Making a PlayStation 1 modchip from SCRATCH 

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When I was A young boy My father Got me a modded console To play burnt PS games

my dad did the same with a DS it had a pirate thing so you need to put games on an SD card and it works

My mom did the same thing lol. She was going to buy me a Dreamcast, but then she found out you could pirate games for PlayStation, so she got me a modded PlayStation instead. I loved that PlayStation, but I sometimes think about what my childhood could have been like, with a Dreamcast instead...

Most of my consoles are modded except the PS4 and PS5.(my first modded console is a PS1)

Me reading the replies: Then I suddenly relies wait that's illegal

Yes no maybe I don’t know can you repeat the question

@@Fasneocroth you're not the boss of me now

@@PowerPuffBoysZ and you're not so big

I was expecting him to make his own microchips from raw silicone :(

Same. I was hoping for a discussion on reversing the hardware to find an entry point and then exploiting it.

@@arduinoguru7233 if only it were a joke

@@thecaptainnoodles It was a terrible joke.

Arstulex I disagree

Don’t know if I’ll ever need this but if I do thank you

that's an amazing memory. Super cool. What is he up too today?

@@TuyenWin no idea honestly, tried to find him but couldn't and mates say that he doesn't use Facebook or Instagram. I really wish I can contact him again someday.

Thus began your life of crime

@@orangebrowntabby3705 yep, on my 14th bday I asked my dad for a CD-Rom burner and got one because he thought that was an impressive thing to ask from a 14-year-old kid. So me and my friend started bootlegging all sorts of PS1 games and also providing service in mod-chipping. We even got one order from a kid who gave us one full album of blank CD-Roms and asked us to burn 25 games or so, we charge like 2 dollars per game. Fortunately, we stopped when we became high-school kids, otherwise, we could have formed a PS1 bootleg syndicate.

@@apriswajaya So glad you stopped at piracy and didn't go the shoplifting route which would have had real consequences during that period unlike copying a few CDs. A classmate of mine found a way to steal memory cards from Walmart and would resell those at school, until it didn't work one day. He wound up dropping out for alternative school and we never saw him again.

To be fair it did take 20 years to find *that* exploit

That's true, but it took 20 years to find that trick so the protection did its job since Sony isn't selling many PS2 games anymore. Before that you had to use a memory card and that had its own issues. Every piece of hardware gets cracked if there's enough interest, so for a console that sold 155 million to be that resistant is pretty impressive. Like the PS2 was in like 25-40% of US household's which is pretty insane. Meanwhile the Wii was running homebrew software in like 2007/2008. Plus until very recently it was super tough to USB load games and get a good experience on the slim PS2's. The USB ports were half the speed of the disk drive so you had a lot of stuttering cutscenes and super bad load times. The USB loading through a memory card method wasn't discovered until like 2020 and it wasn't perfected until the end of last year

I just bought a PS2 that already had a mod chip installed. Done. I did have to shop around for a while to find one that also played pirated PS1 games, and I've had to remember the button combo over the years to activate that mode since the tiny random shop I got it from in Taiwan is probably not there anymore or I wouldn't be able to find it and they wouldn't remember anyway.

@@shanez1215 Playing through usb still sucks because the ports are usb 1

@@shanez1215 USB can't get better, it's v1.1, dogslow. Got me FMCB package always and ESDL ELF if I need USB in a pinch or go with SATA HDD for the network adapter (Maxdiypower but I think that shop is no more)

Gross

@@iwinrar5207 why

@@iwinrar5207 why

@@iwinrar5207 why

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Also geoblocking videos

geoblocking? What’s that?

@@Cyber_Horse_Studios87 blocking content from been accessed from some places around the world www.mobipicker.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/this-video-is-not-available-in-your-country.jpg Example image

Hooray for Nintendo being progressive!

It's how we'll always feel about it though

BAHAHAHAHA

that’s why they started removing it

@HollyT don’t call people idiots, idiot

I personally like to call it placeism

@@Name_cannot_be_blank you just called him a idiot

Mhm

hi

What’s up

Sony actually ditched the black discs very late in the PS1's run (IIRC after the PS2 came out). Likely they shut down the dedicated PS1 pressing lines at Sony DADC and moved everything to the regular CD pressing lines.

Basically the approach of the Wii's hacking scene.

Xbox 360 hackers: if you can't do both fking drill a hole in the chip

@@zyphergaming3187 fucking. it's not like you will be demonetized or something bruh

I did! I didn't include clips of finishing the reassembly but I flattened out the legs and also placed additional tape between the board and the PIC.

@@MattKC Might of been a good idea to mention this or at least show clips/still images of this being done.

@@MattKC you should add an annotation before someone wrecks their box

@@arnocronje1189 about that...

@@cooliofoolio wait what

*a l m o s t a s i f t h a t w a s t h e j o k e*

WOW, ITS ALMOST LIKE THAT WAS THE JOKE

I guess it must be a pretty high pitched beep because my ears don't hear it (no I'm not 79, I'm 18, I just don't have the greatest ears)

@@IoIxD the background music sounds very similar to the beep

Burden of proof is also on them to prove the consumer did anything wrong. A lot harder to do legitimately, and most people wouldn't bother trying.

