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@@StYfReX Very true, but with plenty of other options out there with better hardware and expandable storage it still doesn't make much sense to buy one.
NOT to mention, cheaper. You could get an entire Raspberry Pi setup (Pi, PSU, SD card, case, heatsinks, etc) for $60-75 then spend the rest on a nice controller.
wouldn't a RaspberryPi be cheaper, more powerful, and way more customizeable. Just buy a cheap 3D printed version of the PS1 Classic to use as a case for your PI
Yes. LGR went over building exactly that, and does a price breakdown. Also, I personally have RetroPie mounted onto my on Pi 3 B, and can verify that it has many more emulators ready to go.
Go tell that to the people who this is actually marketed for. I'd tell them to buy a real console and plug it in to CRT because that's the only authentic experience. This is not for me or not for you. Still Sony did fuck this up badly, but those who this is targeted for don't know that. They don't know better. If I wanted to emulate these games I'd just use my home theater/living room gaming PC.
@@originaldk5436 there aren't any .rom files though, each console has different rom files except for disc consoles, also PS1 roms are bin/cue files, not isos
@@STEVEWONDA1976 it's about how nintendo was being fucking stuck up when the nes classic came out and they tried to take out all the rom hosting websites, they only ended up taking out 3 though, thankfully (sadly, emuparadise was one of them)
hue Being serious tho, it seems like they made space for a power supply inside it, then decided: "What?? You want it to cost us another DOLLAR?? Fire this idiot!!" And thus, the L-shape was left as-is (heck it even has the solder points for it inside)
Lets be honest every company does that, they are in buisness of making money not making hackers or pirates happy. Im all about emulation and stuff but seriously your gonna blame someone from protecting their interests ? So many ppl on yt don't have basic understanding of buisness and hiw things work around them.
wykydytron you might want to read the wiki page about bleem. Sony actually lost the lawsuit against them because there was nothing wrong with it. I used to use bleem in the past. You need an original bios and even an original game. You couldn’t use a pirated game. They just wanted to run out anyone reverse engineering their software. In this case it failed.
What you called a heatsink isn't actually primarily a heatsink, that's mainly a RF suppression can. They used it to dissipate some heat from the SOC, but the only reason it is so large is that it is intended to suppress RF interference. There is enough room in that case to use a off-the-shelf stick-on heatsink, which would likely do a better job and be far cheaper. However, apparently to get certification they needed the large (and expensive, that stamped part is likely the most expensive individual part of the entire product) metal case to pass. I actually expected better from Sony, normally they do a much better job on design. The board is far too large, which is money wasted, and if they are going to make the PCB that large at least include a SD card slot, that can be done incredibly inexpensively. Clearly they fucked up on the layout, look at how much surface area of the PCB is simply copper pours, and how excessively long the tracks are. Realistically, that board should be 1/3 the size, that would lower their costs, as even in volume you end up paying for PCB's primarily as a function of board size, and a more compact layout with shorter traces would likely result in better EMI compliance as well. Hopefully the controller is good, since the console itself is inferior in every way to a Rpi running an emulator. It looks like a playstation, but that will be so light that the weight of the HDMI cable will cause it to sit funny and be a pain, so I don't think it will even look all that great. Actually, good god, look closer at 8:15. This is actually just absolute shit. Traces to the HDMI connector are at least 40MM for no good reason at all, and the flash chip is sitting entirely too far from the SOC. But the topping on the cake is the absolute shitshow to the right of the SOC where they routed out the RAM. That is DDR3, so matching trace length is important, but instead of orienting the chips properly they just created an absoute rats nest of crap, there's traces that jump down through vias, back up to the top layer, then down again, WTF? No wonder they had EMI issues with this, I would be critical of that even if it was a hobbyist developed board. It's just a basic SOC design, there's nothing special at all about the electronics there aside from the software for the emulator. The length of the HDMI traces alone explain the metal can covering literally the entire board, it's likely they barely passed FCC cert as-is, for an easily-avoidable problem (move the SOC closer to the output connector. Considering that that is, at bare minimum, a 4-layer board (and with how poorly it appears to be routed, I'd hazard to guess at least 8), the price for the PCB would justify cutting the board down to where the size only covers the 2 front and 2 rear connectors (and move the power connector to the opposite side of the HDMI, so the board is a rectangle). The size difference and lack of an expensive stamped steel can would drop significant cost from the product, and likely improve reliability as well. Looking at this thing, it wouldn't surprise me at all if this thing experiences interference if it is, say, placed near the sort of high power amplifier that also tends to live (and be connected to) televisions. Just an absolute piece of trash, I can't believe Sony let this out the door. What has happened to their engineering department?
@@thesmf1210 A lot of most modern tvs don't have a SCART or Composite AV connectors anymore, so an Composite/SCART to HDMI Analog-to-Digital converter is required. A good one costs at least 50$ and may cause bad input lag. Although there is also ones which do not have noticeable lag.
“I don’t have a phone charger here” So you’re telling me, that I’m that massive studio, or literally anywhere, you don’t have a Micro USB cable? I call shenanigans!
He didn't say no Micro USB cable. He said no phone charger. Probably has loads of cables but no wall warts to plug them into (who needs one when you have that many computers with that many USB ports?).
@@mjc0961 Yeah, pretty weak excuse. On my desk here I have a PC and 2 consoles that can technically provide USB power, a 4 port USB charger, a 20,000 mAh usb battery bank, and a power strip with built in USB ports. While I can't claim the studio is going to have ANY of those things, it's really NOT hard finding a way to power a USB powered device... Hell, a lot of televisions have integrated USB ports these days (I've certainly powered a SNES mini directly from a television that way more than once...) And without a monitor or TV of some kind, how was he planning on demonstrating one of these at all, even in theory? Powering seems to be the lesser problem really...
Nice teardown Steve Imho the metal heatsink is more an shield and works as a heatsink in second. It contacts all the ground plaines on the PCB and all grounded connectors so in my oppinion its more for EMI reasons. Also i think by the PCB shape, the free space was forseen for an internal PSU and the 2 solder blobs by it are Power and GND connections, but somewhere in development this was cut because solder on an micro USB is way cheaper.
