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►PS1Digital: www.black-dog.tech/ps1digital...
►xStation: castlemaniagames.com/products...
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VIDEO DESCRIPTION:
In this installment, I debut the PS1Digital and xStation mod kits. These are two amazing pieces of technology as the PS1Digital yields perfect digital video which can be up-scaled internally to 1080P while the xStation is a psuedo (O)ptical (D)rive (E)mulator which yields nearly 100% perfect compatibility.
Both the PS1Digital and xStation are in late beta stage and will be available for everyone to purchase VERY soon. - เกม
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Constructive criticism: Zoom out after you're done soldering an area so people get a realistic idea of how small these connections truly are! You make this look VERY easy, when in reality, most people don't have the skills to perform these mods. Love your content!
I've done the team xecuter mod chip install on the later generation switches. it was indeed very small soldering, like small enough that you need magnification to see exactly what you're doing.
I can concur here.
I just did my own PS1Digital install, xstation and recap of the PS1 motherboard and PSU. Everything on that list is trivial, EXCEPT the PS1Digital.
In terms of difficulty, I'd say the recapping effort was a 4 or 5 out of 10, xstation 5 or 6 out of 10, and the PS1Digital a 15 out of 10. Those pins on that GPU quad flat pack are TINY. Voultar made it look super easy to align it and solder it. I had nearly as much trouble with just aligning the thing.
While my install works, and I spent a good 30 min with a volt meter verifying no bridges or shorts on the PS1Digital and the test points on the xStation, I do have X's on my G3, G4, and G5 lines. Pin 20 (G4) is shorted to pin 19 (3.3V) and it's not on the top side. It's shorted on the under side of the flex. The system boots and plays fine, just looks a little 'blocky" until I get that fixed. I'm not brave enough to try to remove that GPU flex with an iron alone.... so I need to invest in a hot air station. Then I'll remove that GPU flex and take another shot at soldering it in again.
Dan warns people right on the page where you buy this, this is NOT for the novice and best left for the professionals. I did my install without any magnification. Those flexes are TINY, those IC legs are TINY, and it's hard enough to see by the naked eye to even align it, let alone solder it. Then you have to get the flex aligned, without your fingers being too close, so that you can slip that iron tip in there and solder, without risking burning your finger. I'll say it one last time, that GPU flex was not easy. The other 3 flexes were considerably easier.
@@brandonkick get yourself the plugable USB microscope. I have one and it makes doing any surface mount soldering a joke. and buy some gel flux paste no clean. those two things will make any soldering job so so easy. trust me on that, ps1 modding, switch modding, xbox modding, anything modding. the microscope also lets you inspect all your joints up close. the plugable one i recommend because its really cheap and the quality is SUPERB. crystal clear images and 60fps continual. if you search youtube there are videos of other people using the plugable usb microscope to do very small soldering. the only thing I will add is that you need a decent CPU to handle the microscope or you might notice FPS drop or lag, I used it on my 10 year old laptop and the FPS was really bad. but on my modern desktop 60fps continually which is more than adequate for soldering.
@@StreetWorksMedia I actually bought that very USB microscope a good 3 to 4 years ago.
For whatever reason, I always felt it too laggy to use for actual real time soldering.
To be perfectly honest, I decided to give er the ole college try. Last time I hooked it up, a few days ago to inspect my PS1Digital install work, the display was very laggy. Even at stock settings. That was using VLC media player.
I downloaded the software off the website, installed it, and ran it. I can easily see using this to solder with, just not at 1600x1200 res... it does add a few frames of lag there. At 800x600 or 640x480 the display is basically lag free.
Once I get my hot air station, and remove the PS1Digital flex, I'll be using the pluggable USB 3.0 microscope to resolder the flex!
@@brandonkick I'm not lagging at all. I run it on an i7 8700k, with a GTX 1080 and 32GB ram. It runs perfect realtime. no delay or lag at all. Weird.
