Comment by Tsiklon

It’s a minor point in the breakdown of the system, but I had absolutely no idea that the Memory Card Slots and the Controller Ports on the PlayStation were electrically identical, when I was younger I had recognised that they both had 9 contacts. But I hadn’t considered that they would be electrically the same. The only difference being in how they were addressed.

I regularly use my PlayStation instead of my PlayStation 2 for playing PS1 games, it appears to me that the video output on the PS2 while playing PS1 games is of a lower fidelity (while using an SCART lead), the output is always off centre on the PS2. I assume it’s something to do with the hardware differences in the video output between the two?