Playstation 2 | The War Against Modchips 

Very nice video but as I can see from your GameCube video you stop going to the gym right ?

I live in Brazil, and early 2000s gaming would not exist here without modchiping. A friend works in a game repair shop, the majority of consoles he fixes are PS2s.

I was stationed in South Korea in 2001 and received a PS2 for my birthday. Took it to a Korean game shop, stood in line for 20 minutes while the guy modded two PS2s ahead of me, handed him my box, watched him do his thing, got it back and paid my 50,000 won (appx $40 at that time). Picked up a dozen burned ISOs for another 100k won while I was at it.

"This is not a guide" -- *shows how to remove literally every screw, do everything, solder every wire*

For people wondering what the song is at 13:00 it's Thunder Force IV - Lightning Strikes Again

I remember when the first no swap chip (except for DVD games) came out, the NEO 4. It required some 40 or 50 wires to be soldered. I ended up shipping my PS2 to a guy in California to have it fitted, which I still have today in 2022 and it still works.

Wouldn't be a Voultar video without some Toshinden music somewhere.

Love seeing the Voultar Special; the neatly arranged "lanes" of white wires side by side, held in place with glue. It's such a much nicer look than loose wires fanning out like cobwebs.

I just stumbled across this video and I just gotta say that I love the way you talk about what you’re doing, what products you like to use and things being ‚a walk in the park‘, it’s so incredibly enthusiastic and at the same time calming, it makes me wanna solder mod chips into all the PlayStations in the world!

Omg my body is ready. I was an installer for these back in the day. It was very challenging and I screwed up at least a few. I just finished an infinity mod and working on some broken systems but my skills took a hit and I've been learning again. People like Voultar can definitely show this old buck a thing or too. Awesome 👍

I'll never forget the time my dad and I broke my ps1 modding it. Good times.

Great stuff, super neat and tidy as ever. You've covered nearly every rev PS2 install in awesome detail. These are invaluable, studied them before attempting the install. Thanks for taking the time to put them together.

Love the metal gear reference at the beginning. Keep up the good work ✌🏻 thanks for your amazing videos.

The way you lay out each wire is incredibly pleasing to watch, excellent work and excellent skills soldering!

This was one of the first hardware mods I did on my collection and I was only able to because your guides were just excellent Voultar, my SCPH-35001 still runs like a champ!

That is hands down the HOTTEST soldering work I have ever seen. You deserve serious props for shooting, editing, etc etc, but also that clean work.

I did the 30 wire mod twice on a friend's Wii (and his friend's as well). I had to grind one chip a little to get at the three clipped pins too. Man. that was a challenge. I has access at the time to a really nice Metcal soldering iron and a microscope... and then a few years later, I did soft-mods on my own Wii. Confusing as hell but so much easier! :D

Fantastic video as always, and the Thunderforce IV music just adds the chef's kiss.

Thanks for making these great how-to videos! I learn so Much by watching your Soldering techniques!

Loved the video Voultar, I've never modded that specific model but did others a long long time ago. It's how I learned to solder and is why I am where I am today. This video brought back alot of awesome memories.

Amazing job. I can see you are very passionate about your work. The effort you put into making the wires clean ... amazing. Super glue trick was great of you to mention

Awesome mod! Thanks for the inspiration and the tips on which stuff to use. I am really looking forward to your OG Xbox video mod!

Your solder job was a work of art and was really satisfying to watch

Thx to you sir I always come back to old projects where my skills failed me and now with all that confidence from your videos Im literally motivated to pick up one of them again :D Best teacher out there

Good to see you back Voultar! Looking forward for some crazy Gamecube mods!

I remember the mod-chip wars of the early 2000's. I personally was modding PS1 systems around then. I did a couple PS2's but very far and few inbetween. Great work Voultar on the install.

I don't do any type of soldering or mods, but damn it these vids are so entertaining. Keep 'em coming Lord Voultar!

What an amazing job, I hope nobody thinks this is as easy as you make it seem. Thanks for your tips, since they are very educational, all the time. Cheers.

It's actually hard for me to watch other youtubers do console mods now, it seems like no one else puts nearly as much effort into making the installations clean.

