A PS1 surprise

[mrbombermillzy]

Appreciate the links, but I have 2 PS3's and 3 PS4's and I don't want to start collecting....

1 week later.. "I just got these 5 PS2's cheap.."

Yeah, you can never rule that out.

Dont forget (or 'are you aware') not all fat PS3s are the same.

IIRC, there are ones with the 2 backward emulation related ICs, and ones with one of them (and the other is SW emulated).

I cant remember all the relevant model no's at this point.

I swapped the latter in a deal with @PhilC a while ago as faulty. (Not sure if he ever tried getting it to work again, or it was too much effort to bother with?)

[alexh]

I know. Pretty much guaranteed to have an emotion chip if they were 60gb (CECHCxx)

All those that I listed are (on closer inspection) not the ones you want.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/147163620210

[PhilC]

1 week later.. "I just got these 5 PS2's cheap.."

Yeah, you can never rule that out.

Dont forget (or 'are you aware') not all fat PS3s are the same.

IIRC, there are ones with the 2 backward emulation related ICs, and ones with one of them (and the other is SW emulated).

I cant remember all the relevant model no's at this point.

I swapped the latter in a deal with @PhilC a while ago as faulty. (Not sure if he ever tried getting it to work again, or it was too much effort to bother with?)

I've removed the Tokin caps from it for replacement but never got round to it. I suspect its deader than a Dodo though but we shall see.

[rubber_jonnie]

Appreciate the links, but I have 2 PS3's and 3 PS4's and I don't want to start collecting....

1 week later.. "I just got these 5 PS2's cheap.."

Must buy more Playstations...

[PhilC]

Nope, nothing to edit here

[exxos]

Dont forget (or 'are you aware') not all fat PS3s are the same.

IIRC, there are ones with the 2 backward emulation related ICs, and ones with one of them (and the other is SW emulated).

Did not know that.. But never owned a PlayStation.. I think the only time I possibly worked on was about 25+ years ago and the 5V regulator packed in..
Girlfriends dad sometimes gets a PlayStation 1 or 2 , has it a month, then gets rid of it .. the 2 months later gets another again

[rubber_jonnie]

I know. Pretty much guaranteed to have an emotion chip if they were 60gb (CECHCxx)

All those that I listed are (on closer inspection) not the ones you want.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/147163620210

Nice but no buy it now...

Wait until the bids come in.

[rubber_jonnie]

I've removed the Tokin caps from it for replacement but never got round to it. I suspect its deader than a Dodo though but we shall see.

The Tokins are an interesting fix, my current PS3 had a YLOD and I could make it boot by warming the Tokins up. I replaced them with a kit that used I think 6 or 8 tantalums per Tokin, it's run flawlessly since then and you can always get Tantalyser boards which is a little easier.

Those Tokins don't like heat though and come off in bits.

[mrbombermillzy]

Girlfriends dad sometimes gets a PlayStation 1 or 2 , has it a month, then gets rid of it .. the 2 months later gets another again

I was very lucky in that I went to a car boot sale a few years back and noticed a cheap PS1 for sale laid on the floor with a wallet of CDRs.

Ive got the above mentioned chipped PS1 and 2 and to be honest, prefer them to the newer (PS3>/XBox360>) consoles. My poor boys have to wait literally 10 minutes on XBOne for their motorcross game to load, poor sods.

IMHO, thats ridiculous for a game, so to combat this, Ive just bought a Saroo cart for my Sega Saturn, so I can 'swap out' the consoles and hope no one notices!

[rubber_jonnie]

Girlfriends dad sometimes gets a PlayStation 1 or 2 , has it a month, then gets rid of it .. the 2 months later gets another again

I was very lucky in that I went to a car boot sale a few years back and noticed a cheap PS1 for sale laid on the floor with a wallet of CDRs.

Ive got the above mentioned chipped PS1 and 2 and to be honest, prefer them to the newer (PS3>/XBox360>) consoles. My poor boys have to wait literally 10 minutes on XBOne for their motorcross game to load, poor sods.

IMHO, thats ridiculous for a game, so to combat this, Ive just bought a Saroo cart for my Sega Saturn, so I can 'swap out' the consoles and hope no one notices!

I have a Fenrir ODE in my Saturn plus a RAM/Memory/Pseudo Saturn Kai so it'll play anything you throw at it. Saroo came later for me and I was already set up.

Why does it take so long for that game to load, seems a bit mad.