VERY Difficult Hardware Mods For The PS2
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I fudged up some of the editing in the beginning. This video was a pretty raw shoot!
It's been years, years I tell you! Some very old technique's here. This is a super short-wire method. This is NOT a tutorial, nor is it an endorsement of any kind. Just trying to impart some methods onto the newer (and older) generation. You don't hardly see the short-wire stuff being done. Then again, you really didn't back in the day either. It's certainly the most challenging.
Just me workin' away!
for anyone curious what this mod does, it allows you to tap into the full power of the PS2's Emotion Engine so you too, can feel emotions for the first time in a long time.
I feel emotions every time I grasp the soldering iron
Sebastian, try grabbing it by the handle rather than the hot metal bit at the end, then you won't have to fight pain every time.
I'd like to feel emotions again.
what are you guys on about haha
mark porter we're trying to get emotions again from the emotion engine in the ps2s we own
Random guy on the internet modded my PS2 years ago.
Dug it out and checked.
looks very similar.
nice
木ノ下じょな was it modchipman.com
Was it Oh Yeah Yeah gang 2019?
nice
i feel cheated that he couldnt have even showed off what the mod actually does after all that
It's a modbo 4. It plays burned discs which is pretty useless now for PS2 because softmodding exists, but it's good for PS1 burned discs
Womp womp...
@@pointblank0020 WOOT WOOT WOOT...
@@pointblank0020 Agreed. Playing burned discs also wears down the laser faster then normal. Softmodding is the way to go for almost any system.
@@darklink4160 problem is that some games don’t work through soft modding
Music made it sound like I was watching the Power Rangers
hahahahaha i thought the same hahaaha
I keep trying to figure out what music it is, is it From Ys
@@Madman-vs7gp It's a cover of the Megadrive's Thunderforce IV - BioBase level, No idea who by but it's deffo that.
Guys its this ruclips.net/video/TnLAC5AJPuM/видео.html
SSH cover of Thunderforce IV music.
Fucking Facemelting.
@@icyjiub2228 All of SSH's songs sound exactly the same.
What... Wait! No hotglue, no Epoxi tar, not even a paperclip, can I realy trust this?
well he drowned the IC pins in superglue, burned off the isolation of the wires and he clearly uses too much heat when soldering.
pretty painful to watch actually
rodmongodwood he does seem to run his iron near the max, but who knows mabey when you need to make a quick joint and not sink heat into the packages thats what you gotta do on this kinda mod, the super glue is a touch sketch
actually there's a very specific reason he's doing this, with the ps2 came some of the first of what's called "micro solder beads". because of them being so small the system did what's called solder Beading, where it would heat the solder very quickly and cool it very quickly upon startup (ergo the really cool pillars which also tell you how much memory is being used on your games) because of this effect the solder has to be heated very quickly then cooled very quickly as well to keep it from "bubbling" which is really more of small particles of air bubbles inside of it that keep the connections from working correctly. It's actually really cool to watch in slow motion from an atomic microscope.
rodmongodwood I submerged the pinz in super glue. Also 365c is a perfectly healthy temperature. You would know that if you only knew what you were talking about. Lolez
Yes, Led free solder (at least those particular types i hawe tried), needs a bit higher temp. on old stuff even if one do it correct, compared to the old scool 60/40. It´s easy to sit back here and say things from the books, but in reality it´s often sort of an edge balance to get the correct temperature with that stuff, so i personally must agree with Voutar, at least based on my own experience i think he get good result... But constructive critisicsm is important i agree with that.
Great stuff as always, thanks for posting this. I just have to say that I get a real "Bob Ross with a soldering iron" vibe from all of your videos when the subject is simply the task at hand and nothing more. Keep up the great work.
Just did a ps1 mod for the first time (first time soldering too) and it was a cinch. Looked into PS2 modding and I was like, damn, that's quite a step up in difficulty. Nicely done!
