https://it-news.uk/tags/hardware-modding/ Recent content in Hardware-Modding on IT News Hugo en-us Sun, 12 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0800 https://it-news.uk/posts/original-playstation-secretly-supported-16mb-ram/ Sun, 12 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0800 https://it-news.uk/posts/original-playstation-secretly-supported-16mb-ram/ <p>There&rsquo;s a certain thrill in cracking open a decades-old console and finding secrets the engineers left behind. The original PlayStation, which launched in 1994 with just 2MB of RAM — four 512KB chips soldered onto the motherboard — was never supposed to need more. It ran <em>Resident Evil</em>, <em>Final Fantasy VII</em>, and <em>Metal Gear Solid</em> just fine.</p>