Weird modchip?
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Hey guys, i have had my PlayStation one for a long time. But the discs wouldn't read to a took it apart to try to fix it, while looking i saw this. I know it's a sort of mod chip, probably, but is there any way to find out what it does?
Burn a copy of a game to cd and play it.
>but the discs wouldn't read
Try turning the system upside down.
>>53724674
I don't know what the hell i did but there's no video output anymore. Just a black screen.
>>53724674
So it plays psx games on cd?
>>53724720
The only reason I can think of to mod a PS1 is to play burned games (okay, or imports.) The chip circumvents the hardware check that tests the disc for some official copy-protection/region whatzit. (Caveat: I'm not a pro modder, I was lucky enough to have a Goldfinger back in the day. Take with a grain of salt.)
>>53724694
>dun goofed.webm
Does it still play the audio from the PSX splash screen?
>>53724635
>no insulation on the pins
>chip floating loose on board
>>53724891
Thank you for explaining and nope, nothing shows up
Full console
This is what i messed up
>>53725995
If I'm seeing what I think I'm seeing, that seems... not great.
Bend the pin back ? See what happens
>>53726245
Great.... Would i have to replace the entire logic chip
>>53726273
He did more than that, notice the traces he fucked up somehow? Unless he jumpers across that, its done.
>>53726288
Oh fuck, you're right. Good job OP.
>>53726288
Tracers?
>>53725995
Jesus fucking Christ anon. What have you done?
>>53726329 i don't know :u
>>53726279
If that truly killed it, then I would think it would be easier at this point to just move the mod chip to one of the other 102 million PS1 systems they made than to desolder that chip AND another the one you mean to replace it with, then solder the replacement back in.
But let's not jump the gun. I can't tell exactly what happened in the image but it looks like one of the pins came out of the chip. Am I right?
>>53726320
Traces. The circuitry in the board. The scratch may be shallow enough to not have damaged them, just bend the pins on the chip back so they aren't touching any more and pray.
>>53726279
That is the GPU. Apart from the bent pins, you fucked up the traces I mentioned here >>53726288
That ugly bright gouge in the circuit board might have cut across them. The traces are electrical connections between the IC's on the board. If you fucked those too, you'll either need to repair them or get a new board.
>>53726359
>>53726356
Use a multimeter and check continuity across those traces.
>>53726454
I'd have to buy one
How the fuck did this go from me trying to fix the optical drive to replacing the entire sustem. I'm extremely stupid
>>53726471
... No multimeter, but you still crack open consumer electronics and start clawhammering your way across the circuitry?
There's a fine line between brave and stupid.
>>53726489
You weren't careful. Live and learn.
>>53726471
shove the entire pcb in your rectum for about 40 minutes, the warmth will repair the traces.
>>53726288
From what I can tell those traces look more exposed than broken. I just went through the same thing with my ps3 . no power was going to the front USB because I put the wrong screw in the wrong hole and destroyed some traces. But turns put two were just exposed and only 1 was really broken. Were those traces scratched before or after you opened the console OP?
Bumping cause this is the only good thread.
>>53726519
Probably scratched before. I havent opened the console until today to fix the optical drive. Then curiosity. Now I'm here, the PlayStation didn't seem to have much care because some connectors look pretty weird and half the screws on the console are missing
>>53726519
And here was my half assed fix. It was a bitch to get on and barely stuck. Not I e I only jumped the first trace closest to the solder points. Was the only one that was broken
>>53726544
> half the screws on the console are missing
Probably from whoever added the modchip. Sounds like you were lucky it worked in the first place.
God i just want to play my demo disk that i have no clue where it came from
>>53726574
Well, Toys R Us would be a first guess.
>>53726569
True care
>>53726544
Is the mod chip maybe shorting the board? That thing literally looks like its touching everything in its vicinity. Trying suspending the chip on some small cardboard(something with no metal stickers on it) and running the console. And in one of those previous pictures are one of the legs of the GPU? Touching another pin? I'm not to familiar with the insides of the ps1.
>>53725995
The pins being bent there doesn't look like it would bother anything, other than the 3rd one from the right if it's making contact with the one next to it, or if one of them is snapped.
Also I cant tell if that shit that's on the board is glue/whatever crap they put on or if that's physical damage you may have caused. If it's the latter then it looks pretty fucked and good luck fixing that
>>53726574
Maybe you should look into ePSXe as an alternative. Hardware doesn't seem to be your thing.
The reason i want to repair this ps1 is because i don't want to spawn money on a old console and because my friend sold me a copy of lsd dream emulator as he won it in an action last month
What's this weird shiny stuff btw,
>>53726716
you can try soldering some wires in instead of the 4/5 damaged pins at this point
also can you answer some of the other questions posted?
