Yeah fun times... My father had thought he struck gold when he brought home 5 PS1's he bought while thifting, since his one died a spectacular death and none of them worked!!! I took all 5 of them apart and managed to make 1 from all the parts of the others. The frankenstein PS1 was chipped too, so he was very happy to have his PS1 back.
Cant go wrong with thrifting! I recently bought a ags 101 gba sp that has a faulty capacitor and I'm going to take it as a sign that I should take that screen out and put it in an original gba that I also got from thrifting. Super excited to try it out because I'm new to modding handhelds! All this free time to work on hobbies I didnt have time for is the only good thing about the corona virus lockdown. Lol
G C Found a SP 101 at a thrift store for 8 bucks, only noticed it because it had a black screen instead of the standard silver one. One of the hinges broke on it a short while later, but that’s nothing an eBay shell replacement couldn’t fix! Add in an EZ Flash Omega, and it’s perfect
I think i am very lucky, found a DMG-01 GameBoy for 60 Turkish liras (about 10-15$) and owner said it's not working. When i opened it up only problem i could see is the battery compartment connections are broken. I saughter them and BOOM, it works perfectly again! And i had a old GameBoy shell almost never used back when i had the original one i changed the shell of it and some time later i sold it. But the original shell remains in my hands and now i have a perfectly working and almost in new condition DMG-01 GameBoy just for 15$
That THX sound-test styled boot up splash screen sound is burned into my memory, and it definately is the best startup self-test boot screen out of all consoles ever. The GameCube, Dreamcast, and Game Boy Advance all come close for best boot up splash screens out there.
That signature blare is, to this day, unmatched by any other console, though the PS2 comes close. Makes me miss just plugging one up in spite of having a PS3 and Classic.
The problem with your original one probably is the motor that moves the Laser back/forward or its gear... it could also be the disk motor but less probable. Your laser is reading so its working! The reason you are getting read errors is almost certain the laser not being able to move to the right position or the disk not spinning at the right RPM. Keep it everything! If you find another PS1 with a burned Laser you can replace with your original one. The other gears/pieces can also be used to mix match to try to make a fully working one out of a bunch of broken. That disk reader you brought probable is a mix match of a bunch of broken ones since i'm not aware of anyone manufacturing knockoffs. And I could be wrong but I only had seen disk readers with white/gray plastic on the slim models. 9:13 The lens >IS< supposed to be loose like this. The PS1 will move the lens up and down to adjust the laser focus using electromagnet levitation. Crash 1 2 and 3 games are one of the best ways to test disk readers due to how the games where written. Those games are constantly pulling assets from the disk as you move around the level. If you are not experience any hiccup while playing your disk reader is working perfectly (assuming that the game disk isn't scratched). And you don't need to fully close the console to test it. Testing it open can save you time and lesser the risk of breaking plastic or striping screw holes.
RIGHT! I cringed so hard when he put the screws back in to test it. They actually do still make lasers for the PSONE (the small version) and PS2 as well. However they are definitely third party and quality control is a bit sketchy. It's possible that this laser was actually designed for the Slim version and would explain why it didn't fit. Anywho, nice to see it all worked out in the end!
Crash Bandicoot is constantly loading from the disc to the memory as you play, not just in loading screens. That is why a slow disc drive would cause that game to fail so spectacularly.
@@Jadty They even had a few people randomly probing undocumented opcodes to figure out what they did, in hopes of squeezing even more out of the system.
I just love that feeling when you're fixing things where you're like "Well... I'll try fixing all the obviously broken stuff and hope that's it" and when you get it it's like "Wait that actually worked!?" Very satisfying to see you get this!
Yeah, I remember a friends PSX back in the 90s had to be flipped sideways to work. And my early model I bought years later has the same issue. Even worse when it tries to stream data straight off the disc for music or FMVs.
@@LGRBlerbs it worked because on this earlier model of ps1 the heat from the power supply warps the laser assembly plastic over time and when you flipped the ps1 over the gravity was getting the laser to align correctly.
One of the many reasons I love your content is the small, inconsequential details. Standing up the case of the game you are playing in view of the camera is something that literally has no significance whatsoever, yet for some reason, that minute detail, of which I'm sure very few people even noticed, is my favourite part of this video. I don't know why that is the case and I don't know why I noticed it. Maybe I'm strange (I am definitely strange) but I appreciate that small detail.
The details are not small or inconsequential, we've all just gotten used to low effort/"minimalistic" content. Clint, on the other hand, takes pride in his work.
I'm a car mechanic not a PlayStation mechanic but that sound it was making is definitely a bearing noise. The motor was my first thought when I heard it.
My dad has 3 or more of those electric coolers from different manufacturers, and occasionally one will start making a hell of a noise as the motor wears out. While occasionally replacing a motor, I gently remind him that unlike a mini fridge, these coolers are not meant to be running 24 hrs 365 days a year; the motor just wasn't meant for that.
Great job! It’s always annoying when you get parts and things seem to just go haywire. Changed LCD display and Floppy drive on my Yamaha SY-99! Man that was an ocean of boards upon boards and wires all over the place that had to be removed in order to get to the blasted display! Almost gave up two times, but just kept going! Finally worked like a charm! Phew! 😁😂
That is why most of things today instead go into recycling bin. Since the workhours are not worth the results which may be a scrap unit then you can't charge a customer for your time wasted on it the amount you need.
One might almost begin to think that these devices weren't made to be serviceable :) Helps a lot when you have gear that has a disassembly/maintenance/repair manual to go along with it that actually tells you what to take out to fix something, among other useful details.
The 1001 used the KSM440-ACM laser assembly, which is impossible to find anywhere these days. A common alternative is to use the KSM440-BAM assembly and switch its grey cover plate for the original black one. You did everything right without even knowing it! :D
*Driver loads really fast and the car appears* "YEAH DUDE IT'S WORKIN YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY" My god this is beautiful. I get so happy with this kind of honest happiness. Great video man!
