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.
AlphaAsFuark! bro im 13 and i got that ps1 plz call my sag daddy xD never thought id say that lol cant call me a lame child gamer i play old ps1 games i love that one spyro riptide game if thats wat its call? i donno its been forever since i last played it the disc doesnt work 😢😢😢😢😭😭😭😭😭
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!
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.
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.
+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 :))
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...
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 :)
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
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.
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.
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.
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 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....
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.
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.
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 >.>
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.
NO WAY!!! I had forgotten the name of Battle Arena Toshinden, a game I played during my childhood and had been searching for it for years. I instantly recognised the music. Thank's for the nostalgia
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 🤔
My friends, please note that this model is the PSX, not the PS One. The PS One was the smaller, white model with rounded edges that came a few years after this one. Sony has since continued the trend by making a smaller version of the original system.
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 !
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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
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.
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'm just gonna assume that the mod allowed user to play all versions of ps1 "DLC" games from all around the world and also supports the use of game sharks. My childhood memories: Using game shark to mod RE3 and disable gun recoil, so that the Magnum and Rocket Launcher are rapid fire.
to anyone interested: mod 1 lets you communicate with aliens up to 50 million lightyears away via your toaster (that you now can connect to the gpu!). mod 2 lets you communicate with alien life forms that live farer away than a 50 million light years via connecting a waffle iron to the already connected toaster and baking space waffles (its like space cookies just more tasty!). mod 3 gives you the ability to time travel (it is not shown here how exactly he does it but i can tell you from experience that a flux capacitator is involved (as i have studied in the scientific documentation on time travel called "back to the future"). mod 4 gives the option not only to travel into the future but to go back in time as well. the LED thing is a lie (understandable though, not everyone should know about it!) actually connecting it the way it is shown in the video makes it possible to track the lottery numbers so you can know them before hand. mod 5 is probably the best one and honestly truly it has never seen before! It makes the PS1 able to create its own energy! A real perpetuum mobile! I hope this explains a little bit about what goes on in the video! Enjoy! P.s.: BONUS: The clear PS1 case allows Voultar to check on the status of the whole system, when you travel forward in time it glows green and when you travel backwards in time it glows red.
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.
There is a small piece of tin that should have been removed, just under the flipped I of IC203. There is a chance that it will come loose and ruin your ps1... Nice mods though, thanks for sharing
Michael Salazar The first time when I accidentally did mystic blast (if that's what it's actually called), me and my friends were flipped. "How did you DO that?!"
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.
Never thought I'd be watching a PS1 modding video in 2018
AlphaAsFuark! Me either
same
same
No kidding eh. Childhood memory express
AlphaAsFuark! bro im 13 and i got that ps1 plz call my sag daddy xD never thought id say that lol cant call me a lame child gamer i play old ps1 games i love that one spyro riptide game if thats wat its call? i donno its been forever since i last played it the disc doesnt work 😢😢😢😢😭😭😭😭😭
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.
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
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"
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.
$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 :))
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...
I could care less about any of this. Don't know how it showed up in my RUclips 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
My heartrate escalated at fingernail clippers.
“Sit back, strap on, and let’s do it to this PS1”
Legendary
Legen.......Wait for.......dary.
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!
One of the rare times when RUclips 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.
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
This is 100% David Hayter' s secret RUclips account
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'.
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
The *climax* of PlayStation restoration and modding. Adam would be proud.
$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.
2 dollars?! What a disrespect .
eh? That's what she said
She?
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.
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
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?
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
"I'm gonna drop a little no clean on that joint."
**spill whole fucking bottle**
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.
Ummmm... the saying is “strap in”... not “strap on”. That’s something a tad different.
It wasn't just me thinking that then lmao!
Charms434 I'm quite sure he knows the difference 😂😂
No, sit back and strap on
He had a message
HamQM ummmmm... ok.
I wish all the electronics channels youtubers from India to watch how this guy Solders.... One of the best soldering pro you may find on RUclips.
Dude when you soldered those orange wires I almost cried
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'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.
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
Dino crisis ?
You're a man of classic culture and i love it
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.
Was awesome time. Bought the first SCSI CD-ROM writer, bought alot of 12c508, build my own programmer and made a lot of money.
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 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.
NO WAY!!! I had forgotten the name of Battle Arena Toshinden, a game I played during my childhood and had been searching for it for years. I instantly recognised the music. Thank's for the nostalgia
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 🤔
Ohh god that transparent case for the PS1... i want something like that
My friends, please note that this model is the PSX, not the PS One. The PS One was the smaller, white model with rounded edges that came a few years after this one. Sony has since continued the trend by making a smaller version of the original system.
The PSX is technically a DVR. This is still a PS1, everything else is correct though.