One way I use to lift the legs of fine-pitch ICs is to take some kynar wire and thread it under the leg I want to lift so it loops under it, heat up the solder joint, and give a gentle pull on the wire, pulling in the direction the leg points toward. This work great, since it always lifts the leg only enough so that the wire can slip under the lifted leg, and it sweeps any excess solder out. It's also great for doing 2-3 legs at once. Works 100% of the time, every time.
NullPoEx Underrated comment
That's a brilliantly simple solution that I've never even considered (which makes me feel kind of stupid lol). Thanks for the tip!
Got a product link? I'd like to try that out.
@@nismo4x4n It's kynar wire. There is no specific product. It's just a very fine wire usually used for wire-wrapping or just soldering very small wires in electronics where you don't need a thicker gauge.
@@nismo4x4n You could probably use just about anything.. Cut apart a CAT5 cable and use one of the twisted strands if you don't have anything else.
Voultar, I appreciate you, you have been a role model to me and finally got me ready to try soldering, I purchased a station last week and installed an xStation with your tutorial as a guide!
Thank you very much.
Anyone else super happy to know we still get to see that sweet Ps1 intro even with the ODE?
Is the PSIO the same in that regard?
Why won't we? It just replaces CD-ROM, so yeah, all of the BIOS is in place and intact.
@@PiskenDragen I have a GC Loader for the Gamecube and instead of seeing the Gamecube intro Jingle, it boots straight into Swiss so it's nice to see the Xstation keeps the Ps1 intro.
I'm glad, alot of mods change the boot sequences and it always bugs me 😂
@@demonboyjr4915 pretty sure that’s a function of Swiss rather than the gcloader
Extraordinary evolution of PS1 mods right here, great work by everybody involved!
I'm glad to see you're still in the mod scene Voultar.
I really appreciate these high quality zooms, to see the work in all it's glory.
3:00 I had to rewind this 3 times to make sure I understood what you said correctly... I wasn't ready. LOL
Can't wait for this to never be in stock so I can add it to the long list of mods I want but can't have.
Yeah, I was just thinking that. The DCHDMI mod and the N64 mod, can't find them even if I wanted them. SD mods either.
Oh you can get ‘em... for a price
Sounds like XStation will be available in plenty. PSDigital on the other hand may not. Dan's products are amazing but they have a history of inadequately meeting demand. Hopefully that changes soon for all of his product line.
won't be an issue with the XStation
@@CastleManiaGames I'll bet a XStation(send me one for free/I'll pay you for nothing) that there will be shortages/unable to supply/back orders within the first 6 months of release.
Damn, you got one of the best game music selection in a video I've seen thus far!
I'm so glad you're making videos again
Great stuff! Just popped back and stayed for 3 vids back to back! 😎
God Voultar, when you talk like this and look like that while doing the things you do so well, well it just revs my engine and gets my juices flowing. Mmm those sunglasses...
Can't wait. Just got my SCPH-5501 the other day in preparation. (And LOL, my PSIO bug report is now immortalized in this video)
I have a 5501 with a mm3 modchip, I want to eventually get the modchip removed and the cd drive replaced with a xstation
Glad to see the video Lord Voultar. The background was very interesting in this one. Oh and awesome mod too!
Sold my ossc and going balls deep into hdmi mods. Proud to say that I just finished installing the ps1 digital with 0 experience in soldering. Bought a bunch of jank on Aliexpress and used this video (Thanks Voultar!) and the documentation.
Incredible dude. Hilarious and informative. Ps one still causes mini strokes upon start up sound for me.
You are the God of Mods man, so inspiring... Keep going 🙂.
As usual, you're a master. I love watching you work. Keep it up!
Cool Alien Trilogy Soundtrack :) - nice job sir!
The Xenogears and Legend of Dragoon music, so epic.
Ace Combat too
Extraordinary
Alien Trilogy at 20:00 omg that takes me back.
11:05 The Man With the Soldering Iron
Have 2 xstations on the way for a PU-8 and a PU-18. Both getting a full recap as well, Can't wait to do it. Thanks for the all the tips and knowledge on these Voultar. What a legend
you are the bob ross of soldering. great. i didn't even have or had a ps1 and had to keep on watching. great job!