The nostalgia connected to that startup sound... Also, the excitement in Clint’s voice when he gets it running is genuinely heartwarming dude. This video legitimately cheered me up today 😁
Yep, had one as well and it's laser component failed on me equally. As well as the cd holder portion snapping off. They are great models for the phono sockets and expansion bay (for cheat carts etc) but they are notorious for breaking down.
@@blankpage9277 not necessarily, The first thing and the thing that fixes it most times is cleaning the laser! You just disassemble the unit rub the laser head with a bit of isopropyl alcohol on a Q-tip and give it a go, If that does not work then It could be a dying laser but I would try cleaning first because 75% of the time that does the trick! Hope that helps :D (Oh, and here is a link to an IFIXIT that should help you if you have never taken one apart before: www.ifixit.com/Guide/PlayStation+2+Optical+Disc+Drive+Lens+Cleaning/1331 )
This is legitimately how I felt while I was trying to see if I could revive my old Sega Dreamcast a couple of months ago. The sadness of finding out a part not working right. And then the joy of seeing your old childhood games work fine and dandy upon getting it to work.
The CD mechanism itself was always the achilles heel of the original models of the PS1. A good friend of mine always had to put the game in and turn the whole console upside down on top of a bowl in order to get his original PS1 to semi-reliably read discs. For whatever reason it seemed to work!
Damn! I still have my SCPH-1001 that died around 3 years ago after 7 or 8 years of play after a laser replacement, and it wasn't the only one; there's at least 3 dates marked on its chassis indicating replacements, and two are very close to one another, so, this thing really likes to go blind from time to time. But my neighbor has a later model PSX that, last time I asked, he said it still worked like a charm, and running pirated games of course, because this is Brazil XD. The first model of any console generation always gives the most issues...
I tried to fix my SCPH-9001 model not long ago with an assembly replacement, and returned it after seeing it skip, and bought a SCPH-7501 afterwards from my local retro game store, and is working, but now I got two excellent donor gears if I need to replace the laser! Thanks LGR!! 😃
I was actually able to get my PSONE working from using techniques from watching all your restoration and cleaning videos for various electronics. Thing works fine now. Just needed a good deep cleaning.
The original SCPH-1000 series, the SCPH-3000 series and the SCPH-5000 models always had FMV skipping issues due to a hardware design flaw that caused overheating or so that's I've heard and read in some forums back in the day. Later model revisions were redesigned to correct that overheating problem as well as a cost-cutting measure.
The replacement drive you bought is a KSM-440BAM, which is built for the PSOne models that in turn do have grey lids. This assembly also doesn't fit in all original PS1 models because of its short ribbon cable, with the earlier SCPH-100x models being one of the exceptions. That gray lid they have also doesn't fit well in the original PS1 case in general, which is what most likely caused the noises you heard when trying to use the assembly as is. The discs were actually being scratched against the case while spinning during boot. The common way of fixing this is actually by doing what you did, that is replacing the gray lid with a black one from an original drive. This way the entire assembly fits nicely into the case and doesn't result in scratched discs and/or read errors. The KSM-440BAM are also largely known to be better built than their original KSM-440ACM counterparts, which is also why this procedure is usually a recommended fix either way. Though with these Chinese clones it ends up being a coin toss anyway.
SCPH-100x laser assembly is the worst designed and most likely to fail. They placed it too closely to the power supply, prematurely aging the laser and drying out the lubricant, and the plastics used would wear with use; eventually the laser sits lopsided in its sled. People would run their consoles upside down, it worked because gravity would bring the laser back into alignment. There wasn't a thriving internet or internet media to drive a story around it, but the SCPH-100x was definitely the Xbox 360 RROD of its era.
Man watching you play Driver and Crash on a good period tv just reminds me how utterly revolutionary the PS1 over previous generation consoles, just what a huge step!
Found a stack of these, ps2's and wii's at a hoodwill 3-4yrs back. Honestly I remember the graphics being better. Picked up two, and a ps2. gave one to a buddy. Can't remember why, but one had Shrek inside.
Played a lot of PS1 and PS2 games on a similar Sony Trinitron TV back in the day, mine was mono though. Hearing yours spring into life ready to play some PS1 is just such a nice nostalgia hit.
Nice video, and well done fixing the replacement fix! The part that you ordered was 'designed' as a replament for the drive in the later 'slim' model; the PSOne, which had the grey top to the CD tray assembly. As you found though, that replacement also works fine with the original 10001 PS1..BUT, you need to swap the grey top plate for the original black top plate so that it fits correctly, and is freely moving on the suspension grommets - that could be why the cog inside was ground to death, because of the poor fit with the grey top plate! (if you look back in the video where it's just been installed, you can see that it's jammed against the front of the opening for the CD tray). Maybe I got lucky with my original UK PS1 (with RCA ports on the back) because a lot of cleaning and removing the original old gorilla-snot grease, and replaceing with a new, light silicone based grease, it works just fine again!
Makes sense! Really wish the seller would've been upfront about it, instead of repeatedly insisting that it was made for the SCPH-1001. They made no mention of the PSOne anywhere! Figured they knew what they were talking about since they'd sold hundreds of them, but alas.
@@LGRBlerbs : All the sellers on Ebay do the same thing, regardless of replacement laser assembly they're selling - some with short leads, some with long leads (for the later PS1 models). It would really help if they mentioned that the top plate should be switche with the original one if it was black, but hey, they're out for sales...we can figure that out for ourselves right? Yeah.. most of these guys are re-sellers, and nothing to do with the Chinese factory making the parts! But you did well by replacing broken pieces and swapping-out that black top-plate! And it was an enjoyable video :-)
I got my PlayStation for Xmas in 1997. Best present I’ve ever received. Nowadays though, I love my Sega Saturn. It has a much better retro thing going on.
My first PS1 only lasted 61 days, a day later than the warranty. A ant got inside and short circuited it, I remember taking it apart and seeing that fried ant. Unfortunately I was 10 at the time and knew nothing about electronics. My parents couldn't afford to buy me one, so I would walk up and down the streets picking up cans to finally buy one, then to have it dry a day after the warranty was so defeating. Thankfully my uncle moved in with us a few years later and he got a PS2 for us when it first came out.
