For the first Friday Stream of PlayStation Month, Hedgie joins Xavier for a spot of the 1995 PlayStation release of Doom, using 2 linked PS1 consoles. The battle buddies were given the option of co-oping it or DeathMatching, and they went for Co-Op, so how far through will they get before giving up and blaming the controller? Hopefully they last enough to make a nice stream, but time will tell. TK will be on hand to lend comment and switch camera angles to show off everyone’s gameplay. Tune in to find out how they do.
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PlayStation Month Live: Hard Edge (AKA T.R.A.G)
PlayStation Month is upon us, and so what better way to kick things off than video a stream of a game that’s got a small cult following, and is most likely going to drive Xavier up the wall with the controls? A survival horror style game, without the survival or the horror, and set in a land that could be Midgar from Final Fantasy VII, Hard Edge (or T.R.A.G in the USA) is a reasonably short action puzzle game that Xavier will be trying for the very first time. Will there be technical difficulties abound? Will Xavier curse the world and all it stands for? Or will he actually get on fine with it and have a jolly good time? Tune in to find out…
PlayStation Month
On 29 Sept 1995, Sony released the PlayStation in the UK. Little did we know at the time, but it would go on to change the face of gaming as we knew it. So let’s celebrate it! 25 years is a good birthday to host a month long party for. So the whole month of September is going to be a celebration of all things to do with Sony’s original grey box. See below for the intro video to the month…
The intro to that video is somewhat special. It was burnt to a PlayStation format disc – and would have been run from the disc if it weren’t for the fact the HDMI upscaler used in the studio has a large on-screen display that lingers entirely too long. Everything from the game-play on was edited in afterwards but the opening was ripped from the PS1 disc I had burned. You can see the disc working (and the on-screen display) in the video below:
And if that’s not enough, how about a download link? If your PS1 is chipped (or you have a working disc swap method) you can download the .iso file I made, burn it to a blank CD, and run it in your own console. Bear in mind, this works best on an original (modified) console that’s able to run NTSC video (as I used the NTSC dimensions as it was quicker and easier to do that than work out a PAL equivalent that the PS1 could cope with). So PAL TVs may show a black & white image, even though it’s technically a PAL disc. I guess that warning works both ways – make sure your TV can handle a PAL signal if running outside of the PAL areas. If running in an emulator, don’t enable the bios display as the twinkles on the licence screen may loop in the background forever.
Click the below link to download the .iso file:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OprFUl38rZcLTln8RP6E61J2EHRlB5M4/view?usp=sharing
The video file is designed to loop until you press Start, whereupon everything stops and you’ll need to reset your console/emulator to restart proceedings. If you have the correct tools, you can also rip the .str file from the disc for your viewing pleasure (like I did to include it in the main video).
If I get the time, I might make a video explaining how I made the disc, but it would not have been possible without LameGuy64 who wrote the code and offered help in the PSXDev forums to those who came before me, and whose problems I learned from when compiling the code myself. Other thanks must go to the other members of the PSXDev forums who made tools and resources to help make creating homebrew PS1 discs a reality – this silly little project would not have been possible without their indirect help.
Stay tuned to TigerTails Gaming, both here and on YouTube, as there is going to be a bit more content coming out over the next month. The usual Friday livestreams have already been planned out and will feature some linked PlayStation titles (2 player games, using 2 consoles networked together with the link cable), as well the first live video in the Mystery Game series. I actually played the game that will be featured to ensure the disc worked, and I had quite a bit of fun with it – what Xavier will make of it remains to be seen. There will also be a new video every Tuesday featuring some videos that I have scripted and recorded. Xavier has also scripted a video which will hopefully be released in time. He will also be doing some Saturday livestreams, and there may also be additional mid-week streams too. So there’s lots of PS1 fun to look out for and enjoy.
Do not underestimate the power of PlayStation.
TigerTails Gaming Streams: Unrailed!
What’s this? Xavier’s playing something almost modern this week? Crazy, I know. Aided by TK, the duo tackle Unrailed by Indoor Astronaut. A game of mining resources and building track in a race against the clock, and an ever-moving train. How far can they get before their plans derail in front of them and all their hard work becomes Unrailed!? Tune in to see.
TigerTails Gaming Streams: Vagrant Story
It’s a JRP Saturday Stream, as Xavier tackles some SquareSoft goodness that is Vagrant Story on PS1. How far will he get? Who knows, tune in to find out.
TigerTails Gaming Streams: Gran Turismo 4
It’s another Retro Friday and Xavier goes for another driving game. Following the madness of Crazy Taxi, this time something a bit more realistic is opted for – Gran Turismo 4 on the PS2. Thanks to the PS2’s network features, TK can also race too, and have a PS2 providing the video feed.
TigerTails Gaming Streams: Mortal Kombat: Shaolin Monks – Part 6
It’s another Retro Friday so Xavier enlists the aid of technical button presser TK to run a co-op adventure into Mortal Kombat: Shaolin Monks on the PS2. They had attempted an offline run of this many moons ago but were halted by technical difficulties. Will they finally beat Shao Khan and win the game, or will this be a couple of hours of failure? Watch this space to find out.
TigerTails Gaming Streams: Crazy Taxi 2 (And some Soul Calibur)
It’s another Retro Friday and Xavier looks at the sequel to a classic arcade and Dreamcast game: Crazy Taxi 2. This is the first livestream of a Dreamcast game, so what could possibly go wrong? Well, for a start all the backing music could be licensed so that’ll have to go, thankfully NCS and XimmerTracks have us covered. Royalty free music is GOOOOO!
Some music provided by https://audiograb.com/u/XimerTracks
Some music provided by http://spoti.fi/NCS
Tune in to see Xavier do what he does best – fail a lot and get incredibly salty about it. It’s the content you come here for, after all, right?
After this, there is some bonus Soul Calibur action!
TigerTails Gaming Streams: Mortal Kombat: Shaolin Monks – Part 5
It’s another Retro Friday so Xavier enlists the aid of technical button presser TK to run a co-op adventure into Mortal Kombat: Shaolin Monks on the PS2. They had attempted an offline run of this many moons ago but were halted by technical difficulties. Will they get any further this time around, or will there be a fatality in the studio? Watch this space to find out.
TigerTails Gaming Streams: Crash Bandicoot
Xavier fancies going back to the PS1 with this Friday’s stream. Resisting the offer for some sweet Saturn gaming, instead Xavier decides it’s time he finally did it, and decided to go and play Crash Bandicoot. How far will he get before rage quitting? Tune in and find out!
