Doesn't even specialize in console repair and the man figured it out. This right here is why we need more good technicians. Also everyone should support the right to repair
I'd also argue if someone can manage to repair apple products, being as difficult and anti repair as they are. Should make a older Sony product a good bit easier
I have no doubt all right to repair laws in place will have loopholes or simply do not cover computer and phone products. According to apple the reason they don't want these laws is so they can -profit- protect the public from unsafe modifications and irreversible damage to products
Been thinking of pulling my PS2 out of the box I have it in myself. Over 40 games that I can play whenever I feel like it without the need for internet is so wild nowadays to think about.
@@YoureUsingWordsIncorrectly Even better, could use MX4SIO adapter to play from microSD, completely modern solution. Speed's supposed to be better than old crusty USB 1.1, so possibly more bandwidth for FMV cutscenes, and no need to break up DVD9 isos into weird part files since exFAT is supported. It's not perfectly compatible, but speed-wise it's the next best thing since Ethernet on a slim console...
@@rossmanngroup Horrible website that sells overpriced games and game systems that are almost always broken. You will have a field day looking at their quality control at the prices they charge.
@@rossmanngroup is independent vintage gaming shop with bad quality of service and games cost more than a console BTW they selling "refurbished consoles" (there not even refurbished correctly) for 100 to 700 dollars there just making money on nostalgia I rather use a emulator and rom site to do games due the developers no longer make the game or money
@@rossmanngroup In short: Company selling 'refurbished/rebuilt' retro consoles but barely actually do anything to them apart from cleaning out dust. Very overpriced for what they actually do.
The last good console when you bought a game you owed it and was no dl bs and god i miss a world without all the microtransactions and dlc. I know you have a lot going on and know not what you repair but do love the old retro console repairs and would love to see more always.
The Wii was actually the last one, because while it did connect to the internet, the only update ever released for a retail game was for a Zelda sava data problem, and there weren't any dlc or microtransactions.
Just reminded me I bought a PS2 in 2008 and played Socom 2 breifly. To get online and fix cheats it downloaded a patch to the memory card. When servers were turned off I used my PC and Xlink Kai as a proxy thing to try it online again... Of course every time I joined a game I got disconnected, and eventually realised I was booting everyone off the server! I had to delete my save to remove the patch. At one point there was only one bloke to play against and he kept whooping me so I disconnected lol. There was a lack of PAL games to play and a lot of players in Brazil etc. I think my MGS3 went online too, but only to download a new camouflage skin.
@@kirkanos3968 While I had both playstation and nintendo growing up, the gamecube was better, especial for my larger family (8 kids) and having some great party games. PS3 is where I feel like sony took off with good graphics that dont cut out the possibility of great stories.
@@leonro haha a "Zelda save data problem" yeah that's what Nintendo called the Twilight hack that let us softmod our consoles! Luckily many other softmod exploits were discovered since then. Wii is a super easy console to softmod, opens up many retro gaming opportunities. And much better performance than Raspberry Pi.
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thats actually very informative, I have a fat PS2 that had bad video output solid state capacitors, sometimes you would get video and sometimes you wouldn't. I found out that the ouput caps were bad after heating them up with my hot air station, replaced them with better solid state capacitors and is now brand new again, interesting to see that bad resistors cause this too, thanks for the video!
Brace yourselves other electronic repair centers, now that Louis is out of NY prison and is paying sane rent prices, the Rossman Repair Group will be able to make repairs on more than just the most overpriced computers known to man
Yeah. I inherited oscilloscope and wish I knew a repairman that could make it work again. I don't want to die repairing it. I watch this channel as a CSC programmer and I do electrical repair about once a week just for maintainence of my lab and studios. The oscilloscope is out of my depth. I know I could fix it, but why. A repair man like rossman working on the board would record and document everything. Like he said, he recorded the voltages of each pin in a spreadsheet. That is some top shelf (reverse) engineering.
I feel it's worth mentioning that the glowing ring of dots and some of the other animations on the ps2 menu are tied to the system clock, and there seems to be a glitch in the ps2 menu where after replacing the battery the system clock will be frozen and you can't change the time. However, this can be fixed by trying to set the time, but don't actually change anything because it won't let you (leave it at 1-1-2000 at 12AM) and press accept to set the time. This should restore the ticking of the system clock and allow you to actually set the time. From what I'm guessing, when you remove the battery, the clock chip doesn't restore a default valid time, and the menu has no clue what to do with it. But by setting the time it will correctly set up the clock chip to something the ps2 can understand.