That is common marking on these. So it's not what you said. It means top just written crudely since they put together these fast enough not be bothered about grammar or something similar. Usually a technician quality checks if the top assembly is good then makes a mark on it. In this case the top of the casing from the inside then passes it through for further assembly. If the case is bad gets a revision or recycling if it's good then continues on the assembly line.
The thing with the very early SCPH-1001s is that the drives in them were made almost entirely of plastic. The later SCPH-1001s had drives where there was a lot more metal used in the construction. Although it still didn't help that the drive was placed close to the power supply. The one that LGR has here, being that it was made in November of 1996, will have a drive with the more substantial construction with the drive. Still not a reliable drive by any means though. Lol. And as a general rule, I've heard that those replacement PS1 drives are absolute garbage.
This is about late a model 1001 as you can get (5001 came out late Q4 1996 IIRC) and long term its still more likely to fail due to residual heat damage due to proximity of the power supply. Suffice to say having a fresh laser will make a difference but these outside of the purported audio improvements over later models is not much of a reason to seek these out specifically. Its good they were able to salvage parts from the old laser assembly to help fix the issue with the new unit, sometimes that's what necessary especially since good quality 3rd party assemblies for PS1 haven't been around in a long time.
@@wartax5 Exactly. I have actually seen SCPH-1001s that were made in January of 1997. And speaking of the 5001, I have never seen one. Does it actually exist? And apparently, the 5501 actually has the same DAC as the 1001. Of course, whether it's implemented different by using higher quality components or not is something I'm not sure about.
@@1980sGamer I've never seen either the SCPH-5001 or the SCPH-5002 - there was a Japanese market SCPH-5000 and the SCPH-5003 - a strange Frankenstein unit sold in Hong Kong that had a main board that used a US boot ROM but a NTSC:J mechacon (so it would only boot Japanese discs) and a 220V power supply with documentation that was printed in English and Chinese. At one stage, I was making a serious attempt to locate the a SCPH-5001, but every listing I found ended up being something else (normally a SCPH-5501).
@@TrimeshSZ Oh yeah. The SCPH 5501s are very common. According to Wikipedia, the SCPH-5001 does exist. Although being that we're talking about Wikipedia here, That should be taken with a grain of salt. I've never seen one either. Even just searching for the bottom of the console where the label is, I can't find one that is actually a 5001.
@@1980sGamer Yeah, same experience I had - obviously, it's much harder to prove that something doesn't exist than that it does, but everyone I asked who claimed to be selling a "SCPH-5001" ended up actually having some other model. The other thing is that both the SCPH-5000 and the SCPH-5003 had RCA jacks, and the only US or PAL consoles I've seen with them have been SCPH-1001 or SCPH-1002. I've also seen several consoles marked "SCPH-7501" that have PU-18 boards in them (I.E. boards that should be in a SCPH-5501) - these all seem to be made in Mexico and have date codes on the plastics that are much later than the ones on the electronic parts. My guess is that the boards were lost and then found again, but by then the shipping SKU had changed so they built them up with the new part number.
How much you pay for it and with free shipping you still get essentially almost free stuff. He forgot that he ordered it. With other words it was so cheap that if he didn't got his order he his financial standpoint would feel that loss at all. The only major problem still remains no matter where you buy things curriers around the world most of them are careless especially customs. They almost always break things be it well packaged or not.
Paused like a min in to comment as this has already reminded me of fixing my first Playstation by at the end of the 90's, The ribbon cable from the lazer assembly had a split and had a broken wire which myself and a friend fixed by soldering a patch cable, we had nothing to insult the cable with and ended up using cigarette papers, what can i say we were teenagers and our dodgy fix meant we had a playstation again!
Aw man, that start up sound took me straight back to the giddy anticipation of adventuring with Lara, or killing demons with the Doomguy. Great days indeed!
The main thing that makes this particular model of ps2 valuable and desired in the community is that the launch ps1 uses the same audio processing chip Sony used in it's most expensive high-end CD players at the time. Most if not all of the players using this chip were and still are very expensive ($1,000+ in 1995 dollars) and evidently have some of the best audio quality you can get over RCA connections. These are common enough that they aren't super rare or valuable but there is a market for them among people looking for an affordable, very high-quality cd player.
My PS1 died after a year or so with the exact problem. This was 1998 you couldn't exactly order parts online readily and had to go through proper channels to get the parts I'm sure. I almost had a perfect save file in Crash 2 also! So upsetting as a 9 year old kid at the time. My parents went through a rough patch in their marriage and money problems so fixing it wasn't a priority at the time. Lucky I had an okayish to decent PC and I got a Dreamcast the next year. Rollercoaster tycoon and Dreamcast was my jam in that era! Thanks for the memories!
Ahh, cracking gears. Gives me flashbacks to fixing two (!) early 1980s Panasonic cassette radios. Damn rewind gear cracks on all of them. Fortunately, I have a friend with a 3D printer, so he make me a couple gears.
Crash Bandicoot is probably one of the best games to test a PS1 CD Drive on because the game is almost constantly reading really small pages of data from the CD-ROM as you walk through the level. There's a really cool video about it on TH-cam, somewhere or other. You'd definitely have problems actually playing the game if the CD Drive was faulty.
Also I wonder, did you happen to get a faster CD-ROM drive than the original one? I always remember the load times on my old Playstation back in the day being painful. Try and play any of the Harry Potter games on PS1 and you'll see what I mean!
Nice to get a win here. I had a similar early model that read about 1/3 of games mostly fine, then loaded some slow, then wouldn't load some at all. I was able to fix it by just adjusting the POTs on the drive.
Oh man how I have missed those sounds the ps1 boot sound chimed and my heart melted then crash bandicoot thank you LGR for putting this in my life again
I've been emulating ps1 on vita and PC lately and haven't seen it on CRT in a while and oh man that looks so smooth. Cool vid Clint. Love it when repairs actually work.
Glad I saw this. My PS1 is just starting to act slightly erratically when loading discs every so often. It works fine most of the time, but I have considered getting one of those drop in repair/replacements. Now I know to be cautious of them, but I also know that even if it doesn't work I can kludge something together.
