Seeing that 5-wire chip tucked in there took me way back. After successfully modding a few friends' consoles, I started having them hand out flyers to everyone they knew at my high school. Every day I would go home with a stack of consoles and bring them back modded the next day at $35 a pop. They took under 10 minutes each and I had a bag of like 50 chips at bulk prices so I was making some pretty serious dough for a 10th grader, haha... good memories.
@@Cautious_Gamer It also doesn't take a genius to read the title and realize that assuming the mods "do what most mod chips do" isn't exactly befitting the context.
When I worked at the Nintendo Kirkland facility, we saw all kinds of oddment. The best was a WII with two customed-designed daughter-boards running a DVD burner. It could still play games... Wires everywhere, yet the damn thing worked. The customer complaint? DVD playback was set to the wrong region.
me my fave, and unforgettable scene is fighting final enemy. at the train, and you only need to do is to go on top of the train then assassinate the hostage taker. p.s may dad was playing, i was only watching because that time i can't play i was only 8 yrs old back then..
Wish I'd read that beforehand... I guess this solder-spooge incident just cost me my _Opt-sin Extenuated Wrongratty with Acid-Mental Dat-Minge Pro-stretchin' for full uncoverage your hole Wife-[two]-time_ that I had gotted in Radio Snack and for only just double the cost of barely 2x original MSRP! ;] Who's the moron now, I outlived them all muhwhaha!
+Robert Smedley No joke my grandmother had cancer, so I injected her with WD 40, the next day she went to the doctor she no longer had cancer its amazing this stuff how it works
William Hetherington because the PS1 is so cheap they consider is not worth the investment of putting a sticker with the price on it, you know - cost-benefit ratio :))
What an absolutely pro install. Hidden wires, floating SMD resistor, reusing the removed cap as a filter, clever RGB LED mod, using a hot air gun on heatshrink, all explained really well with super clear video. Plus, solder is pronounced properly. Awesome video!
I would have stuck it down with a blob of non corrosive electronics grade silicone between the board and the chip underneath but that's from the perspective of doing electronics on RC aircraft so there might be a reason you wouldn't do that here.
"Connecting processing chips with wires will break it". What? Whether the copper is a well-supported wire or a PCB trace is not relevant. I agree poorly-supported moving wires are not good for any electrical join, IC or not. But just soldering a wire to an IC pin is not inherently bad.
Memeception, voltage differences have nothing to do with soldering a wire to an IC. I can feed a socketed or SMD chip the wrong voltage and cook it without any jumper wires. Just admit you're wrong instead of doubling down on your nonsense statement, you will come out looking better by admitting your mistake. Nobody is right all the time and that's okay. Better to learn than to prove your ignorance.
I had a similar experience. I picked up a job lot of about 7 PlayStations for around £20 (think it was 5 originals and 2 of the smaller ones). I was testing them all to see what was wrong with them (most of them turned out to be perfectly fine) but I just happened to be chatting to my wife about copy protection and I popped a burned disc in the first one to show her that it wouldn't boot and it did. So I was like well that shouldn't happen, unless this console is chipped. Sure enough, I opened it up and found a 4-wire mod chip inside. Very poor quality job with stupidly long wires but it worked nonetheless and was an interesting surprise...
yeah and event though i didn't understand a damn thing he was doing, it was delightful... i was wondering how much of a sex scene was this to someone who completely understand it... weird
Hi Voltar, talking about psone mods people have never seen, back in the day I use to install VCD mods into the psone , because it had no parrelel port the card was a 12 wire install combined with a socket that piggy backed off of bios, end result was VCD playback, aswell as a action replay :)
FabioGnecco, First one was to play discs bypassing the copy protection and/or region lock. Second was to clean up the video output signal for better picture, 3rd was to make a flashing LED under the power button.
I wonder if old, working mods made by teenagers shouldn't possibly be considered like rare antiques and preserved as they are for their historical value?
Hans I used to go to markets and swap meats and always see atleast one guy offering to fit mod chips for ps1 and PS2 and then xbox psp you get the idea :)
Hans think longer scale. It has historic value, it's the type of mod the people would do, your average guy. What professionals sold isn't nearly as historic as what random kids and teens did.
I do not know what all these mods are for, but you seem so passionate and expert, the precision of your camera and your movements...i watched until the end, great job !
LOL you also use nail clippers, been using those for years, I found out they're the perfect job for clipping and stripping conductors in tight spaces. Also what kind of program is in the mod micro-controller ? would you mind explaining what it does in detail?
@Dallagen ... Sony made (or licensed) game discs all used a special "wobble" track for copy protection. Consumer CD burner hardware couldn't access (or write to) this track so any burned copies of PS1 game discs wouldn't work. I think that normal CSS and region locking DRM features were also embedded on the game discs. A mod chip either spoofs the copy protection (reports that it's present when it's not) or it bypasses the copy protection code (basically replaces the conditional runcode with NOPs or just has it report valid outputs regardless of inputs). Either way the machine thinks it has a legit copy-protected disc, not a fake (copied) one. There were many different mod chips and mod approaches on the market, some primitive and some impressively sophisticated. They all let you play burned/copied game discs the machine would normally reject. They were popular because people could copy a borrowed/rented game or burn a download game without having to buy it.
I loved fitting modchips for people back in the day, I got so quick at it and did so many I didn't need any instructions and I could start and finish within 15 minutes, used to do around 4 to 5 a day which isn't a lot but I loved doing it.
It amazes me how a gifted solderer people like you are...I try and get by, but completely suck at soldering...especially with tiny IC points that you make look so easy....