Jade O you're right, and it's a weaker SoC than the NES Mini, but the Pine64 makes RPi3b+ look so bad too… and so on :) In fact no ARM SBC comes close to the price/perf of an ITX motherboard with a cheap x86 CPU.
And now the Pi 3 model A as well. Tiny little thing, give it a USB hub and slap it into this shell, you've got room for expanded storage as well. You're rocking away multiple emulators for SO MUCH cheaper.
@@TDGalea all that work to play some classic games like Tekken and cool boarders nah it'll be on sale. I'll get this and add my ROMs with a USB stick .I looked up raspberry pi and I need to buy a separate SD card and do all types of stuff to get it running it would like over a hours works easy . On top of buying a USB hub and controllers for the pi ,it would end up costing way more .not to mention getting case and extra storage for it. Nah don't got time for all that ssh bullshit .I want plug and play.
You can get into it's emulators settings if you plug a keyboard in and hit the ESC key, this lets you tweak quite a number of things. Not all keyboards seem to work for whatever reason. People were having luck with corsair ones.
yeah more people will have the chance to figure out for sure what works and what doesnt when its released. chances are someones gonna make something akin to fmcb on a usb stick for the thing
@@kirbyrules55 I actually use a regular wireless Xbox 1 controller. Most of the cheaper ones I have tried kinda suck. I have a samsung and its natively supported via bluetooth. Just look for it like a speaker. Not sure if all android brands allow such easy pairing though.
@@FeedMeSalt Xbox 1 controllers don't work on android. Unless it's the first version, and if you ever connect it to an Xbox or PC the firmware gets updated without asking and then it won't work on android anymore. Edit: apparently it works in android pie.
@@threepwood92 It works on a unrooted Samsung A4 and S8. And most rooted phones actually. I have both man, literally just tap the "seek" button on the controller and it pops up named and everything. Why would I lie about this lol.
@@FeedMeSalt It doesn't work on my phone and there's countless threads like this, but no official statement. www.reddit.com/r/LineageOS/comments/5yrsfq/couldnt_pair_with_xbox_wireless_controller/
@@luketheduke420 Interesting. I never seen that information anywhere before. All I ever seen and know by it that the 1001 was the first worldwide model the difference being NTSC/UC NTSC/J and PAL/EU PAL/AU. Now on a new search what you say is correct. Still the american models were released only a year later. So it's weird that they decided to label it as the western model and not the original first model. PlayStation JP: 3 December 1994 - 1000 NA: 9 September 1995 - 1001 EU: 29 September 1995 - 1002
one thing they could of done is have FUNCTIONAL memory cards which they could of sold which change the games/add to the games library that u could get, like a N3DS cartridge this is a missed oppertunity for sony and would put them in an advantageous position over nintendo for the mini market. Emulation is sometimes the only legit way (even tho its illegal to get rom files) of getting to play these products which are out of production, Sony could of changed this by offering these memory cards to combat illegal emulation and also killing the nintendo mini's..... we all know that it will be soon flashed and hacked to add more or change the library of games preinstalled so why not offer people another means to get them legally.
@Lassi Kinnunen for people who own a ps3 4and pstv(which u cannot even get), i dont wanna shell out of this stuff as its to expensive...... But yeah your right! The mini appeals to everyones nostalgia of the original consoles (same for the nintendo ones) thats the selling point to them but also to get ahold of games that havbe been out nof production for over 15-20 years. Im just saying for the mini they could of generated alot more revenue, the mem cards could of just been sd cards and the mem slots sd card readers no half assing just a genius way to solve the problem of games not being widely available and a nice way to make some bank as OTHER minis dont offer a way to LEGALLY get new games as the selection available to the user is only whats on the board.... and this is sadly no different hell they could even sell the games digitally and u buy the mem card for the mini and load them onto it from a computer from your PSN account there is no half assing here just missed opportunities by sony to make a mint on out of production hardware and software. this is something i hope all minis start doing because the general selection of games on them are actually pretty crap id only play 1 or 2 on any of the minis not just playstation 1 the nintendo ones could just sell cartridges and use the cartridge slot as a sd card reader.
@FuturePants im just saying its a missed oppertunity to get ahold of games that have been out of production for 15-20 years, the onboard storage dunno how much it has but even reasonbale capacity its not more than a 16 gb module. Then typical iso is 700mb 20 x 700 = roughly 13.5gb used then theres saveslot storage and then OS of the system your fast running out of 16gb, so please retract what you have said im no fanboy but i did have a ps1 and for nostalgia sake i would love to see a way to increase the capacity of games
@FuturePants also if sony actually did it this way they would have a competitive edge over ALL minis with non expandable game library LEGALLY , i agree the PS1 mini is cheep looking but for less than 100 bux what do u expect.... but if they went the route i suggested they could of made it more premium as they would need to rethink the design to accomodate the memory card idea like adding a sd card reader and make the memorycards sd cards which u import games from the PSN account to the playstation mini memory card
What will probably happen, is some random dude, or 3'rd party company, could start mass producing unlicensed 3.5" (Floppy drive bay) devices with two ports for PS1/PS2 controllers and memory cards that could wind up being widely supported by Emu Makers. Hell, some other random dude, or 3'rd party company, might even make a 3D-Printed case to house the PCB for such a thing, along with a Raspberry Pi board, or similar. A very ambitious random dude, or 3'rd party company, might even make a 3D-Printed case to house the PCB for such a thing, along with a Raspberry Pi board, AND a SLIM (Notebook-Style) OPTICAL DRIVE... Then again, a completely bonkers random dude, or 3'rd party company, might do all of the above, and add support for an internal 2.5" SSD or HDD, as well as an SD Card port....
It is pretty amazing how simple games and graphics were back in the day. The numbers really fade away if you can get lost in the heat of a tight race or a difficult boss fight.
The silver through the vents on the bottom is actually a nice touch, that was something that you could see through the original if i recall right. It's not so much of a 'shake my head, they made vents then covered them', but more of a 'oh cool they even had the metal visible through the bottom' XD
Just get a new version of Raspberry pi instead. Its cheaper, and you can emulate more retro consoles not just the psx. And it also have buildt in lan card.
