Robert Neumann

It's a power supply bypass cap for one of the 2 power planes. It's certainly not critical, as there are the many others, and especially if you've beefed those others...

A clean image will run a modchip detection routine, which will have to be patched (as you guessed). Unirom doesn't do these patches, so you'll have to find a way...

@JonathanDotCel ? :p

Hey, maybe I can help a bit :) The image you burn to CD has to include all the roms in their expected folders for the tools. Is that "psxboot...

You should be able to just download Unirom (from my link) and burn that. It should include FreePSXBoot and everything else :)

Correct :p

Wow, I love seeing that level of commitment. Absolutely mad :D So your data driven approach is perfect for tackling the issue. We have a rough understanding of what goes...

It is a big topic that I, frankly, do not have the time right now to deep dive enough into. What you've thought about so far sounds spot on, and...

Bad measurements would simply be a period measurement that's not reflecting the real values, due to some problem or another. It could be way too long, or a double throw,...

Oh gee.. I don't think I can properly reply to that massive PR >< General guide line: - If you can make your new code stable for you, that's a...