+whoesub sknsi - You should try it! Funny thing is.... People make FUN of this..... The Nail Clipper actually helps me make $50,000.00+ Per Year in my Business!
The comments of this video are totally worth it to see a bunch of people have some kind of allergic reaction to the fact that Voultar pronounces "solder" with the British English pronunciation. It's as though the same word in the same language can have alternate pronunciations or even spellings based on where in the world you were born, and/or who raised you, or something.
My gf's mom got 4 complete ps1's with a dualshock. One for each kid. $5 each. They were also basically new. School sale. They had a brief program for educational games that fell through. So one day, I'm looking for ps1 controllers to use with a modded og xbox. She's all "oh I have controllers." And she pulls out 2 complete ps1's lol.
on that original case... did it have a black smudge on the injection molding point on the underside of the lid?! I think you may have my old PS1, and if you do, you're entirely correct on that solder job, except I was 11 and I was using a radioshack pen! sorry about the cheap tape if that WAS mine btw.. at least it didn't leave adhesive everywhere >.>
I'm so jealous of your steady hands and good equipment. My fingers and hands have been shaky since I was a kid. It's not very noticeable unless I'm actively trying to do something requiring very fine motor skills. Trying to solder and the tip starts bouncing a good 2-5 mm. I have to work around it by relaxing my hand completely (not even gripping), resting it against the desk, and then using my arm to move everything together. Also, it's funny that people keep bugging you about the nail clippers. Lots of professionals repurpose tools for their needs. I find using a decent pair of scissors works better than any wire stripper I've ever used (except for the $100+ professional ones), and the control I have with them allows me to strip the insulation while keeping the conductor untouched.
Good stuff on this! I still have yet to ever stumble upon a hardmodded console accidentally while out in the wild. First time I've seen one of those purple cases as well, how did you manage to find that?
Weird, all the units I have come across pretty much has been chipped. Well, that was a pretty much essential thing to do in Europe because they didn't bring so many great games here so we had to import them. Yes, we modded our systems to play imports, not backups.
actually bought a PS2 5000x not too long ago and wondered why my FMCB card wouldn't start, when I took it apart I noticed, that it had an old modchip inside ,I redid all the solder joints and put a switch on the power cable so I could turn it off and while I was at it I did the Laser mod like Mario did on his 5000x console!
I remember going to a good will and finding a chipped Original Xbox. It had the mod where the games could be installed on the hard drive and had a 20 gig drive installed. I only recognized it because of the odd switch that was installed in front with hot glue. Eight bucks haha. I spent more on the cables and controllers than the xbox.
The first time i opened my ps1 a couple of years ago that laser power supply cable connector came straight off the board. The side anchoring tabs are quite small and i was paranoid about melting the plastic but i managed to do it without problems
i from Costa Rica, i want send you greetings and congratulations, i like this video, you work is amazing...sorry for my poor english, but a little bit i know your lenguage, i decided to writte you and say what i think, pura vida!!! keep going doing videos like this.
Kkkkkkkkkk i cant speak english too. Here in BR nobody can do it. We're all dummies. Ps. Those lots of "k" are the BR,s way to write something like "lol" kkkkkkkk. But great video at all .. . Um salve dos BR, povo fudido, pra os gringos do mundo afora. Kkkk🤣
I was amazed at the benefits of recapping a Sega Dreamcast, I use polymer capacitors but it's probably the same results for both. Mostly shock to discover that load time seem to have gone down, a lot.
James Carter would recapping my Dreamcast fix this problem I have? In Crazy Taxi 2, I can’t hear the cash meter beep as the game starts. All other sounds in all other games (to my knowledge) are fine.
adultmoshifan87 it's possible that recapping can fix it, however it could also be the laser lens itself but if the games working perfectly fine it could be a section of the disc data slightly messed up aka disc rot. If you do replace the Caps I recommend using high-end brands, if you use polymer capacitors you'll have to go lower on some capacitors in terms of voltage, so you may have to double check the voltage going through the capacitor before deciding on a replacement.
Is it possible to add say, HDMI output or the possibility to read from some other media than CD's? Mostly interested in the last part, since CD's have a shelf life :)
Seriouskai if you’re not pressed on using a genuine PS1, softmodding a PS2 will allow you to run PS1 and 2 ISO’s off of a flash drive or the internal hard drive
@@Evildandalo Hey man, thanks for replying! I do know about the PS2 and a friend of mine had a modded one, I believe with an external harddrive back in the days. I was thinking more in line with modifying the actual old hardware of the PS1, like as in if it's possible to convert the signals to say HDMI from the GPU directly, or if not, would it be possible to change or solder on new hardware inside the PS1 to make it possible. Same goes for the idea of maybe adding a USB memory and have it read from that instead of the laser. It's probably too far out there of an idea, but it would be interesting if it is possible to do. Probably too hard to make it though unless you're crazy and love putting effort into pointless things haha.
Matthew Barber lol i watched the whole thing cuz i love ps1 and it was interesting, but yeah i need to look up what c-sync mod is, because as far as i can see, only thing he did was add an rgb led and clear case XD
I didn't understand that c-sync thing purpose either, but at least he made a blinking light indicating CD read access, which the original PS1 doesn't have (similar to HDD/SSD blinking light on PC cases and laptops). And combined to that colored case, it's just awesome.
yeah kinda figured its what he was doing when he bypased they slandered video compositor.. though when I was a kid i would of seen this as a god send xD
Yeah, I watched the entire video, and while he explains what he's CURRENTLY doing really well, there's very little on the end-goal. The RGB and casing replacements were obvious, but what does the composite video to composite sync mod do? And I don't think he even mentioned what the first mod was for. Googling just returns modding jargon.