Ps1 = x1 difficulty. PS2 = x2 difficulty. Lol probably not accurate but it may as well be cuz thaat shit in the video looks as hard as a jtag for 360 lol
I just bought a PS2 for a tenner and modded it. The ROM was OK to do, but the tiny pin pitch on that other chip was too much for me. Now it's stuck in a boot loop. I'm definitely going to find some easier points to solder to, even if it means that some wires are going to be longer. I'm too old for this shit. Still having fun though.
So glad the 17 y/o version of me went the DMS 4 EZI path back then. Solderless DMS4 Pro chip. Super sweet. Still works to this day!
Man that was intense.
Cleaner than a tech mogul prototype board! I bet you could toss that PS2 down a flight of stairs and your work would still look good as new!
Never seen anything like that.
Just a tip - old ide ribbon cables for conductors , keeps everything super tidy
CAT 5 Ethernet cable also works pretty well but IDE is a classic and looks cool
I did this many years ago, and when I turned it on and IT WORKED i was in shock. Pain in the ass. I screamed out "IT WORKS" like Emmitt L Brown.
I had ho re make some of these with my shitty soldering iron... believe me... it wasn't easy...
What does de mod do?
Most Difficult thing here was to listen to that music, damn
It's pretty good music but it lasted too long
Rehash of thunder force 4 soundtrack on the megadrive. Preferred the original tbh, and a change of track every 4-5 mins would have been nice. Otherwise top work. Have 2 machines with the matrix chip done on them. Still work to this day.
A god amongst men. Even though I'm not interested in this specific mod, your technique videos have taught me a lot and inspired me to challenge myself to more difficult mod work. Keep em coming my lord!
I work with electronics and do mods as a hobby, and have for years. I always learn something from watching your videos. I appreciate the content, man. Keep it up!
I've modded a hundred PS2's. There is no reason to, now, you can soft mod the memory card, and do 10 times more than even the best chip could do. The only thing that a chip can do that the memory card mod can't, is CR-R burned discs. Burn them onto a DVD-R, mo problems. I still have mine, and it has a brand new laser that has never been used, since I keep my games on the hard drive.
I am partial to the version 5 console, the SCPH-30001-R, the first incarnation of the second generation "high speed" consoles, before any software "updates".
At my peak, I'd buy a brand new console, take it straight out of the box, and mod it. While I was at it, I'd leave a burned demo disc in the drive, and put it back in the box, so that whoever I sold it to could have the honors of the "enter language" screen that they only do the first time you use one, and when that was done, the demo would run. That way they know they got a brand new console, with zero miles on it. You have to be very confident in your work to do that.
Still have my own modded one as well. Oh the miles I've put on it! Xlink Kai is the way to go nowadays.
pull out the 3v button battery and that screen shows again
I'm also partial to the F-chassis units - they seem to be built really well.
This is how i feel about original Xbox modchips still being sold. Soft mod is a piece of piss.
Video was made for posterity....So millenials could understand the tideous and complexity oldschool gamers went through....
Killing it with the vids lately! Possibly consider vlogs or just random conversations on certain topics relating to retro gaming or anything else. Will watch it all.
No, way too many fantastic and interesting channels reach peak interesting, and then the presenter talks way too much about their personal life, or starts getting chummy with the diehard fans who refuse to say anything negative about them, or they become a horrendous patreon vampire - sucking up tons of money but losing the little flairs and touches that made the channel unique and interesting.
Voultar is simple, frank, to the point, and I don't want to learn anything more about him. Never meet your heroes.
oh thank god. I was watching some dude mod an xbox 360 but nobody makes good quality videos like you, i just had to watch one to restore balance to my mind.
Great video. Couldn't have pulled it off without the Video. All praise Lord Voultar!
This is beautiful. Mine is what I would describe as "aesthetically displeasing, but operational". :D
your soldering skills are amazing. i come here only to see the soldering. congratulations!
I remember doing this 17-18 years ago with Messiah's and eventually Duo2 SE's and they certainly were wiring nightmares compared to this. I was in college and my previous experience was soldering larger microelectronics on RC Cars where things are VERY forgiving so the PS2 was a real cliffhanger, especially compared to other consoles of the era like PS1 that were a few wires and even XBOX where the JTAG pins were in a nice cluster.