Videos like this always make me want to get a PS1. Even though id never play it, and could just emulate the games. It just is t quite the same. I dont even know the last time i played an actual ps1, and didnt emulate or play a ps2/ps3.
@@LGRBlerbs oh wow didn't expect you commenting on my comment! Yeah I know why it makes this sound, I just found it louder than I remember from my old CRT tv's. It's a nice sound so i'm not complaining ;) I love your videos man, currently wachting some old ones from your main channel. It's inspiring me more to make some video's on these kind of subjects on my own and other things. Keep up doing what you love doing man, it's awesome!
Good job not giving up and re-purposing parts from the old laser assembly. Sometimes new parts just aren't built with the same quality and often with old hardware like this you need to use the old parts in some capacity.
It's glorious when you discover it's a mechanical problem rather than electrical. I recently fixed an old Laserdisc player as it was a mechanical issue. Also needed some new lube and could only do half of it because the manual was darn near impossible to find for that model to get to hard-to-reach places. I found it after I reassembled and watched Bambi. lol. Gotta take it all apart again to clear out the remaining old grease and put some fresh ones in, but it'll be worth it. Oh, I'm sure you know, but Limited Run games is doing a physical game for Chex Quest. I know you loved it when you made the video, so I feel like you'll get it. lol.
That startup sound... Damn, childhood. When I heard you just wanted to swap the disc drive, I thought this would be a short easy fix but I guess you can get unlucky with the parts too. I had to swap this thing on my PS1 as well, the original laser died ages ago. Now it works perfectly again and to be honest, if I knew sooner that it is this easy, I would've done it so many years ago.
I had a horror story of a time trying to fix a few psx like yours. The replacement lasers were so bad you had to Macgyver parts to make one work somewhat.
I've replaced a couple of these. You're supposed to swap out the gray faceplate for your original black one if using one of these on an SCPH-1001 because the gray faceplate has a slightly different shape. I wouldn't doubt if the damage was done by trying to run it with the top case putting pressure on that faceplate.
I used to LOVE Driver, and ALWAYS had trouble getting it to run in the first place, let alone STAY running without freezing up. Damn shame; it's probably the best PS1 game I ever played.
By the way - the best way to do the part at 15:09 is to clear out all the crates before it, activate the Switch Crate, then go back and get the third Aku-Aku. Then you can just run across 'em and break every one without risk of falling off.
This is such a great satisfying video to watch, cuz I just love the original playstation & was super stoked to see it boot after you worked on it, happy for you dude❤️
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PS1 boot never gets old.
Yeah fun times... My father had thought he struck gold when he brought home 5 PS1's he bought while thifting, since his one died a spectacular death and none of them worked!!! I took all 5 of them apart and managed to make 1 from all the parts of the others. The frankenstein PS1 was chipped too, so he was very happy to have his PS1 back.
thats lovely! and a beautiful example of how to find old retro tech, sometimes you have to revive them from parts.
Cant go wrong with thrifting! I recently bought a ags 101 gba sp that has a faulty capacitor and I'm going to take it as a sign that I should take that screen out and put it in an original gba that I also got from thrifting. Super excited to try it out because I'm new to modding handhelds! All this free time to work on hobbies I didnt have time for is the only good thing about the corona virus lockdown. Lol
G C Found a SP 101 at a thrift store for 8 bucks, only noticed it because it had a black screen instead of the standard silver one. One of the hinges broke on it a short while later, but that’s nothing an eBay shell replacement couldn’t fix!
Add in an EZ Flash Omega, and it’s perfect
That sounds like quite the story
I think i am very lucky, found a DMG-01 GameBoy for 60 Turkish liras (about 10-15$) and owner said it's not working. When i opened it up only problem i could see is the battery compartment connections are broken. I saughter them and BOOM, it works perfectly again! And i had a old GameBoy shell almost never used
back when i had the original one i changed the shell of it and some time later i sold it. But the original shell remains in my hands and now i have a perfectly working and almost in new condition DMG-01 GameBoy just for 15$
the PS1 had the best start up sound
That THX sound-test styled boot up splash screen sound is burned into my memory, and it definately is the best startup self-test boot screen out of all consoles ever.
The GameCube, Dreamcast, and Game Boy Advance all come close for best boot up splash screens out there.
MhzUHF Yup it sure does gives me chills everytime I turn mine on lol
PS1 & Dreamcast.
That signature blare is, to this day, unmatched by any other console, though the PS2 comes close. Makes me miss just plugging one up in spite of having a PS3 and Classic.
ps3 is the best for me
The problem with your original one probably is the motor that moves the Laser back/forward or its gear... it could also be the disk motor but less probable. Your laser is reading so its working! The reason you are getting read errors is almost certain the laser not being able to move to the right position or the disk not spinning at the right RPM.
Keep it everything! If you find another PS1 with a burned Laser you can replace with your original one. The other gears/pieces can also be used to mix match to try to make a fully working one out of a bunch of broken.
That disk reader you brought probable is a mix match of a bunch of broken ones since i'm not aware of anyone manufacturing knockoffs. And I could be wrong but I only had seen disk readers with white/gray plastic on the slim models.
9:13 The lens >IS< supposed to be loose like this. The PS1 will move the lens up and down to adjust the laser focus using electromagnet levitation.
Crash 1 2 and 3 games are one of the best ways to test disk readers due to how the games where written. Those games are constantly pulling assets from the disk as you move around the level. If you are not experience any hiccup while playing your disk reader is working perfectly (assuming that the game disk isn't scratched).
And you don't need to fully close the console to test it. Testing it open can save you time and lesser the risk of breaking plastic or striping screw holes.
RIGHT! I cringed so hard when he put the screws back in to test it.
They actually do still make lasers for the PSONE (the small version) and PS2 as well. However they are definitely third party and quality control is a bit sketchy. It's possible that this laser was actually designed for the Slim version and would explain why it didn't fit.
Anywho, nice to see it all worked out in the end!