Haven't watched that far in the video yet or seen online, but I'm going to make the crazy guess that the PS1 Classic uses an Alwinner H8 CPU SoC. Edit : shit, it's a Mediatek
@@malcolmholmes509 Supposedly it uses an Allwinner R16, but spec wise it it identical to the A33... It probably is a renamed A33, they keep rebranding their CPUs into different naming scheme's.
yeah it's a Mediatek with 4x A-35 cores. It's even worse than the Allwinner R16. It's sad to see all this power unexploited because it's a proprietary device on a castrated PCB. At those prices they're really just scams for nostalgic hipsters.
@@PainterVierax Quite dumb to call a hipster nostalgic, they are simply just hipsters. Nostalgia is a whole different thing and a hipster can't be nostalgic they are just lost idiots. Trying hard to build some sort of non existent status for themselves.
I don't understand the appeal of these. Honestly, it would be far more interesting if they revamped the old console design with some modern conveniences (integrated memory for game saves, more modern control inputs) and not just some pre-programmed classics, but also capable of playing original media for each console. So actually being able to play your original discs, or cartridges. But I suppose that's too much work, so bare minimum it is. These are really nothing more than glorified emulation boxes that are slightly fancier, and more official than the Chinese-knockoff consoles you can find in the toy section of a dollar store in the seedy parts of town.
@Michael Smith Also, the average person that walks into a big box store and sees these "shitty emulation boxes" isn't going to care or want to build a Raspberry Pie. I have several of these "shitty emulation boxes" and I like them for what they are.....quick fun! Now I wouldn't mind building a Raspberry Pie though, but its definitely more involved than instant "plug and play." But it's true that your average shopper isn't going to want to do the "Technical" work like finding the rom's and downloading them and than buying a case and controller etc. It's just sadly too much work for the average consumer.
I remember metal gear solid 1 blew me away in 1998 or 1999. Now those graphics would hurt the eye. Still why only 20 games why not 100 at least. With rogue trip vacation 2012 being one of em.
@@kevinismay8853 There are so many who don't know this. To be fair, unless you actually really want to play more than 50% of the games included with the PS1 classic, you're probably better off buying the individual games you want on PSN and play them on your PS3 (assuming you have one).
"It's so old the bacteria on it has probably died by now" Just how many millions of years old is your PS1 controller? Bacteria can survive a really really long time.
Before usb i took some controllers from one of my consoles and hooked it up to my computer via printer ports. It did take some wiring and soldering but it did work and was pretty cool considering they did not have game pads for PC at that time.
@@GamersNexus Wow... They could've at least put SOMETHING good on that. Maybe replaced Cool Boarders with- wait... Actually, I'm good. The emulation's piss poor, I'd rather it be a bad game and bad emulation than something like Spyro or Crash and bad emulation.
well for the final fantasy games they filled up the 600 something MB disk but for most games they did not fill up the disk thus why most games did not have more than just 1 disk. Making 16,384MB enough space to hold 20 ... probably only 20 to the point that they would have had to include another chip to have more than 20 games on it. I wish they had a way to download or add on more games to the system as that would be cool. To buy more PS1 classic games their own store would make the most sense too.
@@GamersNexus its a 16gb module and assuming they ripped the ISO files or more likely just dumped them on there you are looking at a tad over the 16gb memory limit. This means it either uses a tad bit of compression or the reason it used pal versions of so many games is because they were (theoretically) smaller in filesize. As a side this leaves next to no headroom for custom game loading for modders at all :(
so this is $100, defo not worth it, being in the uk i paid £20 for my ps1 slim and i have been picking up games for it from 50p-£2 with the exception of my boxed time crisis and gun set, only thing that would make it interesting is if it gets hacked for a stack load of roms
It's £90 on Amazon, so yeah a total rip off. Especially, since it's not even a great emulation experience. But of course, it will still sell loads due to the time of year. The collector in me wants one to stick on a shelf, but not at more than half that price.
Yeah I think it's a bad product. You can buy a second hand PS1 off eBay for pretty cheap, or you could even buy a second hand PS2 or one of the original PS3s, both of which also play PS1 games (of course the slim versions of the PS3 don't play PS1 games, only the fat original one). Or, yes, you can just download an emulator, buy some cheap games off eBay or at your local second hand game shop, rip them to your computer and you're sorted.
I used to take apart original ps1s to swap parts when mine broke, this thing still percent-wise still has way more inside of it than the original which was 70% empty space and hardware in the middle
For that price I'd love to see a 2.5 hdd slot added into the shell and let you go online to buy more games for it. Adding a cd rom player would been cool bonus.
That tool set you're using has a magnetic plate below the housing for the screwdriver bits. You can slide the plate out or leave it in, either way it's useful to hold screws while you work.
Looking at the bottom cover, I don't think those slots were ever intended as cooling - they are just cosmetic, and the metal sheet stuck behind them is there just to match the appearance of the EMI screening on the SCPH-1000. In fact, visually the bottom cover matches the appearance of the SCPH-1000 perfectly - all the slots are in the same place, the feet are the square felt pads used on the early machines and even the plastic nubs that were originally part of the molding for the screws holding in the internal parts are in the same place.
The metal shield is more for RF shielding that just happens to work as heatsink too. That's why there are big areas of exposed copper on the PCB where the shield contacts.
I still have my original PlayStation somewhere and as I had to take it apart a few times I can tell you there want that much in the original ones either :D
I'm pretty sure the main purpose for the metal piece is an EMI shield. It can just double as a heat sink since the heat dissipation of that CPU is very low. EMI shields do not need to be robust, hence why it is so thin. You can also see the little "fingers" on the side of the shield touching the ground plane of the PCB. That's how you definitely know it's EMI shield
I wonder how the performance compares to the Raspberry Pi 3b+ because it handles PS1 games really well. Also, I wonder if there is a reason they went with PAL rooms for some of the games, could the chip not handle 60 fps because of performance. Thanks for doing this teardown.
The silver metal on the shell is there to mimic the look of the original PS1 which had some substantial metal shielding for the board nd that board doesn't really need that shielding
I bought it and all i care is experience. It delivers that, yes 20 games is not much and they are mostly meh, but it was fun to play Tekken3 with my wife. I don't want to assembly raspberry pi or hack anything, because time is money. I could spend an 1h or so to upgrade hacked ROM to get better games, but that is as far i am willing to go.