Instructions not clear, I'm now part human part PS2
Now I can absolutely see the idea and the ideas to make and be able to easily fashion anything with the kits offered and developed by you, super ... I like it, that's how i roll .
Quite a lot of those connections to the flat packs broke out into really nice pads and lands. I think I'd have reduced risk and used those more.
So much respect bro! I done all these mods back in the day but being 36 now I don’t think my hands would let me
Yes your ageing decrepit arthritic 36 year old hands lol come on dude
Mother of god. My ocd has been cured.Godlike job with the wiring.
wow...this dude did a pro job with the wires. made it look super neat like it was supposed to be there from the factory lol. mine would look like a 5th graders science experiment with a mess of wires all over the place... but hey, if it works it works... just put the cover on and no1 knows the difference lol
dam man old school chills, tip tho when you get shaky take a 5 min break drink some water and proceed it gives you more precision
5 min break and a bit of dank and a beer do it for me
This is still a thing of beauty.
Great stuff, I have been psyching myself up to install a Matrix Infinity on my PS2 for like a month now - this is exactly what I needed!
Makes me want to bust out my old Hakko 935. Back in the day it was several hundred Matrix Infinity mods for PS2 in my 8 years doing it. Also short wire but crosswire as well. I know there's worry about signal interference but never had any issues. Nice job!
10/10 video. I see I missed a lot of your newer stuff, better ring that bell button!
I modded my PS2. I greased the disc tray
You inspired me to give this a try, not the super short method though. After 4 hours, im happy to report it was a success.
Wow, you did great there, those B,G,H,I and A points are quite a challenge to get right. Only criticism I have is your method of melting the conductor of off the wire to solder it down, but it's still a functional method so it's all good.
This is literally an art you're not wrong.
I felt like I was fighting a Final Fantasy boss while watching this
Year needlessly epic for a mod install xD
Jinn was the shit and one of the coolest moders to learn from I miss talking to him on the isozone. :(
64ddking from what I remember he had a lot of stuff going on in his personal life and he was talking a break from it which I wished the best of luck for him.
Love it. The only modding I've ever done revolved around the early Dreamcast controllers, the triggers use to break their hinges really easy and being pissed about the £60 cost for a new Japanese pad every couple of weeks I thought I'd give it a go. My solution was to strip the plastic from a connector block and cut into quarters then glue into the broken trigger, line up and heat up a sewing pin and ram it through hinge into the upper casing making a new hinge. Probably made a couple of hundred quid doing this in the day charging £5 per trigger for a local but now long gone import store.
Finally found you Voultar, nice work as always! If you don't mind I downloaded the video for future reference, very nice work! Cheers ans subscribed!
Should have shown a real challenge, mod a V1 - V3 console! :D I used to do V5+ fats all the time, once you get used to it it was easy stuff. Did a lot of repair work on consoles from competition that used ACID FLUX... ate through traces and all sorts. Ugh.
But I will say I did use a few dabs of hot glue to hold the wires in place, but never anywhere near the chips, just on the board away from components to fix wires where I wanted them to stay routed rather than getting under screws for re-assembly.
I originally used wire wrap wire, but found that wasn't fine enough for the V1 - V3 consoles. Moved onto 36 AWG varnished magnet wire. Was a pleasure to work with, no need to use strippers, just burned the varnish off where I needed to make the connection.
I'm the guy who came up with the diagrams for doing a V1-V3 installation for all Modbo/Matrix Infinity versions :-) - i62.tinypic.com/oj0y87.jpg
Awesome stuff dude! I remember having to double up on my eye loupes to be able to see where I was soldering on those... hated doing that, ended up burning my nose more with the iron than once!
