I built a MODERN PlayStation 2... 

Instead of replacing the fan with a 12v fan, why not just add a diode in line on the voltage side to the fan? This will add a 1v drop and will protect the system against any backfeeding.

If you can't afford a microscope don't worry as you must be less than 30 and have good eyesight.

The fact that he called the resin coloring 'key bumps' made me understand how this man has the energy to do this. IYKYK.

This is hands down the most impressive modding of a PS2, i've ever seen. Nice job !

FMCB also released a version that can be installed on the hard drive (ssd). Called Free Hard Drive Boot (FHDB). This means you don't need a dedicated memory card installed. It loads directly off the drive.

Quick note, I saw that you used wired to extend the crystal oscillator out. This is typically not a good idea since the crystal connections should be exactly equal lengths to the MCU, as well as contained within PCB traces so that they are parallel. Seems like it’s not causing a big issue for you though but just something to note for future projects. Great work overall though!

With the fan option, you could use a resistor or a couple of diodes in series to drop the voltage as two diodes in series, would provide a 1.4v voltage drop and run the fan at 5.6 volts

Gotta be super careful moving oscillators. They can be very high frequency and moving them changes the impedance of the traces.

I was always fascinated with PS1 and PS2. The engineering prowess demonstrated by both systems is indeed commendable.

"I built a MODERN PlayStation 2..." = "I modded my PlayStation 2 with modern parts..." I read the title like he was literally building a PS2

A lot of hard work, dedication, and planning went into this project and I appreciate it. I absolutely liked this video and will share it right now!

Might also be a good idea to put some mesh on the grates, to keep lint and stuff from making a nest in the system. Other than that great build, I had a lot of fun games I loved on that system and between that and the N64 made a lot of childhood memories.

I'm a huge fan of PCSX2 but I'm not going to lie, that's friggin' SICK!

14:05 “mixed in lil key bumps of various powders” 😂😂😂

Still have a silver Slim somewhere as a backup DVD player, along with silver controllers, remove and FMCB, so thanks for the nice walk down memory lane and congrats to this project!

The fact he went through with a 85% modding for this PS2 just made my day.. I have an old fat PS2 device... that my brother damaged, after it served me well for a whole 20 years, without a single complaint, and also using DVDs only, gosh i wanna fix it and make it run again.

ps2 is probably the most timeless case and this guy is designing his own case

Funnily enough, Gran Turismo 4 is one of the few games on the PS2 that could already run at HD - with a component cable the PS2 could output 1080i, and a couple of games even supported it. (Heck, the option for that was very briefly visible when you were showing off the video settings!)

Divide print into parts and glue them together later ❌ Buy a new, bigger and most expensive 3D printer ✅ I wish I could do that too 😂

18:28 treeline and grass looks better on stock RCA. These assets were never meant to be displayed at higher resolutions, so there's only so much you can do. In the end a blurry but period accurate image is probably the best these games are ever gonna look, because no amount of upscaling will fix the inate resolution of the assets.

I think I would have kept the OG case, just my opinion! Also, as much as I love the SSD upgrade, I'd still want to play DVDs and CDs! I would have preserved that ability somehow! The PS2 was an awesome DVD and Audio CD player! By the way, you can use a voltage divider circuit to convert the 7 volts for the fan to around 4.85 volts, you need 2 resistors (1.2k and 2.7k ohms). Just make sure you get better resistors with smaller variances in resistance.

You can also move FMCB to the HDD and set it up to auto start FMCB from the harddrive, and the memory card isn't needed anymore. It would be cool to move the controller receiver on the inside of the console, if at all possible. I really do love the re-designed case

What an abslutely sick mod to the PS2. I got my ps2 in the early 2000's and got it chipped mid 2000s so I can play different region games. I then learned about mcboot and bought an original network adaptor. I still have my PS2 in my box with a IDE HDD with retro games loaded on. You had me in AWW the entire video of all the cool things you did to the system. Thanks for the thorough video. You have earned my sub!

Just found out about this channel, instantly subscribed! Keep up with the amazing work and happy new year dude!

Small tip about GSM - games that use field-rendering will most probably don't work in progressive modes (480p, 720p). A good alternative is 1080i, and in my experience it works well with most games. While the image is still interlaced, the combing effect is much smaller and most TVs can blend it well.

