Enthusiastic engineer Lorenzio Brodesko presented the first custom motherboard for PlayStation 1, created outside the Sony walls.
A fee called NSone is fully compatible with the original PS1 chips and is placed in the case of standard control panel. This is not an emulator and is not FPGA – NSone is a true motherboard working with CPU, GPU, original SPU and other components.
The project started in March 2024, when Brodesko continued to repair PS1 and found a shortage of documents.
He polished the tables, scanned classes and manually regenerated plans to completely record the architecture. NSone is based on PU-23 series tables, but returns a parallel port and uses a four-layer PCB instead of two.
Creating a new life can breathe new life into faulty control panels – users will be able to convert the original chip to a new work board.
The project has increased interest in the Retro community and collected € 5700 on Kickstarter. Brostesko also prepares full drawings and files for serial production.