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by deergomoo 1000 days ago
> And iirc the PS2 reused the PS1 cpu as a component on the board for I/O

Which has some interesting implications for softmodded systems. I play my PS2 games via Ethernet off a Raspberry Pi Samba server—it’s incredible to me that it’s possible and works so well, but because it’s using the PS1 CPU for I/O you can’t use it for PS1 games.