I miss the days of working at places like SCI, Sanmina, SNC and staying after work to do stuff like this using an inspection scope and a hot air station I couldn't afford myself. I had an Engineer come in one night and I was like "Ohh shit, I'm busted" He came over and asked what i was doing. I kind of said I was fixing something of my own. Amd he said, is that one of those "Fixes" that lets you play backup? And I was like "Yeah 😬" And he's just says "Cool, would you do my son's, he's been bugging me about it and I don't have the patience for it" I mush have looked very relieved. He just kind of smiled and said "Man I'm not going to say anything to anybody, Your boss wouldn't care anyway, he knows y'all work on personal stuff sometimes. It's one of the perks of the job. As long as you aren't abusing it you're good.
Its like bilbo imparting his stories and wisdom onto frodo
9:02 finger glued forever.
You are an artist!!! All of my work is fine and works but typically my wires just sort of hang there (I make them as short as I can but not nearly as short as yours) That super glue thing does give me ideas, probably bad ideas but hey if I break it, it's mine anyway (I don't do mods for other people anymore.)
I tried this and glued my hand to the board while the hot soldering iron fell in my lap burning me terribly!
are you ok now
It's good to know that I'm not a complete idiot for stripping wires with my iron like that. I was worried that might've been a really bad idea but it kept working so I kept doing it.
Absolutely. If that were real Kynar it would have been much, much easier.
I must be the only one who felt scared of that big soldering iron tip you had in the video.
Truth is, I am doing my installs with a cheap (although brand new, and not heavily used) 30W chinese soldering iron, and I'm used to having the tip pretty sharp (it's a sharper than the one in the video) so that might actually explain why. Great install though, looking forward doing two of these as well, one's a silver 50003 and the other is a 90004. It's surely going to be fun :)
The only reasons its a bad idea is its usually easier to strip and tin the wire, you won't need to apply as much heat so less likely to kill the chip or lift the pad off the board. That and you will ruin the iron tip melting stuff with it.
I suck at soldering so really can't complain, but melting would be expensive (replacing tips all the time) and is generally just considered unprofessional.
just because u saw it on the internet doesn't mean its a good idea ;)
Coming back here after doing a couple more PS2s, maybe I'm just a savant or something but these things aren't that hard. Like most soldering, it's all about good habits and good tools. Keep your iron clean and your work well fluxed and there won't be much for difficulty.
Alex Atkin I'm gonna be honest, if a little insulation ruins your tip, that tip was bad anyway.
Good Old days of modchipping the Glorious PS2
*You're never too young to have a 20 wires Messiah2 install flashback"
"On a 30000 model"
YYYOUUUUURRRAAAAAAGHHHH!!
I guess you never did a NEO4 + Origa mod... If you wanna reference a nightmare, I don't think anything tops that.
Clive Rowland How bad is that one?
It was 44 wires from the NEO, and I think 9 of the 11 pins of the Origa mod. I only ever did one and it was a rock solid machine, booted everything, every region, which at the time wasn't possible on a one chip solution.
SCPH-30000? Yeah, you would have to chip one of those, that's the Japan version of the "export" consoles, like the US version, the SCPH-30001. They only sold them in Japan, right next to the Japan consoles, SCPH-10000, which cost twice as much. You can spot those since they have a PC card slot in the back instead of a hard drive bay. I also had a DTL-H10000, and I had a DTL-H30001. The bios from that one is the only one floating around on the internet, I dumped it myself. Those are the developer's tools, or debug consoles. The DTL-H30001 said "TEST" on the cover, instead of "PS2".
I love doing older hardware mods requires more skill newer ones are more keyboard than anything
Edit: you my sir are an artist
you're right - this is art. it's glorious.
He dosent use glue ! HE use NO CLEAN FLUX!! :p HARDCORE CLEAN MOD CONGRATS !!
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I kind of want to show off the soldering job I did on a slim in about 2004 but I'm afraid to take apart my slim as the wiring job was... amateur! I pulled it off but I bet it's a rat's nest in there. I probably made it as short as I could. I also used a tiny dot of hot snot here and there to hold the wire groupings down. Took SO LONG but it was worth it for the feeling of success of pulling off such a touchy mod. Amateur job or not its so fun to mod consoles. Almost more fun than playing them.
