Looking for recommendations on the best arcade racers on PSX.

I play a lot of Gran Turismo 3 on PS2 so I don't need a retro sim racer. I recently grabbed Demolition Derby 2 and was shocked at how much I enjoyed the racing aspect so I'm looking for other arcade racers with good controls and anything else they might add.

I remember having a Need for Speed on the system as a kid and I hear good things about Ridge Racer, but not sure which games in those two series to look for.

I’ve played through the game and loved the experience, except for the downturn of disc 2, and I wanted to get a physical copy for myself. Do you all think this game is worth the eBay average of $150?

For context as well, I own the XenoSaga trilogy and all the xenoblades. I’m a fan of the Xeno series and want to eventually own all the games physically. This would be the last one I’d need.

For me is midas games as during ps1 and ps2 they were my guilty pleasures cause they chose weird stuff that legit made me enj the playstation

Xtreme express - train racing game featuring interesting designs (tho you start with just reskins with slight changes at first) but did what motorstorm advertised as a feature years later that no matter the train there no states is your train vs others and is down to how skilled you are with tracks,attacks and control to win. Plus this was almost my first 100% completed game

B.C.V Battle Construction vehicles: take your typical anime action flick but instead of fighting with magic,swords,guns etc why not different construction vehicles that would make CAT blush with Amazing story twists but only issue is the game can be slow i assume for trying to be realistic and sadly being a 1v1 despite maps showing it could work as a 4 way battle or tag team but if you don't mind slow pacing while planning your attacks carefully you moght enjoy this

Nice cats: insert caddie,jontron etc calling a animated cartoon on a ps2 disc a "game" ok let the jokes out the way "is a Disney ripoff,astracats you mean astrocraps?,is not Hollywood animation" ok we get it the joke is old (least phalous did hos research while mocking it) but this was my official introduction to dingo pictures and to this day.... I don't mind it as not everything has to be Hollywood (have you seen the movies they somehow say yes to?) and I won't argue that it's a mockbuster but least there still some effort that kids can still enjoy more then brainrot YouTube kids

Also i was a child when i tried it and was interested in such thing as not every kid gonna look at cheap animation but is just something to put on and lay down like a movie you watch while high kind of movie or something you want your ahdh self to put on while scrolling on your phone thing

But there many more midas games i would list that yes are shovelware but i just can't hate as they were my childhood and i wanna know what cheap game that you kinda defend and enjoy despite that retro critics say is "the worst" for comedy

And I'm talking games you lnow and rarely hear big retro channels even reference from small companies to shovelware to just ports

As when i research underrated is often games that aren't underrated and repeated at length (no joke i seen people think resident evil and silent hill are underrated?) but as i research and find stuff from midas entertainment (who's games i legit enjoyed) to a comp porting dingo pictures movies into ps1 activity centre games I'm curious what that one game you know yet never seen people?

So basically I'm looking for a game I'm 99% sure I played on the PS One in my childhood, but I cannot for the life of me remember the goddamn name. I've been trying to find it for years now but to no avail.

I remember that it's a racing game for kids like with a cute aesthetic. And I remember that the menu screen had spinning candy canes in the background. Unfortunately that is it, apart from the memory of having a lot of fun playing I don't really remember anything else. Hopefully someone can help me out here, any clues are appreciated!

Cheers!

so, i recently bought a steering wheel for ps2 and pc called the gt racing king from top way, it was in a really beat up box and really dirty but it work on the ps2. when i went to try it on the pc it didn't work, so me and a friend started searching for drivers. at first we didn't find anything, hours searching on blogs, forums and asking chatgpt and nothing, when suddenly we thought WEBSITE. we rushed to way back machine and there it is www.zrtopway.com, it was very weird, they initially made a ton of controllers until suddenly they got bankrupt. SO we needed to find the drivers for the wheel, and we had to see a lot of pixelated images to finally get the model and get the drivers, it was a TP-SUB/PS2 780 and yeah, there they are but OOPS just when we got a lead the way back machine didn't have the url. if anyone knows about it please let me know

eBay's prices are totally out of whack. I was wondering if anyone knew where to buy NTSC-U copies of FF7 here in the UK?

Its was a 3d game where you controlled a space ship type thing and you would try to collect things and jump ramps and i remember ther being a like metal band that would play at the very beginning before you went to the main menu to start the game. My grandpa had just the disk and no jewel case or booklet. Also it might have been a demo test of a game or sumtin

Hello again, folks. I know I've been asking a lot of questions on the subreddit, but I am a sucker for old game consoles, especially the PlayStation.

Now, I am awaiting the arrival of a parts-only SCPH-3000 from Japan so I may have it in my workshop and maybe transplant its motherboard into my SCPH-1000 and get the latter working so I can pore over the components of the PU-7. In the meantime, I have been playing Tekken 2 on my SCPH-7500 and noticed something that hasn't happened before in my experience: brief 3D glitches and a bit of framerate slowdown during gameplay as the music track loops back to the beginning.

As well, when running Disc 1 of the inaugural PlayStation Underground CD Magazine issue in my late-run SCPH-1001 (a.k.a. an "SCPH-5001"), the demos automatically bring you back to the main menu when you're finished; if played in an SCPH-5501 or later, they don't automatically exit, requiring a manual reset.

All that said, which version of the PS1 is the most ideal to own, in your opinion? This is an open-ended question, and if there are reasons for your selection (aesthetics, compatibility, reliability, etc.), feel free to list them. :)

As I remember what games I had as a kid, im gathering them from a local retro gaming store. I have a few more that aren't here because I don't have a case for them; they are in CD sleeves.

Steel Reign Tekken Frogger Ape Escape Croc

I would love to play Jade cocoon with a pocketstation save file because you can get unique minions. I saw people working on it for FF8. Is there a file or a way to Enable this for duckstation?

I'm sure this has been asked loads before, but is there a way to play PS1 games without physical copies on PS1 that runs perfectly?

I remember a few things about this game. The FMV's featured a formal Female host and a goofier Male host. The tone of the game being quite patriotic.

The ost was an awesome combination of electronic and rock.

I think you could fly various different aircrafts in 3d levels where you were given specific combat missions per level.

I also know that if you flew too high you would be blocked by an invisible wall with a spaced out forcefield effect.

I can't remember much else.

Hey idk if this is the right subreddit for this but I was playing the og RE trilogy and I noticed that in all the in-game cutscenes where the characters speak with each other their voices alone would get cut and sometimes whole conversations lacked voices. Now the audio is just fine in regular gameplay and during pre-rendered cutscenes. My RE1 & RE2 discs are pretty worn but my RE3 disc is practically mint and it still has the issue. What is causing this? Is my PlayStation going bad?

Using my buddies PS1 he bought in Japan, the games I recently purchased don’t seem to be scanning and registering in the PS1. It registers that a disc is in, but it won’t play the game.

Hello everyone! I posted a few weeks ago about 2 restored PlayStation consoles I was looking to sell. A lot of people suggested I list them in an auction. I took everyone's advice and listed them as an auction if you are interested in bidding please check out the listings below! I also put the restoration process in the description of the listing so you don't have to go back and forth to get more information:

PlayStation 1

PlayStation 2 Slim