PlayStation hardmods - PSone PM-41 ONEchip installation, and some other maintenance

[@RDJ134]

Quote: Screw that lets put a modchip in it.

[@tstahlfsu]

YES!

[@gb.recordings]

How much would you charge me to do mines I burnt the one of the pads off of the chip but it's on the board so I'm pretty sure you could probably still do it can you get back to me

[@NicksStuff]

Never been interested in Playstations but now I kinda wanna do modchips on them!

[@ragenfio]

Speaking of PSone capacitors, one of the most widespread problems is with the coupling capacitors of the Composite Video and the Luma (C550-C551) which tend to leak, I have fixed many consoles with this problem and which either did not have the video output or the video was "shaky". The idea of connecting the power and ground of the modchip directly to the PCB is brilliant! A couple less wires makes for a cleaner installation. I used that PTFE wire to install the internal hard drive in a pair of PS2 Slims 7000x series last year, I agree with you it's better than the classic "wrapping wire". 😁

[@TheRetroChannel]

Yeah, I've seen a few cases where the caps on the video output have leaked in the phat models. I did have a look and the one that was reading 3nF was on the luma output. It may be that I damaged it when removing it, but as I use an RGB cable with composite for sync I guess I'll never know

[@MotownBatman]

Dont Forget all the Shoddy Capacitors we got in the Early 2k's Hence OG Xbox and iMac Cap issues

[@TheRetroChannel]

True. Dodgy SMD caps in the 90s and dodgy through hole caps in the 2000s.

[@mk500]

Beautiful work! I like the blue wire look best. Thanks for showing the mistake and fix. Love your camera angles and editing. Makes me want to play some PlayStation.

[@caseycornett5182]

The NTSC PSones are most known for faulty caps. I have two sitting on my shelf right now that need to be recapped.

[@0xTJ]

I like the look of the first/left one of the two. The chip ends up looking more like it was an original part of the board, just with bodge wires. I will admit that scratching the solder mask does hurt for that method.

[@TheRetroChannel]

True. What it's first put down it does look like part of the board, until there's a bunch of wires coming off it. I figured it's pretty unlikely it will ever be removed, so taking off a little solder mask is fine with me

[@alPham0d3x]

Left mod looked better 😊

[@pichonPoP]

21:45 the left one looks better

[@PROSTO4Tabal]

Blue wiring looks better. I do have a few ps1 unmodded, collection of original games. I bought them years ago when prices was affordable, I like Diablo and Medal Of Honor

[@3osufdh4rfg]

It's kind of funny, nearly everyone I'm following that do recapping use the twist method and say pretty much the same thing you do.

[@TheRetroChannel]

I think it's gotten a bad rep from people being careless and just ripping the caps off, and the pads with them. I'm sure there's boards where the pads are poorly adhered and twisting may not be the best method. But so far I've never lifted a pad doing it, and I can't say the same for the other methods

[@sweetlilmre]

Twist method for the win!

[@Aisflou]

You can wire a psio in the psone, there are schematics online, altough its a mess of a wiring 😅

[@TheRetroChannel]

From what I've heard about the PSIO, I think I'd rather rely on using discs 😄

[@Aisflou]

@@TheRetroChannel not a bad choice 😂

[@ronpalmer1371]

Hey, learned a lot from your videos thanks 👍🏻 just starting out fixing a few old snes consoles I have, can you tell me what the yellow tape is called that you stick around chips when your removing /installing them please 👍🏻 many thanks

[@TheRetroChannel]

Look for kapton/polyimide tape.

[@ronpalmer1371]

@@TheRetroChannel Thanks very much for the info 👍🏻

[@ronpalmer1371]

@@TheRetroChannel Just searched and bought some, thanks again 👍🏻

[@jandjrandr]

The blue wiring is nicer I think, but I did notice the one cap that was backwards on the board. I assume you fixed that after.

[@TheRetroChannel]

Yeah, I noticed it when first comparing the two PSones side by side 😅

[@Raptor50aus]

Yes I saw the reversed cap lol

[@g4z-kb7ct]

1:30 Oops!! PIC16F629 has 18 legs. I know this because this is the same chip I've cracked many times for Sega NAOMI arcade game protection ;-) Years ago (around 1996) I used to do PS1 mod chips using a PIC12C508. This was back in the very early days when we could charge $100-$150 for a mod chip installation. After about 2000 the price dropped to less than $10 because of all the random people doing them so it wasn't worth it anymore for pro hackers and we let the amateurs have the dregs at the bottom of the barrel hehe!

[@TrimeshSZ]

No, the PIC16F629 has 8 pins. I suspect you are confusing it with the PIC16F628, which does have 18 pins and was the device used for the Naomi key chip.

[@herbertwongsanimations6266]

I wasn't paying attention for some of it. I was worrying about the C64 falling off the shelf. 😲

[@TheRetroChannel]

It's trapped between the 128 and the ST, and I got sick of putting it back properly 😄

[@chainq68k]

FKN nailed it.

[@charlesdorval394]

Blue

[@shangrilai1990]

🍪

[@TheRetroChannel]

🙊🍟

[@libcrypt98]

Are you TheDamoMonster?

[@haloslayer255]

I remember that old channel, it helped inspire me to modchip ps2 consoles.

[@gb.recordings]

How much would you charge me if I send you mine and you do it for me I'm not good at soldering at all my motherboard is PM - 41 A

[@starsundsternchen802]

Both mods are looking very nice. You did a good job!

[@brianv2871]

I'm definitely jealous of your smd soldering skills... Plus your wiring skills are awesome as well.

[@tonymcnamee2741]

Got a possibly silly question... I have a PAL PSone and a one chip to mod it. However, Iove to use the portable screen with it. I suspect that this may be a bit pointless as the Japanese and US games I have would run at 60hz? If they would the portable screen wouldn't be able to display them. Or does the chip play them at 50hz on the PAL console? I like the blue wire mod more. Thanks! 🤓

[@TheRetroChannel]

Yeah, the NTSC games will run at around 60hz (it's not quite accurate on a PAL PS1 without a DFO mod). I wonder if the portable screen handles both 50 and 60hz? It seems unlikely Sony would bother making a specific PAL version but I don't know

[@tonymcnamee2741]

@@TheRetroChannel I need to do some digging about it. Thanks.

[@Ty_TEC]

A great video, I learned something new. A question which music is this from 15:30 ?

[@ingodiekmann8321]

Just modded and recapped mine :-) Leaking just in the beginning, just in time. Your video helps a lot, thx from germany

[@richardpowell8198]

Free psx boot play backups from a psx memory card

[@madf12]

is it awg 30 or 28 wires?

[@Raptor50aus]

Dam caps. Was there room to just use through hole caps?

[@TheRetroChannel]

Maybe if they were laid sideways, but I'd rather use like for like

[@The_Tinkering_Geek]

Beautiful work. The attention to detail and routing is outstanding. I find the blue routing more appealing.

[@wimwiddershins]

Blue job looks better IMO, also prefer anchoring it to the PCB.

[@richardcooper]

Love your T-Shirt :)

[@chupathingy5862]

I'm not looking forward to recapping my systems :(