r/psx

Corporate suits are aggressively pushing a digital-only future, and we all know exactly why. When you don't own the physical media, you don't own the game. You are just renting a temporary license until a licensing contract expires and some megalomaniac board of directors decides to delete it from your library.

Look at what Sony just did by permanently wiping over 550 legally purchased StudioCanal movies straight out of PlayStation user accounts. No refunds. No downloads. Just hundreds of dollars of people's hard-earned money vanished into thin air because a contract expired. If a storefront uses the word "Buy," then losing access to that item is nothing short of corporate-sanctioned theft.

And let’s talk about the economic barrier. Killing physical discs doesn't just hurt collectors; it actively blocks poorer communities from experiencing gaming. When a console doesn't have a disc drive, you can't buy a used game for five bucks. You can't borrow a game from a friend. Low-income families and kids relying on local libraries for media access get completely priced out of the ecosystem. It's a predatory, anti-consumer lockout designed to force everyone into paying premium digital retail prices forever.

We’re done watching it happen.

My partner and I are building PayStation. The name is a literal middle finger to their digital pricing racket.

We are writing an emulator layer built from the ground up to be lean, optimized, and completely accessible. Our mission isn't profit. We aren't taking donations, we aren't locking features behind premium tiers, and there will be zero ads. We want this running on everything—from library computers to the smartphones in your pocket. If the industry is going to systematically lock people out of ownership, we are going to open the back door.

We don't have a specific ETA yet because we are working out of our IDEs and stacking clean commits on Git around our day jobs. But we officially guarantee PayStation drops before Sony completely executes physical discs for good.

They want an all-digital future where you own nothing and pay premium for the privilege. We're just two developers cooking in the terminal to make sure they don't get away with it.

Follow along if you want to watch us build it.

🟦 Pepsiman (1999) – PlayStation madness in its purest form!

A legendary PS1 cult classic where you sprint through chaos delivering Pepsi at insane speed 😂🥤

I might ask about some English abbreviations; I speak Spanish and don't know much about them.

I remember a game that was similar to Diablo graphically, but it was a top-down (that's how I remember it) isometric view, not "sideways diagonally" like Diablo. I think is called top-down.

I remember playing it once or twice and then never again. To give more details, it was like an RPG, but very, very strange; it seemed unfinished. I remember the character entering a room, It was closing the door And if you didn't defeat all the enemies you couldn't get out (I never managed to get out)

All of that after starting the game, in the first or second room.

I also remember that the graphics looked pretty good but were quite strange.

If you know of anything similar, please let me know. I've searched for games, but none of them look quite like they do in my memories.

I used the translator, it might be annoying