It was the most professional solder I have ever seen, thanks man, it was really instructive 🙏👏👏

This is such an interesting video! I’ve never done any hardware modding myself(somewhat apprehensive to start), but I’ve been a programmer for years. I love see the hardware side of things when it comes to game consoles.

That RetroRGB DVD... 🤣 Fantastic work !

This was like watching a short art movie, simply amazing soldering skills, the installation was so clean, simply beautiful. EDIT: You got yourself a new subscriber, great content.

Nice video and love the hear those Toshinden music ;)

This channel deserves more subscribers. Great content as always. I always leave here feeling inspired to do some modding.

I bought my KSGER on your recommendation video a few years ago. Best iron I have ever used in the last 35 years! I look forward to using it every time, so thanks mate!

That's not soldering, that's a work of art. Freaking beautiful ❤️ so satisfying to watch the master do his magic 😃👏

we need to get you a sponsor so you can keep cranking the vids out, very educational. Keep up the good work.

Hell yes! Beautiful work as always my dude. Modchip > Softmod 4eva 🤘

Nice install as always Voultar! Might have a source a 90001 sometime and brush up my skills, been a while since I've soldered anything. As always have a good day!

Really cool video with a solid introduction to the background of the Playstation modding scene & challenges it has faced & overcome. Whilst this isn't a tutorial, I think your confident and competent soldering skills will inspire many and there's still a lot of technique on display to be picked up here. One small piece of criticism I'd give is that whilst your jumper wires are very neat and totally sufficient, I reckon you'd find it a lot easier to use solderable enamelled jumper wire which is specifically designed for this type of SMD re-work. If you get the solderable stuff, you don't even have to scratch the enamel coating off.

I love seeing someone at the top of their craft. That was a very clean job, thanks for sharing.

hey voultar, thanks for the great content! i recently did my first modchip on a system! and against both your recommendation and my better judgement, said modchip was a matrix clone in a ps2 slim.... people aren't kidding when they say its hard, some of the smallest soldering I've done to date. but hey it works! (and there was only one casualty... i had a muscle spasm and busted my first board :(.. )

I've said it once, I'll say it 100x again. Hot glue is perfect for console modding, when used appropriately.

I am experienced in soldering, but I am very impressed by your precision and also the design of the solution! Good when you see better people - that drives me again to get better.

Awesome videos brother. Keep up the good work!

My modded ps1 with a plug mod, a pen spring, and all the blank discs allowance could buy was the only way I got to play so many great games. I remember when my uncle bought a j tag Xbox when they first got big, his son showed it off every time I went to visit (this was a while later) I always wanted to learn, and figured it would be fun to install physical mods, but I never had the spare income when I was young and interested enough to learn. Now I just watch voultar’s videos lol. All my systems are softmodded, except my Saturn has a fenrir in it (but that required no soldering) One has to be creative when one grows up poor, and the early 2000’s mod scene was such an innovative space to watch from the side. It seemed like new exploits were rolled out weekly

When the montage started I was pleasantly surprised to be rocking out to the music!

Thank you for going through your tools and items that you use.

God I love watching your work.. Just clean and simple..

Great job! Excellent Welding Expertise 🤝

So glad you are back

You got hands of a surgeon, excellent work. As Always, Be Smart and Stay Safe.

First of all, very nice tutorial. But your choice of music was top notch. The instant flashbacks I got, as soon I realized I was from the legacy of kain series

I love your new videos, they're sooo good

Voultar never ceases to amaze me with his soldering skills, this channel has made me the pro I always wanted to be with an iron thanks again :)

Simply amazing my lord! I definitely need some practice before i attempt this. Any tips for when you cut the wire down to size than strip it? I always have difficulty with that step. Thanks again for the amazing content!

Beautiful mode install Voultar and a great video to go with it. One of these days I'll get the guts to install one of the Mode Chip 5's in a PS2. I do have some Japanese games to play when I get around to it.

I enjoyed watching till the end even tho I dont do this stuff. great work chief.

I put one of these in an old PS2 fat this morning, after previously only using software mods to varying degrees of success. I was able to use the KSGER soldering station with the tip I always use, even though these are some really small points. Using wire-wrap wire is a must. While my wiring isn't nearly as neat as this one, and I used Kapton tape instead of super glue, it worked the first time. If there's any question as to whether you have solder bridges, bust out the multimeter and buzz everything out (hopefully, have a meter that has good latching so it buzzes immediately if there's continuity)

Great content, better hat. Dope! I remember doing this with my PS2 slim. Wasn't as bad in the first rev.

