Worklog [2024 Contest Entry] PS Pocket

Awesome to see! Sad you weren't able to make it for voting, but art takes time! Can't wait for another update!

Thank you! Yeah… Life got in the way and just could not find the time to finish, but this will be completed in due time!

Excited for this one! That case is screaming out for anodized aluminum

It’s funny you say that because I was thinking of that as a possibility as well, especially for the top lid because if I am going to build the bare LCD panel and backlight into the top, they’re kind of needs to be more structural integrity so there’s less flexibility, for the LCD to crack as easily.

I’m going to experiment with a clamshell and a standard horizontal design and see which is a better fit.
 
is uh, life still in the way drew?

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is uh, life still in the way drew?

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I haven't worked on any projects for a few months, but there is not too much more to do routing wise. I was routing a 60 pin connector on the top left to connect directly to a Retro Gem. However Hispeedido came out with their own PS1 digital HDMI that I have yet to try at half the price as the basic Retro Gem, so I am waiting to test that before continuing in case it is decent and if the pinout is different (which most likely is).
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I haven't worked on any projects for a few months, but there is not too much more to do routing wise. I was routing a 60 pin connector on the top left to connect directly to a Retro Gem. However Hispeedido came out with their own PS1 digital HDMI that I have yet to try at half the price as the basic Retro Gem, so I am waiting to test that before continuing in case it is decent and if the pinout is different (which most likely is).
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good to see you again! life happens. really looking forward to this so i hope you can stick with it.
 
Hi,

Well done on the design!

This is just a warning that you do not however have permission to use our PSIO hardware on your product. If you would like to license usage of PSIO, please contact us as we are open to discussions regarding the matter. If you are found using our registered software without permission, we will take matters further as you will be in violation of our copyrighted software, binaries, firmware, bitstream and registered trademark.

Official Website: http://psio.cybdyn-systems.com.au/

Thank you.
 
Hi,

Well done on the design!

This is just a warning that you do not however have permission to use our PSIO hardware on your product. If you would like to license usage of PSIO, please contact us as we are open to discussions regarding the matter. If you are found using our registered software without permission, we will take matters further as you will be in violation of our copyrighted software, binaries, firmware, bitstream and registered trademark.

Official Website: http://psio.cybdyn-systems.com.au/

Thank you.
There's no product being made or advertised here, you metho reeking anti-consumer flea ridden boganoid. This was a personal build competition between friends. Drew hasn't touched your SecuROM's wet dream copy hostage firmware, he made a all-in-one PCB that you can transfer the chips from an owned Playstation One and an owned PSIO clone onto. It's not even your product, it's a little Chinese fellow's superior imitation. Even if Drew did waste his money on a "real PSIO", you have no authority to tell anyone what they can and can't do with a product that they hold in their own hands. Even if he sold a revision of the boards that required chip transplants from a genuine PSIO, which afaik he has no intention to, each person who wanted to make a PS Pocket would still be required to purchase (and risk destroying) a PSIO to do it.

Either way, you're losing no business. Let us make our cool stuff. Take a fist full of these and fuck off shitass.
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Hi,

Well done on the design!

This is just a warning that you do not however have permission to use our PSIO hardware on your product. If you would like to license usage of PSIO, please contact us as we are open to discussions regarding the matter. If you are found using our registered software without permission, we will take matters further as you will be in violation of our copyrighted software, binaries, firmware, bitstream and registered trademark.

Official Website: http://psio.cybdyn-systems.com.au/

Thank you.
Hello,

I will be politely emailing the support team for Cybdyn systems to inform them of an individual impersonating them on a public forum. I'm sure the good and honest people at Cybdyn will take appropriate action, as messages like these negatively reflect on the company. They wouldn't send a message like this. I am sure that with their history of supporting fair competition and open source initiatives, they'd be appalled to see this being said in their name.

Thank you.
 
Hi,

Well done on the design!

This is just a warning that you do not however have permission to use our PSIO hardware on your product. If you would like to license usage of PSIO, please contact us as we are open to discussions regarding the matter. If you are found using our registered software without permission, we will take matters further as you will be in violation of our copyrighted software, binaries, firmware, bitstream and registered trademark.

