This is the first hint of the challenge.
Here you can see the color palette of the protagonist, who appears in both titles.
Does any homebrew game come to mind with a character using these colors?
Many users have already tried to guess the games, do you want to take a shot?
You have all the info and the award of the challenge here:
PS1 Homebrew Guess challenge rules
On 25 May 2026, a special online event focused on two PS1 homebrew games will begin.
Until then, a community challenge starts now 👀
Can you guess the two games?
Rules:
Daily visual hints will be posted until the reveal.
🏆 Prize
The first person to correctly guess both games will be permanently featured in the Awards section of psxhomebrewgames.com as “PSX Homebrew Detective Award 2026”.
This recognition is meant to highlight the player who actively explores and discovers hidden gems within the PS1 homebrew community, helping bring attention to creative homebrew projects that might otherwise go unnoticed.
Think you can solve it?
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Hi everyone!
After projects like Mario 64 PSX, Half-Life PSX, and the recent PSX Splash Game Jam (new article soon), we have a lot of projects to cover in the PS1 homebrew scene. Today, we are going to talk about Zelda: OOT for the PS1!
Zelda: OOT is still highly experimental, but it’s already playable and includes basic movement, collision, and a surprisingly modern dual-stick camera system (like Dark Souls). The prototype was built using PSYQo, and the developer (u/izzy88izzy) explained the project also serves as a way to better understand PS1 hardware and improve another engine project called BONNIE-32 (check it out).
Performance is still very rough and there are several graphical issues, but considering the scale of Ocarina of Time, it’s already a fascinating technical achievement.
We go into more detail about the project, its technical challenges, and the current state of the prototype in our full article:
👉 Zelda: Ocarina of Time on PS1 Sounds Impossible…
Since nobody seems to have covered the project on YouTube yet, and we don't know how to compile it ourselves, we wanted to help spread the word by uploading gameplay footage recorded by izzy88izzy (full credit goes to the developer) on our channel:
👉 A Zelda Game on PS1?! - Incredible Homebrew Project
So I had this happen a couple days ago after dropping it accidentally and what I did was remove the Wi-Fi chip and put it back in, and it started turning on again just without Wi-Fi which I didn’t think was a big deal. This morning, I tried turning it back on again, and it was stuck on the backlight screen. I did the same thing again and took the Wi-Fi chip out and back in. I removed the SD card multiple times, I formatted the SD card fat 32 with 64 kB cluster sizes and moved all my files back on, and right now it’s still stuck on the backlight screen. My SD card is 64 gb and I know it’s recommended to have 32 or less but it was working just fine for like a week. So is there anything else I can do? Should I order a new Wi-Fi chip?