This is probably one of the simplest consoles inside I’ve ever disassembled. I have one without the top plastic that runs fine. Lol i use to think that was super cool watching the disc spin while im playing. Makes me wonder why all these “classic” consoles are so popular. Just get a real one. They exist. And you can put any disc you want in it instead od being stuck with 20 games forever.
So the Play Station Classic Mini Sucks as a game player un hacked but is the most powerful for emulating the older games of maybe Play Station 1 and earlier ? It has the most internal memory?
Finally!! I've been trying to find the hardware specs for months. So it's a quad core 64bit ARM Cortex A35, 16GB Flash memory, and 1GB DDR3 RAM. In comparison, the NES Classic is a Quad core 32bit Cortex A7, 512MB Flash memory, and 256MB or RAM. If it can be hacked, it could fit a ton more retro games than the NES. Complete collections of NES, SNES, Sega MS, Genesis, Turbo graphic, GBA...
EOL flash and ram is a good indication of a limited run those ram packages dont look standard and redesigning ram layouts for a different package is a HUGE pain
the shape of the PCB and the solder blanks hint towards that this was ment to be battery powered (4x AA probs) at some point, might wanna probe the joints there and see if it can take 6v on those 2 contacts and mod a 4x AA holder on it
Protip for hackre: This stuff uses Mediatek MT8167A SOC, that also used by Acer Iconia tablet model b3-a40fhd-k3fx. Assuming that you can use SP Flash Tool, WWR_MTK, and MTK Droid Tool, you might be able to mod this stuff.
Oh, great video to see when I'm working on a N64 emulator build. I'm taking apart my old N64 case and placing a Raspberry Pi 3 B+ inside. Adding a bit of cooling since N64 emulation with the Pi can be... hectic. Going to have USB Controller support as well as an adapter for the old port since I still have a few Original N64 controllers about. It's been fun so far except for the Gamebit screws holding the case shut, ugh.
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Hello steve love your work
Can buildzoid do a vrm deep dive? :P
How you install and play ps1 games ? And also, If you have original ps1 cd's
What about the quality of the VRM? ;)
You seriously need to shave your beard off and get a haircut you fucking bum.
And they tried to make emulators illegal :)
Bleem! remembers...
I thought it was ROMs that were the "illegal" part, not necessarily the emulation.
@@CapOlimar The lawsuit against Bleem! had tried to claim that it's ripping off their hardware and operating system by imitating and copying code.
I still have my original Bleem CD.
Can someone say HYPOCRITE?
No power supply? Only 20 games...poorly emulated...$100? No thanks.
Coty with those USB that thing is going to get hacked to play any game, guarantied
@@StYfReX Very true, but with plenty of other options out there with better hardware and expandable storage it still doesn't make much sense to buy one.
NOT to mention, cheaper. You could get an entire Raspberry Pi setup (Pi, PSU, SD card, case, heatsinks, etc) for $60-75 then spend the rest on a nice controller.
That big gap.in the casing was likely for a internal power supply. Make no sense to cut that L shape pcb (more costly because of waste).
Why would you want a power supply?
wouldn't a RaspberryPi be cheaper, more powerful, and way more customizeable. Just buy a cheap 3D printed version of the PS1 Classic to use as a case for your PI
lgr already did it
Yes. LGR went over building exactly that, and does a price breakdown.
Also, I personally have RetroPie mounted onto my on Pi 3 B, and can verify that it has many more emulators ready to go.
Go tell that to the people who this is actually marketed for. I'd tell them to buy a real console and plug it in to CRT because that's the only authentic experience. This is not for me or not for you. Still Sony did fuck this up badly, but those who this is targeted for don't know that. They don't know better. If I wanted to emulate these games I'd just use my home theater/living room gaming PC.
Yes, yes, yes, and yes.
LGR?
Only 20 games. I guess they didn't download enough ROMs before Nintendo closed the webpages
Wouldn't you need the ISO instead of a ROM for ps1
@@originaldk5436 the fuck are you even saying lol
It's fucking Sony idiot. Nintendo has no authority over Sony anything.
@@originaldk5436 there aren't any .rom files though, each console has different rom files except for disc consoles, also PS1 roms are bin/cue files, not isos
@@STEVEWONDA1976 it's about how nintendo was being fucking stuck up when the nes classic came out and they tried to take out all the rom hosting websites, they only ended up taking out 3 though, thankfully (sadly, emuparadise was one of them)
The PCB is designed like that so players can store all their disappointment inside the box.
This is one of the best comments ever wrote on the internet
lolz
Or great stash spot for about $5,000 worth on Fentanyl. Good $100 stash box I guess.
@@STEVEWONDA1976 So that's how those maggot-riddled GameStop trade-in consoles originate. :D
hue
Being serious tho, it seems like they made space for a power supply inside it, then decided: "What?? You want it to cost us another DOLLAR?? Fire this idiot!!"
And thus, the L-shape was left as-is (heck it even has the solder points for it inside)
Sony using an open source emulator is ironic since they love suing other emulator software in the past like bleem! 😑 Trying to make emulators illegal
Well, in all fairness quite a bit of time has past.
If they at least built their own emulator it wouldn't be so bad.
Lets be honest every company does that, they are in buisness of making money not making hackers or pirates happy. Im all about emulation and stuff but seriously your gonna blame someone from protecting their interests ? So many ppl on yt don't have basic understanding of buisness and hiw things work around them.
wykydytron you might want to read the wiki page about bleem. Sony actually lost the lawsuit against them because there was nothing wrong with it. I used to use bleem in the past. You need an original bios and even an original game. You couldn’t use a pirated game. They just wanted to run out anyone reverse engineering their software. In this case it failed.
Fuck them and fuck Nintendo for pressuring EMU sites
Bleem was not the same thing as what you describe.
What you called a heatsink isn't actually primarily a heatsink, that's mainly a RF suppression can. They used it to dissipate some heat from the SOC, but the only reason it is so large is that it is intended to suppress RF interference. There is enough room in that case to use a off-the-shelf stick-on heatsink, which would likely do a better job and be far cheaper. However, apparently to get certification they needed the large (and expensive, that stamped part is likely the most expensive individual part of the entire product) metal case to pass.
