Where to find Modchips for older consoles

[finerion]

I am really interested in attempting to mod one of these extra Playstation's I have so I can play some imports but I can't seem to find any mod stores that have the chips in stock. Anyone know where I can find a mod chip for PS1 and/or PS2?

[Ziggy]

PS1:

http://www.modchip.ca/store/product.php ... 256&page=1

PS2:

http://www.modchip.ca/store/product.php ... 268&page=1

Isn't there an easier way to play imports if they're legit copies?

The PS2 chip will allow you to boot PS1 CD-R's and imports, but a lot of people fear installing it because of its many connections. The PS1 chip will allow you to boot CD-R's and imports as well.

[gtmtnbiker]

I get mine from http://eurasia.nu.
No issues.

http://www.eurasia.nu/shop/default.php? ... 55c1e78769

http://www.eurasia.nu/shop/default.php? ... 55c1e78769

[Bramanda]

If you are interested in having another person do it , Snowkitty here on the forums I think has a few on hand.

I just bought a modded PS1 from him a lil while ago and it's great. I recommend his services for sure. Also , you could always shoot him a PM and see if he'd just sell you a chip if you are more interested in taking the DIY route.

Either way , the imports are awesome on PS1 so I hope you get it done soon. Its totally worth it. Good luck man !

[Hatta]

PS1s are easy, they're just DIPs. Anyone with a little electronics experience can burn them with some easily made hardware.

PS2s are unnecessary, FMCB works great instead.

Xboxes are no problem either, softmodding works great.

We are fortunate that there's still a supply of Saturn mod chips. They're a bit more complex than PS1 chips. Eventually the supply will run out, and it won't be profitable to make another run. That will be sad. It's already pretty much impossible to find a Model 1 modchip.

Gamecubes, suprisingly, can be softmodded to run games from SD media.

So, I think that about covers all the older consoles you might want to mod to play copied discs. Cartridges are a whole other story entirely.

[Exile]

How about the Gameshark ModClip, it works like a modchip plus it gives you the ability to use codes, you just need to see if your ps1 has the parallel port to get this working. I've used this for years and it worked great, without the need to solder or open up the console.

[Ziggy]

Yes, that's what I was thinking off. I think it's only the 9000 models that do not have the port for it.

We are fortunate that there's still a supply of Saturn mod chips. They're a bit more complex than PS1 chips. Eventually the supply will run out, and it won't be profitable to make another run. That will be sad. It's already pretty much impossible to find a Model 1 modchip.

They're really not even that complex. Some one should dump or release the code for them, then we'd be able to make our own. Granted, they wouldn't look nearly as nice, but you could get the job done.

Looking at the Saturn chip that Racket sells, it's three ICs and three (I'm guessing) resistors. I'm not sure what the three ICs are, but at least one of them has code on them that would have to be dumped. The other two could just be addressers or decoders or whatever. So if you had the code to burn to a chip of some sort, you could just wire up a chip by hand on project PC board. It would look something along the lines of this:



With the bottom looking something more like this: http://pandorasbox.50webs.com/projects/ ... dotted.jpg

What I'm saying in short is, you can probably replicate the Saturn mod chip fairly easily on a project PCB. We just need the code.

[gtmtnbiker]

There's some discussion on how the Saturn modchip works with schematics at: http://www.crazynation.org/SEGA/Saturn/cd_tech.htm

There's another interesting thread where some people were discussing the possibility of hacking the BIOS. http://segaxtreme.net/community/topic/16676-saturn-bios-hacked/page__p__156252__hl__saturn%20mod%20chip__fromsearch__1&#entry156252

[SnowKitty]

If you are interested in having another person do it , Snowkitty here on the forums I think has a few on hand.

I just bought a modded PS1 from him a lil while ago and it's great. I recommend his services for sure. Also , you could always shoot him a PM and see if he'd just sell you a chip if you are more interested in taking the DIY route.

Either way , the imports are awesome on PS1 so I hope you get it done soon. Its totally worth it. Good luck man !

i do have modchips available and can offer install services. i also sell premodded systems, but i do not have any available right now.