@@crunkatron2366 Hell they still make laser units for sega cd and neo geo cd.
Well done, Clint. The SCPH-1001 models are not to be overlooked.
Crash Bandicoot is constantly loading from the disc to the memory as you play, not just in loading screens. That is why a slow disc drive would cause that game to fail so spectacularly.
Crash Bandicoot is lowkey one of the most technologically advanced games on PS1. They were doing things they were not supposed to with the hardware.
Yeah, gosh! Didn't you see the episode of War Stories?
@@Jadty yeah, they practically cheat the memory size to wayy over their supposed capacity. Like a magic.
@@Jadty They even had a few people randomly probing undocumented opcodes to figure out what they did, in hopes of squeezing even more out of the system.
You should affixed some sort of fixture to it. That would’ve had us transfixed over this fixing fixation.
I like the way you think.
XD very fine.
I find no better bliss and serenity than watching LGR repair retro technology.
LGR is hands down one of the comfiest channels on TH-cam.
Try 8-Bit Guy. His specialty are =16-bit.
They know each other, too.
@@rautamiekka 8-Bit guy lives in my town lol. His channel is great :)
@@dimnimrod2978 Ever met him in person ?
I just love that feeling when you're fixing things where you're like "Well... I'll try fixing all the obviously broken stuff and hope that's it" and when you get it it's like "Wait that actually worked!?"
Very satisfying to see you get this!
I don't know where my lube is
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This is not the lube you're looking for
Hate it when that happens
shoulda tried the naughty drawer.
TH-cam poop material
Damn, the PS1 startup sounds still giving me the chills after all these years..
It is the best sound ever made!
I used to flip mine over and set it on a book to get it to work.
I remember that as well!
Yeah, I remember a friends PSX back in the 90s had to be flipped sideways to work. And my early model I bought years later has the same issue. Even worse when it tries to stream data straight off the disc for music or FMVs.
Haha, ahh the classic trick. It was the first thing I tried, before cleaning and lubing! It's great how often that can actually work.
I believe that was the standard procedure, yes.
@@LGRBlerbs it worked because on this earlier model of ps1 the heat from the power supply warps the laser assembly plastic over time and when you flipped the ps1 over the gravity was getting the laser to align correctly.
One of the many reasons I love your content is the small, inconsequential details. Standing up the case of the game you are playing in view of the camera is something that literally has no significance whatsoever, yet for some reason, that minute detail, of which I'm sure very few people even noticed, is my favourite part of this video. I don't know why that is the case and I don't know why I noticed it. Maybe I'm strange (I am definitely strange) but I appreciate that small detail.
I liked the table light behind the tv
The details are not small or inconsequential, we've all just gotten used to low effort/"minimalistic" content. Clint, on the other hand, takes pride in his work.
Worn out spindle motor. Cheap and easy to replace. I've done tons of them. Save the optic assembly for a future repair.
I'm a car mechanic not a PlayStation mechanic but that sound it was making is definitely a bearing noise. The motor was my first thought when I heard it.
My dad has 3 or more of those electric coolers from different manufacturers, and occasionally one will start making a hell of a noise as the motor wears out. While occasionally replacing a motor, I gently remind him that unlike a mini fridge, these coolers are not meant to be running 24 hrs 365 days a year; the motor just wasn't meant for that.
Snake: Herrmmmmm.... LGR, maybe the manufacturer should've used a METAL GEAR
Bionic Man I’m slightly disappointed
A solid metal gear, a gear made out of solid metal, a solid gear made out of metal it is.
Did you say METAL GEEEEEEERRRRRRR
Great job! It’s always annoying when you get parts and things seem to just go haywire. Changed LCD display and Floppy drive on my Yamaha SY-99! Man that was an ocean of boards upon boards and wires all over the place that had to be removed in order to get to the blasted display! Almost gave up two times, but just kept going! Finally worked like a charm! Phew! 😁😂
That is why most of things today instead go into recycling bin. Since the workhours are not worth the results which may be a scrap unit then you can't charge a customer for your time wasted on it the amount you need.
Still working on my JP-8080 display after 1 year. I'm just lazy, and I messed up, and.. I lost a button. Think I lost another. haha. damn.
One might almost begin to think that these devices weren't made to be serviceable :)
Helps a lot when you have gear that has a disassembly/maintenance/repair manual to go along with it that actually tells you what to take out to fix something, among other useful details.
The 1001 used the KSM440-ACM laser assembly, which is impossible to find anywhere these days. A common alternative is to use the KSM440-BAM assembly and switch its grey cover plate for the original black one. You did everything right without even knowing it! :D
*Driver loads really fast and the car appears*
"YEAH DUDE IT'S WORKIN YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY"
My god this is beautiful. I get so happy with this kind of honest happiness. Great video man!
The nostalgia connected to that startup sound...
Also, the excitement in Clint’s voice when he gets it running is genuinely heartwarming dude. This video legitimately cheered me up today 😁
The infamous SCPH-1001! I have one and had to replace the laser on it because of the faulty design.
What if your problem all along was a shitty plastic gear 😳😏😂😂😂
I thought they were all black, because all the pictures I've seen of them..showed black playstations.
black playstation would be the ps2
@@speedwaynutt and PS3... and ps4... soon ps5 too
Yep, had one as well and it's laser component failed on me equally. As well as the cd holder portion snapping off. They are great models for the phono sockets and expansion bay (for cheat carts etc) but they are notorious for breaking down.
That PS1 is brewing coffee inside the lens, at least that's how it sounds.
I love doing console fixes,
and the ps1-2 are some of the most relaxing and therapeutic with how easy they are to do!
Hope you enjoyed it LGR
My PS2 reads cds but not games. Does it need a new laser?
@@blankpage9277 not necessarily,
The first thing and the thing that fixes it most times is cleaning the laser!
You just disassemble the unit rub the laser head with a bit of isopropyl alcohol on a Q-tip and give it a go, If that does not work then It could be a dying laser but I would try cleaning first because 75% of the time that does the trick!
