Damn, that's the only once I needed too. As to mod chips shortening life, that seems to be strictly a ps2 affair.
Aren't most things that shorten a console's life strictly PS2 affairs? That's one badly put together machine. But like I've said in the past, I think Sony's build quality has never been that good. Yakumo
People are always banging on about this PS2 build quality. I've had mine for years, play it all the time, it's been bumped, knocked, steped on... Still working fine. Maybe I'm one of the lucky ones.
I'd say so. When ever they have one of those "Smack the crap out of a console" contest, the PS2 is always first to die. Yakumo
Ahh, nice pics Yakumo, yes this card is definately copyable and it does have epoxy; Regardless without the epoxy it'd make it no less hard. It's still unclear which chip is under the epoxy, the name of the square chip is washed off right? Sadly it's common for both memory and logic to come in the PLCC package so I guess that'll be found one when I buy one.
Good luck finding one Kyuusaku! They don't seem to be easy to get, but it would be cool if you did ASSEMbler is right - modchip problems tends to be only on PS2, and whoever said it was also right that the install quality is a factor. Also, if a wire comes off and shorts, that can cause problems. I've had a chipped PSX (for imports, of course ) for 6 or 7 years - still runs fine. My PS1 ran fine when I sold it after a couple of years. My v4 PS2 with Neo2 ran fine after a year when I sold it, and I believe the v3 I chipped when the machine was released in the UK still works today. And those are the dodgy ones that stop the motor to eject the drawer, necessitating a swap still! PS1 chips etc. just boot the game straight off, they don't need to stop anything spinning. Same with saturn, it removes the need to swap. I have only done one saturn, and it worked fine for a year or so. It WAS about 5 years old at the time. After that, it was put away for a year, and when got out it did the stuttery thing on bootup. Still, I'm not convinced that this had anything to do with the chip, as I've heard of it on unmodded machines too. I'm not quite sure how seeing several chipped PS2s die is supposed to PROVE that chipping a Saturn is bad for it, Greatsaintlouis By the way, I've seen literally hundreds of unchipped PS2s that have the same problem. Oh, and I believe a PS2 will read a copied DVD (film) without being chipped. If it takes a long time to read, then I'd suggest changing your brand of disc or burning at a slower speed.
They're not SO rare that I can't get them Theres one on eBay now: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=62054&item=8170920913&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW
how would one go about copying them? Best thing I think would be to extract the code from the ROM and flash it into a PAR's firmware (or run it thru a comms-card if you're really desperate)
Technically speaking, you could make a ROM copier much as were made for SNES etc., i.e. a box which you plug the cart into and it plugs into a PC, and then you have some software PC side that copies the ROM. Yakumo, would it be possible to have a pic of all of the side with the components, much like the reverse side pic?
I don't know what you're talking about at all with the copier thing Here's how I would go about it: -Read the ROM by wiring the ROM into a DIP socket as it's definitely a JEDEC chip -Use multimeter's continuity test to quickly sort out the traces -Log PLD with Logic ana and try to derive logical truths
Sure, no problem. Just got to get internet Explorere installed again on the PC at home since I'm installing Win'98 on a partition that originally had IE on it (Been formatted now) so once that's up I'll add a picture. I'm using works PC now just incase you're wondering how I'm writting this Yakumo
