The long-running Arcade Archives series from Japanese publisher Hamster has set an impressive standard for emulated rereleases of older games, and its new Console Archives lineup is already showing similarly high standards. The fact that it's debuting with classic extreme sports game Cool Boarders also comes with a special irony: there's now a PS1 emulator on Switch 2 that's dramatically better than Sony's official emulator on PS5.
Hamster's version of Cool Boarders is available now on Switch 2 for $12, and is also set to come to PS5 next week. It's not a remaster or any other sort of upgrade – this is simply a PS1 game packaged up in an emulator. But it's a good emulator, and as demonstrated in the comparison video from GVG below, it's a dramatically better one than the official PS1 emulator on PS5.
