Your 3DS can run PS1 Games

The New Nintendo 3DS with Homebrew can run PS1 Games! I found RetroArch's PCSX ReARMed Emulator so incredible, that I wanted to share some gameplay of 12 amazing PS1 Games running on my hacked 3DS. It's impressive what this modded handheld console from 2014 still can achieve to this day. In this video I will let the games primarily speak for themselves, with some added comments about the performance and other quirks.

Feel free to skip around the video to see your favorite titles and subscribe if you enjoyed it!

Chapters:
00:00 - Intro
01:15 - Tomb Raider
02:07 - Ape Escape
03:16 - Spyro the Dragon
04:02 - Gran Turismo 2
05:14 - Rayman 2: The Great Escape
06:10 - Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
07:01 - Crash Team Racing
08:02 - Crash Bandicoot
08:48 - Final Fantasy VII
09:35 - Metal Gear Solid
10:16 - Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
11:15 - Need for Speed 3: Hot Pursuit
11:56 - Summary

[krstabankovic]

Great, I spent half an hour writing a comment on how to optimize the settings for this emulator and youtube deleted it :|

[riston]

my first playthrough of mgs1 was on a 3ds... it was perfect, I loved it.

[masam]

The new 3ds xl is such a nice little emulating machine. Before I got a steamdeck, i would always bring my 3ds with me to work, packed to the brim with games

[Planeta-Shelezyaka]

The is a perfect accuracy between talking speed and speed of emulating games in this video.

Just great!

[TheMarck]

I remember back when I was hoping they could get decent N64 Emulation on the PSP, they did pretty well but I don't know if they ever got it to run something to a playable degree - love to see independent programmers take on these challanges.

[lifem]

this is how I played all the resident evil games !! even games that I know will never see the light of day again like master blaster, Alundra 2, parasite eve, etc.

[JuanxDlol]

Your NEW 3DS can run PS1 games. Old 3DS and 2DS cant.

[ZephaniahNoah]

Whether a system is capable of emulating certain consoles has less to do with how powerful the console is and more to do with how well the emulator was written.

[LuRecs]

OpenLara exists for 3DS too, if you want the best experience, I'd say 😄 but it's amazing how many ps1 titles are playable on the 3ds now

[sias.]

You get a thumbs up from me 👍
Edit: I had no problems with symphony of the night. I only experience slow down after I beat a boss and collected their orbs.

[jeb_leeds]

This is actually a really great video I always thought 3ds needed PS1 to shine

[kuwabaraterno]

new 3ds: runs ps1 games
old 3ds: emulates a advance game at 10 fps

[Alexander-ndde]

Legend of the dragoon is an awesome tittle to run on the 3ds. I've still never finished the 4 disc series but its a favorite of mine

[The_Wandering_Nerd]

We had workable PS1 emulation back in 1999 on PowerPC iMacs with Virtual Game Station and on the Dreamcast with Bleem, and I think the New 3DS has a CPU and video hardware nearly as good as either of them

[splitter]

Never even thought of this as a possibility tbh but a pretty decent idea even if a compatibly list may be required.

[TheInfectiousCadaver]

my 3ds is about to get a whole new life.
should probably dust it off and deep clean it lmao

[thebasketballhistorian]

Seems cool if you already have a 3DS or like using 3DS hardware but... tons of retro portables can emulate the PS1 and N64 perfectly and even upscaled. That seems to be the way to go instead of worrying about frame and sound skips half the time.

I'm personally using a Retroid Pocket 2+ which I bought a long time ago for $100.

[iPlayGameNoTalk]

Thanks for making this video. If you hadn't made this, I probably would not have thought to try running PS1 games on my 2DS XL. I tried out a handful of games initially and all of them ran poorly so I gave up. I later did some research and tried converting the bin/cue files into .chd format. Now those games run smoothly. No slow down.

The games I tried are
Mega Man X4
Mega Man X5
Castlevania - Symphony of the Night
Vagrant Story
The Raiden Project

[lactobacillusprime]

It translates rather well to the tint screen doesn’t it? 😮

[TurboPikachu]

This is gonna be the way I want to experience Tail Concerto for the first time