Hey! Awesome vid! I have a few tips for you, though: OPL is better than HDLoader, since GSM is built-in and allows for optimization modes. It does require you to look up a table, but it's worth it if you want to play your entire library - some games may or may not work without them. Besides, you can actually forgo any controller ports and memory cards. PadEmu and VMC respectively, *also* on OPL. PadEmu allows you to use a bluetooth adaptor on USB (check compatibility) to connect a DS3/4/5 and make the PS2 use it like a normal DS2. You can also do FreeHDBoot to not require a memory card to access all these features. Sidenote: For OPL, you can make FMC/FHDB run it upon boot. Might be worth a try when using PadEmu. Cheers!

Man, the woodworking you add to these projects adds such an extra layer of beauty and timelessness to these projects. Very cool.

dude your builds RULE!!!! I love these hacks you implement - and I think your attention to aesthetics and what makes a design feel good makes your builds stand out. Regarding the back plate - there is actually a technical benefit to painting it black, not just aesthetics! The emissivity of a surface finish significantly impacts a surface's ability to radiate heat. The better the emissivity, the better the heat transfer. Black Body Radiators are both perfect emitters and absorbers of radiation. While its impossible to make a perfect black body, it IS true that the more black you can make a surface finish, the better its emissivity will be! Reflective/metallic surface finishes have poor emissivities - they're bad at absorbing and emitting thermal radiation. As almost too simple as it may seem, just a little bit of the right paint can go a long way in manipulating this. I feel like most people are aware that the colour black is the perfect absorber (wearing a black tshirt in the sun gets you hotter) but it seems most people either forget or aren't aware that black colours are equally good emitters! What determines whether it will emit or absorb is whether it is hotter or colder than its surroundings. Unless the devices are in the path of the sun, usually they're the hottest thing in the living room. It does depend on the line-of-site the back plate will have with the rest of the room, so if the dock covers most of that back plate it becomes less prominent. Fans via forced convection do a lot of work in terms of heat transfer, especially since typically the components that need to reject heat are inside the casing and don't have radiative visibility to surroundings. But keep in mind - radiative heat transfer scales as [Tobject^4 - Tsurroundings^4] so as temperature difference goes up, radiation can quickly become the dominant mode of heat transfer!!!! Not sure how hot the back plate actually - but its a simple thing with very tangible impact :)

7:09 I worked R&D at a power tool company. They do make smaller solder iron tips, but you have to be really careful with how much pressure you use with them because their smallness also means they can bend easily when heated. So, bend it into something like a hockey stick and you can hit those 10mil traces fairly easily. You'll also need a thinner solder wire with it though too. Also, they do make hollow solder with a paste core... it's cleaner to use when doing these kinds of projects. And finally, be very careful with how much heat you apply to those pads next to any IC. You can melt the interior of the ICs causing them to break.

Very cool build, I'd have kept the original controllers though purely for the pressure sensitive inputs. Not a lot of games used them, but there are some games that relied on them (MGS2/3 come to mind). They had to change how those inputs worked for more modern releases.

I absolutely LOVED this video!!! I really loved your final result, and i love how neat and meticulous everything looks in your house and shop. Excellent video! Subscribed now!!!

There are a few PS2 games that are in 1080 HD. Also on the fan, find a small PWM circuit with a control knob. Then you can adjust the fan speed accordingly

A project like this with a PS2 Slim would leave so much room for cool mods, you could probably do the case out of resin as well due to the size factor. I know there is a mod to adapt a SSD onto a Slim motherboard as well.

He never heard of the ps2 slim?

Awesome work and good video keep up the good work, love watching stuff about such old consoles and old pc stuff.

I used to clean PS2s back when everyone had them. Usually it was just a good cleaning that did the trick but one time I swapped out a disk drive and when it worked it was a very satisfying feeling. Best console ever.

You actually *can* boot with just the HDD (and use only the HDD if you want). You want FHDB (Free Hard Drive Boot). This is what I use on my fat PS2. In this way, I can either use virtual (software) memory cards, which also live on the HDD. Or I can use my physical memory cards as normal memory cards, which is what I do. FCMB is cool as a portable option, but FHDB is way better and has no downsides. You install FHDB by flashing a pre-made hard drive image file. Then you just pop it into the PS2 with the network adapter, and you're done. It boots into FCMB from the HDD.

Your videos are definitely an inspiration for modern design and organization projects!

The only thing I could think of that would've made this even better is LED lights on the inside behind the bezels

That case is amazing! Did anyone else think the original picture looked better than the HDMI did? I did, at least the way he presented it.

3:50 Re-PS2 PSU - Power Supply Replacement ...& the one up improvement of replacing the barrel connector with a USB-C one 🤯 😸

never thought you could do this, good job for all the process and you made it!

Incredible.... You're a genius. That's not just a ps2 update it's a full ps2 remaster.

This is amazing. I’m gonna try to find a way to print the case in pieces for my smaller print bed but everything else is easily doable. You sir, are a great source for modding ideas!