I didn't know that was a thing thanks, I imagine that will become more of an issue as batteries start to die. I guess we're lucky the Xbox handles it so well, since it was kinda designed expecting the capacitor to regularly run out
The (watch style) battery can often solve so many problems in laptops and towers. Just replace it. New info learned this applies to game consoles as well.
@@tdp2612 if you live in an area with unsteady power (too much or nothing). Batteries croak faster. The caps generally live unless it's a major power surge.
I can't beleive I just watched this whole thing (while eating a mcdouble). I also remember when I was a kid and wanting to make games. This is gold. All my PS still work, but I just wanted to know the guts (so I watch). Gently scraping enamel, record voltages on pins, jumpers; this video had alot and a good study. Lots of nugget info about resisters if you don't have resistors.
@@ermonski I never had one when they were popular unfortunately, I did get an old one a few years ago to seem what I missed out on. I do agree, great console with some awesome games. And a few of them like Uncharted and MotorStorm still look good, in my opinion.
6:16 I'd solder the 5th before 4th because of being right-handed with the iron on the right. Easier to not mess up the fourth if trying to solder the fifth after. 10:32 One resistor isn't used on that pack (unless there are some vias hidden underneath). Could jumper to it, or if he wanted practice doing desoldering, rotate the pack 180 degrees. I did this to fix a scanner once, where one of the MOSFETs for the stepper motor had died. Looking up the chip it had some spare unused ones so I wired to one of those.
Please post more videos from repair workshops, I really enjoy them. And somebody needs to send you a resistor+capacitor assortment kit for those workshops...
Thank you for your continuous hard work, Louis. Whether its knowledge seeking or looking to get in on a rant you're one of my favorite online resources!
Great job troubleshooting Louis. I only wish every city had a Rossman Repair Group to learn from and be willing to allow customers in and use their equipment.
those are termination resistors for the data lines, jumping it might fuck with signal integrity a bit, and also send some out of spec voltages to those gpu or analog video encoder pins, it'll probably be fine, maybe some video glitches if you get unlucky
Stationary waves that may occur on a bus with no termination resistors anywhere could potentially destroy the receivers and drivers at either end. On an open transmission line, the data line will ring at 2X the driver voltage when a rising edge gets reflected at the end, which the receiver may not like. When the reflected signal comes back to the driver end, the driver may not like the extra current needed to drive a 1 into a reflected 0 or vice-versa, basically like having two drivers trying to output opposite states on the same line. Definitely not a state the thing should be operated in longer than needed to determine whether the board is fixable.
I love the ps2 and am working on developing laserfix qsbs for the v9 to v12 models. After that I'm going to work on the previous fat revisions. Have a small cache of motherboards to work with. Excellent work Mr. Rossmann!
this is the video for me. I'm repairing my own PS2 atm. I fixed it completely, but i broke the controller port at the last sec Thankfully it's an easy fix
Now that was a cool investigation and repair to get that PS2 up and running again. I think Louis repairing some novel hardware and posting videos like this would be very interesting.
I have two of these, one of them has the bracket that holds the front connectors daughter board destroyed, the other works fine but the Ghost2 v2 chip doesn't power on for some reason. Maybe one day I'll try to fix them, as of now, PCSX2 will do just fine.
I enjoyed this! The PS2 was one of my favourite systems. I still remember how cool it looked behind the glass at Toys R Us back in like 7th grade. I couldn't afford one until 3 years later, but that's part of what makes me look at them and think "Cool...!!" even now, so many years later~ Watching you solder that super thin wire to jumper past those resistors has given me the confidence I need to do a little jumper-wire solder of my own, that I've been putting off for weeks. It's between pins 1 and 8 on an old ATI X800 bios chip; supposedly doing this will allow it to be flashable again. Fingers crossed! And, thank you!
I fixed my Dreamcast not long ago which felt very satisfying. These older consoles are a lot easier to mess around with than a Nintendo Switch or a modern laptop where everything is tiny.
Hey Louis, there's quite a demand for car computer repair! Maybe you could look into that. Units in older cars are extremely hard to find and costs a fortune, but the defective ones seems pretty easy to fix but nobody offers repair apparently. (Though I have no idea about parts availability...)
Could you not replace that resistor bank with a set of through hole resistors from any electronics shop, would be the same as jumping it, but removing the chip first
It is probably way too tiny for that. The legs are too small to hold a lead, the leverage would break the joint unless you glued each resistor down first and ran a jumper to it (and then, what is the advantage?). Resistor arrays are super common, if you want to go to the level of buying something you can just order a matching one from Digikey or Mouser.