>>53726716
Nice lol looks like you solved your pin problem. So what's next steps? Is the console even booting at this point? Better question, are you able to turn the console on in this state? If so try it out and if the only problem is disc not reading I'm sure there are guides out there on how to open, troubleshoot, and fix the optical drive. If not you might have to either scrap one from another console or buy one but since you don't want to really spend money emulator my be your last resort.
>>53726796
It does boot up, i guess. If you count a green light as booting up. And i might just buy a used psx and put the mod chip in
>>53726786
... Are you fucking with us?
>>53726862
No it's like a liquid or something on the bottom
>>53726849
Is the console even outputting to screen. Or is the console just lighting up?
>>53726788lI'll try that sometime, and I've been trying to answer questions but chrome on my phone keeps messing up
>>53726903
No audio or video, sometimes it says no signal but most of the time it doesn't say no signal and just shows a black screen
Well /g/ it's dead. I managed to go from a question about mod chips to replacing the entire console. Ill probably just buy a logic board and solder the mod chip to it, or just buy a modded psx. Thank you guys for waiting patiently through my stupidity.
"For parts" Playstation 1 systems start at $13 on ebay.
>>53727098
you probably just had to clean the disc/laser, or at most adjusted the lasers' POT
but no, you had to mindlessly tear it all apart and break everything in the way
>>53727098
RIP in pepperonies sweet Pepperoni Station 1. Good luck on your future endeavour's. Getting a ps1 isn't too hard these days so you should be good.
>>53727156
I know, but i got curious when i saw wires hanging out, i didn't see that it was a mod chip until i took it apart more
One good thing came out of this. I now know why half the damn games i have are blank discs that barely work
>>53727156
This. So many times I would have to do this with my PlayStation 2. Literally never had mechanical problems with the optical disc. Just a design flaw with how the thing was encased. Dust would get in from everywhere.
>>53727239
are you retarded?
>photoshop
wat
>>53727274
One, probably.
And i have no idea
>>53727294
>half my games are mysteriously copies
>don't even know how, the guy in the alley seemed legit
>oh, my console has a modchip? i never knew! that does explain how my copies worked, though
>>53727239
... You've been playing burned cds on this thing for HOW long and you just now realized you have a modchip..?
>>53727335
I never really cared about the shady copies, or the modchip. All i thought was that if it played games then it's fine with me.
>>53727364 for too long
>>53727366
but anon, you said you pulled it apart because you were curious about some wires, right? couldn't you have assumed it was the modchip since you had already been playing copies on it? you started the thread calling it a modchip, so it's obvious you've heard of them and know what they do
>>53727294
At first this thread seemed like a tragedy where a series of small, simple errors kept compounding, but now I kind of want you to start new threads every night because your capacity for thoughtless destruction is simply enthralling.
>>53727385
I originally opened the console because of the optical drive, then i saw the mod chip and wanted to see what it did. When i first got the console i didn't even know the discs were copies because i just didn't care to look up why my PlayStation games had only words written in marker on it. I only recently learned about mod chips
>>53727417
I might.
>>53727445
>i didn't even know the discs were copies because i just didn't care to look up why my PlayStation games had only words written in marker on it.
dude c'mon, you seriously think official games ever came on plain white cd-r's with the game hastily scribbled on them?
>>53727475
I knew they weren't legit but i was young and didn't care
>>53727239
Lol.
Anyways just do a bypass with some wire on all the traces you destroyed. Then it will work.
>>53727510
Sounds good
The optics is supposed to be like this right
>>53727514
By the way you have to put flux on the areas you're soldering, otherwise the solder won't bind.
Thought I'd mention that since you seem to be terminally retarded and I'm pretty certain I saw a shitty solderingjob earlier in the thread caused by bad binding.
>>53727530
I haven't soldered anything to this console.
>>53727542
Do you even have an iron?
What's this space for, it can't be for a modchip because i doubt sony wanted a modchip put in in the first place
>>53727583
Yea but would putting it in a microwave be better
>>53727600
Some of that looks hella rusty. Have you been storing that in a shack on the pier?
It might not work even if you fixed the broken traces because of all the oxidation.
>>53727632
It may have been like that the entire time i had it as i never opened it till now
Okay, you're definitely fucking with us.
Well played.
>>53727683
How am i fucking with you
>>53727683
Just a normal console player. Nothing to see here.
Modchip looks like a Multimode 3, installed by some fuckwit who can't solder or keep his console clean.