I'm not from PS world, but if you'd like to have absolutely top notch image quality on analog TV, you'd go for RGB signals via SCART connector (second best would be S-Video: separate chroma signal and composite sync+luminance, available for example in 8-bit Atari computers). In case of RGB, SCART's composite video pin becomes composite sync. Some old monitors also prefer such arrangement. What I like about this video: nicely explained steps, good job despite thick and dirty soldering iron. Maybe too much flux and that resistor initially was soldered too close to other pin, but overall quite OK. I don't like the fact, that essentially nothing new or interesting was done (a modchip was installed instead of... a modchip, and he pulled out a signal seemingly just for fun of doing it). RGB LED is nice, but in the good old days we had floppy drives that could display current track number, so I'm unimpressed.
Hey I've been watching your videos for a while, and finally got the courage to try some fine pitch soldering. Tonight I put a mayumi v4 in my playstation, and it worked first try! It may not be worthy of the Voultar hall of fame, but it's no hot glue enema either. Thanks for the knowledge in your videos, they helped immensely.
try it one day on something you dont care to scrap , the nail clipper . actualy it s a good idea , very good idea , you feel when going thru the rubber/plastic and starting to touch the wire inside then you pull .^^
I really wanted one of these clear PS1 shells when I was a teenager! I remember looking at them on eBay all the time. See-through electronics pretty much define the 90's.
Hmm, I own a purple PS1 See through case like that 🧐 it was entertaining watching you mod this even though I have no idea what half the things you explained meant 🤔
I got this exact color case and found it doesn't house my SCPH-7501 but luckily I had a 5501 on hand to drop in it. I wonder if he had to drill anything in there to get his 7501 to fit into the bottom half of the casing?
Kudos doing fine pitch solder work with a fat tip like that... not an easy task. Also using toe nail clippers to strip wire... again... strange, but kudos all the same.
It's most useful on a big modern display. In large blocks of color you may see a nasty checkerboarding effect over RGB (even using quality scart cables) due to slight sync on luma interference. It's hard to unsee once you notice.
@@stclairstclair Yes, you need the chip on the PS1 though for downloaded/pirated games to work. Here's a video on how PS1 reads discs if you're interested: th-cam.com/video/XUwSOfQ1D3c/w-d-xo.html it shows how they prevented piracy and also how people cracked it.
A fricking nail clipper! Interesting how my 9001 doesnt have the rf shield. Hey a question, mine has a worn rack on the laser mechanism, i always wanted to change it for a metal one like i understand later models had, do you know if they are compatible or if there's any better solution than just buying a new one and see how it wears like the first one?
Shorter circuit paths of the smaller boards, optimised component layouts, make shielding less needed. But above all, it saves cost of course.. ;) And yes, the drives are not very picky about what machine they are attached to at all. As it happens I have transplanted a 9000 series drive to a 1000. No electrical issues. But the mechanical fit was quite different, so new supports for the suspensions had to be made, and either the machine shell or the drive have to be trimmed a bit to fit. All easy though.
NP. Though I should mention the wear on slide was addressed with hardware redesign as far back as 5000 series. This doesn't mean that could not your problem of course. But Id check if the thing is really tilting first. Trying the old upside down PS trick and see if that helps, then it probably still is worn.
Yeah, mine has a lot of play, so much i've seen it move to a position only to fail and try moving back like 1 mm or more some times and that really shows when it has to load lots of files in different positions as sometimes it wont correct and just give up iirc. Back when i was a kid i used to put it on its left side and that would make it read ok. I took a look and mine has a KSM-440AEM, and reading a bit yeah found what you said that this is supposed to be the fixed one, and that the metal parts werent the rack and pinion mechanism but the slider on the other side. A pity.....wish i could make them out of bronze or something. I have a 3d printer but im not that good at making gears and even then im not sure i could print something so tiny good enough that it would be better than the worn one. And machinists are expensive af and most dont even have a cnc mill that can to these things. Where is china when we need it!?
There's always Shapeways, you can test a print with yours, and get a final part in Nylon that has the same performance and material as original gears in all the better and more resilient drives. And you can sell/dropship them via Shapeways too. I have never seen brass gears used throughout an ODD sled mechanism and they might not be suitable - more inertia, higher friction, etc. But then if you can get the Z-wobble out of your printer and get a smaller nozzle, and print slowly, it stands to reason that your own prints could be perfectly fine? PLA is pretty wear resistant! What printer do you have anyway?
Never thought I'd be watching a PS1 Modding in 2019...... LMAO. BOY U GOT SKILLS SOLDERING, I FU my ps2 trying to mod it when it first intro the mod chip for the PS2 lol
I got you beat, I got a PS1 for $1! Can the disc tray and laser be swapped between models? I have an SCPH-1001 that can't read discs and a later revision that can.
Well I call the original big PS1 models Fats and call the PSOne models Slims. But basically I meant there's two(?) different lasers for the Fats, I think the only difference being the ribbon cable type/length that connects it to the motherboard. Just compare the two and see whether they can fit.
how many traces have you pulled off wiggling wires like that? (im talking lifetime projects) btw fanfuckintastic work and i really enjoyed watching you work.
Wild I thought if console support RGB it's for all syncs too.. anywho I got RGC's sync-on-luma for my PS1 and I guess it's cool? But my dumb western ass will stick to S-Vid because I hate the to-HDMI bullshit! Need my CRTs! Analog er DIE!!!!