I successfully replaced a socket 1151 bga on an asus z170-A the other day with my lovely AOYUE 852A,... and a IR flatbed. I think its time to upgrade the hot air station to something a bit more.... useful. Ive watched louis do so much work,... finally I can relate to something useful
I think Louis just found a stable stream of revenue fixes not messed up by phone companies making it a hassle to fix modern phones. Free market wants console and controller fixes. Louis will think about if it’s viable business, and will respond.
I bought a broken gigabyte GTX 1060 6GB for 40 in the beginning of 2021 when the working 1060's cost over 150 used and the fuse was blown. I did not have a fuse on hand so i just put in a blob of solder over the old fuse and tested it out on a old core 2 quad system and it came back to life. I did some stress testing to check if the VRM was still good and it still works to this day.
Not sure about unsteady hands, Louis. I hazard your hands are a lot more steady moving out of NYC and taking that stress out of your life. Has it really been 23 years since the PS2 ? Mine is on a shelf downstairs in the basement - I'd better dig it out to play shadow of the colossus. Hopefully with no repair before doing so!.
woah Louis doing a board repair - its been so long - didnt know you still do these;) all i ever see from you is right to repair & new your government incompetence stuff not a complaint - just a pleasant suprise to see a little of what used to be the main subject of the channel
dude can make major bank repairing Old video game consoles and installing special chips. they are now very valuable collectable and always having problems the more they age. should expand into console and game cart repairs
My original PS2 from 2000 developed a bad laser, so it could no longer read disks. Swapping the laser unit from a slightly newer PS2 from ~2005 brought it back to life!
@@switchp8286 Image it on the PC. And apparently there's FHDB (Free HD Boot) so you don't even need anything special to set it all up, and can set up FMCB on a card if needed later.
"it would have been smart if i had written down..... but i am not exactly very smart" No sir, indeed you are not. You are a Genius. Way above the level of just smart.
I stopped watching this channel a couple years ago after you were rather unpleasant toward me in a stream for asking a simple question but I'm glad this video exists so i can fix my stupid video issue. thanks.
Louis, You probably don’t remember my comment that you replied too about fixing game consoles on your channel (my display name has changed and I’ve accumulated like three accounts). I just have to say this is a long time coming for me. Appreciate it even though it wasn’t for me exclusively.
Beauty. This inspired me to get off my ass and dig out my old PS2 slim and see why it's not spinning the disc after a laser replacement. Good day Louis.
@@Lenophis the PS2 outputs composite and component(YPbPr) simultaneously by default, so If you lived in the US that setting does not need to be changed at all, he changed the video output to RGB which is a standard used primarily on european televisions ever since the 80s. Unlike the american standard which uses seperate RCA plugs for each signal(which means you need 5 plugs for component+stereo audio), europe had a predecessor to HDMI called SCART which carries composite, RGB, and audio on a single plug.
297ish mhz Single CPU core with 2 Vector units... think like superfpus emotion engine with a 4mb frame buffer, I think it was internal super wide bus 1500ish bit my last console, incredible stuff for 2000
Emotion Engine aka alien technology... I followed from afar the works of a group trying to make a PS2 emulator and they had a hell of a time and took years to replicate the EE with much better PC hardware available even at the time, like we already had 4Ghz quadcores around and it was still not enough...
@@MrTheinfoman don't be dense you retard you don't think I'm aware of third party options.I WANT THE COMPANY WHO MAKES THE ORIGINAL HARDWARE TO MAKE PROPER HARDWARE AND BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE
Defying the corporate world from redefining our reality into a subscription based payment model comes in many forms. Your work gives hope to people who are too aware of whats happening in this country.
i just checked, every set of more than 16 different values included a number of 47ohm in it's sets. only set4 that didn't have 47ohm was a triple set including two values of either 4.7 & 47 / 470 & 4.7k or 47k & 470k in each offering thus giving all six values if you bought all three sets
while we're on the topic of repairs and stuff, if anybody has a broken DVD drive too, you can actually hack your console(usually with a freeMCboot memory card) and load all your disc images and memory cards onto a hard drive. This was how I revived an old PS2 a couple years ago, also my Wii
Damn it Louis, I watched this video, and now every fourth video on my recommended feed is PS2 repair. I've never had a single video effect my recommended so much lol.
I have the original ''fatboy'' 60 GB PS3 that stopped working many years ago. Turns on but shuts off within 3 seconds. What are the possible issues? I can't remember the color light as it has been many years but it blinks and just powers off when you turn it on. I REALLY want to get it fixed because it was the only version that could play BOTH PS1 and PS2 games. I miss it.
