The Nintendo PlayStation can finally play CD games

[Joystiq]

It was no small feat when Terry and Dan Diebold got their hands on a prototype of the

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, but there has always been a catch to it: its signature feature, the CD drive, couldn't actually play games. Even a load of repair work barely

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. Well, the end is finally in sight. Professional tinkerer Ben Heckendorn (aka Ben Heck) has

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to get the CD drive working, including games. The solution, as he explains, involved replacing some "questionable" capacitors and "jiggling some things around" -- he was caught off-guard when things started working. The biggest challenge now is finding games to use with the near-mythological system.

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