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Wasn't there a console ban in China when the SCPH-50009 was released ?
I wonder what games they even got on there considering the strict government control for media and video games.

 

Didn't one of the 70000 series units have both the EE and GS seperately instead of the EE+GS combo solution? That might be one of the more rarer PS2's. My late 2004 70012 has the combined solution though they might have the seperate EE+GS.

 

The packaging is nothing to write home about, it is just a brown box with some text, logos, and product number on it. Like Pioneer hardware boxes.

 

That's a little surprising. Thanks for the information. I've been hunting for a boxed Aiwa Mega for several years now and I've seen quite a few of the boxes for the other Aiwa CSD model players. I always imagined the CSD- GM1 box would look like the other CSD boxes. At least I know what to look for now. Thanks again.

 

No mention of the square button Famicom?

 

What the hell is that?

 

It's the launch model Famicom that was recalled because the square buttons were poorly made. They are quite rare because the people that kept them disobeyed Nintendo and refused the recall of duty lol.

 

I think that they could play those US games that were placed in the NTSC-U/C region.

If I am not wrong, the ban was worked around by selling gaming consoles as something else. Not really sure though, and neither do I remember where I heard that from.

Was there one? The SCE service manual for the SCPH-70000 series only shows the EE+GS chip.

 

Honestly can't believe that slipped my mind... It looked pretty sexy with square buttons. What's odd is that the buttons could of been replaced to plastic, instead they remodeled the whole controller?

 

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Cooling and 56k modem http://psx-scene.com/forums/attachm...18272-map-various-ps2-fuse-locations-fuse.jpg

Is there a gallery with all PS2 motherboard revisions and assembly?

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Another interesting find. It's 7500(1) I think, but looks like there are 2 chips. Also cooling can be seen for such setup.
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No problem, if you'd like an actual visual there is an image on SegaRetro: http://segaretro.org/File:Segararee.jpg

The last boxed one for sale I saw in Japan was in 2013 and ended at 125,000 yen.

 

Not sure what happened in Japan but I read somewhere(can't remember where, probably an old mirrored site) that Sony to avoid taxes and other things advertised the PS2 not as another gaming console, but like a computer. They exploited the fact that the PS2 could run Linux therefore it can handle an operating system despite the fact that it played games. If my memory is correct this happened for a time in UK and USA too. With the slim ones and the impossibility of running Linux(official way) the PS2 was then regarded as a gaming console. Maybe the same thing happend in China/Japan too, although I do not know if this is possible. Another user back then said that the PS2 was also adverstised as a programming console/dev(thanks to PS2 Linux) , all this to avoid taxes or whatever legal things they have (the main country where this was applied was UK).
Cheers.

 

That's different from the case of console sales in China. There's an actual law that bans gaming consoles.
There's no official Linux kit for the Chinese console. It may be able to run the US version, but I don't think that it was ever sold there.
Not to mention that they didn't get an official network adaptor release either.

I once read about a rumor that SONY was selling their consoles in the US and UK as computers in order to avoid certain taxes, but it was for the PlayStation 3. Did they really use the same trick with the PlayStation 2?

@Riki, thanks.

 

Exactly. This law is the reason the iQue exists. Theres a law that bans the sale of video game consoles, but not plug and play devices. So, not being able to sell the actual N64 in China, they turned it into a plug and play device and the iQue was born

 

Is the first japanese Sega Saturn model release (HST-0001/HST-3200 grey unit w/ 1.00 BIOS) rare?

 

I'm not sure about that. I see lots of Japanese model 1s on eBay all the time. I thought about getting one myself but it is too expensive for me right now. Hopefully someone with the right knowledge can shed light on this.

 

I don't think they're that rare, but uncommon compared to all the other units released. I've got one I randomly got in a lot of 10 Saturns and it has a DIP bios and all that jazz too.

 

A few that know of, excluding obvious "rare in my backyard" and custom built or dev items:
VA0 and VA2 Dreamcasts (NTSC U)
Small board Sega Genesis 2s
PU-7 and PU-16 Playstations (NTSC J)
Sega Teradrive
Sega CDX
JVC Xeye
PC Engine LT
Aiwa Mega CD
Pioneer Laseractive
Amstrad Mega PC
PC-FX CDI and 3DO PC Cards
Small Board PSones
PSX
Panasonic Q
non TMSS Sega Genesis
non TMSS Game Gear
V3 and 10 PS2s
RGB N64

Yabasic
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yabasic

 

Wasn't the console ban in China merely symbolic?
I don't recall any consoles officially released there before the ban, or serious work-in-progress stopped as a direct result of it.

 

I wonder how many Opus Xbox 360's were made. They seem quite uncommon.