Hello everyone! Recently I bought three Playstation Ones for 5 dollars. Two of them has PU-22 boards and one of them has PU-20 board. One of the PU-22's is working fine, turns on, and plays audio CD, it does not have a modchip installed. The other two are not working but have modchips. They have chips with six wires, which should mean they are 16C54 or 16C84 based. Do you think it would be a good idea to try transplanting one of these to the working machine? I'm not really a soldering master but I can ask some guys to help me doing this. Or should I try ordering PIC programmer from ebay and program a stealth chip myself. Any advice is welcome I would like to play some oldschool backups. I know I could go with a retro Pi and a controller for 25 bucks but the feeling is different Thanks in advance! (first post)
I would say go for it if you could verify the mod chips were working, but since the other 2 units don't work it's kinda hard to say. Since you're not comfortable at soldering I would just get a new chip to avoid wasting time since you're gonna go out of your way and have someone help you out. I would never recommend a pi over the real thing.
Lol I messed my post up one of them is 5 wire chip and the other one is like 4 direct wires and one separate. First of all I guess I should get a thinner solder my current one looks way too thick.
I guess maybe going with a fresh chip and following this guide would be the best thing to do as the guy is modding the same board I have PU-22.
That's what I would do. It would suck to remove the chips from the other consoles and solder them in just to find they're not working properly.
Yeah this idea is bugging me also. Anyway gonna see if removing the chips might help the faulty consoles working.
Only reason I would replace them is to "upgrade" them to newer versions (MM3 or Mayumi v4) which work with anti-mod games. Those older ones probably don't support stealth. Reusing them is absolutely fine (assuming it still works).