I actually expected better from Sony, normally they do a much better job on design. The board is far too large, which is money wasted, and if they are going to make the PCB that large at least include a SD card slot, that can be done incredibly inexpensively. Clearly they fucked up on the layout, look at how much surface area of the PCB is simply copper pours, and how excessively long the tracks are. Realistically, that board should be 1/3 the size, that would lower their costs, as even in volume you end up paying for PCB's primarily as a function of board size, and a more compact layout with shorter traces would likely result in better EMI compliance as well. Hopefully the controller is good, since the console itself is inferior in every way to a Rpi running an emulator. It looks like a playstation, but that will be so light that the weight of the HDMI cable will cause it to sit funny and be a pain, so I don't think it will even look all that great.
Actually, good god, look closer at 8:15. This is actually just absolute shit. Traces to the HDMI connector are at least 40MM for no good reason at all, and the flash chip is sitting entirely too far from the SOC. But the topping on the cake is the absolute shitshow to the right of the SOC where they routed out the RAM. That is DDR3, so matching trace length is important, but instead of orienting the chips properly they just created an absoute rats nest of crap, there's traces that jump down through vias, back up to the top layer, then down again, WTF? No wonder they had EMI issues with this, I would be critical of that even if it was a hobbyist developed board. It's just a basic SOC design, there's nothing special at all about the electronics there aside from the software for the emulator. The length of the HDMI traces alone explain the metal can covering literally the entire board, it's likely they barely passed FCC cert as-is, for an easily-avoidable problem (move the SOC closer to the output connector. Considering that that is, at bare minimum, a 4-layer board (and with how poorly it appears to be routed, I'd hazard to guess at least 8), the price for the PCB would justify cutting the board down to where the size only covers the 2 front and 2 rear connectors (and move the power connector to the opposite side of the HDMI, so the board is a rectangle). The size difference and lack of an expensive stamped steel can would drop significant cost from the product, and likely improve reliability as well. Looking at this thing, it wouldn't surprise me at all if this thing experiences interference if it is, say, placed near the sort of high power amplifier that also tends to live (and be connected to) televisions.
Just an absolute piece of trash, I can't believe Sony let this out the door. What has happened to their engineering department?
DON'T YOU HAVE PHONES?!?!?!
Tom Brown appropriate 😂
Yes but my phone can't run Crysis...lol
@@poeticsilence047 what a crisis!
Tom Brown hahahahhah. Diablo....u know that shit is legend now
You play a console with a 10-button twin-thumbstick controller on a smartphone?
The controls must be awful, they were when I tried them on a 5" phone.
I would just get used original ps1
Will be much harder to connect to a modern TV, also not sure how available are the games
@@ilyail3 hahaha, no it wont, what bullshit planet are you living on?
@@thesmf1210 Try it yourself.
@@thesmf1210 A lot of most modern tvs don't have a SCART or Composite AV connectors anymore, so an Composite/SCART to HDMI Analog-to-Digital converter is required. A good one costs at least 50$ and may cause bad input lag. Although there is also ones which do not have noticeable lag.
"PS2" PS1 is not required
“I don’t have a phone charger here”
So you’re telling me, that I’m that massive studio, or literally anywhere, you don’t have a Micro USB cable? I call shenanigans!
came here to say this also. NOT A CHANCE THERE IS NO USB CHARGER IN A TECH STUDIO
He didn't say no Micro USB cable. He said no phone charger. Probably has loads of cables but no wall warts to plug them into (who needs one when you have that many computers with that many USB ports?).
DrMacintosh plenty of 12v rails
It was a J-O-K-E
@@mjc0961 Yeah, pretty weak excuse. On my desk here I have a PC and 2 consoles that can technically provide USB power, a 4 port USB charger, a 20,000 mAh usb battery bank, and a power strip with built in USB ports.
While I can't claim the studio is going to have ANY of those things, it's really NOT hard finding a way to power a USB powered device...
Hell, a lot of televisions have integrated USB ports these days (I've certainly powered a SNES mini directly from a television that way more than once...)
And without a monitor or TV of some kind, how was he planning on demonstrating one of these at all, even in theory?
Powering seems to be the lesser problem really...
Nice teardown Steve
Imho the metal heatsink is more an shield and works as a heatsink in second. It contacts all the ground plaines on the PCB and all grounded connectors so in my oppinion its more for EMI reasons. Also i think by the PCB shape, the free space was forseen for an internal PSU and the 2 solder blobs by it are Power and GND connections, but somewhere in development this was cut because solder on an micro USB is way cheaper.
Pi 3b+ makes this look sooo bad
Jade O you're right, and it's a weaker SoC than the NES Mini, but the Pine64 makes RPi3b+ look so bad too… and so on :) In fact no ARM SBC comes close to the price/perf of an ITX motherboard with a cheap x86 CPU.
This a a fundraising thing for the ps5 I guess
And now the Pi 3 model A as well. Tiny little thing, give it a USB hub and slap it into this shell, you've got room for expanded storage as well. You're rocking away multiple emulators for SO MUCH cheaper.
@@TDGalea all that work to play some classic games like Tekken and cool boarders nah it'll be on sale. I'll get this and add my ROMs with a USB stick .I looked up raspberry pi and I need to buy a separate SD card and do all types of stuff to get it running it would like over a hours works easy . On top of buying a USB hub and controllers for the pi ,it would end up costing way more .not to mention getting case and extra storage for it. Nah don't got time for all that ssh bullshit .I want plug and play.
I regret buying a classic
You can get into it's emulators settings if you plug a keyboard in and hit the ESC key, this lets you tweak quite a number of things. Not all keyboards seem to work for whatever reason. People were having luck with corsair ones.
yeah more people will have the chance to figure out for sure what works and what doesnt when its released. chances are someones gonna make something akin to fmcb on a usb stick for the thing
You go insanely in-depth, struggled to follow along, had to rewatch certain bits constantly, good vid though!
For those unaware, you can plug in a USB keyboard (Corsair K70 confirmed) and press the Escape key within a game to bring up the debug menu.
I'd buy it if it was fully backwards compatible and had the OG ports.
My phone with a bluetooth controller does all this better.
any good bluetooth controller recommendations? i've been wanting one with real low input lag :D thx
@@kirbyrules55 I actually use a regular wireless Xbox 1 controller.
Most of the cheaper ones I have tried kinda suck.
I have a samsung and its natively supported via bluetooth.