Haha. Love the Toshinden music. And the Saturn Remix too! Niche as Hell!
"PS1 Mods That You've Never Seen Before!" I've seen burn disc and up scaled picture before.
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 !
If you want some electrolytic capacitors exploding into your face use hot air (recomended)
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.
Didnt understand a thing but watching him solder is so satisfying
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.
The music makes me feel like I'm watchin an 80s movie
pure awsumness
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.
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
Really nice use of the LED, I like that a lot :-)
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
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
Swap disk is working well with this console : push the lid switch, start up the console, and wait for the disk to stop, then swap the disk !
The fact that he has battle arena toshinden music in backround is legit
Amazing how 80s 8 bit computer sounds matched up to the guitar riffs, what a time for happy tones
4:15 watch at 2x speed. You wont regret it
Fuckman Gaming I regretted it
Excellent
It gave me a boner thanks
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
The soundtrack kept me from skipping to the end xD
Battle arena Toshinden for PS one Ejjis theme
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
8:19 - i've found a cuticle cutter works REALLY well for fine work like this.
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
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
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 .^^
There is just something about soldering mods that I find unusually satisfying.
Agreed
A nail clipper lol. 😂 Never thought I see the day those are use for something other than nails.
I use em for fishing line.
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.
Toenail clippers are not the right tool for that job - but you did very well, so respect is due.
can somebody explain what he did?
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
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
Never thought I'd be watching a PS1 modding video in 2019
Aw man.Battle arena is the one game sound track I will never forget from my childhood
Your right!! I didn't know about any of those mods!!
the yellowness is caused from the age of the plastic and it tells you its been in the heat
also if the person who owned it was a smoker that also plays a big roll in the discoloration
love you ;)
StreamWARE ewww
StreamWARE no
YES
I heard talk about "tip" and "jam". It got me excited.
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.
+1 for Dino Crysis too,That game scared the crap outa me back in the day :D
I'm just gonna assume that the mod allowed user to play all versions of ps1 "DLC" games from all around the world and also supports the use of game sharks. My childhood memories: Using game shark to mod RE3 and disable gun recoil, so that the Magnum and Rocket Launcher are rapid fire.
Bro how can you not explain what these moddings do????!!!!!
this
This
Eh. The same question here.
....so true
1st let's u play any non copyrighted stuff
2nd remove composite video and drive proper sync signal out on A/V hub
IN! IT'S STRAP "IN!" NOT STRAP "ON!" I was so uncomfortable every time you said that😜🤣😂
He's like Sandra Bullock's character in Demolition Man...
I have a mod for the name badge on the front:
From. SONY to
S'ONLY 2$
to anyone interested:
mod 1 lets you communicate with aliens up to 50 million lightyears away via your toaster (that you now can connect to the gpu!).
mod 2 lets you communicate with alien life forms that live farer away than a 50 million light years via connecting a waffle iron to the already connected toaster and baking space waffles (its like space cookies just more tasty!).
mod 3 gives you the ability to time travel (it is not shown here how exactly he does it but i can tell you from experience that a flux capacitator is involved (as i have studied in the scientific documentation on time travel called "back to the future").
mod 4 gives the option not only to travel into the future but to go back in time as well.
the LED thing is a lie (understandable though, not everyone should know about it!) actually connecting it the way it is shown in the video makes it possible to track the lottery numbers so you can know them before hand.
mod 5 is probably the best one and honestly truly it has never seen before! It makes the PS1 able to create its own energy! A real perpetuum mobile!
I hope this explains a little bit about what goes on in the video! Enjoy!
P.s.: BONUS: The clear PS1 case allows Voultar to check on the status of the whole system, when you travel forward in time it glows green and when you travel backwards in time it glows red.
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.
2030: Modding the ps4 lol
Dinocrisis is my all-time favourite game 👍
im confused at how but then i dont get why ppl like mine craft or cod or wow etc etc
16:20 advanced move in action I love it
Your soldering skills are amazing, a work of art..
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
There is a small piece of tin that should have been removed, just under the flipped I of IC203. There is a chance that it will come loose and ruin your ps1... Nice mods though, thanks for sharing
I enjoyed that LED mod a little too much..why do I like LED's so much?
ahahaha sick! i recognized that dino crisis screen right away. great times.
+xsavier not at the start it says it contains expicit gore etc that is exclusive to Dino Crisis. YOU FOOL!!!
It actually says the same thing on RE2.
Battle Arena Toshinden
David Van Vleet game boy version to be exact..
megadan429 I laughed because this is such an accurate response! I'm impressed. Thanks.
I recognized it because of my countless hours spent on the ps1 version.
Michael Salazar The first time when I accidentally did mystic blast (if that's what it's actually called), me and my friends were flipped. "How did you DO that?!"