Seeing that 5-wire chip tucked in there took me way back. After successfully modding a few friends' consoles, I started having them hand out flyers to everyone they knew at my high school. Every day I would go home with a stack of consoles and bring them back modded the next day at $35 a pop. They took under 10 minutes each and I had a bag of like 50 chips at bulk prices so I was making some pretty serious dough for a 10th grader, haha... good memories.
what would the 5 wire chip be used for? I assume playing pirated games
Nice
It would be cool if showed what the mods actually did to the gaming experience.
AequitasVeritas yea
Yes, or at least tell us what they do..
Cooling solution
Pretty sure it lets him play burned PS1 games. As most mod chips do. Doesn't take a genius to figure that out
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@@Cautious_Gamer It also doesn't take a genius to read the title and realize that assuming the mods "do what most mod chips do" isn't exactly befitting the context.
When I worked at the Nintendo Kirkland facility, we saw all kinds of oddment.
The best was a WII with two customed-designed daughter-boards running a DVD burner.
It could still play games...
Wires everywhere, yet the damn thing worked.
The customer complaint?
DVD playback was set to the wrong region.
lmao!
Lolz :D
Guess you can't please everyone
they were just showing off
Did you guys set the region correctly?
daniel finley-pesti
Wtf lol
I still rememember the day my dad brought me a PS1 with modded capability to read burned discs. Damn that Symphon Filter was an amazing game!
lol you remememember
"OMG Gabe you killed a CBDC" XD!
one of my faves
Hehe, my favorite part of Syphon Filter was the taser strong enough to set people on fire
me my fave, and unforgettable scene is fighting final enemy. at the train, and you only need to do is to go on top of the train then assassinate the hostage taker.
p.s may dad was playing, i was only watching because that time i can't play i was only 8 yrs old back then..
🔴WARNING This mod will void your warranty🔴
Best comment here hahaha
Don't worry about warranty of ps1 u must care about if someone still use this ps1 or no
Wish I'd read that beforehand... I guess this solder-spooge incident just cost me my _Opt-sin Extenuated Wrongratty with Acid-Mental Dat-Minge Pro-stretchin' for full uncoverage your hole Wife-[two]-time_ that I had gotted in Radio Snack and for only just double the cost of barely 2x original MSRP! ;] Who's the moron now, I outlived them all muhwhaha!
No, it will int your warranty.
Thank god you remind me.
This takes me back. Rent a few games at Blockbuster, then burn them onto cheap cd's. Those were the days
You can download same stuff on internet at least nowadays...
LOL thats why they closed down
there's still ONE open ...in oregonj haha
@@alisdairherd9501 wouldn't they still be around if they took advantage of the internet
Did that with Wii games and the whole city-library
$2 is an amazing deal but, why in the f would they write with marker on the console @_@
So whoever buys it will never forget the amazing deal they got.
It's easy enough to remove, just go over it with fresh marker then wipe it all off before it dries.
Or just go over the entire machine to have a free Yaroze! An even better deal.
+Robert Smedley
No joke my grandmother had cancer, so I injected her with WD 40, the next day she went to the doctor she no longer had cancer its amazing this stuff how it works
William Hetherington because the PS1 is so cheap they consider is not worth the investment of putting a sticker with the price on it, you know - cost-benefit ratio :))
We live in a world where PS1s go for $2 at a flea market. Man, I'm getting old.
Lol I said the same about original NES a long time ago!!!
"mods you've never seen before"
"anyway I'm gonna be doing the same mods from my psone video"
“Sit back, strap on, and let’s do it to this PS1”
Legendary
Legen.......Wait for.......dary.
My heartrate escalated at fingernail clippers.
Thanks for the warning about the warranty. My ps1 still got warranty until January.
I could care less about any of this. Don't know how it showed up in my TH-cam feed. I watched it for the hell of it. You're brilliant. Awesome video.
Exactly this and my name is Shaun Hall too. That is just odd!
Shaun Hall's must think alike.
Let's assemble an army of Shaun Halls!
I wish I was a Shaun Hall... :(
You could care less? Or couldn't care less?
At least with those cold solder joint, you know that things never been dropped
What an absolutely pro install. Hidden wires, floating SMD resistor, reusing the removed cap as a filter, clever RGB LED mod, using a hot air gun on heatshrink, all explained really well with super clear video. Plus, solder is pronounced properly. Awesome video!
I would have stuck it down with a blob of non corrosive electronics grade silicone between the board and the chip underneath but that's from the perspective of doing electronics on RC aircraft so there might be a reason you wouldn't do that here.
"Connecting processing chips with wires will break it". What? Whether the copper is a well-supported wire or a PCB trace is not relevant. I agree poorly-supported moving wires are not good for any electrical join, IC or not. But just soldering a wire to an IC pin is not inherently bad.
BULL! it's "sodder" all day, every day
Memeception, voltage differences have nothing to do with soldering a wire to an IC. I can feed a socketed or SMD chip the wrong voltage and cook it without any jumper wires.
Just admit you're wrong instead of doubling down on your nonsense statement, you will come out looking better by admitting your mistake. Nobody is right all the time and that's okay. Better to learn than to prove your ignorance.
He uses the UK English pronunciation.
I had a similar experience. I picked up a job lot of about 7 PlayStations for around £20 (think it was 5 originals and 2 of the smaller ones). I was testing them all to see what was wrong with them (most of them turned out to be perfectly fine) but I just happened to be chatting to my wife about copy protection and I popped a burned disc in the first one to show her that it wouldn't boot and it did. So I was like well that shouldn't happen, unless this console is chipped. Sure enough, I opened it up and found a 4-wire mod chip inside. Very poor quality job with stupidly long wires but it worked nonetheless and was an interesting surprise...