Hope that helps :D
(Oh, and here is a link to an IFIXIT that should help you if you have never taken one apart before: www.ifixit.com/Guide/PlayStation+2+Optical+Disc+Drive+Lens+Cleaning/1331 )
5:38 bonk lol i used to hear that alot when i had old crt tvs lol and 9i used to do the same thing when it turned on lol
This is legitimately how I felt while I was trying to see if I could revive my old Sega Dreamcast a couple of months ago. The sadness of finding out a part not working right. And then the joy of seeing your old childhood games work fine and dandy upon getting it to work.
The CD mechanism itself was always the achilles heel of the original models of the PS1. A good friend of mine always had to put the game in and turn the whole console upside down on top of a bowl in order to get his original PS1 to semi-reliably read discs. For whatever reason it seemed to work!
Damn! I still have my SCPH-1001 that died around 3 years ago after 7 or 8 years of play after a laser replacement, and it wasn't the only one; there's at least 3 dates marked on its chassis indicating replacements, and two are very close to one another, so, this thing really likes to go blind from time to time. But my neighbor has a later model PSX that, last time I asked, he said it still worked like a charm, and running pirated games of course, because this is Brazil XD. The first model of any console generation always gives the most issues...
I tried to fix my SCPH-9001 model not long ago with an assembly replacement, and returned it after seeing it skip, and bought a SCPH-7501 afterwards from my local retro game store, and is working, but now I got two excellent donor gears if I need to replace the laser! Thanks LGR!! 😃
I was actually able to get my PSONE working from using techniques from watching all your restoration and cleaning videos for various electronics. Thing works fine now. Just needed a good deep cleaning.
The original SCPH-1000 series, the SCPH-3000 series and the SCPH-5000 models always had FMV skipping issues due to a hardware design flaw that caused overheating or so that's I've heard and read in some forums back in the day. Later model revisions were redesigned to correct that overheating problem as well as a cost-cutting measure.
Loved the link option on this. My brother and I spent huge amounts of time doing link up on F1, and co-operative mode on Doom.
"we're gonna put it in and hopefully it's easy"
"don't worry I already lubed it up"
"I don't know where my lube is..." Clint/LGR, 2020 :)
"turn it on, see what happens"
I want to press like, but currently you have 69 likes and I don't want to ruin it.
@@mjc0961 now you can
He went full on Voultar for a second.
Love the Trinitron! Congrats on the fix.
Great fix you salvaged it from death by combining bits and pieces. From a garbage replacement part. Good one 👍🏻
The replacement drive you bought is a KSM-440BAM, which is built for the PSOne models that in turn do have grey lids. This assembly also doesn't fit in all original PS1 models because of its short ribbon cable, with the earlier SCPH-100x models being one of the exceptions.
That gray lid they have also doesn't fit well in the original PS1 case in general, which is what most likely caused the noises you heard when trying to use the assembly as is. The discs were actually being scratched against the case while spinning during boot.
The common way of fixing this is actually by doing what you did, that is replacing the gray lid with a black one from an original drive. This way the entire assembly fits nicely into the case and doesn't result in scratched discs and/or read errors.
The KSM-440BAM are also largely known to be better built than their original KSM-440ACM counterparts, which is also why this procedure is usually a recommended fix either way. Though with these Chinese clones it ends up being a coin toss anyway.
That PS1 initial loading screen/sound just gives me the feels. It's beautiful.
There's nothing more satisfying than repairing something and seeing it work again.
Nice job on fixing the replacement laser you bought to fix your PlayStation.
Oh and PlayStation looks amazing on the CRT.
No HDMI but he's using a SCART connector (1970's French technology) which has RGB, Component, Composite and Audio so it comes in crispy AF
SCPH-100x laser assembly is the worst designed and most likely to fail. They placed it too closely to the power supply, prematurely aging the laser and drying out the lubricant, and the plastics used would wear with use; eventually the laser sits lopsided in its sled. People would run their consoles upside down, it worked because gravity would bring the laser back into alignment. There wasn't a thriving internet or internet media to drive a story around it, but the SCPH-100x was definitely the Xbox 360 RROD of its era.
Im so glad you showed the entire ps1 set up. I like to see all of it
Man watching you play Driver and Crash on a good period tv just reminds me how utterly revolutionary the PS1 over previous generation consoles, just what a huge step!
Found a stack of these, ps2's and wii's at a hoodwill 3-4yrs back. Honestly I remember the graphics being better. Picked up two, and a ps2. gave one to a buddy. Can't remember why, but one had Shrek inside.
Always loved the Driver music.. that funky shaft sound takes me back to when i was 11. Awesome repair.
Played a lot of PS1 and PS2 games on a similar Sony Trinitron TV back in the day, mine was mono though. Hearing yours spring into life ready to play some PS1 is just such a nice nostalgia hit.
Nice video, and well done fixing the replacement fix!
The part that you ordered was 'designed' as a replament for the drive in the later 'slim' model; the PSOne, which had the grey top to the CD tray assembly.
As you found though, that replacement also works fine with the original 10001 PS1..BUT, you need to swap the grey top plate for the original black top plate so that it fits correctly, and is freely moving on the suspension grommets - that could be why the cog inside was ground to death, because of the poor fit with the grey top plate! (if you look back in the video where it's just been installed, you can see that it's jammed against the front of the opening for the CD tray).
Maybe I got lucky with my original UK PS1 (with RCA ports on the back) because a lot of cleaning and removing the original old gorilla-snot grease, and replaceing with a new, light silicone based grease, it works just fine again!
Makes sense! Really wish the seller would've been upfront about it, instead of repeatedly insisting that it was made for the SCPH-1001. They made no mention of the PSOne anywhere! Figured they knew what they were talking about since they'd sold hundreds of them, but alas.
@@LGRBlerbs : All the sellers on Ebay do the same thing, regardless of replacement laser assembly they're selling - some with short leads, some with long leads (for the later PS1 models). It would really help if they mentioned that the top plate should be switche with the original one if it was black, but hey, they're out for sales...we can figure that out for ourselves right?
Yeah.. most of these guys are re-sellers, and nothing to do with the Chinese factory making the parts!