Congratulations! A thousand times congratulations to all involved! Great news for us passionate about games and video games (this music 'Moon Over the Castle' is supperb soundtrack of Gran Turismo Japan!)! After Sega Saturn and Dreamcast, now Playstation 1! Lack of another great console: Playstation 2! With this lack of parts and specialized maintenance, increasingly inflated prices and the greed of some sellers and manufacturers, it is necessary to create modern and practical options for our beloved hobbyists!
"Let's do a little drag soldering..."
I love soldering in drag!
Oh... that's not what you meant?
Tf
Bruh
you wanna solder the hem of your sleeve onto the motherboard? cause that's how you solder the hem of your sleeve onto the motherboard.
DEJA VU, I HAVE SOLDERED THIS PAD BEFORE
👍
Hi Voultar - Love the "Toshinden" Battle Arena music you have playing in the background! - My first ever PSX Game.
That's one handy desoldering tip with the blade.
No wonder why I've already subscribed.
Super handy
was going back and forth on the PSIO, now I'm glad I waited.
With PSIO you don't lose the ability to play physical discs though...
@@ChrisGhysel You mean that dying laser that'll lose functionality in the coming years? And that's not even including disc rot. All disc based consoles are at risk. You should be moving all your games to SD cards/hard drives ASAP.
If you want a PS1 to look stock, just get another one and keep the other laser as a backup.
@@hughang8444 Oh shut it. Disc rot is overrated, except for laserdisc. And there's some pretty good KSM-440BAM replacement lasers out there. Just stay away from the other models and you should be fine...
@@ChrisGhysel "Oh shut it." How about you calm TF down with the random aggression? Geez...
@@TreyMotes Keep breathing and have some self-reflection there my man... LMAO
Nice usage of darts theme
After finishing a previous video of yours well now I have several mods I wish to add. Awesome!
And this is where the soldering screwing again starts, like dchdmi screwed my mainboard. But these pins seems smaller then on the dreamcast mainboard. Damn. Good job by the way.
maybe a precision soldering station will work better than that big and bulky cheap soldering iron you have.
The dude from the PSIO project feels like someone trying to pretend their solution is the only way to do things. I love that people keep coming up with new shit.
@Farglior Zero shadow mentally stopped at the age of a pre-puberty teenager
It's like the GDEmu/Rhea/Phoebe all over again. Now we got the Mode. I use a GDEmu clone on my Dreamcast, and I have a PSIO. Planning on replacing the PSIO for the XStation and getting a second Mode to replace my GDEmu if moving a single MODE between the Saturn and Dreamcast is that big of a pain in the ass (Still waiting on my preorder to arrive since it shipped recently), but it seems like given they both use a single firmware they probably expect people to do this who don't want to spend too much money. Hell, TerraOnion added Sata support as a cost effective way to add games so I feel like they're more pro-consumer than the others.
Ikr ?!?!?!?!?!
@Robbie PSIO has compatibility problems. You don't break a leg installing this if you do it correctly, just watch the video you're commenting on, you can put it back the way it was too. Why do I need the disc drive if I have an ODE? Finally, the company that sells the Xstation doesn't think it's okay to dox customers.
PSIO loses. It's not even second place. It loses to both the Xstation and a working optical drive.
@Robbie personally my disc drive us fried, and I'd like a solution that isn't outwardly visible so it looks like I have a regular PSX.
"RetroRGB has shitty content." 🤣 Nice background screen.
the God of soldering does it again, awesome job. Hope I can do this mod to my already modchipped PS1 one day.
amazed by your soldering skills!
I’m really hoping that similar mods like this also happen for PlayStation 2, especially for Slim models that don’t have support for internal HDD.
Right! I can't wait for this to happen
Bro I need both
Just get a fat PS2. It already has 100% compatibility. Don't hold your breath on an ODE coming anytime soon.
@iVirtualPlays What is the cause of discs being scratched?
More importantly, the 9x versions. Yes there are Fortuna, and Matrix chips. Yes I do store my games on LAN. But this PSone uses microSD and its fast, like PS2 Fat HDD.