One of the rare times when TH-cam recommendations actually get you to qualify stuff..
Yeah dude
yeah and event though i didn't understand a damn thing he was doing, it was delightful... i was wondering how much of a sex scene was this to someone who completely understand it... weird
yeah its due to the "youtube algorithm". welp, God bless the blue-shirted kid.
Hi Voltar, talking about psone mods people have never seen, back in the day I use to install VCD mods into the psone , because it had no parrelel port the card was a 12 wire install combined with a socket that piggy backed off of bios, end result was VCD playback, aswell as a action replay :)
That's VERY cool! Yeah, the bus is still exposed, fortunately. But that's a HUGE effort. Awesome!
That's seriously hardcore modding. I am impressed!
This is 100% David Hayter' s secret TH-cam account
nail clippers as wire cutters, a man after my own heart, the most treasured tool in my toolkit!
I thought I was the only one!
At least use the convex ones. I get that paying $2 for end cutters sucks, but damn.
there are convex nail clippers? where are these people with caved in fingertips?
Erik Mm they are usually for toes and people with "flat" nails.
Drew DuBois huh, I'd think if you had a more square nail bed straight edged clippers would make the most sense
but..... what those mods do ?
FabioGnecco idk
maybe play pirated games
FabioGnecco, First one was to play discs bypassing the copy protection and/or region lock. Second was to clean up the video output signal for better picture, 3rd was to make a flashing LED under the power button.
if it doesn't work you just end the video and say it's done, thanks for watching!
thanks for replying !
i enjoy watching these videos a lot, but i'm not familiar with ps1 mod scene
I wonder if old, working mods made by teenagers shouldn't possibly be considered like rare antiques and preserved as they are for their historical value?
Hans I used to go to markets and swap meats and always see atleast one guy offering to fit mod chips for ps1 and PS2 and then xbox psp you get the idea :)
nah
mmm...swap meat
I have beef to swap for chicken or similar
Hans think longer scale. It has historic value, it's the type of mod the people would do, your average guy. What professionals sold isn't nearly as historic as what random kids and teens did.
I do not know what all these mods are for, but you seem so passionate and expert, the precision of your camera and your movements...i watched until the end, great job !
The *climax* of PlayStation restoration and modding. Adam would be proud.
LOL you also use nail clippers, been using those for years, I found out they're the perfect job for clipping and stripping conductors in tight spaces.
Also what kind of program is in the mod micro-controller ? would you mind explaining what it does in detail?
Dallagen nigga what
@Dallagen ... Sony made (or licensed) game discs all used a special "wobble" track for copy protection. Consumer CD burner hardware couldn't access (or write to) this track so any burned copies of PS1 game discs wouldn't work. I think that normal CSS and region locking DRM features were also embedded on the game discs.
A mod chip either spoofs the copy protection (reports that it's present when it's not) or it bypasses the copy protection code (basically replaces the conditional runcode with NOPs or just has it report valid outputs regardless of inputs). Either way the machine thinks it has a legit copy-protected disc, not a fake (copied) one.
There were many different mod chips and mod approaches on the market, some primitive and some impressively sophisticated. They all let you play burned/copied game discs the machine would normally reject. They were popular because people could copy a borrowed/rented game or burn a download game without having to buy it.
I loved fitting modchips for people back in the day, I got so quick at it and did so many I didn't need any instructions and I could start and finish within 15 minutes, used to do around 4 to 5 a day which isn't a lot but I loved doing it.
did u get paid for it?
Dino crisis ?
You're a man of classic culture and i love it
It amazes me how a gifted solderer people like you are...I try and get by, but completely suck at soldering...especially with tiny IC points that you make look so easy....
I don't even knw the hell is IC points
the difference between a novice and expert at soldering is flux
7:56 got me really confused with the castlevania music playing up in the background, took me back to my electrical circuit classes in school.
It was horrifying watching you use nail clippers to peel cables, oh the anxiety
I use the Nail Clipper 90% of the time... It's actually make a CLEAN CUT !!!
+whoesub sknsi - You should try it! Funny thing is.... People make FUN of this..... The Nail Clipper actually helps me make $50,000.00+ Per Year in my Business!
@@JodBronson you must cut alot of nails than
@@jimboss1982 - Yes I do! If you call " Nails " that is on a " PCB " boards!
@@JodBronson it was a joke
17:20 resistor looks different than in the previous shot. Did you redo the soldering? Just curious because that's just such an insane solder move!
Really nice use of the LED, I like that a lot :-)
"I'm gonna drop a little no clean on that joint."
**spill whole fucking bottle**
The comments of this video are totally worth it to see a bunch of people have some kind of allergic reaction to the fact that Voultar pronounces "solder" with the British English pronunciation.
It's as though the same word in the same language can have alternate pronunciations or even spellings based on where in the world you were born, and/or who raised you, or something.
Mentski
I call it soljjjaar based on jarhead.
His sodding iron gives me herpes just looking at it
It's almost like the word solder has a fucking L in it.... Hahaha
As a brit, I didn't even know Americans pronounced it differently lol
Yeah they all say 'sodder'.
$2?.......$2!!!!!! That would be one of the most treasure finds
My gf's mom got 4 complete ps1's with a dualshock. One for each kid. $5 each. They were also basically new. School sale. They had a brief program for educational games that fell through.
So one day, I'm looking for ps1 controllers to use with a modded og xbox. She's all "oh I have controllers." And she pulls out 2 complete ps1's lol.
