PS2 Network Adaptor (marked AS "for debbuging Station")

I would like to know whats special with this network adaptor?or is it just the normal one with an extra sticker??

 

Guess it's a normal one with an extra sticker. Usually DTL ones are PCMCIA early series TEST/TOOL adaptors only.

 

The corious one is the sticker..debbuging....isnt it a misspelling?i just know debugging

 

Sticker is smaller, seems to be a low serial number as well, also the top screw is to the left and not centered. And no IC ### #### on the label that I can see. All this is guessing as I've never seen this before and was curious as to why a network adaptor would have an IDE 40-pin connector and power on it.

Guess these are the differences between the labels of SCPH-10281 and SCPH-10350

 

Edit: Better explanation posted.

 

The HDD connectors are standard - all the PS2 network adapters have them. Note that if you want the system to detect the drive (as opposed to it only being usable for homebrew) then you have to use a special Sony disc drive that had firmware support for MagicGate. The SCPH-10350 is the Japanese version of the network adapter, the SCPH-10281 is the north American version. The main difference is that the 10281 has both a RJ45 type Ethernet connector and a modem, while the 10350 is Ethernet only. The SCPH-10350 was also the network adapter supplied with the PS2 Linux kit.

 

If its a adaptors from the Linux kit,why is it marked with for debbuging units?or Does a Linux kit exist for debug units?i just know the beta Software and the 1.0 Linux discs

 

It does not have to be from the PS2Linux kit. It is just a retail network adaptor model, although the sticker is different.

Where did you get this from?

 

It probably didn't come with a Linux kit - it's just that it's the same model that did, and that was the only way that SCPH-10350 was available at retail in the US.

My guess (and it is only a guess) is that it was supplied for use with an NTSC:J or PAL debugging station, because if you are going to test the network functions on a game then you want to use the same hardware the customers will be - and for the NTSC:J and PAL territories that was the SCPH-10350, and not the SCPH-10281 that was available in the US.

But, judging from the label, the only thing that's 'debug' about it is the sticker - the actual hardware is just a SCPH-10350, which is identical to the NTSC:J and PAL retail version.

 

EBAY!

 

Yep,found it in eBay,just needed a network adaptors to run some ps2 public betas

 

If there's a difference in functionality (e.g. it has support for flash storage, which ROM v1.80 and later have support for but the device doesn't seem to have actually existed), then PS2Ident would be able to indicate that.
Otherwise, it's likely just a retail network adaptor that was branded differently.

The date code isn't particularly early, neither does it seem like a development model (the factory code is already printed there, which development hardware seem to always lack).