Interesting. I've only ever seen it very occasionally with Eastern systems.silverback wrote:my saturn has the VCD card in it, came with it. UK model.
Parallel port on original Playstation
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Re: Parallel port on original Playstation
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Re: Parallel port on original Playstation
came with a really crappy video sega demo disc as well. Just looks liek VHS tbh.
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Re: Parallel port on original Playstation
It never had an official purpose. Cheat devices used it until Sony removed the parallel port in later revisions of the console.Scooter wrote:Was the parallel port on the back of the original Playstation every really used for anything (official)?
The reason I personally think the parallel port was removed: If you had a cheat device that plugged in to the parallel port it was possible to run imported/backup games by disc swapping. This is how most people ran imports back in the early days of the PSX.