Ohh god that transparent case for the PS1... i want something like that
Haha. Love the Toshinden music. And the Saturn Remix too! Niche as Hell!
on that original case... did it have a black smudge on the injection molding point on the underside of the lid?! I think you may have my old PS1, and if you do, you're entirely correct on that solder job, except I was 11 and I was using a radioshack pen! sorry about the cheap tape if that WAS mine btw.. at least it didn't leave adhesive everywhere >.>
I thought it wasn't terrible, it's not one of those appallingly bad mod consoles you see once in a while.
This was so fun to watch. And the Toshinden and Toshinden S music made it even better. What a nice surprise! :D
I'm so jealous of your steady hands and good equipment. My fingers and hands have been shaky since I was a kid. It's not very noticeable unless I'm actively trying to do something requiring very fine motor skills. Trying to solder and the tip starts bouncing a good 2-5 mm. I have to work around it by relaxing my hand completely (not even gripping), resting it against the desk, and then using my arm to move everything together.
Also, it's funny that people keep bugging you about the nail clippers. Lots of professionals repurpose tools for their needs. I find using a decent pair of scissors works better than any wire stripper I've ever used (except for the $100+ professional ones), and the control I have with them allows me to strip the insulation while keeping the conductor untouched.
Good stuff on this! I still have yet to ever stumble upon a hardmodded console accidentally while out in the wild. First time I've seen one of those purple cases as well, how did you manage to find that?
Weird, all the units I have come across pretty much has been chipped. Well, that was a pretty much essential thing to do in Europe because they didn't bring so many great games here so we had to import them. Yes, we modded our systems to play imports, not backups.
MadFinnTech that's true most of my systems that I've found had chips in them
actually bought a PS2 5000x not too long ago and wondered why my FMCB card wouldn't start, when I took it apart I noticed, that it had an old modchip inside ,I redid all the solder joints and put a switch on the power cable so I could turn it off and while I was at it I did the Laser mod like Mario did on his 5000x console!
Believe it or not, old stock online!
link? please
Dude when you soldered those orange wires I almost cried
Do you have another video that shows you playing that play station 1 that you modded?
He played it at the end of the video.
I remember going to a good will and finding a chipped Original Xbox. It had the mod where the games could be installed on the hard drive and had a 20 gig drive installed. I only recognized it because of the odd switch that was installed in front with hot glue. Eight bucks haha. I spent more on the cables and controllers than the xbox.
I wish I was that lucky
2 dollars?! What a disrespect .
eh? That's what she said
She?
The first time i opened my ps1 a couple of years ago that laser power supply cable connector came straight off the board. The side anchoring tabs are quite small and i was paranoid about melting the plastic but i managed to do it without problems
same, except i lost the connector
Just found your channel and I am glad I did that was fantastic. PS1 modding in 2018, I love it! Thanks!
I was think you could take a small file to the nail clippers and file a grove in them and make the wire stripping a bit easier.
4:15 watch at 2x speed. You wont regret it
Fuckman Gaming I regretted it
Excellent
It gave me a boner thanks
i from Costa Rica, i want send you greetings and congratulations, i like this video, you work is amazing...sorry for my poor english, but a little bit i know your lenguage, i decided to writte you and say what i think, pura vida!!! keep going doing videos like this.
Kkkkkkkkkk i cant speak english too. Here in BR nobody can do it. We're all dummies. Ps. Those lots of "k" are the BR,s way to write something like "lol" kkkkkkkk. But great video at all .. .
Um salve dos BR, povo fudido, pra os gringos do mundo afora. Kkkk🤣
K ch t mae
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LT GLITTER reporting you to the police for telling someone to commit suicide.
I enjoy your use of nail clippers
Amazing how 80s 8 bit computer sounds matched up to the guitar riffs, what a time for happy tones
can somebody explain what he did?
I was amazed at the benefits of recapping a Sega Dreamcast, I use polymer capacitors but it's probably the same results for both. Mostly shock to discover that load time seem to have gone down, a lot.
James Carter would recapping my Dreamcast fix this problem I have? In Crazy Taxi 2, I can’t hear the cash meter beep as the game starts. All other sounds in all other games (to my knowledge) are fine.
adultmoshifan87 it's possible that recapping can fix it, however it could also be the laser lens itself but if the games working perfectly fine it could be a section of the disc data slightly messed up aka disc rot.
If you do replace the Caps I recommend using high-end brands, if you use polymer capacitors you'll have to go lower on some capacitors in terms of voltage, so you may have to double check the voltage going through the capacitor before deciding on a replacement.
Fantastic! And finally a decent solder job on TH-cam 👍
I do understand what the led does, but what does the other mod do exactly? How does it change the way that the ps1 works?
Rik Schaaf clean video signal that shows up as better quality picture on screen and able to play back up games
The music makes me feel like I'm watchin an 80s movie
pure awsumness
Umm, shouldn't that be strap *_in?_* Strap on is definitely NSFW.
RMoribayashi 🤣
well, I didn't need a strap-on to do it to that PS1...
Hahaha I was wondering if just me have thought it sounds like xvids...
I got mine on, let's do this fellas.
Swooosh!!
I heard talk about "tip" and "jam". It got me excited.
Wtf? Why dont you explain what the MODs actually do?
Friday Gustav because he already made videos on them, which he mentiones in this video
@@matricxs3271 thanks for that
Probably mod to his car for extra housepower
Irgendein Account he never links them, though. You shouldn’t have to do homework to watch a video
@@poosydestroyer6545 You haven't done your homework, because that video is in the fckin info card.