But you did well by replacing broken pieces and swapping-out that black top-plate! And it was an enjoyable video :-)
@@LGRBlerbs Many/most Chinese sellers spam keywords and even outright lie in their listings. That's standard practice. 🤷
That crash theme takes me back to child hood every time. I sing the song SO MUCH when I play.
I got my PlayStation for Xmas in 1997. Best present I’ve ever received. Nowadays though, I love my Sega Saturn. It has a much better retro thing going on.
My first PS1 only lasted 61 days, a day later than the warranty.
A ant got inside and short circuited it, I remember taking it apart and seeing that fried ant.
Unfortunately I was 10 at the time and knew nothing about electronics.
My parents couldn't afford to buy me one, so I would walk up and down the streets picking up cans to finally buy one, then to have it dry a day after the warranty was so defeating.
Thankfully my uncle moved in with us a few years later and he got a PS2 for us when it first came out.
I've just watched the 286 one before this one. I'm glad you're doing these again.
The "lop" writing might actually mean the laser optical drive has already been replaced once before.
That is common marking on these. So it's not what you said. It means top just written crudely since they put together these fast enough not be bothered about grammar or something similar. Usually a technician quality checks if the top assembly is good then makes a mark on it. In this case the top of the casing from the inside then passes it through for further assembly. If the case is bad gets a revision or recycling if it's good then continues on the assembly line.
Yay you fixed it! Even if you have others that work, it's still always so satisfying to get a piece of hardware up and running again.
Totally! Each one is worth trying to save, I think.
"Driver, one of my favorites,"
*minimme has entered the chat*
The thing with the very early SCPH-1001s is that the drives in them were made almost entirely of plastic. The later SCPH-1001s had drives where there was a lot more metal used in the construction. Although it still didn't help that the drive was placed close to the power supply. The one that LGR has here, being that it was made in November of 1996, will have a drive with the more substantial construction with the drive. Still not a reliable drive by any means though. Lol. And as a general rule, I've heard that those replacement PS1 drives are absolute garbage.
This is about late a model 1001 as you can get (5001 came out late Q4 1996 IIRC) and long term its still more likely to fail due to residual heat damage due to proximity of the power supply. Suffice to say having a fresh laser will make a difference but these outside of the purported audio improvements over later models is not much of a reason to seek these out specifically. Its good they were able to salvage parts from the old laser assembly to help fix the issue with the new unit, sometimes that's what necessary especially since good quality 3rd party assemblies for PS1 haven't been around in a long time.
@@wartax5 Exactly. I have actually seen SCPH-1001s that were made in January of 1997. And speaking of the 5001, I have never seen one. Does it actually exist? And apparently, the 5501 actually has the same DAC as the 1001. Of course, whether it's implemented different by using higher quality components or not is something I'm not sure about.
@@1980sGamer I've never seen either the SCPH-5001 or the SCPH-5002 - there was a Japanese market SCPH-5000 and the SCPH-5003 - a strange Frankenstein unit sold in Hong Kong that had a main board that used a US boot ROM but a NTSC:J mechacon (so it would only boot Japanese discs) and a 220V power supply with documentation that was printed in English and Chinese. At one stage, I was making a serious attempt to locate the a SCPH-5001, but every listing I found ended up being something else (normally a SCPH-5501).
@@TrimeshSZ Oh yeah. The SCPH 5501s are very common. According to Wikipedia, the SCPH-5001 does exist. Although being that we're talking about Wikipedia here, That should be taken with a grain of salt. I've never seen one either. Even just searching for the bottom of the console where the label is, I can't find one that is actually a 5001.
@@1980sGamer Yeah, same experience I had - obviously, it's much harder to prove that something doesn't exist than that it does, but everyone I asked who claimed to be selling a "SCPH-5001" ended up actually having some other model. The other thing is that both the SCPH-5000 and the SCPH-5003 had RCA jacks, and the only US or PAL consoles I've seen with them have been SCPH-1001 or SCPH-1002.
I've also seen several consoles marked "SCPH-7501" that have PU-18 boards in them (I.E. boards that should be in a SCPH-5501) - these all seem to be made in Mexico and have date codes on the plastics that are much later than the ones on the electronic parts. My guess is that the boards were lost and then found again, but by then the shipping SKU had changed so they built them up with the new part number.
The trouble with aftermarket parts from china is you often need to repair them before use... :P
How much you pay for it and with free shipping you still get essentially almost free stuff. He forgot that he ordered it. With other words it was so cheap that if he didn't got his order he his financial standpoint would feel that loss at all. The only major problem still remains no matter where you buy things curriers around the world most of them are careless especially customs. They almost always break things be it well packaged or not.
Honestly these are kinda my favorite types of videos.
Paused like a min in to comment as this has already reminded me of fixing my first Playstation by at the end of the 90's, The ribbon cable from the lazer assembly had a split and had a broken wire which myself and a friend fixed by soldering a patch cable, we had nothing to insult the cable with and ended up using cigarette papers, what can i say we were teenagers and our dodgy fix meant we had a playstation again!
Love your videos Clint!
When the piece that was supposed to fix your PS is broken itself
"fine, i'll do it myself"
Aw man, that start up sound took me straight back to the giddy anticipation of adventuring with Lara, or killing demons with the Doomguy. Great days indeed!
Wow, I didn't realize how small the console was lol
Not only did you fix it, you made it better.
The main thing that makes this particular model of ps2 valuable and desired in the community is that the launch ps1 uses the same audio processing chip Sony used in it's most expensive high-end CD players at the time. Most if not all of the players using this chip were and still are very expensive ($1,000+ in 1995 dollars) and evidently have some of the best audio quality you can get over RCA connections. These are common enough that they aren't super rare or valuable but there is a market for them among people looking for an affordable, very high-quality cd player.
My PS1 died after a year or so with the exact problem. This was 1998 you couldn't exactly order parts online readily and had to go through proper channels to get the parts I'm sure. I almost had a perfect save file in Crash 2 also! So upsetting as a 9 year old kid at the time.
