SCPH-10000, GH-001 chip?

Bought a PS2 recently and it has this installed. I don't have a stepdown to hand but I was wondering what this was likely to be. Only an 8 leg PIC.

 

Could you provide a closer pic on the soldier area of the board and also where the wires are going to?

that should help abit =)

 

Only region mod or full feature mod chip for backup disc?

 

I can't help with a better picture right now, I only have a Vita for camera after all.

It's just a standard 8 pin PIC like a PS1 chip would use. Similar points as a NEO-2 or something.

 

I think that it's too simple to be a PlayStation 2 modchip. I heard that it's possible to use a PlayStation modchip on a PlayStation 2 console, although that would only allow PlayStation discs to be booted. Perhaps this is one such case?

I don't think that any early PlayStation 2 modchips supported the GH-001. Newer ones should also connect to the expansion connector on the mainboard. I believe that it's because they have to do something about the logo that rom0S2LOGO finds on the disc, since newer boot ROMs will fall back to the browser if a valid "PlayStation 2" logo cannot be found.

 

Yeah, that's what I thought kinda.

I'll probably remove it when I buy a stepdown.