Dont forget that digital mod too. Most PS2 games are still on 480i / 576i, so it's still laggy on most modern displays. Its either use the YPbPr to HDMI, or the cheaper PS2 to HDMI adapter, or RetroTink2x stuff. Still not pure Digital to Digital, like this PSone mod.
god I hate QSB's. I would much rather have a simple breakout pcb for the flat flex connector and run wires, there was nothing difficult to solder to. Looking forward to getting one when they are back in stock.
you are like the Bob Ross of gaming tech. Such a pleasure to watch, almost relaxing despite being a microsoldering video.
Dude you are the best... hilarious!!!! Love it! Don't stop shooting new videos, please!
Lazer bear industries working on a insert? Thanks for the video
Last night, I modded my PS1 slim, I haven't put the last two crews yet because the casing needs a warm bath anf the buttons need WD40 because they're getting stuck, then a brand new Voultar video popped.
My question is, how do you use Codebreaker and Gameshark digitally?
All the ODEs allow for some sort of disc swapping. Assuming you can add them to a queue instead of just sequentially named in the same folder, you would be able to do that with the xstation. Disc 1 is the GameShark, and 2nd disc being your game, and just open/close the lid to switch. We'll see more when it's released but I suspect it'll work painlessly.
Dont use WD40...
Use dielectric lube
@@el_teodoro Right, dont use WD40 or petroleum base. most plastic case cannot deal with petroleum base lubricant. A few month next the plastic will crack and unrepairable. I suggest that you use plastic safe lub. Some chain lub work fine, because chain using plastic part as bearing. Electric lub will fine too just abit more expensive then chain lube. I'm using Q Plus 204 / 203
Came for the Kitboga cosplay stayed for the amazing mods. Great job!
Thank you for this. Working with the camera in the way requires some damn rad skillz. I know I learned a crap ton.
Would be great finding a solution to not sacrifice the CD reader, great mods and thanks for the video
Ryan is a cool dude. And Castlemania products are excellent! Been anticipating this day. Very eager to see how the Xstation works.
appreciated :)
I LOVE the Retro RGB troll there Voultar :)
your job is amazing, your soldering too
Voultar looks like a young John Cusack in the thumbnail.
And it's full size HDMI! None of that adapter or special cable crap here. Love it!
Yes! Although it breaks my heart to remove the serial port. No WOXL multiplayer??? I ain’t havin it...
Man... kudos on those soldering skills.
Great video. Loving the sound track!
15:28 I'm all about some pretty tedious hand work!! 😁
HDMI mod + Xstation ODE will turn your PS1 to PS1 Classic, but better (because it support dualshock and other PS1 accessories)
This man explains well and patiently, so well that i hit subscribe button 😎
Am I the only one who noticed the "RetroRGB has shitty content" on the background?, I actually googled that and it literally returned the following: "It looks like there aren't any great matches for your search"
I would love to see this guy install a NEO4 Playstation 2 mod chip.
Someone hire this man for the next Apple keynote presentation.
what a stable hand!Great job man!
Nice work as always voultar
The Castlemania Sticker hurts me on the inside. Firstly that they put it on the console lol but mainly that they put it on crooked!
Radical thumbnail, my friend.
Thank you!!
So happy to pay you install this soon, I would F this up for sure!
Awesome video, love the flair and vocal pizzaz you add to your videos. Had this came out around the PSIO I probably would have went with this instead.
Voultar is correct about the PSIO. For a device with "near" 100% compatibility, there are a TON of bugs. I gave up on updating mine a long time ago, as the new menu versions would continually break other games. Transferring files is also not a simple 'drag and drop' process, as is the case with Terraonion's products. CDDA, multi-bin, and multi-disc titles all need to be converted, plus you have to manually patch libcrypt titles. Furthermore, certain games require alterations to menu settings just to be able to work. With good ODE-type devices, all the games simply work without requiring any user intervention. The only positive about the PSIO is that you retain the use of your optical drive. Considering how long PSIO has been out, Cybdyn Systems frankly have done a poor job perfecting it. I wish the XStation had been available sooner, with true near perfect compatibility out of the box.
