Fixing the Forgotten Playstation

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@DNKI 11 ай бұрын

Got lots to learn, but I did my best 🥹

@emilyshabang 11 ай бұрын

Way to screw things up Ken...lol

@aliceinmansonland448 11 ай бұрын

Just throwing this out there... Try a facemask to prevent moisture particulates, powderless gloves to avoid skin oils, and they make a little bracelet to ground you when you're working on electronics. PPE is a good thing to demonstrate to your viewers

@Xerora 11 ай бұрын

@@aliceinmansonland448 Microscopic moisture particles that aren't enough to cause condensation in the air won't harm anything. Japan, where this thing was unveiled is at least 100x more humid than a human breath, and none of their systems die immediately after unboxing. Same with skin oils and static discharge, none of the things you listed are enough to do any real harm to an electronic device. LinusTech and Jayztwocents have done multiple videos on this, with demonstrations, albeit excessive in some cases.

@rubenzuniga8599 11 ай бұрын

Excellent work . Not everything works out in the end with older tech repairs but glad you still made and posted the video!

@russellsprout93 11 ай бұрын

Yo get a hold of the tronix fix youtube channel! Guarantee he could fix it for ya

@Djentlman 11 ай бұрын

I have a feeling the first laser probably still worked, but the SD card being lodged in there was the issue preventing it from moving along the rail to read.

@DNKI 11 ай бұрын

I was thinking that as well, but I think it only goes as far as explaining the grinding noise you hear from the drive in Austin's video. I think the reading issue was still the laser being burnt out, since other PSX owners seemed to have the same issue.

@Xerora 11 ай бұрын

@@DNKI Felt more appropriate to respond from my non-personal (though i maybe shouldn't have also commented with it either.) To compound the grinding noise, and laser burning commonality, there's also the potential that the laser module could've been more damaged by the SD card blocking the track as well. Stressing the motor, and likely the ribbon cable as well. I also wouldn't be surprised if at some point the metal contacts on the SD card also touched something to cause a short earlier in its lifetime. I never really messed with PSX systems since i just use a modded ps3 for a media storage/server, but this was definitely a great change up of your usual videos. Look forward to seeing more! And hopefully you get the PSX back up. Would make a fun PLEX server/ISO loader. :P

@DNKI 11 ай бұрын

@@Xerora I'd love to get this back up and running in some state down the line, even if it takes a bit of time. Glad you liked the change of pace on the channel, even if the goal wasn't quite what I was aiming for 🙂

@TheAlphaWoomy 11 ай бұрын

I was thinking that too, can you see if the old laser works in the computer drive once it’s back together?

@JopeSane 11 ай бұрын

It was load bearing SD card. No wonder it broke.

@SilverStormShadow 11 ай бұрын

"It's pretty finicky IF you need to do any repairs" Honestly with the PSX, it's not if you need to do any repairs, it's when. The PSX is one of history's least reliable consoles, probably worse than the OG 360's with the Red Ring of Death.

@samtheelf7 11 ай бұрын

Ive got a psx with a dead harddrive. The hard drives are super fragile if its not the disk drive its that dying. But you can still use it with a broken hard drive. If you a have a free mcboot card you can still use the discs in it. You loose the super cool ui though

@samtheelf7 11 ай бұрын

I believe you loose the DVD side as well. It's basically a fancy ps2 slim in its current state.

@JulianSauco 11 ай бұрын

You can get custom made ribbon cables, don’t leave the game! It’s still fixable.

@DNKI 11 ай бұрын

This is the first thing I wanna tackle

@_maximf 11 ай бұрын

@@DNKI You can do it!

@MattTheTekie 11 ай бұрын

@@DNKI please make a video!

@IAmExisting2.0 11 ай бұрын

Then you can make a video starting it back up and getting the disk drive to work☺

@RealEpikCartfrenYT 11 ай бұрын

or you can just cut off the mangled bit and scrape off a bit of the paint.