Voultar, I know this is a year old, but I watch all of your videos, because it's truly intriguing. I don't own anything, but an Xbox One X (I've owned an Xbox, 360, 360 Halo 3, Xbox One, Xbox One Halo & current Xbox One X. I trade them in, I don't keep any of them), never had a PlayStation, did have an NES, SNES & N64. Anyways my question is I never have a clue what the mods you're doing actually accomplish. Take this video for example, what was the purpose of all this hard work? Thank you for your time &the awesome videos!
Just in time Voultar, I am about to order a few of this modbos for a special project on PS2 slim and I was looking around for inspiration for chip placing, I must admit I stole a few techniques from you in the past few months and the no clean is now a must have around, something good came out of the doujin dance work after all.
In 2002 I modified my PS2 here in Manila Philippines after 1 hour it was done but I never had a chance to see what they did inside but it work great sometimes u need to run the CD a couple of times good ol ps2
"Reopen pandora's box" lmao good one lol
What's the song? It's some solid shit.
As soon as I recognized it I went nuts. Great game and great soundtrack
What is the result of the mod?
Very best. Im looking forward to making this myself in a few 20 years.
I've got nervous just by watching this. Nice job.
Shit, PS2 modding is why my hands shake to this day.
This is how i got most of my skills circa 2001, modding PS2. And now anytime i see any of your videos, i honestly think i can do better jobs easier. This is a matter of time and training and you showed up how did you improve from this "ok" job to now in 2021.
Nice looking workmanship.
these mod and soldering is good for us that are electronic engineers. work of art. If it was for my console, I would go either overboard designing and using custom pcb with the mod chips for super looks (no-one could see , but I would know :D ) or just a the fastest thing :P but fuctional
2 minutes in and i now see why modding a ps2 was so much more expensive than a ps1.
god damn son we still tryna open the thing???
i know i saw screws come out already and half the body go missing
Why you've soldered those cables at 7:00 on the chip... there are pads connected to it. I think, it's the same (and easier) if you solder the cable on those pads
Oh really? I've never, ever noticed that.. Thank you!
Thank you, Lord Voultar, for sharing thy wisdom. Oooohhhh whooooooo!
Is that retrorgb on the guitar? :D
Wow that is a lot of wiring what's this mod for? Don't think ide do something this intricate unless it was for some major improvement but great work you still got it looks like something years of experience brings
Let me guess,that chip is for playing ps1 backups,right?
At 7:10, why did you choose to solder directly to the chip, versus the pads below that lead to the same pins? Is there a difference? (Serious question. Curious for my own knowledge when I attempt this same install)
I had the same question when watching the video.
My guess is soldering direct to chip keeps the wires shorter and neater.
There are no pads to solder to. With the exception of the signal to the far left. The only other location to grab those signals is on the back of the board. And plus, I haven't done this in a few years, the point was to exercise some old skills. :-P
Yeah wondering about this too, some of them don't have pads to solder but all the ones needed for the mod have pads, on that one side anyway.
I'm also thinking about doing this mod.
He literally said at the end he prefers the short-wire method.
Been watching your channel for a while even though I have no idea what is REALLY the purpose for the mods, could you explain what this particular modding does to the ps2?
Probably makes it region free and/or makes it compatible with burnt discs
Looks really neat, but that reset wire looks to be under way too much tension.
OMG amazing solder job! Well done :)
No idea what kind of signals are on those wires that pass underneath a whole row of what looks like the main Sony processor, but if they are high speed...it would be crazy that the mod didn't ruin the signal quality of the signals coming of that processor.
The coupling is minimal.
@@Voultar Ok. When I saw that, I was wondering how the coupling would be.
Have to agree with your comment about this being art. Sadly hardware mods are rare now. And seeing this honestly makes me want to take up doing PS2 HW mods.