23 years? We're getting older...remembered fixing a few power supplies for the "phat" model and made one run on just batteries. Lasers tend to die on the early ones too. Can't tell them enough to clear out the dust. Haven't encountered termination resistor failure though...might get myself a broken one to repair, mod (Modbo - no more Matrix, so long...) and play GT4 on! Even GTA:SA looked a few laps ahead compared to PC, the once-seen beauty of dedicated hardware.
Heh, the resistor bank at 10:25 is only using 7 of the 8 resistors. Seeing the last one went bad you could have shifted it along or turned it around instead of jumping the bad resistor.
Doesn't even specialize in console repair and the man figured it out. This right here is why we need more good technicians. Also everyone should support the right to repair
I'd also argue if someone can manage to repair apple products, being as difficult and anti repair as they are. Should make a older Sony product a good bit easier
I have no doubt all right to repair laws in place will have loopholes or simply do not cover computer and phone products. According to apple the reason they don't want these laws is so they can -profit- protect the public from unsafe modifications and irreversible damage to products
hes in electronic repair. all electronics follow electrical engineering principles and they all have a schematic. same shit different device
I remember growing up, just wishing I could understand how circuitry worked. Thanks Louis for filling in some old knowledge.
wtf is lois
@@rossmanngroup🤣
Did he just pull a family guy lol
Ah yes, Lois Rosomano
@@rossmanngroup its the new way. non binary
I still have my 20 year old PS2 and still play it regularly. Don't have to worry about microtransactions with any PS2 games!
Been thinking of pulling my PS2 out of the box I have it in myself. Over 40 games that I can play whenever I feel like it without the need for internet is so wild nowadays to think about.
The good old days! I still have my launch fat PS2. It still works!
I have a modded PS2 with a 1TB harddrive. So many great games on that system, from all genres too.
@@YoureUsingWordsIncorrectly Even better, could use MX4SIO adapter to play from microSD, completely modern solution. Speed's supposed to be better than old crusty USB 1.1, so possibly more bandwidth for FMV cutscenes, and no need to break up DVD9 isos into weird part files since exFAT is supported.
It's not perfectly compatible, but speed-wise it's the next best thing since Ethernet on a slim console...
Or required patches
Doing a better job than Dk Oldies 😅
wtf is dkoldies?
@@rossmanngroup Horrible website that sells overpriced games and game systems that are almost always broken. You will have a field day looking at their quality control at the prices they charge.
@@rossmanngroup is independent vintage gaming shop with bad quality of service and games cost more than a console BTW they selling "refurbished consoles" (there not even refurbished correctly) for 100 to 700 dollars there just making money on nostalgia I rather use a emulator and rom site to do games due the developers no longer make the game or money
@@rossmanngroup best reply I could have gotten
@@rossmanngroup In short: Company selling 'refurbished/rebuilt' retro consoles but barely actually do anything to them apart from cleaning out dust. Very overpriced for what they actually do.
Emotion Engine.
That is some name for a CPU.
"CPUs must wash their balls before returning to work, AND STOP CRYING"
The GPU in their next console was the "Reality Synthesizer"
Love me some overly-complex sony hardware lol
@@951258tike22 and the GPU in PS2 is called Graphics Synthesizer
Goddamn flux companies must love this man...
Louis alone probably uses around half of the shops flux.
He always uses the right amount of flux.
I think Louis uses more flux than the Soviets used cosmoline on their guns!
you can never use too much flux
The flux must flow!
@@panicpixel923 There is no such thing as too much flux. There is just not enough or the right amount.
right to repair needs more content like this.
The last good console when you bought a game you owed it and was no dl bs and god i miss a world without all the microtransactions and dlc. I know you have a lot going on and know not what you repair but do love the old retro console repairs and would love to see more always.
The Wii was actually the last one, because while it did connect to the internet, the only update ever released for a retail game was for a Zelda sava data problem, and there weren't any dlc or microtransactions.
Just reminded me I bought a PS2 in 2008 and played Socom 2 breifly. To get online and fix cheats it downloaded a patch to the memory card.
When servers were turned off I used my PC and Xlink Kai as a proxy thing to try it online again...
Of course every time I joined a game I got disconnected, and eventually realised I was booting everyone off the server! I had to delete my save to remove the patch.
At one point there was only one bloke to play against and he kept whooping me so I disconnected lol. There was a lack of PAL games to play and a lot of players in Brazil etc.
I think my MGS3 went online too, but only to download a new camouflage skin.
@@leonro hmm nice to know never got into the wii think i played bowling for like 10 mins
@@kirkanos3968 While I had both playstation and nintendo growing up, the gamecube was better, especial for my larger family (8 kids) and having some great party games. PS3 is where I feel like sony took off with good graphics that dont cut out the possibility of great stories.