Is it possible to add say, HDMI output or the possibility to read from some other media than CD's? Mostly interested in the last part, since CD's have a shelf life :)
Seriouskai if you’re not pressed on using a genuine PS1, softmodding a PS2 will allow you to run PS1 and 2 ISO’s off of a flash drive or the internal hard drive
@@Evildandalo Hey man, thanks for replying! I do know about the PS2 and a friend of mine had a modded one, I believe with an external harddrive back in the days.
I was thinking more in line with modifying the actual old hardware of the PS1, like as in if it's possible to convert the signals to say HDMI from the GPU directly, or if not, would it be possible to change or solder on new hardware inside the PS1 to make it possible. Same goes for the idea of maybe adding a USB memory and have it read from that instead of the laser.
It's probably too far out there of an idea, but it would be interesting if it is possible to do. Probably too hard to make it though unless you're crazy and love putting effort into pointless things haha.
And I watched this whole 24 min video just to see PS4 games working on ps1 you failed me. senpai
The Battle Arena Toshinden music was a nice touch!
I don’t understand what did he do
ITAL BL00D Me neither
He put...a bunch of stuff on it? I couldn't tell what the point was for like 90% of it.
Matthew Barber lol i watched the whole thing cuz i love ps1 and it was interesting, but yeah i need to look up what c-sync mod is, because as far as i can see, only thing he did was add an rgb led and clear case XD
I didn't understand that c-sync thing purpose either, but at least he made a blinking light indicating CD read access, which the original PS1 doesn't have (similar to HDD/SSD blinking light on PC cases and laptops). And combined to that colored case, it's just awesome.
yeah kinda figured its what he was doing when he bypased they slandered video compositor.. though when I was a kid i would of seen this as a god send xD
What do these mods do?
Yeah, I watched the entire video, and while he explains what he's CURRENTLY doing really well, there's very little on the end-goal. The RGB and casing replacements were obvious, but what does the composite video to composite sync mod do? And I don't think he even mentioned what the first mod was for.
Googling just returns modding jargon.
I'm not from PS world, but if you'd like to have absolutely top notch image quality on analog TV, you'd go for RGB signals via SCART connector (second best would be S-Video: separate chroma signal and composite sync+luminance, available for example in 8-bit Atari computers). In case of RGB, SCART's composite video pin becomes composite sync. Some old monitors also prefer such arrangement.
What I like about this video: nicely explained steps, good job despite thick and dirty soldering iron. Maybe too much flux and that resistor initially was soldered too close to other pin, but overall quite OK. I don't like the fact, that essentially nothing new or interesting was done (a modchip was installed instead of... a modchip, and he pulled out a signal seemingly just for fun of doing it). RGB LED is nice, but in the good old days we had floppy drives that could display current track number, so I'm unimpressed.
Przemek Kobel SCART is a composite connector. He's literally getting the exact same signal that uses.
lets you watch porn on ps1
It lets you takeover Amazon's cloud systems
Hey I've been watching your videos for a while, and finally got the courage to try some fine pitch soldering. Tonight I put a mayumi v4 in my playstation, and it worked first try! It may not be worthy of the Voultar hall of fame, but it's no hot glue enema either. Thanks for the knowledge in your videos, they helped immensely.
I was quite intrigued of the craftsmanship...and then came the nail clipper ! Anyway, nice video(clip) ;)
Nice pun
try it one day on something you dont care to scrap , the nail clipper . actualy it s a good idea , very good idea , you feel when going thru the rubber/plastic and starting to touch the wire inside then you pull .^^
I really wanted one of these clear PS1 shells when I was a teenager! I remember looking at them on eBay all the time. See-through electronics pretty much define the 90's.
And prisons
SOTN music is still awesome in 2018!!! Thank you for the nostalgic flashback!!!! I was 17 again for a min ....
That was battle arena toshiden music my dude
@@Hushpuppysox Thanks for the tip! I knew it wasn't SOTN, but it did remind me of Castlevania. This is very good though!
This gye is fantastic, i love a talented guitarist
Your soldering skills are amazing, a work of art..
Hmm, I own a purple PS1 See through case like that 🧐 it was entertaining watching you mod this even though I have no idea what half the things you explained meant 🤔
I got this exact color case and found it doesn't house my SCPH-7501 but luckily I had a 5501 on hand to drop in it. I wonder if he had to drill anything in there to get his 7501 to fit into the bottom half of the casing?
"PS1 Mods That You've Never Seen Before!" I've seen burn disc and up scaled picture before.
Kudos doing fine pitch solder work with a fat tip like that... not an easy task. Also using toe nail clippers to strip wire... again... strange, but kudos all the same.
The fact that he has battle arena toshinden music in backround is legit
The rock and dark piano music was awesome!
Your right!! I didn't know about any of those mods!!
I loved your soundtrack Choice battle arena toshinden was one of my favorite PlayStation games
Wasn't toshinden the first game on PS1? I remember seeing PS-0001 on its side
What exactly does a composite sync mod actually do?
That's what I was wondering
Appears to be bypassing other chips the composite video passthroughed that probably added noise to the signal. Cleans up the picture a little.
It's most useful on a big modern display. In large blocks of color you may see a nasty checkerboarding effect over RGB (even using quality scart cables) due to slight sync on luma interference. It's hard to unsee once you notice.
Running the wires under the pins doesn’t cause any issues? Noise?
If you want some electrolytic capacitors exploding into your face use hot air (recomended)
4:28 you sure are going around your elbow to get to your ass with soldering to the chip, when you have breakout pads clearly visible
Im a retired auto mechanic who loves to do home electronics, I started with arduino and such, What do these mods do?
He put a chip to play burned CDs, the second thing apparently makes the load times shorter, the last one was the LED mod.
And you can down load some games or some code and burn your own discs, Correct?
