Is it possible to modify Sony PlayStation 1 games?
For example I'm planning to modify a soccer game called Winning Eleven 3. What I'm exactly trying to modify is player properties such as speed, shot power and so on.
Answer
No, you can't really do this.
First of all, PlayStation 1 games were shipped on CD, which is read-only media. By definition you can't write to it, so modifications are out of the question.
So you may be thinking that you could grab an emulator and a CD image and modify that, but again you're stuck. You don't have the source code to the game, you don't have a PlayStation 1 development kit, and even if you did, you may be missing certain other tools and libraries that the original authors used.
So you can't write to the CD, you can't rebuild the game, you're stuck with trying to hex-edit a CD image file on your hard disk and running that through an emulator. I suppose you could call that "modifying", for certain definitions of "modifying"; you may be able to change a few constants or nop out a few instructions, but it's a process of trial and error (and the trial will be farcical, the errors comedic).
If you've ambitions to modify a game, then you're going to be better off choosing a game that's set up to be modified in the first place, and using a platform that enables modification.
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