Thats the best soldering job ive seen on RU-vid for a very very very long time

I love the tutorial videos but I gotta admit that was amazing watching you blow right through that mod.

Dude I just noticed you're rocking dual KSGERs. I bought one of those stations cos of your review! Absolutely love the thing 🤘

Loved the video, was nice to watch and listen while I did some soldering of my own! On another note I just saw a youtube ad for gtav mods, so that's a thing. 🤣😂

Beautiful work.

great work man

another great voultar video! At this point I dont think there are non modded consoles down here in brazil, it was huge, and it's still is kinda sizeable!

OMG! He did it! Solid Voultar! Wooooo

Great as always champ!

that no clean flux is great for anyone wondering i have some, and i can solder upside-down while spinning around and it still flows where i want it

Voultar mods are a work of art and something I would like to own.

Was loving the video anyway but as soon as I heard the Thunderforce IV music it brought it to new levels 😁

I’m a huge metal fan, and the stuff in the middle is awesome, but I gotta say, it feels outta place considering how extremely relaxing your commentary is. When from Bob Ross to Black Sabbath real quick 😂

The music is like a mixture of F-Zero 64 and Dragonforce. Love it! Love the mod work even more.

That's amazing. Maybe weird but I'm impressed by the wire management more than anything. I'm certain I wouldn't have the patience for that. Anyway time to head to eBay and hope scalpers haven't driven of the price of RetroRGB for PS2 up too high!

Not gona lie, ps2 phat was the second modchip i attempted after doing a xeno in my gamecube. Nailed it first try but prior to modding i soldered industrially for a living just never circuit boards. I also gotta say youre probably one of my favorite youtubers in terms of soldering, alot of these other guys handle the iron like they are afraid of it

You made soldering badass. Bravo.

Great video!

I don't own a PS2 or plan to mod one but I loved watching how you explain the installation.

messiah, messiah 2, matrix mxl, mxl2, infinity, dms3, 4.. I memorized every schematic except v3 that were quite rare. Did hundreds of installs. Soldered kilometers of awg30 with a JBC am6000. My favorite awg30 was Ok international brand with 60/30 radial soldering wire. Great times. I started with psx and 12c508s

Great video! Have you ever thought of doing a 3DO RGB mod and/or 3DO ODE install? Great times, as always! Thanks, from Kentucky! 👾🎮✌🏻😃

Because of your music & your work, you deserve like & subscribe! Well done! 👍

I'm convinced this dude is the best electronics technician in the world. The Millenial nostalgia of classic Playstation gaming mods and throwback music is cool, but it's the Jedi-like precision and Guru-esque hardware engineering knowledge that keeps me watching.

We have the exact same bench gear. It always cracks me up.

Would of though that would be a more complex. Maybe had conformal coating on the board potting over the cpu and IC pins. Looks so much easier than what I suspected, your soldering was nice. No cold joints and clear cable management

Good work and I can confirm that Modzville also rules. Really good dude.

You're missing a percent off your kester! Anyway, joking aside, I love this video format. Please keep using it!!!

Professional install, impressed.

Excellent! As usual.

man beautiful job still waiting to see the oled switch mod chip tutorial

good work!

Hotdamn! I love that you're still installing modchips in 2022. I've always liked the chips better than softmods...they just work.

You are the real MVP for sharing this!

Love the channel, I've been watching for years. I've seen some newer channels mod old consoles like the nes to run on usb-c. I'd like to know the master modders opinion, and if feasible do a video of your own on it.

thumbs up for the Thunderforce IV and Toshinden music.

Brings back memories, did this as a hobby in early 2000s, my modchip of choice was DMS 4. There was a yahoo group where we showed off our work. The thing back then was the wire routing, everybody was trying to do the best wiring and color theme.

This cable work is pure pron and I am here for it. Fantastic!

This just gave me an idea for a product to go along with the mod chips. A pre cut capton tape sticker that goes on the system chips to cover unused pads, help prevent bridges and guide less experienced installers.

Thank you for telling us the temps !