Thats the strange thing about the PSIO. I think the compatibility depends on the model of PS1 you modded. Mine for example, I havent had a single issue with any games I’ve tried. I think I got lucky.
Terraonion rules. Just installed a MODE...so easy to use. I'm tossing my gmedu as well.
@@nyastclair8174 What model is yours incidentally?
"Let's do it" count = 69. Noice!
Great one, lad. All it needs is all the PS1 games, including the Gameshark game codes as those additional options.
Soldering so good that the solder point are almost mirror like --- Dang Voultar you are awesome !
"T-1000 juices"
After hearing that, I'll never be the same when soldering again.
20:05 I recognise that Gameplay music but I can't remember what game its from.
I've just gone to post the exact same thing - does anyone remember what it's from?
I need to know this song
Same. Someone save us.
So I found out it's from the first level of Alien Trilogy - I game I maybe rented, but didn't play much. Wonder if this song was like used for a server loading screen in CS:S or something.
all those PS1 games soundtracks here are amazing, I could identify at least 4
Fire Youngman - Ace Combat 2 BGM. Excellent Choice!, and btw, nice, very very nice video!
Instructions unclear, couldn't find the onlyfans link
like #69
"RETRORGB has shitty content"
🤣😂 Such a troll
Also love the inclusion of the PS1 game music. When Vagrant Story kicked in I got the feels
LOL =D
George Soros!! 😆🤣😆🤣😆
That HDMI mod is so sweet and with the 3D printed insert just 👌
Damn you Voultar for making everything look easy !
Everytime voultar makes a video my confidence in my heterosexuality becomes a bit weaker.
Keep fighting it girl !! :)
@@crumplezone1 Girl?
Literally made me laugh out loud 😂
srsly. I didn't know he was so upstanding!
I understand the x station having better compatibilty but I'd rather the psio get their shit together. I don't mind adding functionality to my machine but I don't want to gut the disc drive out my PlayStation.
Cybdyn appear to be very active in trying to iron out bugs (I believe they've finally solved the Jackie Chan Stuntmaster issue), They get a lot of flack for tightly locking down their firmware updates, TerraOnion do exactly the same but don't get so much hate
@@TheDeeplyCynical well I would gladly buy a psio if they basically sort everything out. I like things like the GameCube mod chip and sd2sp2, not things like the gdemu where it basically replaces the disc drive. I enjoy mods until it basically removes a functionality. I'm cool with the HDMI taking the serial port because to my knowledge that had no functionality.
Man I gotta save up and get some better tools. This kinda stuff can be some of the most satisfying work .Love the videos man so informative and I have learned a lot about soldering from you.
8:40 I’ve done micro soldering at my old job in R&D and it cracks me up when people attempt it with no soldering experience at all.
This part had me laughing 😂
Is there a song list? A lot of the songs I'm hearing I can't exactly put my finger on
I wish to know them too
I heard Alien Trilogy in there
I heard Battle Arena Toshinden and Vagrant Story music...
The song that started at 4:24 was Fire Youngman from Ace Combat 2
@@jevans1030 dude same
Voultar literally be like, "I'm Bringing Sexy Back!" Awesome job!
15:38 "uhuuuuuu", I like that sound, dude
Mute+CC = Great Video 👍
This is amazing. Please take my money.
at 2:20, what's that george soros stuff in the background, on the screen of the monitor?
I was wondering the same thing Soros is an awful person.
I already done this mode with my 3 PlayStation 1 systems. It is really easy to install and thanks for video 👊
You are the Bob Ross of electronics modding. Thank you for the videos!
If i may make one suggestion one modder to another a metal dental pick would make lifting those pin a LOT easier you just hook the pin with the pick apply heat and gently lift ...that would make it butter smooth 🤣
Voultar is just Deadpool with some good skin lotion (or some CGI editting). And making extra money when not killing people or stalking Spider-Man.
Legend of Dragoon music at 22:15 ! Any time LoD gets some love I'm a happy camper! Great video Voultar! I was on the fence about the PSIO but will definitely be waiting for the Xstation now.
