Pocketstation

[Exophase]

So, as many of you are probably already aware, Pocketstation is a very simple but very undocumented platform. I recently made a presentation to a class of my attempts to reverse engineer and document it, while emulating it. I still have a ways to go, but here's the documentation I have so far:

http://exophase.devzero.co.uk/ps_info.txt

If anyone wants my emulator let me know. It can play at least some of the demos at correct speed (roughly). I haven't tested much.

 

[peoman]

I would like to test your emulator :bouncy:
You can upload it somewhere so anyone can give it a try.

 

[JKKDARK]

wow Exophase. Good luck with your project

 

[blueshogun96]

Excellent. It would be cool to have a PocketStation emulator thread stikied, imagine that

 

[Cyberman]

There were several pocket station add on games. A suggestion for your region list, how it is currently done is quite confusing. I recomend using double word sized hex numbers as these map to regions of memory directly. It's less confusing and that's always good for me.

Atmel made the processor for the pocket station I believe, you might see if you can email them asking if they could possibly provide information if it was a custom processor or not. I suspect Sony made them NDA it's layout but if you find out if it was custom or not may make your job a HECK of a lot easier. IE if it wasn't custom then you know more of what is going on.

Did the pocket station have a functional IRDA channel on it?
If you have an old playstation, FF8 and a pocketstation you can scope how it works with that.

Cyb