I dragged my ass for a couple of months on this one, due to it looking a little more involved and a bit of a mess with all of the wires involved, but I finally got to it last weekend and had it ready to go in 2 days.
The initial install took a couple of hours, but it took an extra evening to get fully working due to a little bit of overconfidence in my wiring- I had a few in the wrong places. Before checking for this I proceeded to unsolder the original Pico I was using and try a different one to no avail, and a complete waste of time in hindsight. I should have known that even with my trusty AmScope to help me see the small solder points, it doesn’t guarantee that I’m following the online diagrams correctly!
My son Devin has a couple of 3D printers, and I was able to send him a link to a site that had the files for the plastic piece for mounting the SD card slot to. This was one of the obstacles that made me slow to start this, because without the 3D printed part I dreaded figuring out a way to mount the SD card slot without making it look like a messy hack job.
With the finished product I loaded up an SD card with a bunch of PS1 games. I wasn’t much into the PS1 30 years ago during its lifespan beyond the initial release when a friend let me borrow his for a few weeks and I was playing the hell out of the first Ridge Racer game. I was more into the Atari Jaguar and later the Sega Saturn, though I did spend some time (and money) on some PS1 racing games along with a MadCatz steering wheel and pedals in 1997-ish. I missed a lot of good games, so now it’s time to do a little catching up.