0:30 - Today I learned PS2 Modders really don't care for Linus Sebastian.

resin print it at 45 degrees. that will allow it to fit in a smaller build volume. your supports will take up a lot of extra resin, but it will work

This build was so cool! And the new furniture came out so sleek and clean too :0

I love that whenever I think something isn't going to look good. You put in a ton of finishing touches to make it even better. You really do go above and beyond. Start an ETSY page already!

I did the network adapter swap on one of my PS2s a couple of years ago and love being able to add modern drives. There are cheap printed brackets you can pickup and install on the SSD so it doesn't move around inside the case. You can also partition the SSD and install FMCB on one of the partition and games on the other. Lastly don't forget to add a region free modchip so you can run NTSC, PAL and Japanese games.

Great project! I'd also make sure to place some mesh grille over any ventilation port, especially that one that's on the top when the console's placed vertically, so it wouldn't get that much dustier.

Awesome video, you went so much more in depth than I thought you would, Hats off

I don't have the skills or the tools to do what you do but I am a fan of this type of work , very good content

Simply put: AMAZING work! My jaw just kept dropping watching you make this whole thing come into its' final form. Hats off to you sir!

If you want a larger resin 3d printer as a build channel you could always just make one. You have the technology. I believe in you

Man that's so nice! I have a Slim PS2 here and I wish I could do some of those mods. Unfortunately I don't have the acknowledge neither the tools to do so. But thinking of it, what mods could you do with a slim PS2? That would be a nice part 2 for a video like this

Such a great project, love the post-mortem analysis segments too

Absolutely stunning result! This is a perfect demonstration of what any of us can accomplish with a little tenacity. In short: Nice work!!!

you did great, smarter even still you analyzed yourself after your work was done. great build man, i'd love one of those.

I love how he doesn't go the easy way and asks an online business to 3D print but actually buys a new 3D printer just to complete the project

0:32 "how to destroy your reputation" 🤣 im dying

I like it. I have a PS2 mobo on my wall (result of a failed repair). It was a hell of a console, revolutionary at the time. This does look amazing though, the gold and wood compliment each other perfectly.

Resin print sections and use the wood plating to tie the tie resin printed case pieces together.

I just love your builds, the wood and being about to see inside is just beautiful. I would love to have own something like that.

Great project, although I have to say its better to keep the disc drive because of compatibility. Yeah, a ton of games run from HDD nowadays just fine. But there are still games with issues. I lost 50 hours of Valkyrie Profile 2 thanks to a very mean copy protection they built into the game, that got triggered by running it from OPL instead of just using my original disc. And I got some issues with other games in the past, too.

A nice upgrade for sure, but I do take issue with using USB and not a power supply of some kind. This could really hurt the life of something like this, as the whole purpose of a big PSU is to provide really stable and predictable power, which is a bit of a risk. I don't know that you will for sure get a lot of peaks or drops from a USB adapter, but why risk it...

I love your videos, man! I hope you continue having fun. Anyways, I was wondering if you could show us what you do in research for creating these amazing builds

Dude this is super cool… I had no idea you could mod old consoles

YOu can fix the menu lights from going into a single dot by going into the system menu's date set. You step into month as if you where setting the month up, but instead of just X, press square and X simultaneously, and the light's will start moving across the screen again. this info I've got from the service manual. If X and square doesn't work try pressing all the buttons at the same time: square circle, triangle and X buttons while stepping in month or day. REmemeber to replace the battery first. this you've got to do every time you replace batteries in both slim and phat. Hope it helps- If uou want you can download the scph 55001 service manual and look for battery replacement.

I admired the use of wording when mixing pigments for the epoxy… keybumps 🙏🏽 great content. I love watching your videos, genius and artistic

That's so elegant. It is very interesting to see how do you retroengineered the console to fit downsized parts (especially the power supply!). Thanks for the video.

For anyone wanting to play games like Ratchet and Clank and Twisted Metal online through fan servers, it's possible to get a mod for the drive bay connector to use SATA instead of IDE while still keeping the network ports. Very handy!

This brought back memories of the first time my younger brother and I turned on a PS2 and being memorized by it's green and blue lights. A recommended large sized resin printer would be the Phrozen Mega 8K. They recently introduced a S variation that prints faster but has a reduced z height. Nice video and build.

