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A first-party-source-led timeline of PlayStation from its 1994 debut through PS5, handheld branches, media transitions, and network services.
Trace PlayStation CD-ROM commands, parameter and response queues, sector delivery, interrupt acknowledgements, DMA, and emulator timing boundaries.
Model PS1 DMA as seven timed channel engines with DPCR priority, synchronization modes, chopping windows, linked lists, and latched DICR flags.
Trace PlayStation GP0 drawing-area, coordinate-offset, and mask-bit state to reproduce clipping, framebuffer protection, command ordering, and rendering tests.
Trace PS1 GTE inputs, fixed-point transforms, command timing, saturation, and FLAG summaries without replacing guest arithmetic with host floats.
Trace the PlayStation MDEC decode pipeline from command and quantization tables through macroblock conversion, FIFO flow, and DMA completion.
Trace PS1 textured primitives through texture-page attributes, packed texels, CLUT coordinates, and texture windows to debug faithful rendering.
Trace PlayStation SPU voices from ADPCM blocks and key-on state through ADSR, pitch, sound RAM, CD mixing, IRQs, and reverb memory.
After reversing an earlier shutdown in 2021, Sony set staged PS3 closures beginning in 2026 and broader PS3/Vita closure for July 2027.