2 with me to college in 2005, and whatever freeware PS1 emulator I was trying to use on my Powerbook G4 just did not work, so I was mostly playing on portables and SNES/Gen emulation during college. It was a good time for portable gaming, don’t get me wrong, and I ended up with most of my favorite PS1 games on PSP eventually, but good PS1 emulation on my laptop at the start would have been amazing.

This is some crazy

Ah, the UK version of Vecchi Giochi! Pretty cool!

Virtual Game Station is my childhood, the best emulator ever, it sets high standard of emulator for me.

When I tried epsxe, it doesn't have the same performance back then, which made realise that not every emulator is as crazily good as VGS

This is probably how Corey played Crash 2

Meow

46836 Ceasar Vista

799 Wehner Field

90846 Bruen Cove

Wehner Ports

Sony bought this company after going through court and then closed it down lmao

3278 Konopelski Cliff

043 Clovis Shores

078 Leffler Neck

It’s awesome that you reached out to the developer. Great investigative journalism! I love your channel. Keep up the good work.

927 Shakira Falls

9839 Justyn Plaza

White Kevin Williams Kimberly Young Charles

Loren Fall

The thing got knocked over by some publications for the lack of 3DFX support compared to bleem... while this has higher (though not yet "all") compatibility ratio and the graphics are actually 1:1 to most PS1 titles...
And this, along with bleem, are said to be purchased by Sony instead of being suited to oblivion...

Never knew about this. That’s amazing.

Ridge Racer slowed down when the jet car passed you heh

Any videos on pcem 86box and dosbox-x

I remember running final fantasy 8 demo on a 133 Pentium clone using VGS at full speed and couldn’t understand why everyone was talking about bleem. With no video card VGS ran perfectly. Then one day, it disappeared.

Why aren't emulators commercial products anymore? Is it all because of Nintendo and their lawsuits? Emulators are perfectly legal, clean room emulators especially so. So why can't I buy an emulator on steam?

And now we have it on ios with delta .

VGS was a life saver back in the day. I grew up in a poor country so the only real PlayStation in town was at the arcade. We also didn't have internet so we had to buy the emulator in a floppy disk at the pirate game stand. They were poor too so they sold pirate games in a wooden stand in the middle of the street. Good ol' times

Still crazy to me though that they still haven't perfected N64 emulation on PC. No matter what you do it'll never not have audio glitches are the occasional missing texture.

Is it just me, or is the clamshell macbook super super ugly? Everyone just goes on and on about how cool it is xD

I got the VGS for PC, and it was really amazing, ran all games we try, even some obscure ones. Some games I would rather play on other emulators due to GPU acceleration. But VGS simply ran everything.

I know Win version allowed you to play ISO files by using Daemon Tools, but the Mac version doesn't have any way to mount PS1 ISOs :( Was there ever a daemon tools for OS 9? I know there was virtual cd/dvd, a very light weight tool, but it doesn't let me mount PS1 ISOs, it gives a memory error (even though there's enough space on RAM and on HDD). Someone, please make a mounting software for OS 9 (namely for iMac G3s), would love to get going on VGS for old time sakes... my CD drive is shot..

anyone know if it's possible to mount an ISO rather than burning it onto a physical disc? tried roxio iso mounting, but it doesn't create a virtual drive for vgs to see.. i know that daemon tools could do this, but i don't think they made a version for mac os :( what else can i try? also unfortunately, tomba does not save.

Connectix VGS ran at full speed on my 486 PC back then and worked with WAY more games than bleem! Great emulator.

I have to admit, gangster move from Sony to buy out the competition.

Lol back in middle school I had a cracked version of VGS on our pentium iii family computer and it worked great. It let you play copied discs.

Something funny i have noticed while watching this and the N64 emulation video back to back, is that Sony was more than ready to take developers to court, while Nintendo announced they were suing, but never followed up with their threat.

Yet Nintendo is the one meme'd when it comes to emulators.

At the very least, it's interesting.

Great episode describing one of the Mac milestones in gaming emulation; the other would be wine/cider in mid 2000s, allowing Macs to run almost perfectly hundreds of windows games.The native gaming on Mac sucked big time, so an emulated/transgaming solution was desperately needed by that time.

"macs had a reputation of being terrible gaming machines"

in 2022 they still are

I discovered Connectix Virtual game station on Macintosh Garden back in HS and used it to play FF7 on my lime green iBook. Brings back memories! The frame rates were really impressive . Great video!

I rember using this emu back in the day on a intel pentium 3@ 400mhz, with 128 mbs of ram, it amazed me how well this ran, struggling to run nfs high stakes decently on windows but emulating a ps1 running it was smooth and worked great.

It was a great time to be a teenager.

It would make sense that the PS3 used the VGS as the base of it's PS1 emulator since both are based on Power architecture. I believe that the PS2 slim also does to. They replaced the PS1 I/O silicon with a PowerPC silicon.

I remember pretty well, it was the first PS1 emulator that worked fine on my PC at the beginning of my teenage life, because bleem wasn't for free, but i really didn't needed it at that time because i had a PS1 and then a PS2 and then a PS3, only when the PS4 appeared that i started to go more for PS1 emulation too🙂

That emulator was legendary back in the days!

When I was kid, I used to carry my CVGS to internet cafes with an original AHEM disc of Tekken 3, and the amazement and amusement it created was priceless back then.

This is indeed full speed emulation as original hardware didn't run these games better. Then Bleemcast on Dreamcast came...
Thanks to 3DFX GPU's, Nintendo 64 emulation were better than the real console already January 1999.

The attitude against emulation of various consoles always baffles me.. imagine making a really decent emulator and then selling licenses for your games. You wouldn't make ALL the money but that revenue stream wouldn't be small, if you played your cards right

What would have happened if Connectix told Sony to pound sand instead of selling the code to them?