First Mod CHip

I killed 2 Dreamcast MOD chips but luckily not the Dreamcast. The legs fell of one of the MOD Chips. I was so pissed !! Wouldn'ty mind but I ordered wireless ones too. Bloody Chinese Pirate rip off mail order companies :angry

Yakumo

 

I'm gonna mod my PS2 soon, when my new chip arrives.

Not gonna do the job myself, methinks.... Not precisely a surgeon with the soldering Iron.


THAT has been a hard machine to mod, the PS2 - not like the PSX and others that have relatively quick and easy modchips (the Gamecube is the easiest, I guess) - the PS2 has a whole lot of technical nonsense to consider whilst modding.

Insane, I say.

 

I reckon the first mod chips were the Mega Key adaptors for the Megadrive that changed the region for lock out games. Like this one

http://www.genesiscollective.com/ShowPage.php?GameLink=1351

 

Mod chip literally refers to a chip e.g. Micro controller unit, that gets attached to the logic board, where it inserts it's own logic. The first modchips were for PSX. Period.

Game converters don't contain chips and don't "mod" a single component.

 

Except the Mega Key adaptors do contain a chip that 'mod' the two region jumpers on the MD PCB. The dip switches on the back of the cart change the region of the chip.

 

The region jumpers poke through to the cart connector?

 

Semantics issues aside, the lockout chip in the NES is a modchip - it just needs to be enabled by cutting the pin :smt043

 

Mod chip Quality Control, team Xecuter stylee.....

http://www.xbox-scene.com/xbox1data/sep/EpAAAFyAuFyiSyIjYP.php

A quite interesting bit of kit....

Wonder how much these will be worth in a few years, when they inevitably turn up on Ebay?

 

The name modchip was coined on the PSX PIC based chip! Thats all I'm saying, you could say the first modchip was a early transistor from the '50s.