l’m not sure this is very well known fact but early Playstation 1 console models had more issues with color banding that later ones, they HW patched in the later PS1 revisions so some games would look different depending on where you played it.

https://www.tombraiderforums.com/showthread.php?t=222685

@djlink kinda wonder how hard it'd be for something like duckstation to support the hardware difference?