If you download psx roms, burn them and run them on a psx...

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...would they work on it?

Not that I'm gonna try this, since I don't own a psx, but I was curious about this.

Nah, they had hard copy protection. You'd need a modded PSX (Wikipedia: Modchip) to uh... "circumvent copy protection for educational purposes and play backup versions of owned titles"... Yeah let's put it that way.

You can blame the PSX and Dreamcast era for the genesis of the DMCA though.

Perhaps making a HARDWARE psx emulator that looks exactly like a real psx would suffice, but Sony wouldn't like that very much, would they? xD

You can find old PSXes at Goodwill and whatnot for a couple bucks.

Gut one, cram a microATX system in it with a harddrive and wireless, push a bunch of roms to it, script a linux distro to fire up a menu on boot to load roms to ePSXe...

Don't give me ideas.

I've seen various projects of people cramming small computer set ups into consoles and it would be cool to try. The old xbox would be the easiest to do that on due to its size and would have less chance of heating issues. As for the psx Uprising, you would be better modding a PS2 since that will give you more game choice and there is quite a few methods to do it, including various soft mod options.

An old PC with onboard graphics should be able to run PSx games just fine.
Alternatively you will require one of the following for your PS1:
*A swap disc which is an original and not a copy like PSx-Change 2
*A hardware add-on which bypasses the boot sector (usually they are cheat devices like Action Replay). Countless 3rd party ones still around in local classifieds and eBay.
*Modchip
*Fast hands (there is a method of disc swapping with an original game which is very difficult and not worth your time

Alternatively buy a Net Yaroze debug PSx with a boot disc

It's not that difficult once you figure out when to swap, but it's a heck of a lot easier to just use a Gameshark disc.

But both of those methods have the drawback of not being able to play CD audio, though I was surprised to find how few PS games actually used it.