@niino4329 11 ай бұрын

I'm that niino guy from the forum screenshot. The mac drive you can find a compatible PSX (x500 and x700 models) laser in is from the PowerMac G5, not the PowerBook G4. (Also, several drives have been used in the PowerMac G5, but only the DW-U21A has that laser). SF-DB11 won't even fit vertically inside the entire PowerBook G4 chassis 😀 A few things: The ribbon cables in the PSX are extremely brittle due to age. They are generic parts (defined by length, pin spacing, number of pins and direction) and thus are possible to be replaced. Hopefully you didn't kill anything when trying to forcefully reinsert the broken cable. You didn't take the plastic part that slides on the worm gear from the original laser and mounted it on the replacement laser, so even if everything else would be working, the drive wouldn't work. There are several versions of the SF-DB11 laser pickup, and only some of them will work (the wrong variant looks almost identical but will cause a short and melt a fuse or even the laser ribbon cable; just google it)

@CrashFan03 11 ай бұрын

unrelated to the topic but awesome nano pfp

@ZiadHamwi99 11 ай бұрын

Exactly, from my experience in repairing PS2s, blown fuses are a common thing especially when a ribbon cable is plugged in crookedly. I'd think the PSX would have a similar fault protection mechanism like the large number of fuses that were available on the PS2.

@niino4329 11 ай бұрын

@@ZiadHamwi99 It does, and the fuses (e.g. PS3) as well as even the excact part number (listed around the center of the board in some tables) are marked on the board.

@ZiadHamwi99 11 ай бұрын

@@niino4329 Yep, they're clearly marked on the board.

@DNKI 11 ай бұрын

Thank you for the insight and feedback on the laser replacement!! Noting this for when I go back in for a second look. Especially regarding the ribbon cables, I wanna get the theoretical problem ones swapped to at least get the console on. Then tackle disk drive next. Glad you found your way to the video (even if it might have been cringy to sit through as someone with more experience on the matter)

@aliceinmansonland448 11 ай бұрын

I've refurbished a PSP and a Vita, my heart weeps for you tackling that daunting task. I still get ill when I hear the words "Ribbon Cables."

@DNKI 11 ай бұрын

I wish getting extra components for the PSX were as easy as the PSP tho 😭

@jessekauffman3336 11 ай бұрын

Thank you for this video I had no clue this system existed.

@BoringSalmon 11 ай бұрын

They actually have a mod now that supposedly can emulate the HDD in the PSX. Would love to see a video of someone trying that.

@KELLZdaLOUTheProducer 11 ай бұрын

Yes u can used free MCboot on it. I have a memory card with it on there and tried it on the PSX and it worked I just didn’t know how to get the roms on it.

@theretrocaveman 11 ай бұрын

Do they? can you send a link to it?

@DarkSoul-ds2 13 күн бұрын

@@BoringSalmon We are waiting for source

@Zyro1331 11 ай бұрын

Epic to see a Video on the PSX! So many have forgotten about it when it was the origin of the beloved XMB UI later adopted by the PlayStation 3. I hope this video encourages all those who owned this system to try reviving it.

@Jack32X 11 ай бұрын

Got one of these! My XMB is in English which makes working through the features a LOT easier

@DrKoneko 11 ай бұрын

Please don't give up ken! You can get custom ribbon cables and I'm not a big PSX guy but normally with well loved consoles people have already documented what pieces you need to get it working again. I wanna see this thing work though!

@paolochicco7200 11 ай бұрын

Send the device to “this does not compute”! He fixes everything 😊

@rockslash5614 11 ай бұрын

The classic thing that happens whenever you think you can fix something that is out of your league. The best thing is to take it to a specialist but at least you were honest and showed the video of your attempt. That's really humble and makes you likeable. Good work!

@laughyourashevilleoff2546 11 ай бұрын

I had two different regular PS2s (the OG model, not the slim) fail on me due to a faulty disc reader. They were really struggling with QA at this point. I swore off Sony for a while because I also had a 50 disc changer that crapped out around that same time. Also, remember all the faulty memory cards around the PS2 launch? It was nearly impossible to get one in the US the first 6 months-1 year after launch. Pepperidge Farm remembers.

@AhYung879 11 ай бұрын

Summon Tronicsfix 😂

@TamaraGirodie 9 ай бұрын

As an amateur modder, my heart empathizes with you! I have broken many projects when just starting, but with each one I gained more knowledge and skill, and am breaking way less of them now! You got this Ken, keep fixing and modding!

@BrendenPragasam 11 ай бұрын

Honestly try seeing if you can get replacement ribbon cables for it. There are companies that will make boutique ribbon cables as well, it's not the end of the world. All a ribbon cable contains are tiny traces to connect leads together 🤷

@devinjohnson8297 11 ай бұрын

You got this! Go for that cable! I wanted to see more content on this unit when Austin first showed it and was excited that you got your hands on it! Let this be a learning lesson. You should do a FULL come around and maybe mod it? This unit is beautiful and could be something amazing if you allow it.

