Comment by segmondy
3 months ago
yeah, it's called the gameshark, for about $20. You could hook it up to your PC and hack on it, best of all the toolkits were Linux/FreeBSD. outside of SPIM, psx introduced a bunch of hackers to r3k and showed us that the future didn't have to be x86.
it was this whole exercise that convinced me to pick up a book on mips "see mips run" which was a first self-study deepdive into microprocessor architecture.
fun times!