@@leonro haha a "Zelda save data problem" yeah that's what Nintendo called the Twilight hack that let us softmod our consoles! Luckily many other softmod exploits were discovered since then. Wii is a super easy console to softmod, opens up many retro gaming opportunities. And much better performance than Raspberry Pi.
thats actually very informative, I have a fat PS2 that had bad video output solid state capacitors, sometimes you would get video and sometimes you wouldn't. I found out that the ouput caps were bad after heating them up with my hot air station, replaced them with better solid state capacitors and is now brand new again, interesting to see that bad resistors cause this too, thanks for the video!
I don't stop by often to board repairs and such, but PS2s made my childhood! It's awesome to see them cared for so many years later.
Brace yourselves other electronic repair centers, now that Louis is out of NY prison and is paying sane rent prices, the Rossman Repair Group will be able to make repairs on more than just the most overpriced computers known to man
Yeah. I inherited oscilloscope and wish I knew a repairman that could make it work again. I don't want to die repairing it. I watch this channel as a CSC programmer and I do electrical repair about once a week just for maintainence of my lab and studios. The oscilloscope is out of my depth. I know I could fix it, but why. A repair man like rossman working on the board would record and document everything. Like he said, he recorded the voltages of each pin in a spreadsheet. That is some top shelf (reverse) engineering.
@@complexity5545 Don't worry, electrostatic CRTs are "only" around 1.2kV for deflection, versus up to 32kV for a monitor or TV!
@@ziginoxIt really depends on the speed. The faster the analog oscilloscope, the higher the accelerating voltage, all other things being equal.
I feel it's worth mentioning that the glowing ring of dots and some of the other animations on the ps2 menu are tied to the system clock, and there seems to be a glitch in the ps2 menu where after replacing the battery the system clock will be frozen and you can't change the time. However, this can be fixed by trying to set the time, but don't actually change anything because it won't let you (leave it at 1-1-2000 at 12AM) and press accept to set the time. This should restore the ticking of the system clock and allow you to actually set the time.
From what I'm guessing, when you remove the battery, the clock chip doesn't restore a default valid time, and the menu has no clue what to do with it. But by setting the time it will correctly set up the clock chip to something the ps2 can understand.
wish i could bookmark this comment ^^
I didn't know that was a thing thanks, I imagine that will become more of an issue as batteries start to die. I guess we're lucky the Xbox handles it so well, since it was kinda designed expecting the capacitor to regularly run out
The (watch style) battery can often solve so many problems in laptops and towers. Just replace it. New info learned this applies to game consoles as well.
@@tdp2612 if you live in an area with unsteady power (too much or nothing). Batteries croak faster. The caps generally live unless it's a major power surge.
Neat I was wondering why the dots were not moving.
I still have this console, loving it! I think the EE was clocked at 299MHz and some later revisions made it even a little bit faster.
The first models were clocked at 294.912 MHz, later models had it clocked at 299 MHz.
I can't beleive I just watched this whole thing (while eating a mcdouble). I also remember when I was a kid and wanting to make games. This is gold. All my PS still work, but I just wanted to know the guts (so I watch). Gently scraping enamel, record voltages on pins, jumpers; this video had alot and a good study. Lots of nugget info about resisters if you don't have resistors.
The PS2 Xbox classic and the Nintendo GameCube was the best era of gaming and video games hands down
No contest really.
Awesome video, Louis! Seeing old game systems get repaired warms my retro gaming enthusiast heart :)
PS2 being considered as "retro" now makes me feel old lmao
@@ermonski Same lol. In my mind, the PS3 just came out.
@@toshineon I still have my PS3 to this day. However I just modded it because the games are harder to find physically now. Still a great console!
@@ermonski I never had one when they were popular unfortunately, I did get an old one a few years ago to seem what I missed out on. I do agree, great console with some awesome games. And a few of them like Uncharted and MotorStorm still look good, in my opinion.
@@toshineon MotorStorm Pacific Rift is awesome, man.
6:16 I'd solder the 5th before 4th because of being right-handed with the iron on the right. Easier to not mess up the fourth if trying to solder the fifth after.
10:32 One resistor isn't used on that pack (unless there are some vias hidden underneath). Could jumper to it, or if he wanted practice doing desoldering, rotate the pack 180 degrees. I did this to fix a scanner once, where one of the MOSFETs for the stepper motor had died. Looking up the chip it had some spare unused ones so I wired to one of those.
Please post more videos from repair workshops, I really enjoy them.
And somebody needs to send you a resistor+capacitor assortment kit for those workshops...