@coolduder1001 Күн бұрын

I mean $800 in 2003 for a PS2 that can play DVDs, with a 160gb HDD for recording TV, and let you burn that to DVD, it's not that bad a price. I guess the cheaper version of this setup would be a VCR and a PS2. A PS2 was $200 in the US, and a VCR was still around $100.

@verylongchannelhandle 9 ай бұрын

I honestly FEEL you on that, I wrecked my 3DS's top screen cable and almost broke down in tears :c But hey, don't let this destroy you! You learn! Get back up and try again ^^

@superduder 11 ай бұрын

The fella that owned that PSX had small kids. That SD Card is straight up small kids learning wonder.

@JFinalXDark 11 ай бұрын

Trust me, you did ur best! Tbh, I got problems with my Blu-ray Drive in my PS3, and basically killed the motor, to make it work again I was changing the whole drive for another dead ps3 but it turns out, when I was trying to do a maintence for a Sony Vaio long time ago, it happen that I broke the flex that connect the keyboard to the main board (which basically kills the trackpad, also the power button it self) so, yeah, Sony most of the time made things harder to repair and it can be worse sometimes, don't blame your self on it!

@B-Side 11 ай бұрын

The exact same thing happened to me, from the disc drive not working well to the console dying from a ribbon cable getting snagged. The difference is I did all that in the same DAY it arrived from Japan, and I spent $200 on it 😞

@ThingsToKnowledge 11 ай бұрын

Sooo…. This whole video was a waste of time

@seantdstewart 11 ай бұрын

I have a couple of PSXs that I am working on bringing back to life. They have various issues, broken ribbon cable (my fault), malfunctioning HDD (Dead on Arrival), and malfunctioning disk drive. I hope to repair them enough to modify the software/hardware and at the very least get the PS2 working. Definitely one of the most complex systems I have ever worked on.

@IceKoldKilla 10 ай бұрын

I do wonder if the PSX has CFW for it. Could enable the ability to swap out the HDD for any HDD, maybe even a SSD. Maybe upgrade or swap out other components? I have a rabbit hole to down tomorrow.

@8bitnation419 Ай бұрын

Replace the FPC cables. Get a FreeMcboot memory card and you can bypass the failing HDD and the DVDR laser.

@KELLZdaLOUTheProducer 11 ай бұрын

I have a PSX and have the same issue only that it will play burn cd’s 💿 and DVD’s but won’t play the standard ones or the PS1 or PS2 games. I wanted to fix it also but looked at it and thought it’s not worth it. So I still used it to play movies. I mite even try to burn a tv show or two. Haven’t used that feature yet.

@TimothyTimPSP 7 ай бұрын

What? That's the ending? This is the first of your videos I've seen. Very disappointing. I wish you would have told me from the start. Never again.

@kaii1527 11 ай бұрын

Dudeee finally I love your doing videos like this we need more!!

@B1UEYT 11 ай бұрын

Sup!

@est-eban4356 6 ай бұрын

MY PSX still has a damaged check reader, I simply use a memory card with FreeMCboot for PSX DESR and it skips the reader and my ORIGINAL games work without a problem.

@Zeroknight34 5 ай бұрын

A little fun fact that very laser is what actually made the PS2 region locked. When it reads the disk it, it checking where the game is from. If it reads that the disk is from lets say the US then it will reject it saying the this disk doesn't belong to this specific PS2. So that's why people bought that special region locked disk. By reading that disk it tricks the PS2 into thinking its a Japanese version. It would allow people to play Japanese games. Now that is no longer the case.

@AnthonyChopra 2 ай бұрын

in theory when i was 9 we was the generation of 9yr olds that did in fact have the PS3 New style for the menu.. thoo us in UK and US prob hardly saw it but the menu design was a thing

@Delta132 3 ай бұрын

I appreciate you documenting this and the mistakes you made, and although your PSX may not be working, it is a good learning experience for other watching possibly doing similar repairs, thanks

@syarifahhabsyi1959 Ай бұрын

Bro my psx mod matrix . I want back to original , disc trsy cannot open and hatd drive not working . Howto fix it

@FederalBureau_OfInvestigations 10 ай бұрын

What an incredible video. I just sat here for 17 minutes and 9 seconds for no reason at all. I watched a video called "fixing the forgotten PlayStation" and yet, by the end of it, not only was it not fixed, it was worse off than when the video started lmao. Being a video content creator, there are going to be plenty of videos that you make and realize "hmmm maybe this shouldn't get a QC pass" then you have guys like this that have zero QC and just upload everything in the camera roll smh.