Official Website: http://psio.cybdyn-systems.com.au/

Thank you
Thank you!

And thank you @Stitches

There’s no illegal activity here. This version of the project still requires buying your product, supporting you, and transplanting the components onto my board from the PSIO that I own and can do with as I please. No cracking of the hardware of firmware is involved. I regret to inform you, I didn’t support you. You might want to take this threat over to AliExpress where I purchased it.

But you don’t have to worry anyway. I haven’t updated this thread, but I have moved on to using the Xstation instead after finding all the problems PSIO has.

Xstation works beautifully.
 
Thank you!

And thank you @Stitches

There’s no illegal activity here. This version of the project still requires buying your product, supporting you, and transplanting the components onto my board from the PSIO that I own and can do with as I please. No cracking of the hardware of firmware is involved. I regret to inform you, I didn’t support you. You might want to take this threat over to AliExpress where I purchased it.

But you don’t have to worry anyway. I haven’t updated this thread, but I have moved on to using the Xstation instead after finding all the problems PSIO has.

Xstation works beautifully.
For personal use, this is fine. We do give you permission to sell the board with the PSIO chips unprogrammed and blank. It's better however (due to the nature of this device you have made) for users to provide their own chips. You are however not permitted to manufacture and sell this as a product with our code programmed in the chips.

If you buy a genuine PSIO and swap the chips over manually, then we're okay with that although you're rather off contacting us so we can organise them to be programmed for you using genuine and licensed software.

Using clones to swap the chips from is not permitted for the reasons described in our previous message. If you're planning on switching over to the X-Station, also seek permission from its author (Rama) before using it. Otherwise, keep up the great work and we appreciate the prompt response Drew.
 
We don't need your permission or anybody else's to swap chips between boards, you clown. Once we purchase boards they are ours to use, modify, or destroy as we please. Stop passive-aggressively threatening Drew and the community with inane legalese bullshit.

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We don't need your permission or anybody else's to swap chips between boards, you clown. Once we purchase boards they are ours to use, modify, or destroy as we please. Stop passive-aggressively threatening Drew and the community with inane legalese bullshit.
It seems that you're still having trouble. Here's a table to help!

Programming your own chips = bad :angry:
Using hardware design with blank chips = good :awesome:
Swapping cloned programmed chips = bad :angry:
Swapping genuine programmed chips = good :awesome:

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For personal use, this is fine. We do give you permission to sell the board with the PSIO chips unprogrammed and blank. It's better however (due to the nature of this device you have made) for users to provide their own chips. You are however not permitted to manufacture and sell this as a product with our code programmed in the chips.

If you buy a genuine PSIO and swap the chips over manually, then we're okay with that although you're rather off contacting us so we can organise them to be programmed for you using genuine and licensed software.

Using clones to swap the chips from is not permitted for the reasons described in our previous message. If you're planning on switching over to the X-Station, also seek permission from its author (Rama) before using it. Otherwise, keep up the great work and we appreciate the prompt response Drew.
Did you pass year 1 english? Where are you pulling this shit from? Where was it ever said that anything related to this project was going to be sold, let alone boards that are populated yet unprogrammed? We understand digital copyright law perfectly well, you paint lipped chromer. It's the reason you won't find a single link to or discussion thread about a rom site, or any means to get access to realtek's RTD display driver code despite several users here having active projects using it via signed agreements. RVLoader was specifically developed so that it could be a LEGAL homebrew solution that carried no official Nintendo code with it, unlike many other similar apps and devices that took shortcuts. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Your threats are as hollow as your shriveled cranium. I'd say you're grasping at straws, but that'd imply mental capacity comparable to an Orangutan and I don't want to insult Harambe's honoured cousins. You have zero ground to stand on to make any demands of us. In Australia and the USA the law is clear: A purchased product is no longer company property. Just as we can take a Ford engine and put it in a Mazda chassis, anyone can open one of your boxes or a clone box and put the chips on another board. They can even sell the finished board that didn't touch your oh so fucking precious personal information collection firmware for any price, and you have no legal recourse in either country to so much as timidly ask like the balding wallflower virgin that you read as, let alone come here and make out of touch baseless demands.