My parents went through a rough patch in their marriage and money problems so fixing it wasn't a priority at the time.
Lucky I had an okayish to decent PC and I got a Dreamcast the next year. Rollercoaster tycoon and Dreamcast was my jam in that era!
Thanks for the memories!
I'm loving these LRG blerbs. Its like the perfect quick fix between longer videos 😄
man i love fixing things! eating my breakfast watching u fix things, so satisfying.
The sound of a CRT powering up is the best!
I still have the one I modded when i was a kid. The fact it still works shows that younger me was a lot smarter than older me.
Ahh, cracking gears. Gives me flashbacks to fixing two (!) early 1980s Panasonic cassette radios. Damn rewind gear cracks on all of them. Fortunately, I have a friend with a 3D printer, so he make me a couple gears.
I always found that PS1 start up sound to be creepy. Not as bad as the xbox menu, but still. But crash! OMG! so many good memories.
This Video brings back the best bootup Sound in my Childhood ♥
Crash Bandicoot is probably one of the best games to test a PS1 CD Drive on because the game is almost constantly reading really small pages of data from the CD-ROM as you walk through the level. There's a really cool video about it on TH-cam, somewhere or other. You'd definitely have problems actually playing the game if the CD Drive was faulty.
Also I wonder, did you happen to get a faster CD-ROM drive than the original one? I always remember the load times on my old Playstation back in the day being painful. Try and play any of the Harry Potter games on PS1 and you'll see what I mean!
My son seems to think the part was for the "slim" version. Glad your games work!
Nice to get a win here. I had a similar early model that read about 1/3 of games mostly fine, then loaded some slow, then wouldn't load some at all. I was able to fix it by just adjusting the POTs on the drive.
Congrats on the repair. Hope everyone is well. Thanks for all your content.
Oh man how I have missed those sounds the ps1 boot sound chimed and my heart melted then crash bandicoot thank you LGR for putting this in my life again
I've been emulating ps1 on vita and PC lately and haven't seen it on CRT in a while and oh man that looks so smooth. Cool vid Clint. Love it when repairs actually work.
Glad I saw this. My PS1 is just starting to act slightly erratically when loading discs every so often. It works fine most of the time, but I have considered getting one of those drop in repair/replacements. Now I know to be cautious of them, but I also know that even if it doesn't work I can kludge something together.
See if you can unclimbed the black off old one and see if you can swop them over. Just love these little blurbs videos
Videos like this always make me want to get a PS1. Even though id never play it, and could just emulate the games. It just is t quite the same. I dont even know the last time i played an actual ps1, and didnt emulate or play a ps2/ps3.
Driver 1 has such good music. One of my first video games.
Damn, that sound your TV makes when you turn it on was exceptionally loud!
Automatic degaussing coil doing its thing. That noise is how you know it's working as intended!
@@LGRBlerbs oh wow didn't expect you commenting on my comment! Yeah I know why it makes this sound, I just found it louder than I remember from my old CRT tv's. It's a nice sound so i'm not complaining ;) I love your videos man, currently wachting some old ones from your main channel. It's inspiring me more to make some video's on these kind of subjects on my own and other things. Keep up doing what you love doing man, it's awesome!
watching the title screen and game play of Driver has brought me so many good old memories! hope to see a review some day!
Good job not giving up and re-purposing parts from the old laser assembly. Sometimes new parts just aren't built with the same quality and often with old hardware like this you need to use the old parts in some capacity.
omg why do I find it so incredibly satisfying to watch someone setting up an old console... xD
I forgot about driver!! His chevelle sounds like it has a healthy big block running through a 3 inch x pipe and magnaflows.
Thanks Clint. Love the blerbs. Keep em coming please!
I LOVE THAT OLD DESIGN!!! Idk why I just love that flat gray box!!! Sorry I had to get it out
I played Driver for hours in high school! I used to go to the one area where you can use a little bridge as a ramp to get air time with lol.
Oh man that startup sound always gets me huge nostalgia and so does Driver! Sucks that the part was no good though.
It's glorious when you discover it's a mechanical problem rather than electrical. I recently fixed an old Laserdisc player as it was a mechanical issue. Also needed some new lube and could only do half of it because the manual was darn near impossible to find for that model to get to hard-to-reach places. I found it after I reassembled and watched Bambi. lol. Gotta take it all apart again to clear out the remaining old grease and put some fresh ones in, but it'll be worth it. Oh, I'm sure you know, but Limited Run games is doing a physical game for Chex Quest. I know you loved it when you made the video, so I feel like you'll get it. lol.
That startup sound... Damn, childhood.
When I heard you just wanted to swap the disc drive, I thought this would be a short easy fix but I guess you can get unlucky with the parts too. I had to swap this thing on my PS1 as well, the original laser died ages ago. Now it works perfectly again and to be honest, if I knew sooner that it is this easy, I would've done it so many years ago.
I had a horror story of a time trying to fix a few psx like yours. The replacement lasers were so bad you had to Macgyver parts to make one work somewhat.
*PS1 startup sound
"ahhhhh, satisfaction"
Man, it's good to see these consoles function. The lasers on them are mostly worn out.
This is awesome that thrill you get for fixing something is what I live for!
I've replaced a couple of these. You're supposed to swap out the gray faceplate for your original black one if using one of these on an SCPH-1001 because the gray faceplate has a slightly different shape. I wouldn't doubt if the damage was done by trying to run it with the top case putting pressure on that faceplate.
I used to LOVE Driver, and ALWAYS had trouble getting it to run in the first place, let alone STAY running without freezing up. Damn shame; it's probably the best PS1 game I ever played.
I played so much of Driver and Driver 2 as a kid. Good times!
By the way - the best way to do the part at 15:09 is to clear out all the crates before it, activate the Switch Crate, then go back and get the third Aku-Aku. Then you can just run across 'em and break every one without risk of falling off.
I kinda dig the grey. Makes it look more uniform under the hood.
Thumbs up for Driver. That game was freaking awesome!
This is such a great satisfying video to watch, cuz I just love the original playstation & was super stoked to see it boot after you worked on it, happy for you dude❤️