@@stclairstclair Yes, you need the chip on the PS1 though for downloaded/pirated games to work. Here's a video on how PS1 reads discs if you're interested: th-cam.com/video/XUwSOfQ1D3c/w-d-xo.html it shows how they prevented piracy and also how people cracked it.
Guitarman5200, OK I Watched it, very good!
@@stclairstclair indeed
8:19 - i've found a cuticle cutter works REALLY well for fine work like this.
Strap-on or strap in? 🤣hahahaha kinky!
I think you mean "lube up"
Dude LoL... maximus strap on
Strapped on and ready to go... what's supposed to happen next?
I thought the exact same thing LOL. I was like "hmmm, did he not mean strap-in?" hahahaha. Ohh how our sub-conscious can play tricks with us lol.
John Smith Just lube it up
GachiGASM
Im sorry
A fricking nail clipper!
Interesting how my 9001 doesnt have the rf shield.
Hey a question, mine has a worn rack on the laser mechanism, i always wanted to change it for a metal one like i understand later models had, do you know if they are compatible or if there's any better solution than just buying a new one and see how it wears like the first one?
Shorter circuit paths of the smaller boards, optimised component layouts, make shielding less needed. But above all, it saves cost of course.. ;)
And yes, the drives are not very picky about what machine they are attached to at all. As it happens I have transplanted a 9000 series drive to a 1000. No electrical issues. But the mechanical fit was quite different, so new supports for the suspensions had to be made, and either the machine shell or the drive have to be trimmed a bit to fit. All easy though.
Cool, good to know, ill see if i can find a good laser then to put on my precious toy. Thanks! :D
NP. Though I should mention the wear on slide was addressed with hardware redesign as far back as 5000 series. This doesn't mean that could not your problem of course. But Id check if the thing is really tilting first. Trying the old upside down PS trick and see if that helps, then it probably still is worn.
Yeah, mine has a lot of play, so much i've seen it move to a position only to fail and try moving back like 1 mm or more some times and that really shows when it has to load lots of files in different positions as sometimes it wont correct and just give up iirc. Back when i was a kid i used to put it on its left side and that would make it read ok. I took a look and mine has a KSM-440AEM, and reading a bit yeah found what you said that this is supposed to be the fixed one, and that the metal parts werent the rack and pinion mechanism but the slider on the other side. A pity.....wish i could make them out of bronze or something. I have a 3d printer but im not that good at making gears and even then im not sure i could print something so tiny good enough that it would be better than the worn one. And machinists are expensive af and most dont even have a cnc mill that can to these things. Where is china when we need it!?
There's always Shapeways, you can test a print with yours, and get a final part in Nylon that has the same performance and material as original gears in all the better and more resilient drives. And you can sell/dropship them via Shapeways too. I have never seen brass gears used throughout an ODD sled mechanism and they might not be suitable - more inertia, higher friction, etc.
But then if you can get the Z-wobble out of your printer and get a smaller nozzle, and print slowly, it stands to reason that your own prints could be perfectly fine? PLA is pretty wear resistant! What printer do you have anyway?
Never thought I'd be watching a PS1 Modding in 2019...... LMAO. BOY U GOT SKILLS SOLDERING, I FU my ps2 trying to mod it when it first intro the mod chip for the PS2 lol
did you use a resistor between the led and te laser pad?
I got you beat, I got a PS1 for $1!
Can the disc tray and laser be swapped between models? I have an SCPH-1001 that can't read discs and a later revision that can.
It depends, I might be wrong but I think there's 2 different lasers modules used for the fats, and just 1 for the slim?
Someone correct me on this
Fat? I have two PS1's not the PSX revision.
You will have to take the top case off and check if the laser units look the same.
Well I call the original big PS1 models Fats and call the PSOne models Slims.
But basically I meant there's two(?) different lasers for the Fats, I think the only difference being the ribbon cable type/length that connects it to the motherboard.
Just compare the two and see whether they can fit.
I replaced the laser assembly on my SCPH-1001 with the assembly from a PS One. Works great. Other revisions have ribbon cables that are too short.
The soundtrack kept me from skipping to the end xD
Battle arena Toshinden for PS one Ejjis theme
+1 for Dino Crysis too,That game scared the crap outa me back in the day :D
Dude, I have to thank you for the amazing tracklist. Picking up an electric guitar tomorrow, so you already know the first thing I'm jamming along to🤘
Soon as that music played I knew it was from battle arena toshinden. Soundtrack was radical
Videos atleast a year old and he never updated on what the mod was lol 😂
Just showing his fingernails with annoying songs
Pretty sure it lets him play burned PS1 games. Doesn't take a genius to figure that out.
😂😂😂😂
Mark Thomas I wouldn’t know I don’t mod systems and there other mods than just burned games you know
It already had a chip to play burned PS1 games.
Thank you very much for this upload, very in-depth & easy to understand. I learned a lot of great solder techniques I desperately needed to learn.
how many traces have you pulled off wiggling wires like that? (im talking lifetime projects)
btw fanfuckintastic work and i really enjoyed watching you work.
CSYNC mod? So.. it spits out better RGB as in composed sync?
yup
Wild I thought if console support RGB it's for all syncs too.. anywho I got RGC's sync-on-luma for my PS1 and I guess it's cool? But my dumb western ass will stick to S-Vid because I hate the to-HDMI bullshit! Need my CRTs! Analog er DIE!!!!
It's CSNY dude, one of the best bands ever
A nail clipper lol. 😂 Never thought I see the day those are use for something other than nails.
I use em for fishing line.
I could never skip forward with that solo👌🏽👌🏽