It seems that you're still having trouble. Here's a table to help!

Programming your own chips = bad :angry:
Using hardware design with blank chips = good :awesome:
Swapping cloned programmed chips = bad :angry:
Swapping genuine programmed chips = good :awesome:


We know who you are, Matt, and your whiny control freak "THIS IS MY MINECRAFT SERVER" brand of autism isn't welcome here. Have you even shipped an order in the last year? Afaik you're still lying about firmware development, scamming people with outright lies on your shit 2002 ass black bar website, and ghosting any customer who has so much as a semblance of understanding for how long it takes to walk to the fucking post office and drop off a box with some words scrawled on it. You're so shit at selling your own product that you're actively working against one of the few good ideas that could have actually benefitted you, if the PSIO wasn't the worst available ODE on the market anyway.

Take another dose and go back to making sock puppet accounts to fail at talking yourself up on reddit, you sad webbed fingered black toothed track marked welshman sack of vaguely human shit
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It seems that you're still having trouble. Here's a table to help!

Programming your own chips = bad :angry:
Using hardware design with blank chips = good :awesome:
Swapping cloned programmed chips = bad :angry:
Swapping genuine programmed chips = good :awesome:

Who made you the arbiter of what people in other countries do with hardware they bought from public marketplaces? Your abominable reputation precedes you, but I'm still shocked at just how monstrous you really are after seeing it firsthand.

Instead of lashing out at random hobbyists in an impotent rage because your hardware security was shit, take it up with the people who cloned your device. Oh wait, you can't, and that's why you're bothering us in the first place. Utterly pathetic!

Maybe focus on making "gEnUinE" devices actually purchasable, rather than wasting your time threatening strangers on public internet forums. Though, at this rate, no one in this community will EVER buy anything from you ever again. Great work alienating the last people on the web doing anything worthwhile with PSIO!
 
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It seems that you're still having trouble. Here's a table to help!

Programming your own chips = bad :angry:
Using hardware design with blank chips = good :awesome:
Swapping cloned programmed chips = bad :angry:
Swapping genuine programmed chips = good :awesome:

I think you should step back and look at what you accomplished here. A hobbyist designed an impressive, hand-assembled project that integrates a product of your design into it. Clearly this is a hobbyist doing this for fun, and not someone who sells products; sourcing playstations at scale to do so is clearly impractical.

It got enough media attention for you to see it. There are a thousand ways you could have rode the media wave for good PR. You could have posted about it, proudly showing off what your product help accomplish. Even if its a clone, people can't tell at a glance, and it makes your product look great, and is an opportunity for sales and great PR. You could have reached out to drew and said "hey that's an awesome idea, but I think it deserves a real one instead of a clone. Let me send you one for free". You could have turned this into a totally free PR win and driven more sales. Both you and your product would have looked awesome.

Instead you chose to, publicly, vaguely threaten the hobbyist with legal action. When explained that they are NOT doing the thing you are worried about, you double down and attempted to exert control, telling the hobbyist what they can and can't do. Trying to be real with you man; do you realize how much this makes you look like a hostile, controlling, anti-consumer jackass? There isn't a product being sold (by this hobbyist); there's no money to be made, and now the hobbyist doing something cool with your product has publicly denounced your product, and will be redesigning it to use a different product.

Me personally, prior to this thread, I had vaguely heard mentions of "The PSIO guy sucks" and thought little more of it than internet drama and squabbling. You came here and proved to everyone that it is much more than that. So now, instead of capitalizing on a pretty killer PR opportunity like any competent business owner would do, you now have a public record of you, under the name of your company and product, being an absolute douche, on a public forum with ridiculously strong search engine optimization. My advice would be to take this as an (unfortunately, very public) learning opportunity, and try to take a less hostile approach to improve your reputation in the future.

So to summarize:
You had an opportunity dropped into your hands, and instead of taking the very clear and extremely obvious path to success, chose the obviously incorrect option that clearly didn't work and made you look incompetent. In other words, specifically your words:
 
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