My neigbor was in the game industry and let my kids have this. They of course aren't so pumped because it's old school. My limited research says it's a development kit and it does work and play games. He gave us a bunch some standard and other types etc. I haven't found a ton of info out ther for this and it has the japanese writing on the back. It's pretty cool but would probably be worth more to someone who collects such things. Anyone have any more info on it or what this worth generally. Any info or insight would be appreciated. Thanks!
They weren't generally used for development, they were more for testing games. I normally say around 150USD is a reasonable price, although the condition might affect it. It also depends on the demand at the time. There might not be a huge army of people willing to buy one at that price, the lower you go the more people might be interested. In terms of rarity, there are probably enough of them to go around the people that actually want them.
If I can remember correctly the access card (memory card) is important to have. Someone else here might want to confirm that. The price usually depended on the completeness of the package. The had certain cables, access cards, CDs, etc. There was also a second package that contained the manuals. If you just want the console only with access card that's the cheapest way to go.
I think the Net Yaroze could use a regular memory card for non-development but I'm not sure. Since this blue PS1 was for testing there'd be zero need for a special memory card at any point anyway.
Yup, the Net Yaroze was essentially a region free regular Playstation so functioned completely like a normal one. The memory card was simply an additional anti-piracy type device that was checked when you used the console with the Net Yaroze CD. Looking at it another way, a regular playstation with a Yaroze memory card, disc (of the correct region) band cable would function as a real Yaroze. Similarly, a Yaroze with the hacked boot CD (to by pass the memory card check) and cable, and no memory card could be used via disc swap or in a chipped console. None of this is applicable to the blue one of course, which I think is essentially a normal Playstation with no copy protection (so region free and will play CD-R games). Chris
A DTL-H1000 Debugging Station is not 100% region free unit. It will boot any game from any region from CD-R but will boot the games from original black only from NTSC/J region. It's not rare, you will see these units near every two-three weeks on Yahoo Japan but it's very rare if you have a complete set with blue controllers or blue memory cards or even brand new set (I never seen any!).