Just look for it like a speaker.
Not sure if all android brands allow such easy pairing though.
@@FeedMeSalt Xbox 1 controllers don't work on android.
Unless it's the first version, and if you ever connect it to an Xbox or PC the firmware gets updated without asking and then it won't work on android anymore.
Edit: apparently it works in android pie.
@@threepwood92 It works on a unrooted Samsung A4 and S8. And most rooted phones actually.
I have both man, literally just tap the "seek" button on the controller and it pops up named and everything.
Why would I lie about this lol.
@@FeedMeSalt It doesn't work on my phone and there's countless threads like this, but no official statement. www.reddit.com/r/LineageOS/comments/5yrsfq/couldnt_pair_with_xbox_wireless_controller/
Absolutely LOVE THIS CHANNEL AND STEVE. Such a gem in youtube
"How much do you really need to play 24-year-old games?"
More than that, it turns out.
Your workbench/workspace is absolutely awesome.
Imagine in the future having a teeny-tiny PS4 classic.
Thank you for always explaining all the parts, your channel is very informative. Keep up the great work.
This thing is a marvel once hacked 😉
Half the time I have no idea what is being said, but I still enjoy watching!
It's like nerdy ASMR lol.
I'm pretty sure SCPH-1001 is the original model number for the Playstation
@@luketheduke420 Interesting. I never seen that information anywhere before. All I ever seen and know by it that the 1001 was the first worldwide model the difference being NTSC/UC NTSC/J and PAL/EU PAL/AU. Now on a new search what you say is correct. Still the american models were released only a year later. So it's weird that they decided to label it as the western model and not the original first model.
PlayStation
JP: 3 December 1994 - 1000
NA: 9 September 1995
- 1001
EU: 29 September 1995
- 1002
I know nothing about electronics, so this was very cool to watch.
one thing they could of done is have FUNCTIONAL memory cards which they could of sold which change the games/add to the games library that u could get, like a N3DS cartridge this is a missed oppertunity for sony and would put them in an advantageous position over nintendo for the mini market.
Emulation is sometimes the only legit way (even tho its illegal to get rom files) of getting to play these products which are out of production, Sony could of changed this by offering these memory cards to combat illegal emulation and also killing the nintendo mini's..... we all know that it will be soon flashed and hacked to add more or change the library of games preinstalled so why not offer people another means to get them legally.
@FuturePants having a functional memory card interface would at least allow loading of old saves from the original PS1
@Lassi Kinnunen for people who own a ps3 4and pstv(which u cannot even get), i dont wanna shell out of this stuff as its to expensive...... But yeah your right!
The mini appeals to everyones nostalgia of the original consoles (same for the nintendo ones) thats the selling point to them but also to get ahold of games that havbe been out nof production for over 15-20 years.
Im just saying for the mini they could of generated alot more revenue, the mem cards could of just been sd cards and the mem slots sd card readers no half assing just a genius way to solve the problem of games not being widely available and a nice way to make some bank as OTHER minis dont offer a way to LEGALLY get new games as the selection available to the user is only whats on the board.... and this is sadly no different
hell they could even sell the games digitally and u buy the mem card for the mini and load them onto it from a computer from your PSN account there is no half assing here just missed opportunities by sony to make a mint on out of production hardware and software. this is something i hope all minis start doing because the general selection of games on them are actually pretty crap id only play 1 or 2 on any of the minis not just playstation 1 the nintendo ones could just sell cartridges and use the cartridge slot as a sd card reader.
@FuturePants im just saying its a missed oppertunity to get ahold of games that have been out of production for 15-20 years, the onboard storage dunno how much it has but even reasonbale capacity its not more than a 16 gb module.
Then typical iso is 700mb 20 x 700 = roughly 13.5gb used then theres saveslot storage and then OS of the system your fast running out of 16gb, so please retract what you have said im no fanboy but i did have a ps1 and for nostalgia sake i would love to see a way to increase the capacity of games
@FuturePants also if sony actually did it this way they would have a competitive edge over ALL minis with non expandable game library LEGALLY , i agree the PS1 mini is cheep looking but for less than 100 bux what do u expect.... but if they went the route i suggested they could of made it more premium as they would need to rethink the design to accomodate the memory card idea like adding a sd card reader and make the memorycards sd cards which u import games from the PSN account to the playstation mini memory card
What will probably happen, is some random dude, or 3'rd party company, could start mass producing unlicensed 3.5" (Floppy drive bay) devices with two ports for PS1/PS2 controllers and memory cards that could wind up being widely supported by Emu Makers.
Hell, some other random dude, or 3'rd party company, might even make a 3D-Printed case to house the PCB for such a thing, along with a Raspberry Pi board, or similar.
A very ambitious random dude, or 3'rd party company, might even make a 3D-Printed case to house the PCB for such a thing, along with a Raspberry Pi board, AND a SLIM (Notebook-Style) OPTICAL DRIVE...
Then again, a completely bonkers random dude, or 3'rd party company, might do all of the above, and add support for an internal 2.5" SSD or HDD, as well as an SD Card port....
That clear ps1 controller looks badass 😯
Can you make a video about how good your magnifying glass is when burning ants outdoors ? ☀️🔎 🐜🐜
Not funny. Leave the ants alone
GameBacardi Emojis ruined perfect comment.
Most ants will die anyway during the winter. ANT LIVES MATTER LMAO
wElL aCtHuAlLy those ants live deep underground so they stay alive over winter @@ihavenoson3384
It is pretty amazing how simple games and graphics were back in the day. The numbers really fade away if you can get lost in the heat of a tight race or a difficult boss fight.
The emulator probably takes more hardware to run than the games do, lol.
You realize that an emulator is "emulating" hardware right? and that the games need said hardware to run...
The silver through the vents on the bottom is actually a nice touch, that was something that you could see through the original if i recall right.
It's not so much of a 'shake my head, they made vents then covered them', but more of a 'oh cool they even had the metal visible through the bottom' XD
Hello steve love your work
Thank you!
@@GamersNexus :) thanks for replying :)
I love the looks of it, it's nice and small, something I'd put on a shelf like a decoration, but that's about it.
Just get a new version of Raspberry pi instead. Its cheaper, and you can emulate more retro consoles not just the psx. And it also have buildt in lan card.