Just pre-ordered my Xstation! cant wait!
31:17 Please teach me your secret sensual techniques
I'll have to defend the PSIO here. There's a number of dealbreakers for me with the X-Station. First, you don't get to keep the laser assembly with the X-Station, you do with the PSIO which means you can keep playing from real discs. Also, the install of the X-Station is harder and more permanent. Lifting a pin on the far edge of a chip is ok but lifting the other pins is risky as you'll end up bending them sideways like we see in this video. Even if you succeed in lifting those pins, if you do that I would say more than 2/3 times you'll break them for sure. This makes the X-Station install somewhat permanent. You can't go back and forth all you want and have the laser assembly back into place and play from a real disc.
Also, the PSIO has wider mainboard revision support. X-Station is compatible up to the SCPH-700x revision. PSIO is compatible up to the SCPH-750x revision. PSIO is actually theoretically compatible with all PS1 revisions if you're not afraid to do some more soldering/hacking. There's a video on TH-cam showcasing a bare PSIO board inside a slim PsOne.
About the compatibility issues you mentioned with the PSIO, Matt from Cybdyn-Systems has been making a number of breakthroughs lately. He's finally managed to fix Jackie Chan Stuntmaster NTSC, He's gotten a hold on a DTL-H2700 debug board, he's designed a bus sniffer to further debug and he's planning to add SPU support (for Vib-Ribbon and Uka-Uka's mouth in Crash Team Racing). One year/one year and half away from now and the vast majority of those problems will be fixed.
One thing that you didn't mention is that the PS1Digital includes the PsNee code to play imports and backups which removes the need of an additional Modchip but what's it good for if you removed the laser assembly to install the X-Station ? PS1Digital is also said to be 100% compatible with PSIO by its creators. Nothing is said about compatibility with X-Station at this point.
To me a PS1 model SCPH-550x with PS1Digital, PSIO and SPDIF output mod will be the definitive PS1.
One last thing, Matt from Cybdyn-Systems has shown a sneak peak of his own upcomming ODE. He's yet to officially annouce it. SO STICK WITH PSIO.
Cybdyn-Systems - liars. Where no 99,9% compatibility. I just buy X-Station then it comes and you wait for another sweet story from Matt about 99.999999% games works on PSIO.
just slap the psio on a shitty 20$ extra ps1 from ebay, once you got an xstation you probably will almost never go back to the psio anyhow
Are there any games that don't work on PSIO other than Jackie Chan and the menu crash of nfs? Most of the issues I hear about now seem to be from bad rips but admittedly I haven't been keeping up with this stuff.
Would also like to add that it is way too early to say the xstation is near 100% compatibility as there are thousands of games that will have to be thoroughly tested and that takes time. (My understanding is the ps has some very weird/picky timing that is hard to mimic). Prematurely making that claim is what hurt the psio's reputation after all. (In addition to the price and annoying firmware lockdown heh)
On a side note matt had mentioned features coming soon for the psio - like saving game saves to the SD card. If that ends up happening, that alone is a huge advantage of the psio.
@@razorblade1148 Yet you seem to accept claims that the XStation is near 100% compatible without any real proof and because some attention-seeking TH-camr says so, so he can boost his modding services profile.
@@fieldingmellish8828 While I agree it is way too early to be boasting about the compatibility of the Xstation till the massive PS1 library is thoroughly tested, accusing Voultar of stating such JUST to boost "modding services" is pretty weak sauce too. He's a good egg.
Welcome back to the scene, great video and excellent skill.
My first Ps1 was given to me as a birthday present by my older brother. God bless my bro. Anyways he had it modded for me before he gave it to me and he also included 8 games that where downloads from online rom sites. I was the envy of my neighborhood.
Love your videos. Just wish you’d stop those stupid sounds.
No.
omg finally a proper ode for the ps1 and ps1 digital thanks!
Bro bro. Ima see if I can do this to my party station. Thank you for sharing!!!!! Subbed
Voultar Maguire, with great mods comes great responsabilities! 🕷️