Thank you for your continuous hard work, Louis. Whether its knowledge seeking or looking to get in on a rant you're one of my favorite online resources!
It is still just amazing to me how you do the micro soldiering. I don't think I could do it at that small of scale.
Come by and try it!
@Louis Rossmann if I'm ever in Texas I might take you up on that.
The PS2 is already 23 years old? How depressing is that...
I refuse to believe it.
Everything is depressing to you angsty motherfu**ers
I miss these board repairs I'd love to see more console repairs like this too
Console mods.. * wiggles eyebrows *
23 years it can't be...I remember when they launched...I remember when the NES came out...I have an appointment to get bifocals coming up soon
Gave life back to a legend.
Would love to see more console repair videos. Thoroughly enjoyed this
Awesome to see a PS2 repair! Great to see a beloved system brought back to life :)
Great job troubleshooting Louis. I only wish every city had a Rossman Repair Group to learn from and be willing to allow customers in and use their equipment.
A console repair on LR's channel? Am I in the right dimension?!? Awesome fix, these old consoles deserve it. 👍
those are termination resistors for the data lines, jumping it might fuck with signal integrity a bit, and also send some out of spec voltages to those gpu or analog video encoder pins, it'll probably be fine, maybe some video glitches if you get unlucky
Stationary waves that may occur on a bus with no termination resistors anywhere could potentially destroy the receivers and drivers at either end. On an open transmission line, the data line will ring at 2X the driver voltage when a rising edge gets reflected at the end, which the receiver may not like. When the reflected signal comes back to the driver end, the driver may not like the extra current needed to drive a 1 into a reflected 0 or vice-versa, basically like having two drivers trying to output opposite states on the same line.
Definitely not a state the thing should be operated in longer than needed to determine whether the board is fixable.
What makes it a Playstation 2 is not the games you play, but the board you mess with 17 years later.
I love the ps2 and am working on developing laserfix qsbs for the v9 to v12 models. After that I'm going to work on the previous fat revisions. Have a small cache of motherboards to work with.
Excellent work Mr. Rossmann!
Thx you for making a video were you restore my favorite console of all time! Old consoles lives on!
this is the video for me. I'm repairing my own PS2 atm. I fixed it completely, but i broke the controller port at the last sec Thankfully it's an easy fix
Great video! I love when people can repair these aging systems that are classic and nostalgic. Thanks for helping people learn.
Hell yea, love seeing modern technicians visit old consoles.
do stuff like this with old things you’re interested in i’d love to watch
Now that was a cool investigation and repair to get that PS2 up and running again. I think Louis repairing some novel hardware and posting videos like this would be very interesting.
I'm 24 and I remember getting a ps2 for Christmas. Those things were around for a long time, lol.
You're a genius man. Thank you for being present for us all. Greetings and all the best from Barcelona.
I have two of these, one of them has the bracket that holds the front connectors daughter board destroyed, the other works fine but the Ghost2 v2 chip doesn't power on for some reason.
Maybe one day I'll try to fix them, as of now, PCSX2 will do just fine.
Love watching your repair videos still, couldn't care what you repair so long as you have a soldering iron in your hands. Thanks for the video
I enjoyed this!
The PS2 was one of my favourite systems. I still remember how cool it looked behind the glass at Toys R Us back in like 7th grade.
I couldn't afford one until 3 years later, but that's part of what makes me look at them and think "Cool...!!" even now, so many years later~
Watching you solder that super thin wire to jumper past those resistors has given me the confidence I need to do a little jumper-wire solder of my own, that I've been putting off for weeks.
It's between pins 1 and 8 on an old ATI X800 bios chip; supposedly doing this will allow it to be flashable again.
Fingers crossed!
And, thank you!
That green tint was driving me nuts. Glad the end resolved it
Glad to see you back to your roots.
I do like the repair streams you used to do in the old days. So satisfying ! Thx Louis
I fixed my Dreamcast not long ago which felt very satisfying. These older consoles are a lot easier to mess around with than a Nintendo Switch or a modern laptop where everything is tiny.
Hey Louis, there's quite a demand for car computer repair! Maybe you could look into that. Units in older cars are extremely hard to find and costs a fortune, but the defective ones seems pretty easy to fix but nobody offers repair apparently. (Though I have no idea about parts availability...)
Could you not replace that resistor bank with a set of through hole resistors from any electronics shop, would be the same as jumping it, but removing the chip first
It is probably way too tiny for that. The legs are too small to hold a lead, the leverage would break the joint unless you glued each resistor down first and ran a jumper to it (and then, what is the advantage?). Resistor arrays are super common, if you want to go to the level of buying something you can just order a matching one from Digikey or Mouser.