@GameGhoul13 11 ай бұрын

It's still fixable. If nothing else, there are skilled people out there that know everything about these things and can do repairs we arent able to do ourselves. Why I'll eventually be sending off my YLOD PS2 compatible PS3 to people thet can revive it because it is beyond my current ability.

@Deltax5 11 ай бұрын

Sad. I try not to mess with anything to complicated. Looks to mechanical. Happy with the old PS one. No tray. Try another ribbon cable. Maybe try thin wire and directly solder wires wire where the connection is. IDK may as well put the chip in. Anyone who fixes these electronics and saves them I wish them the best. I don't see Sony making a new PlayStation other then the new PlayStation's. IDK. Donate to another hardware guy. Someone in linus team can probably fix it.

@zincmann 6 ай бұрын

I'm not sure if you still have The PSX and if it's still not working but I also imported one I swapped out the laser and it does work perfectly now. I am wondering if you did not replace the track on the laser that you imported into the system because you need to replace the track with the original track from the laser that was in there before at least with the model. I did it would not catch on the gear if you didn't do that. Happy to have a look if you want me to

@Lola__Cola 10 ай бұрын

Actually people calling the PS1 the PSX is because of Playstation Experience Magazine, they referred it to the PSX and it stuck. Also these consoles suck they break all the time, the controller ports in the back is just shitty design

@mr0czusek 10 ай бұрын

fun fact: here Poland always call them consoles Ps1 and PsOne as " PSX " because we don't know what ps is. it made me confused they keeps talking psx alot. i thought they refering japanese one like you. they went " no. that just grey normal psx " makes me grumpy at polish peoples keeps calling them name :/

@Reddotreticle 9 ай бұрын

Hey you gave it a go and gained valuable experience doing it. You will learn for next time from this experience. We’re only human and we all make mistakes. Could be worse.

@RaffaelloLorenzusSayde 8 ай бұрын

It could be a capacitor issue, not a disk laser lens reader issue. I had several issues with my Playstation 1 console; however, when I replaced the capacitors, everything worked again.

@Reddotreticle 9 ай бұрын

Wow seeing that dvd rw brought back my childhood memories of renting ps1 games at the video shop and writing them to blank cd’s. Man they were the days 😂 on my plextor cd re writer.

@jamesburke2759 11 ай бұрын

256GB? they didnt have those drives back then. it was 250GB Was that DVD drive completely different when you showed it out the box?

@doesthissmelllikechloroform 11 ай бұрын

I know that pain to well. Just broke my perfectly functional Xbox one X. Why did I touch it!!??!! Thermal pasted it, power supply fails. Wawawa...

@GameShark1080 10 ай бұрын

I hope the renovations went well

@Hawk_90sGamer 11 ай бұрын

I born in asia I get PSX for myself in 2003. but after that I got a ps2 slim and never use it again. 15 years later moved to germany and left behind my console in family house . I wanet in my room so bad

@darkungels1274 8 ай бұрын

Just like what happened to me when I tried to fix my PS3’s bd it wasn’t reading discs after fix it now read discs but doesn’t take them because I broke the cable for the motor

@mrwang420 22 күн бұрын

I can't believe they put a 3 fin "heatsink" on the chip. Does it even dissipate heat? Lol.

@DSBOY33 10 ай бұрын

Always do your research my friend watch videos on how to take it apart before you do it yourself it takes sometimes it takes trial and error when it comes to taking apart consoles it happens I know your pain especially when I replace the shell of my DS and it doesn't power on

@Rapture-Gaming 10 ай бұрын

At the start you said for all intense in purposes and not for all intensive purposes, its been distracting me this whole video 😅

@DNKI 10 ай бұрын

it's actually "all intents and purposes", which I said 😂

@AleytiaDarogue 11 ай бұрын

That was such an awesome find. I wouldn't give up just yet. You got this!!!

@hi-friaudioman 10 ай бұрын

Hey bro, there's this thing called KZbin, there are a lot of good tutorials on there. 😂

@kyleallen239 10 ай бұрын

Ok i have a new mission in life! Im gonna do my best to find parts for that psx and send them your way. No guarantees or anything but i really wanna see that thing up and running!

@dunny 9 ай бұрын

Damn now I don't feel so bad about snapping my PS2's fan cable yesterday, luckily that's only a £5 replacement.

