Hey Peep, I just come across this image of the console, indicating the voltage of 110-220? I have always though that the PS2 consoles are single voltage. Perhaps anyone could share their perspective on this? View attachment 10697 I have attached the "usual" PS2 voltage indicator image below for references. View attachment 10698 View attachment 10699 *To addon, the seller of the top console indicated that the console runs both US and JAP games, making it a rare collectable.
O_O This is weird. Our region is NTSC-J, not NTSC-U/C. Neither does our region have datecodes printed on the console stuff! The safety qualification stamp is not present either. And isn't the second quarter of 2001 a little too early for the SCPH-39000 series? According to this page (http://maru-chang.com/hard/scph/index.php/english), it appeared in 2002. Plus my SCPH-39006 is made in China, presumably the first batch to be made there. It's also a 50W unit. Whatever this unit is, it's not a normal retail set. If you get the unit, run PS2Ident on it and it will tell us more about what it is. EDIT: MIZUNAMI JAPAN? Since when were any PS2 units produced there? I don't really have much experience with the exported sets.
Yup that total strange rite. Anyway the seller is asking ridiculous pricing for it. But it really interesting why was the PS2 set configured that way.
It might be a prototype, and/or a development unit. I don't think that a debugstation ever had a universal power supply, but the TOOL units do. Do you have the source? If so, could you please share it? EDIT: Nevermind. I found it on eBay. EDIT 2: It might be also worth noting that the console has most likely been opened before, as it had a sticker across one of its screw covers.
I'm prepared to bet it's just a dodgy "refurbished" unit from China - basically a real PS/2 mainboard assembled with 3rd party plastics, DVD drive and PSU. I've seen a bunch of them. That's also why it's got a universal input PSU in it, since most of the aftermarket ones were like that. Edit: I just found the listing - and I wonder if he realizes that the disk he's showing is a pirate?
I thought there was an Asian country that used both 110 & 220v depending on what part of the country you were in. I know Asian ps1's ran NTSC-J games but some had US bios and others Japanese bios.
All the Asian (I.E. SCPH-xxx3) PS1s I've seen have 110-240V 50/60Hz PSUs, run NTSC:J media and have US boot ROMs. The reason for the wide range power supply was that although most of the territories were 220V they were also being sold in Taiwan, which is 110V. A SCPH-39006 would normally be a NTSC:J Asian model for the Hong Kong market, and would have a 220-240V PSU, NTSC:J game region coding and would only play region 3 NTSC DVDs.
Have you ever come across a PlayStation 2 set that was from the SONY MIZUNAMI plant? I thought that the only Japanese plants were S KISARAZU, S MINOKAMO, S EMCS, S KOHDA and SOLECTRON. I'm talking to him over eBay.
Sorry for late reply, yup the item was listed on ebay. I got a feeling too that is some dodgy china unit too. =S
He says that it reports itself as a "SCPH-39001" within the browser, and it doesn't have a warranty seal in the usual spot (The "VOID" text is visible too). So it's probably just a modded USA board within a fake chassis. :/
I haven't, but I must admit it's not something I ever paid that much attention to. I also just noticed something else wrong with that label - it only specifies 60Hz operation, and 220V systems are almost universally 50Hz. If it's got the "void" marking on it, then it's presumably an original housing, but IMO that label has too many inconsistencies for it to be real.