I successfully replaced a socket 1151 bga on an asus z170-A the other day with my lovely AOYUE 852A,... and a IR flatbed. I think its time to upgrade the hot air station to something a bit more.... useful.
Ive watched louis do so much work,... finally I can relate to something useful
Love it! If I'm ever passing through Texas, maybe I'll try and get help with replacing the disc reader on my Slims.
Thanks for being you, Bossman.
I love how Louis posts a clickbait title but also answers the title with the video thumbnail.
What's nice about retro consoles is sourcing parts is usually pretty easy. Wish all electronic repair was like that.
Hardly. Lol. But in comparison yes it is generally easier since a lot of components used were off the shelf, and documentation is extensive.
I think Louis just found a stable stream of revenue fixes not messed up by phone companies making it a hassle to fix modern phones.
Free market wants console and controller fixes. Louis will think about if it’s viable business, and will respond.
I bought a broken gigabyte GTX 1060 6GB for 40 in the beginning of 2021 when the working 1060's cost over 150 used and the fuse was blown.
I did not have a fuse on hand so i just put in a blob of solder over the old fuse and tested it out on a old core 2 quad system and it came back to life.
I did some stress testing to check if the VRM was still good and it still works to this day.
Not sure about unsteady hands, Louis. I hazard your hands are a lot more steady moving out of NYC and taking that stress out of your life. Has it really been 23 years since the PS2 ? Mine is on a shelf downstairs in the basement - I'd better dig it out to play shadow of the colossus. Hopefully with no repair before doing so!.
Thank you for reviving whole ass childhoods!
I genuinely didn't knew your Store worked on consoles as well, This was quite the surprise.
A 47R resistor paralleled with 800k or 200k should suffice. The failed resistances are so high they're negligible when paralleled with the small one.
As long as they stay failed. Is it possible they could be intermittent?
They’re aren’t in parallel they are individual data lines each resistor is separate inside the package
Thats why i love reparing old consoles and nintendo handhelds.
The problems usually are SUPER easy.
What an awesome video. I was on the edge of my seat the whole time. Will definitely be posting this.
woah Louis doing a board repair - its been so long - didnt know you still do these;)
all i ever see from you is right to repair & new your government incompetence stuff
not a complaint - just a pleasant suprise to see a little of what used to be the main subject of the channel
dude can make major bank repairing Old video game consoles and installing special chips. they are now very valuable collectable and always having problems the more they age. should expand into console and game cart repairs
My original PS2 from 2000 developed a bad laser, so it could no longer read disks. Swapping the laser unit from a slightly newer PS2 from ~2005 brought it back to life!
You can also buy new one, and you can load direct from HDD with FreeMcBoot ;)
Free McBoot (+ the Network/IDE HDD adapter) = no optical drive needed
@@gblargg And if I want to load a game off disk?
@@switchp8286 Image it on the PC. And apparently there's FHDB (Free HD Boot) so you don't even need anything special to set it all up, and can set up FMCB on a card if needed later.
@@gblargg If I want to load a game off a disk I need an optical drive attached to my PC. I'm not sure what other method there is.
first time i see you fixing something actually worth fixing!
Great find. You should do more console stuff Louis
11:16 How did you know I was looking to buy the epic flux you use in your work? Thanks for the link.
"it would have been smart if i had written down..... but i am not exactly very smart"
No sir, indeed you are not.
You are a Genius.
Way above the level of just smart.
From Phone and Tablet Repair Guy to Retro Video Game Console Repair Guy! I LOVE TO SEE MORE! Nice one Louis Rossmann! =D
Louis it's good to see you back in the saddle. Where you are at your best. You as a person? no thanks. You as a teacher: HELL YEAH!
I stopped watching this channel a couple years ago after you were rather unpleasant toward me in a stream for asking a simple question but I'm glad this video exists so i can fix my stupid video issue. thanks.
Thank you for helping to preserve gaming history
Louis,
You probably don’t remember my comment that you replied too about fixing game consoles on your channel (my display name has changed and I’ve accumulated like three accounts).
I just have to say this is a long time coming for me. Appreciate it even though it wasn’t for me exclusively.
Yehey idreea waa mentioj here, hea the most master of ps3,ps2,ps4 repairs with no scematics
Beauty. This inspired me to get off my ass and dig out my old PS2 slim and see why it's not spinning the disc after a laser replacement. Good day Louis.
Other than the output feed being way greener than it should be, likely indications of a dying chip, this was a great tutorial video!
