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Xperia Play hacked to play your original Playstation games

You and Crash Bandicoot may need to spend some time apart

Dan Grabham Dan Grabham

Fed up of the small number of original PlayStation games playable on the Sony Ericsson’s Xperia Play and want to play your old PSOne classics? So did Android developer Yifan Lu but unlike you, he decided to do something about it. According to Phandroid he has hacked the official PlayStation emulator inside his gaming Android phone so that it will play disc images of all his dusty PlayStation classics.

Of course, he decided to test it out with Crash Bandicoot 3. Here’s how he did it. We have no idea whether this is legal or not but here’s some more gadget hacks and tricks that we’ve discovered.

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Dan is Editor-in-chief of Stuff, working across the magazine and the Stuff.tv website.  Our Editor-in-Chief is a regular at tech shows such as CES in Las Vegas, IFA in Berlin and Mobile World Congress in Barcelona as well as at other launches and events. He has been a CES Innovation Awards judge. Dan is completely platform agnostic and very at home using and writing about Windows, macOS, Android and iOS/iPadOS plus lots and lots of gadgets including audio and smart home gear, laptops and smartphones. He's also been interviewed and quoted in a wide variety of places including The Sun, BBC World Service, BBC News Online, BBC Radio 5Live, BBC Radio 4, Sky News Radio and BBC Local Radio.

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Computing, mobile, audio, smart home