It would be better to flip the fan so it works like an exhaust one. An intake fan ends up creating swirls of air flows inside the case, while an exhaust one creates a negative pressure, so the fresh air is sucked through the holes in the case, which creates more stable air flow inside. Also, the intake fan will end up pushing more dust into the case.

cool to see how much effort was put into this. The clean slick modern design is awesome. what would be interesting to see is an integrated multi tap. Four player functionality, instead of having a fat external dongle. I guess there really is a ton of modifications you can do. LED, Temp Gauge... etc. Great work!!

Apart from the wood work and the logo shenanigan, this was a true masterpiece.

Loved the PlayStation 2, but it didn’t have many games in the first 3-4 months. I was still playing my Dreamcast more when I first bought the ps2. But man did the library grow fast.

you also can use a bluetooth dongle and make it work with OPL. so you can use PS3 controllers via bluetooth without the 8bitdo adapter. very nice video, I would go for a more fancy/traditional not blocky square case for the PS2, but it looks amazing. great work!

This video was really cool. One correction though, Sony did actually make a first party wireless PS2 controller, although they’re very rare. I run a retro store and I’ve only seen three of them ever. I do own one of those. Tiny criticisms; I’m a repair tech and I’ve never seen a cap go bad in one of these. Parts suppliers have really fanned the flames of peoples fear of electrolytic capacitors going bad on everything. Also, a bit of sanding and painting would also save you from doing the case in resin.

He didn't built a modern Play Station 2. That skill is wayyyyyy beyond his empty head. He just modified some sh*t.

That's one class looking Ps2. Definitely your best looking project to date!. Your videos are definitely an inspiration for modern design and organization projects!.

Just so you know, an SSD won't give you much of a speed benefit over a traditional hard drive, due to the limitations of the bus speed on the PS2.

Love the look of that and the spinning Logo was a perfect touch. :)

Done understand half what you are doing, still loving it

It's just insane the load of tools available for you guys overseas - here in Brazil we don't even set a 3D printer, imagine having one in home

Seriously love your videos mate. You do everything I want to do but don't have the funds to do it. Great video.

my favorite thing about these videos is him talking about how he's going to make a new case that fits in better with modern setups and then it's always this weird thing that wouldn't look good in any setup unless you actively replace the shells of all your equipment with tacky mismatched combinations of 3d printing and woodgrain. which, tbf, he might

When I had a PS2, I had wireless controllers. They worked in a similar fashion as a wireless mouse. One part plugged into the console and the controller was wirelessly connected through that.

I love how the glass panel you put makes it look like a gaming PC when standing up, you did an amazing job with this thing

I personally would flip that fan to exhaust the heat, not use it as an intake. Otherwise all that air inside has no where to go. Unless I'm missing some front ventilation somewhere, but none the less I think that would be better 😊

This was very impressive. Great work, man!

I feel like this project could’ve either done without a custom case. If it did still have one (I’m not entirely opposed to it), a more compact,sleek design that takes advantage of the fact that you have a new much smaller power bank and no disc drive would look a lot nicer. Of course there’s making it good for vertical storage but I think that if I were to replicate this I’d go that route. FreeMCBoot definitely deserves some form of update that adds a newer more intuitive interface and features quicker controller handling and more visual flair so that you can more easily look at things more than you’re reading through huge terminals and lists. This is such a remarkable project and I love the way you made the PS2 into something you can use every day

instead of replacing the fan you could've used a resistor to bring to voltage down to about 3 to 5 volt . or you can get adjustable resistor and program it with arduino for it to run on lower wattage on idle and higher with high temps

Great idea. But you could use a first model ps2 slim instead. That nodel support HDD the pins are there to tap. There is a mod to bring back the HDD support to that model. Then you will have a smaller motherboard to work with so a smaller case to fit inside your resin printer.

@3:20, try adding 2 diodes in series connection to positive wire that will end up dropping the voltage of the fan at around 5.6V which is better than 7V.

Love these videos and u just found you today. Makes me nostalgic but very excited to see the changes…. So how much can I buy any of these renewed systems off of you? 😂😂😂

I think that there is a lot of empty space that u could use to get a better refrigeration for the chips, but it makes it look pretty aesthetic, also u could put some LEDs, but with a non wood design, maybe a white plate instead of it, to make a good contrast, but honestly.. looks NICE!!

Man this was amazing. I know I don’t have the skills nor coordination to do this. I would happily pay you to make one for me. Just saying, this thing looks amazing and works great

Dude. You should totally start making your own stuff! If you can do this good a job with old consoles from around 25 years ago, imagine what you could do with tech we have now! I'd totally buy ZacBuilds consoles if you ever made them.

man. you are the first youtuber I see do some hardcore mods on this OG Playstation 2 Console. It looks great !

definitely earned my sub bro, glad there's yt creators out there still making genuinely interesting content. 💯 🤘🏼