I'm having veitnam flashbacks of when i tried soldering a modbo to my ps2
fun times, giant wires. Ended up breaking it. No video when i first booted, desoldered. Flashed green, pop noise, right back to red.
Now it doesn't turn on at all, 5+ ripped pads.
back then in my country, I enjoyed doing that kind of artistic modification, however, when some chips decide to damage the ps2 (modbos, magic 3 and 5 and M7 chips), I no longer install them like that anymore, because the superglue tends to tear traces. Very impressive work!
Why? If removal/reversal is needed, just give it a couple drops of pure acetone to dissolve CA glue. It shouldn't do any damage in storage, that would be weird - don't see how CA glue could shrink or anything.
Is there a difference between the orange and blue ps2
Funny, I think this was the first console I ever put a modchip in. I learned how to brace my hand and use braid....
Jesus! Soldering wires on those QFN packages. That's just evil.
Can confirm. I just tried. Failed miserably.
its that simple. I used to do og xbox's they were pretty simple but never would do a ps2 except the hdd osd softmod. Ps2s are a pain in the ass. Didnt they a half decent no soldier solution for ps2 at one point? Nice music choice.
I tried doing one of those early 2 or 4 wire mod chips, broke my launch PS2 trying it, after that I got a flip top with swap magic, eventually I switched to loading off the hard drive and network adapter. Now I have free MC Boot bypassing the optical drive all together (my V7 PS2's are all having odd disk read errors now) Wii chips where easier to install with that Wii Key (I successfully installed at least 5 of them) but then soft mod.
I have some home tricks for these tight solders that helped me on the Wii but anymore it seems like soft mods are less risky.
What is the music from? I recognize it but can't place it.
Yup the dms4 e.z.i. , bought one, never managed to get it to work :-(
From the intro I was half expecting to see your attempt to mod a PS2 when you were a teenager or something.
For PS2 just use free mcboot and a hard drive. last true mod chip I did was on the Saturn and PSX, which only require about 3 to 4 wires for each.
Bunch of youtubers saying "VOULTAR IS BACK! VOULTAR IS BACK!"... And so you have me here... watching an old video.
Could not you use magnet wire?
When I modded ps1 I used magnet wire I don't had mod wire.
Ps1 mod is much simpler i know. But it looked nice.
You should use magnet wire.. the wire he used is ultra shitty.
Since it's low voltage low current CPU communication traces magnet wire would work fine but may not be as aesthetically pleasing as the white wire
With how tiny those wires are I am sure IDE ribbon cable pared to width and trimmed to length would do equally as well. The only caveat is the necessity to fold the cable rather than curve it.
Hell yes for heavy metal and console mods...
I'm still awaiting the day I get to see a PS2 modded with HDMI output. I understand that it's not really necessary with a backwards compatible PS3 that can play most PS1 and PS2 games, but I don't have one of those. If anything I'm just curious to see if someone can pull it off.
Awesome video!!! One question: which kind of cable do you use in this video? 30AWG wrapping?
Now that's real passion. Just awesome
When soldering the white wires at the beginning, what is the reasoning behind not using the extra pads literally right by the chip where it would be not only easier, but cleaner (i.e. leaves the chip untouched on that side)? Is there that much of a possibility of interference with conductors that are a few centimeters longer? Either way they are routed above the chip itself, so I cannot see interference being an issue any more so than how it was done in the video.
Modding ps2's were just a warm up for doing PSP's
Free mcboot does what i need, basic homebrew and backup loading. Might sacrifice one of my old fat boys to attempt a hardware mod some day though.
what kind of flux is that you used, the stuff you sprayed
Why not solder wires through the vias instead of to the pins on the chips?
I always prefered the wrap wire, for doing mods. The slightly stiff wire helped it get through vias and under pins and such. I think if I were going to start today, I would use silicone wire since it is so easy to strip. Just grab with two fingernails and pull. Pop. Comes right off. Might not stick to the superglue though...
Well havimg modded these before..... All I will say is respect.
Pfff, and people today think UltraHDMI mods for the N64 are hard. ;)