DTL-H70011S Console showing up as SCPH-70012 in Version?

Received a DTL-H70011S console in the mail today. After making some adjustments so the dvd drive would spin properly (ribbon cable came loose), I tried various games from different regions such as a Japanese ps1 game, and Japanese ps2 game. It runs American games but for Japanese ps2 games it says insert a playstation or playstation 2 disc and for Japanese ps1 games it reads them as audio cds. It plays all American games just fine. Strange thing is, this console is showing as a SCPH-70012 in the version options. It has a gamestop refurbished sticker on it. Could gamestop have swapped out the guts of a retail console into a debug kit casing?

 

Figured out how to master patch a game, Made a copy of Bloody Roar 4, master patched it, did the same "Please insert a Playstation or Playstation 2 format disc" message as when I insert an import.

I am guessing when this console was being refurbished by gamestop they gut swapped it.

Could I be wrong, or does it sound like this is the case?

 

Probably, the only DTLs that should id as SCPH are the pcmcia units. You got screwed.

 

Luckily I will be getting all of my money back so, no harm no foul.

Was more or less cemented that this was a guts swap (other then it not reading the mastered disc of course) was the console can play dvd video discs and from what I read the dtl consoles do not play them.

 

REAL PS2 DTL consoles won't play DVD video discs EVEN if you figure a way to launch the DVD player software. (lol)

Some folks were mumbling here about using ESR with these DTLs and obviously, no dice because of that "featute" DTLs have...

 

Isn't it possible to make a softmod that loads early enough to stop the disabling of DVD video reading?

 

Ah, no, the DTL PS2s have the DVD player Magic Gate encrypted files banned:
Filetypes 0x05 (Krypto IRX) and 0x07 (Krypto ELF)

On retails, decrypting/launching Magic Gate encrypted files of that types stop DVD Video discs from being blocked for reading.


Btw, I heard on #nesdev that you got your AV Famicom problem solved.

 

I checked, and PlayStation 2 consoles start with DVD Video Playback disabled at power-on. Well, at least for my SCPH-77006, it was.
OSD updates are started before DVD Video Playback support is disabled through software, so I checked whether sceCdReadDVDV would work:
1. At power-on.
2. When a console is hard-reset, after being enabled.
3. After sceCdForbidDVDP is run, after being enabled.

It stays enabled after being enabled, even after a hard reset. It's disabled at power-on and after sceCdForbidDVDP is run.