@@AmyraCarter I had a sideline modding playstations at the time. It put me out of business

​@@aitchpea6011 It is what it is. You got the raw end of it.

but colonizing the entire world wasn’t to them 😭

@@ekulipse1133 wtf did that have to do with this?

I never knew a PS1 would fucking beep.

what you hear is likely the laser assembly itself making that beep, by the lens moving on that frequency, and thus working (unintentionally) as a speaker of sorts. The copy check is mostly a wobble on the disc that has to match a certain frequency when it spins in x1 speed at the start. Ever seen that a PS1 disc accelerates after it has shown the boot logos? Yes, after that check it goes to x2 speed but the wobble check is at the x1 speed. You'll also never hear it on pirated/backup CD-Rs since they don't have a wobble encoded on it.

@@Kalvinjj All CD's have wobble though? It's how the laser knows it's looking at a track correctly.

@@SerBallister Yes but the PS1 copy protection wobble is a very specific frequency it looks for when at the boot. The usual lens wobble that keeps it tracked is way more subtle, in fact would be nonexistent on a 100% perfect disc and drive (it would just move veeery slightly to follow the spiral). But indeed, this commonly performed lens wobble during normal CD read is exactly what the drive uses, it just wants to keep itself in focus and on track, but the track is snaking around, the PS1 picks that up and knows that this ONE wobble there is what it wanted.

​@@Kalvinjj Yup it's quite sneaky.

Probably Brazil. Nation of pirates.

@@earlspencer7863 Everyone did it, for the price, why the hell would you not?

@@JohnSmith-fq3rg I don't necessarily disagree with piracy in certain cases but just because it's cheap and everyone is doing it doesn't absolve one of the crime. If everyone did it there wouldn't be any games left to pirate would there?

Sudamérica?

@@lionheartxiii7122 yes, Chile specifically but from what I read it’s actually all of us 😅

Absof******luda

brasism

Racism

Idk, repeated that scene a couple times

Bingo same here

++++++awesome

LOL

@@mrnobody9268 what

Lool xD how this Action replay is named? Iam interested 😄

A GameShark? Yeah that was a way to play pirated games lol

@@relo999 I bet the one I have is like that too. I don't use it that much since the only way I could is if I connect it to this half-busted portable DVD player that accepts AV input; the screen is small and the speakers only half work (same with the headphone jacks), so it's not ideal. No, I do not have a TV, just an LCD VGA monitor.

you can actually do with a ps1? 10/10 console design

But it can damage the drive or discs.

My PS1's drive is already tired. I think the last owner used the swap trick.

@@Definitely_a_Fox Yeah, it shouldn't be tried.

He did

p0rn for ears! :D

I certainly wouldn't say no! Feel free to contact me on my business e-mail in my channel's about page

Two things: he did flatten it out, and it was on an area of the board without solder mask.

@@userPrehistoricman No. He literally put it over the traces.

@@miko8732 sheeeeet, you're right

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@@MattKC made my day, subscribed..

@Clarissa 1986The point is that you're getting a product for free which you're supposed to pay for.

Yes. My Favorite Game by The Cardigans. Gran Turismo 2 music.

@@aarushtripathi3683 What song is it?!! I can't find it, and this brought me soooo much nostalgia

@@xderpassassinx7779it is my favorite game from the guardians.

also, I WANNA SEE THE SEGA STORY @ 1:12

4:20 YES ANOTHER VIDEO PLS PAPA

i also loved the NES batteries one, but i didn’t the windows 98 gaming pc one yet, I MISSED ONE. i know what i gotta do now.

Your sacrifice will not go in vain, I was about to do the same hour long quest. Thank you good sir for your service

@@justmoiflo I'm glad I could save you the trouble of finding it out for yourself! :D

Thank you!

@@skyde72 You're welcome!

Same. No code doesn't make this from "scratch" :(

@@DRSDavidSoft Yes, but I still like him of course, it would just make the video great...

@@yasyasmarangoz3577 I don't think you understand how complex that would be

@@NonsensicalSpudz First of all this is not an argument against my statement, even if it is hard the title says modchip from scratch. Furthermore I do understand how hard it is, I code myself.

@@NonsensicalSpudz And besides, you don't know how or how complex I think.

of the motor, maybe. of the laser? less, not sure if its turned on and still tries to focus? the laser can burnout and wear. motors too, but are easier to find replacemenst.

ResKraven he’s finally getting the subs he deserves. I’ve been here since 100 subs and it makes me so happy to see the algorithm pushing Matt :)

@@TheMovingChicane I sincerely don't know since how many subs I've been but i remember seeing the lego island video as my first and it was like the best video I' ve seen so far recently

Because you haven't watched his cringy early videos. Eye liner and all.

any proof for drm part? afaik it can play homebrew so that seems konda weird

@@niewazneniewazne1890 The software used to load files onto it requires you to have the serial number of the unit to download, and I'm pretty sure it's tied to the unit as well.

@@moth.monster You also need the order number to get the firmware.

im so done with scalpers, fuck eBay and craigslist and those greedy scummy sellers.

Why bother. Just run ps1 games from HD on a PS2.