Despite there being a significant amount of excitement for the PlayStation Classic, Sony's own attempt at the now-budding miniature console trend, it proceeded to dwindle quite a bit as new details came out. And with it now on store shelves, the thing has become a point of contention, especially when data-miners discovered 36 other games on the system that can't be accessed, including some very popular and beloved PSOne classics like Crash Bandicoot 2 and Medievil. Combined with the already rather lacklustre list of games that can be played on the console, no one seems particularly interested in getting one now, though recent developments may change that for certain fans.

Due to the PlayStation Classic's poor security measures, it didn't take very long for the system to be hacked, allowing users to discover the aforementioned unavailable games and even access the emulator's settings. On top of that, hackers have figured out the means to load other PSOne games onto it. A hacker by the name of yifanlu uploaded a series of Twitch-streamed videos where they discovered that, due to the system not performing any sort of check for the sensitive bootroom code that's loaded when it starts up, it's possible to load any kind of payload to it during the startup via a USB device. yifanlu demonstrated this by showing a video of a Crash Bandicoot prototype running on the PlayStation Classic.

This has already led to others starting open source projects to help Playstation Classic owners load their own payloads to get their consoles to temporarily recognize and play new PlayStation games. However, it's not a simple task to perform, as it not only requires editing database or INI files (which is difficult enough on its own) but it may not work correctly on every regional variant of the console. There have since been reports of systems being bricked as a result of failed attempts so owners should probably think twice before they start messing with their consoles.

All of this, however, only seems to prove how poorly the PlayStation Classic has been received. It doesn't help that some of the games included have poor performance due to some of them running at 50Hz, meaning the likes of fighting title Tekken 3 suffer from lag.

The PlayStation Classic is available in stores right now.

Source: Ars Technica