@amarramoul4027 11 ай бұрын

Shit lol ... U could say that on the beginning of the video...i was thinking finally I can watch a pax that works lol 😅😅

@mikyjacobo6826 Ай бұрын

Im just a little upset they didnt reassemble the drive after removing the sd card to check it

@Reddotreticle 9 ай бұрын

My daughter once inserted a penny into my Mercedes Benz cd player. It stopped in there until it was sold. Guarantee a child put that sd card in there 😂

@5tereo1 11 ай бұрын

for context, the playstation 2 had a whole 32mb of internal memory... as for the memory cards, 8mb

@marcomixgordon5285 10 ай бұрын

“Fixing the forgotten PlayStation” And then you broke it. Is that supposed to be funny?

@JamiePineappleWyatt 11 ай бұрын

Don't cry, just get a new ribbon cable, they exist! And if they dont, get one made by pcbway ;)

@flawlessfatality8105 8 ай бұрын

Before even watching the video if you know anything about these things you know this guy has no clue what he is getting himself into

@smitus_hell7564 8 ай бұрын

wouldnt retesting it after you found the sd card, might have been jamming the laser from moving

@DeadHawk23 8 ай бұрын

The moment that SD card came out he should've just put it back together to check if it worked.

@1-eye-willy 11 ай бұрын

i have a sony bluray player with the cross media bar, its the only thing keeping me from throwing it in the garbage

@vgffff68 9 ай бұрын

For the people who don't know yes you can replace the hard drives it'll just lock the drive you clone to

@TheWonderKitter 10 ай бұрын

always do research before you ever work on anything new, and this is a 2 day job at minimum.

@brandyberry14 11 ай бұрын

Ez fix hopefully u can get a replacement ribbon cable. Or send it to someone who can fix it

@4RealHero 11 ай бұрын

What a waste of rare hardware. All in the name of views and likes. Lesson to be learned: let an expert handle it.

@ChaseFire1934 8 ай бұрын

21 years ago, the Playstation 10 was invented.

@FrancoisRoy 11 ай бұрын

Well obviously this calls for a rematch; you guys need a functional PSX!

@ChaseMC215 11 ай бұрын

There was a rumor going around saying that the PS2 hardware was added at the last minute, with the rumor being backed by the fact that Sony Corporation marketed the PSX, rather than Sony Computer Entertainment.

@DNKI 11 ай бұрын

There's a lot of segmentation with Sony even today, so this doesn't surprise me.

@Herowebcomics 11 ай бұрын

Wow! One of the best ways to get people to not buy your product is to make it hard to repair!😡

@BaawBee 9 ай бұрын

This is extremely impressive for 2003 indeed!!!! Holy sh*t!!

@ThePoolboy789 Ай бұрын

maybe the sd card jammed in the drive was the problem the whole time

@ScottG420 11 ай бұрын

maybe that sd card was causing issues with the cd drive not working correctly?

@OldSchoolGamerandCollector 8 ай бұрын

Hi! Show me how you replacement dvd lens. Please!

@radiosnmore 11 ай бұрын

Yo bro. Those get realy hot in operation internaly. Be aware of that ....most of those die due to heat

@stephenwilson8625 9 ай бұрын

I ended up putting a few together to get a working one...still have 2 parts units

@briankeenan1456 7 ай бұрын

You should get a fellow youtuber Tronics Fix to see what he can do with it.

@TooFurious4 11 ай бұрын

Could the PSX internal hard drive be used for Final Fantasy 11?

@SylvesterAshcroft88 8 ай бұрын

This reminds me a lot of the Panasonic Q, aka the Panasonic Gamecube.

@cajungoat 2 ай бұрын

Inside of me are two lasers, one is a dvd reader and the other is a wolf.

@HiGECHANNEL 11 ай бұрын

Heartbreaking to see the PSX not power on but I believe in you!!

@DNKI 11 ай бұрын

Ash!! Gonna try to get it working again 💪

@bornwisedistruction 9 ай бұрын

You broke a ribbon cable pretty sure google can help ya with that!

@RealEpikCartfrenYT 11 ай бұрын

15:30 I personally know how you can fix a flat flex cable. Just cut off the mangled bit and then use scissors to scrape off about a centimeter of the paint on the side that had the contacts exposed. The cable will be a bit shorter but still it should hopefully work, and it's FREE, no need for some expensive custom cables or anything.