For 100USD you can almost have a very low-end x86 PC that can even run 10 y-old AAA games smoothly.
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO **throws tomato**
Uncle bought me this in the easter. It's very good product for refreshing your nostalgia, but other purposes...
The box looks nice, but I think people wanting to play PS1 games are better off with an old PSP, PS Vita/TV or something like the Nvidia Shield TV.
Wow, that was cool. Look forward to the controller disassembly.
Haven't watched that far in the video yet or seen online, but I'm going to make the crazy guess that the PS1 Classic uses an Alwinner H8 CPU SoC.
Edit : shit, it's a Mediatek
I thought it was gonna be a Allwinner chip as-well
Didnt the NES classic use a A33?
@@malcolmholmes509 Supposedly it uses an Allwinner R16, but spec wise it it identical to the A33...
It probably is a renamed A33, they keep rebranding their CPUs into different naming scheme's.
yeah it's a Mediatek with 4x A-35 cores. It's even worse than the Allwinner R16. It's sad to see all this power unexploited because it's a proprietary device on a castrated PCB. At those prices they're really just scams for nostalgic hipsters.
@@PainterVierax Quite dumb to call a hipster nostalgic, they are simply just hipsters. Nostalgia is a whole different thing and a hipster can't be nostalgic they are just lost idiots. Trying hard to build some sort of non existent status for themselves.
ExternalDomain "for nostalgic people and hipsters" if you prefer. Quite pedantic to just point that when we talk electronic circuitry.
"...So where do those switch buttons go *clack clack* [Softly] goddamnit..." *Cut*
I laughed my ass off.
I don't understand the appeal of these. Honestly, it would be far more interesting if they revamped the old console design with some modern conveniences (integrated memory for game saves, more modern control inputs) and not just some pre-programmed classics, but also capable of playing original media for each console. So actually being able to play your original discs, or cartridges. But I suppose that's too much work, so bare minimum it is.
These are really nothing more than glorified emulation boxes that are slightly fancier, and more official than the Chinese-knockoff consoles you can find in the toy section of a dollar store in the seedy parts of town.
@Michael Smith Also, the average person that walks into a big box store and sees these "shitty emulation boxes" isn't going to care or want to build a Raspberry Pie. I have several of these "shitty emulation boxes" and I like them for what they are.....quick fun! Now I wouldn't mind building a Raspberry Pie though, but its definitely more involved than instant "plug and play." But it's true that your average shopper isn't going to want to do the "Technical" work like finding the rom's and downloading them and than buying a case and controller etc. It's just sadly too much work for the average consumer.
I think people would buy them even if they didn't play games. It's an ornament.
you kinda described a Vita TV
ETAPrime is taking his time with his teardown, so I will watch this one to hold me over...
I remember metal gear solid 1 blew me away in 1998 or 1999.
Now those graphics would hurt the eye.
Still why only 20 games why not 100 at least.
With rogue trip vacation 2012 being one of em.
Without a doubt the most fun anyone will have with this system.
Why wouldn't you just by a ps1 off ebay for £30 with 250 games
No hdmi, no support of modern tv and you can play 0 of that 250 games due to optic drive failure that happend in last century :-)
Better yet use your pc to run the emulator. Heck I even have ePSXe on my phone.
PS3 plays ps1
@@kevinismay8853 There are so many who don't know this. To be fair, unless you actually really want to play more than 50% of the games included with the PS1 classic, you're probably better off buying the individual games you want on PSN and play them on your PS3 (assuming you have one).
@@wykydytron Get a CRT television, get a CRT television, and get the optical drive repaired.
Simple.
Cool video, love tear downs. Just noticed we have the same calipers.
"It's so old the bacteria on it has probably died by now" Just how many millions of years old is your PS1 controller? Bacteria can survive a really really long time.
I bath the plastics on everything
GRUG PLAY GAME ON MOVING WALL
I had lots of fun on my playstation.
was amazing fun.
This is just a cash grab. What a lame product.
I guess you can call it, THE LAMESTATION.....
the only real reason to buy it is to emulate your own games on it
Watch some videos, learn some hacking, check out the add on products. You might change your mind
Who needs this thing?!
My PS2 works very well still to this day. XD
Hey Steve. Do you use timotei or pantene?
yes
l'Oreal, because he is worth it
Head & Shoulders
With hair like that, fairy brand dish washing liquid is better, then use a good conditioner. (No joke - My hairs the same!)
Before usb i took some controllers from one of my consoles and hooked it up to my computer via printer ports. It did take some wiring and soldering but it did work and was pretty cool considering they did not have game pads for PC at that time.
I wonder how large the storage is that it could fit only ~12GB worth of games
That's a 16GB module.
@@GamersNexus Wow... They could've at least put SOMETHING good on that. Maybe replaced Cool Boarders with- wait... Actually, I'm good. The emulation's piss poor, I'd rather it be a bad game and bad emulation than something like Spyro or Crash and bad emulation.
well for the final fantasy games they filled up the 600 something MB disk but for most games they did not fill up the disk thus why most games did not have more than just 1 disk. Making 16,384MB enough space to hold 20 ... probably only 20 to the point that they would have had to include another chip to have more than 20 games on it. I wish they had a way to download or add on more games to the system as that would be cool. To buy more PS1 classic games their own store would make the most sense too.
@@GamersNexus its a 16gb module and assuming they ripped the ISO files or more likely just dumped them on there you are looking at a tad over the 16gb memory limit. This means it either uses a tad bit of compression or the reason it used pal versions of so many games is because they were (theoretically) smaller in filesize.
As a side this leaves next to no headroom for custom game loading for modders at all :(
Well they used CDs. They had a capacity of 600/700MB.
Steve, I will only buy a shirt if I can have the one that you were wearing in this video.
so this is $100, defo not worth it, being in the uk i paid £20 for my ps1 slim and i have been picking up games for it from 50p-£2 with the exception of my boxed time crisis and gun set, only thing that would make it interesting is if it gets hacked for a stack load of roms
It's £90 on Amazon, so yeah a total rip off. Especially, since it's not even a great emulation experience.
But of course, it will still sell loads due to the time of year. The collector in me wants one to stick on a shelf, but not at more than half that price.
