Heavily modded PS1 console project progress report (picture heavy) :)

shadaboot27 · Apr 24, 2014

jse said: ↑

just an idea for the receiver, there is enough room inside the ps1 if you want to solder it in internally, same with a memory card, but it looks nice how you have it.
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Yes I really do like that idea! Is there any way I could get a much bigger capacity memory card? So Id never be able to run out of memory and would never need to change the memory card? I only actually play about 10 different PS1 games....

shadaboot27 · Apr 24, 2014

I just looked on ebay and you can get a 32MB unofficial PS1 memory card. But I think I will get a 16MB one as that is still plenty of memory for me. I think I might smooth out the hole where the controller port 1 goes and have the 16GB memory card and receiver mounted internally, Then I'll keep controller port 2 for using a second controller for 2 player games.

Great Idea JSE!

NeC5552 · Apr 25, 2014

shadaboot27 said: ↑

I think I might smooth out the hole where the controller port 1 goes and have the 16GB memory card and receiver mounted internally,
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16GB?I haven't heard of a PS1 memory card being so big.

Lastcallhall · Apr 25, 2014

This whole project looks boss. Nice work, mang.

shadaboot27 · May 5, 2014

NeC5552 said: ↑

16GB?I haven't heard of a PS1 memory card being so big.
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Sony only ever made 1GB memory cards, But you can buy third party unofficial memory cards with much bigger memory capacity on ebay.

smf · May 5, 2014

shadaboot27 said: ↑

Sony only ever made 1GB memory cards, But you can buy third party unofficial memory cards with much bigger memory capacity on ebay.
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Official sony cards are 1 Mega Bit or 128KB

lolzvid · May 18, 2014

Any progress?

Forcer UK · May 19, 2014

Really nice mods loving the idea for wireless controller and the moving of the LEDs. Keep up the good work!

shadaboot27 · May 27, 2014

Sorry that I haven't updated in a long while. I need to get some money together for paint and some free time to finish it. Since I bought a car iv'e kind been working on that and spending all my money on it. It really would be a shame to not finish this project so hopefully soon I will get back into it and get it done.

Teancum · Jun 5, 2014

What happened to the pictures? I was looking at this a couple of days ago and they were all here

NetYaroze · Jun 7, 2014

emm... there is not pictures, do you know that?

shadaboot27 · Jun 12, 2014

Oh noooo! I don't know why the pictures have gone, I have emailed imageshack to see why they are gone. Hopefully I can get them recovered.

Commander47 · Jun 20, 2014

I really like this , but you do know you can get official ps2 wireless controllers that would have save a load of messing?

protivakid · Jun 26, 2014

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[TD]Hi, I'm new to the forum. I joined because I wanted to share some of my modded console projects. I have already posted some pictures of the first two PS1 consoles I have modded if you want to check them out and I think I'm going to post pics of my modded Xbox 360 too, but this thread is going to be a progress report on my latest project which is to heavily mod another PS1 console better than I've ever done before, I LOVE PS1's!

Anyway, the mods that I have planned for this project are:

1. Perspex window in the top lid.
2. Mod chip.
3. Custom paint job (undecided on colour yet).
4. Replace power LED and analog controller LED for ultra bright blue LED's.
5. Relocate power light and fill and smooth the hole from the old light.
6. Wireless official Sony PS1 controllers (this will be the best part)
7. Custom paint job and colored buttons/thumbsticks for wireless controllers.
8. Added blue LED's to go inside the console with a switch on the back to turn them on & off.
9. Custom paint jobs and blue LED's for console accessories like memory cards/game shark.

And that's about all I can think of for now but I will probably add more mods as I go.

And this will also be a very picture heavy thread!

Here is the standard SCPH-5552 console before I did anything to it:

Disassemble:

Got the mod chip installed, I've tested it and it's working well:

The areas I have marked in red are going to be filled with filler and sanded smooth to get a nice smooth minimalistic look.

I marked out where I'm going to cut into the lid using a compass.

Once that was cut out and finished I used some sand paper to de-grain all the plastic parts for a smoother finish when its painted, sanding the parts also helps for the paint to stick, if you don't sand things down before you paint them the paint is likely to flake off.

I then filled and smoothed all the gaps in the console:

I started to get the power LED ready for relocating:

I then started to mark out where I need to cut holes to relocate the power LED:

It took me about 40 mins to drill and file out the holes, this was quite hard to do because of how small the holes are.

The LED's fit in nice and snug

I then got it all wired up but the LED's were far too bright

So I installed 2K variable resistor to the circuit and it worked a treat!

That's all I've done on the console so far, it's all ready to be painted now but I haven't got any paint yet so that will come later. For now I will show you the progress I have done on the wireless controller.

I bought A pair of cheap knock off wireless PS2 controllers and they work on the PS1 but they are very cheaply made and you have to push really hard on the buttons to make them work and the thumb sticks are really stiff so I decided to try and make a hybrid of this cheap controller and an official Sony controller. The plan is to take the motherboard from the cheap one (because it has the wireless receiver built in) then put it into the Sony shell and then solder all the buttons/components from the Sony controller onto it. I will then have a 90% official wireless Sony controller that looks feels and works exactly the same as a wired one.

Here's a picture of the two controllers I'm using:

As you can see this cheap one is almost an exact rip off of the Sony one:

I opened them both up to see what I had to work with and they basically have all the exact same guts, one is just made very poorly and cheaply:

After some cutting and sanding the cheap mother board fits in very well as you can see below, I have also soldered on the Sony L1, L2 buttons and they work very well. all the buttons on the front of the controller are also under the motherboard with the pressure pads and they all work well too

I am also having to use the thumb stick board from the cheap one as the Sony one wont fit back in once The internal battery's are installed, I just need to replace the cheap stiff thumb stick modules with good quality Sony ones:

I found this laying about and I am going to use this as the power supply to the controller:

It will be a bit of a squeeze to get this in but I think I can get it to fit. It will look something like this:

And that's as far as I have got so far with the project, I will post up more progress as I go. Please let me know what you think :

Peace.

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Your pics are more broken than my heart

FAKECRASH59 · Oct 3, 2014

Any updates? This is a really interesting project

Hardak · Dec 31, 2014

Too bad this is not finished. This project was very cool.

takensorryuser · Jan 24, 2016

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dakooldog · Mar 28, 2015

I hope this mod is finished some day. The controller mod was beautiful in itself, too good looking to be abandoned!

takensorryuser · Jan 24, 2016

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wilykat · Mar 28, 2015

takensorryuser said: ↑

Not to hi-jack his thread, but would the wireless controller be actually possible? Has anyone tried making one themselves ?
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PS2 controllers work on PS1 easily and there are 3rd party controllers. I've found some decent but nothing as good as Sony controllers, which isn't wireless. It may be possible to hack and make PS3 controller work on older Playstations.

Also what's the most "bang for your buck" memory card for one of these things (unofficial obviously) (Most space for best cost)
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Plenty of cheap multi-memory cards but nothing worth the headaches. Some of them uses internal compression to squeeze a lot into small memory space and they can corrupt save files. I don't know of any that doesn't use compression, I just stick with Sony brand 1 meg memory cards. They turn up in Goodwill now and then and I have a dozen or so Sony branded memory cards.

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