That was because the output was set wrong. YCbCr instead of RGB. He fixed it by going into the menu and changing it
@@mhammadalloush5104 Ooooh, good catch. I didn't use the component cables that much with that system so I wouldn't have caught that.
@@Lenophis the PS2 outputs composite and component(YPbPr) simultaneously by default, so If you lived in the US that setting does not need to be changed at all, he changed the video output to RGB which is a standard used primarily on european televisions ever since the 80s.
Unlike the american standard which uses seperate RCA plugs for each signal(which means you need 5 plugs for component+stereo audio), europe had a predecessor to HDMI called SCART which carries composite, RGB, and audio on a single plug.
297ish mhz
Single CPU core with 2 Vector units... think like superfpus
emotion engine with a 4mb frame buffer, I think it was internal super wide bus 1500ish bit
my last console, incredible stuff for 2000
Emotion Engine aka alien technology... I followed from afar the works of a group trying to make a PS2 emulator and they had a hell of a time and took years to replicate the EE with much better PC hardware available even at the time, like we already had 4Ghz quadcores around and it was still not enough...
And today the folks from RPCS3 are repeating the story with the CELL SoC in the PS3. Today it runs most PS3 games very well
I remember when ps2 controllers are bullet proof controllers that last forever even their joys stick last long time even for potentiometer at the time
Yeah it makes me boil that Nintendo won their joycon drift lawsuit
@@gracedbypete then again you can buy gulikit hall affect joysticks to give a middle finger to Nintendo
Ture heros who make a permanent solution against the first partys mistakes
@@MrTheinfoman don't be dense you retard you don't think I'm aware of third party options.I WANT THE COMPANY WHO MAKES THE ORIGINAL HARDWARE TO MAKE PROPER HARDWARE AND BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE
@@MrTheinfoman I bet you're a dumb retard who pre orders games too
this is relevant to my interests
more retro console repair vids plz!
Great video! Thanks for the nostalgia, Louis!
3:55 Looks like two of the pins are connected with a speck of solder. The 5th and 6th one over from left on the bottom. Chip in middle of screen
Defying the corporate world from redefining our reality into a subscription based payment model comes in many forms.
Your work gives hope to people who are too aware of whats happening in this country.
Louis: "Can we fix it?"
Repair advocates: "Yes we can"
Glad to see this one could be fixed. Maybe there's still hope for mine, too.
i just checked, every set of more than 16 different values included a number of 47ohm in it's sets.
only set4 that didn't have 47ohm was a triple set including two values of either 4.7 & 47 / 470 & 4.7k or 47k & 470k in each offering thus giving all six values if you bought all three sets
Man. Once it gets past laser swapping and fuse checking I meet a wall. I wish I had an eighth of this man's knowledge
Good video as always, thanks for sharing! Best channel on YT.
So what consequences does jumping do? Is there any risk? Like will longtime play effect it?
it would be really interesting to see PS3 repairs done by you
I love this type of content. Just to watch and learn.
I just finished replacing the batteries in all of my old gameboy cartridges today, so this is particularly relevant to me. 😃
Man, I wish I were closer to this repair workshop! 😣
while we're on the topic of repairs and stuff, if anybody has a broken DVD drive too, you can actually hack your console(usually with a freeMCboot memory card) and load all your disc images and memory cards onto a hard drive. This was how I revived an old PS2 a couple years ago, also my Wii
Damn it Louis, I watched this video, and now every fourth video on my recommended feed is PS2 repair. I've never had a single video effect my recommended so much lol.
I was worried that the output was green at the end, but thankfully, they switched it to RGB and it's fixed :D
I have the original ''fatboy'' 60 GB PS3 that stopped working many years ago. Turns on but shuts off within 3 seconds. What are the possible issues? I can't remember the color light as it has been many years but it blinks and just powers off when you turn it on. I REALLY want to get it fixed because it was the only version that could play BOTH PS1 and PS2 games. I miss it.
23 years? We're getting older...remembered fixing a few power supplies for the "phat" model and made one run on just batteries. Lasers tend to die on the early ones too. Can't tell them enough to clear out the dust. Haven't encountered termination resistor failure though...might get myself a broken one to repair, mod (Modbo - no more Matrix, so long...) and play GT4 on! Even GTA:SA looked a few laps ahead compared to PC, the once-seen beauty of dedicated hardware.
Awesome Video!!! Please do more video game console repairs!!
Heh, the resistor bank at 10:25 is only using 7 of the 8 resistors. Seeing the last one went bad you could have shifted it along or turned it around instead of jumping the bad resistor.
Not a great judge of size (or so I'm told) but through hole resistors may be an option there in a pinch