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TIL: PlayStation Broadband Navigator existed for PS2 in Japan (github.com)
submitted 7 months ago by to c/ps2@lemmy.world
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For me this is really interesting that there is now an English patch for official Sony's PSBBN! Sadly, I need to find a decent HDD/Network adapter to try it out, so I don't know much about it first hand. I am curious, anybody here tried it?

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[–] 2 points 7 months ago (7 children)

Well, I have the adapter, so I guess I have to. Someone making these decisions at Sony must have been really into Linux.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago* (4 children)

    I wanted a Net Yaroze model specifically because it ran Linux and was basically just a PS2 converted into a PC. I had the hard drive for the fat PS2, but I don't think it ever had the same kind of hacks to support full on Linux. And now I only have the slim one. Still works; but no hard drive.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    I thought Net Yaroze was just a PS1 thing

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Here you can see all the features it had to offer: https://youtu.be/afetcJgUafg?t=835 For me it is very interesting that is looks like the step in between PS2 and PS3 era.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago*

    Yeah, I looked this up after the last post. Very cool stuff.

    I guess the "OS", the dashboard UI, and all the channels and so on are separate apps that could be replaced or worked on separately, meaning there's some serious potential!

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