Yeah I think it's a bad product. You can buy a second hand PS1 off eBay for pretty cheap, or you could even buy a second hand PS2 or one of the original PS3s, both of which also play PS1 games (of course the slim versions of the PS3 don't play PS1 games, only the fat original one). Or, yes, you can just download an emulator, buy some cheap games off eBay or at your local second hand game shop, rip them to your computer and you're sorted.
I used to take apart original ps1s to swap parts when mine broke, this thing still percent-wise still has way more inside of it than the original which was 70% empty space and hardware in the middle
ABS Plastic... plastic made out of anti-lock brake systems?
This brings MEMORIES :)
... So plenty of room to hack in a battery pack...
For that price I'd love to see a 2.5 hdd slot added into the shell and let you go online to buy more games for it. Adding a cd rom player would been cool bonus.
Namers Gexus
That tool set you're using has a magnetic plate below the housing for the screwdriver bits. You can slide the plate out or leave it in, either way it's useful to hold screws while you work.
i love how you at least try to know the components on the PCB, AND take time to read up the datasheets.
Hacked together last minute project - Steve nailed it.
Looking at the bottom cover, I don't think those slots were ever intended as cooling - they are just cosmetic, and the metal sheet stuck behind them is there just to match the appearance of the EMI screening on the SCPH-1000. In fact, visually the bottom cover matches the appearance of the SCPH-1000 perfectly - all the slots are in the same place, the feet are the square felt pads used on the early machines and even the plastic nubs that were originally part of the molding for the screws holding in the internal parts are in the same place.
The metal shield is more for RF shielding that just happens to work as heatsink too. That's why there are big areas of exposed copper on the PCB where the shield contacts.
Hahaha. Man, I really love your attitude on that. "It didn't come with a power brick, so screw it, we'll take it apart. :D
That’s a lot more than what I thought it was going to be.
Holding my original PlayStation while watching this
That's it, i'm going to install it in my TV!
I still have my original PlayStation somewhere and as I had to take it apart a few times I can tell you there want that much in the original ones either :D
AYYYYYE THEY KEPT THE OG NAME SCHEME THATS SO GOOD
Worth buying for collection purposes only.. As far as actual gaming, you could build your own for a much better experience.
I'm pretty sure the main purpose for the metal piece is an EMI shield. It can just double as a heat sink since the heat dissipation of that CPU is very low. EMI shields do not need to be robust, hence why it is so thin. You can also see the little "fingers" on the side of the shield touching the ground plane of the PCB. That's how you definitely know it's EMI shield
So glad you pointed out the solder joints on a pcb..... lmao :P
I wonder how the performance compares to the Raspberry Pi 3b+ because it handles PS1 games really well. Also, I wonder if there is a reason they went with PAL rooms for some of the games, could the chip not handle 60 fps because of performance. Thanks for doing this teardown.
I still have my original and all the games. God that was a long time ago
The silver metal on the shell is there to mimic the look of the original PS1 which had some substantial metal shielding for the board nd that board doesn't really need that shielding
I hate the metal shielding on the original becase it was soldered to the board
it's LITERALLY the same emulator that is used for Raspberry Pi projects. Minus all the graphics options, shaders, controller choice and performance.
I did the exact same thing to the io port on my psmini and it looks just like yours did haha! Should have watched this video first
The enthusiasm in your voice is compelling. For what's in this it's not worth the money. Probably cost them £10 a piece to knock out.
I bought it and all i care is experience. It delivers that, yes 20 games is not much and they are mostly meh, but it was fun to play Tekken3 with my wife. I don't want to assembly raspberry pi or hack anything, because time is money. I could spend an 1h or so to upgrade hacked ROM to get better games, but that is as far i am willing to go.
This is probably one of the simplest consoles inside I’ve ever disassembled. I have one without the top plastic that runs fine. Lol i use to think that was super cool watching the disc spin while im playing. Makes me wonder why all these “classic” consoles are so popular. Just get a real one. They exist. And you can put any disc you want in it instead od being stuck with 20 games forever.
I remember when the PS3 could play PS2 and PS1 games. Now I can emulate all of it. Or use my original PS1. Both the PS2 and PS3 died.
So the Play Station Classic Mini Sucks as a game player un hacked but is the most powerful for emulating the older games of maybe Play Station 1 and earlier ?
It has the most internal memory?
Finally!! I've been trying to find the hardware specs for months.
So it's a quad core 64bit ARM Cortex A35, 16GB Flash memory, and 1GB DDR3 RAM.
In comparison, the NES Classic is a Quad core 32bit Cortex A7, 512MB Flash memory, and 256MB or RAM.
If it can be hacked, it could fit a ton more retro games than the NES. Complete collections of NES, SNES, Sega MS, Genesis, Turbo graphic, GBA...
The controller works on windows 10 no problem. Actually used it to play on retroarch too, no issue!
EOL flash and ram is a good indication of a limited run
those ram packages dont look standard and redesigning ram layouts for a different package is a HUGE pain
the shape of the PCB and the solder blanks hint towards that this was ment to be battery powered (4x AA probs) at some point, might wanna probe the joints there and see if it can take 6v on those 2 contacts and mod a 4x AA holder on it
Still have my og ps2 somewhere.
You guys are great👌🏽
Steve had a Howard Hughes moment there.
8:13 That pad looks like it's for grounding the shield/heatsink to the PCB rather than just for mounting pressure.
you're gonna have to make a console teardown modmat now
I bet someone on Etsy could build cute little box builds for the PCB
this blocking film on the fake vents prevents dust and small insects from entering. it has a use.
Protip for hackre:
This stuff uses Mediatek MT8167A SOC, that also used by Acer Iconia tablet model b3-a40fhd-k3fx.
Assuming that you can use SP Flash Tool, WWR_MTK, and MTK Droid Tool, you might be able to mod this stuff.
Oh, great video to see when I'm working on a N64 emulator build. I'm taking apart my old N64 case and placing a Raspberry Pi 3 B+ inside. Adding a bit of cooling since N64 emulation with the Pi can be... hectic.
Going to have USB Controller support as well as an adapter for the old port since I still have a few Original N64 controllers about. It's been fun so far except for the Gamebit screws holding the case shut, ugh.
Sounds like a cool project!
Im so getin that evga card 20 series. YOS
Teardown an actual PS1! :P