Making a PlayStation 1 modchip from SCRATCH

▶MUSIC USED
zoolrave
Graff - rain eater
Maktone - class cracktro#15
DualTrax - orion crackmusic
falcon/pulse+tdr - spineless
BLiZZARD - Contraduct Design
CORE - mr spock's cryo-bed
BRD Keygen #4

[BlueSodaPop_]

The people writing the code for the mod chip and then making it open source, those are the people you call madlads. Really cool imo

[medes]

"It Might Be NES" is a reference to the rock band They Might Be Giants, there's a few references to their songs in the emulator code and settings.

[markorakonjac]

To change between PAL and NTSC mode in imbNES, use the R2 and L2 buttons while in the game selection screen. Cheers!

[XeonProductions]

I remember back in the day I'd always be changing the boot text and logo for all my burned games.

[apriswajaya]

When I was in Junior High School back in 2002, a friend helped me Mod-Chip my PS1. When he decided to open up my PS1 and bust out his chip and soldering tool, I was flabbergasted. Keep in mind, we were 13-year-old kids, I never saw a soldering tool in my life and my Hong Kong friend is soldering them like he's been doing it forever. But it was even more amazing when we booted up the console and it was able to read a pirated copy of Twisted Metal 2.

[fishactivation]

4:17 After realizing their mistake with such a simple copy protection system on the PSX, Sony learned their lesson with the PS2, with a system so complex that you can just pop a burned DVD in and it's instantly cracked.

[davidm]

"Making a mod chip from scratch!"
"The source code is already written for us online"
Oh.

[Porygonal]

Honestly I think you've really hit your stride with these tech videos.
Keep em coming! I love em!

[CocoTheMii]

"The PS1 might just be my favourite console of all time."
*immediately plays N64 footage*

[tigerkill]

When i was young my ps1 played burnt cds. My dad would let me rent a game and he burn it for me. l had no idea my ps1 was modded.

[popsuk]

8:36 is one of best sounds after installing a modchip

[Cyber_Horse_Studios]

“Region locking.
Or as I like to call it,
RACISM” -MattKC
(This cracked me up so much because that literally is the best way to describe it. XD)

#Consoleracismisreal

[giovannivittorioambrosini]

Region locking, or as I like to call it, racism

[DannyWilliamH]

The colored discs were exactly as you guessed regarding physical protection. The color had nothing to do with copy protection from a software perspective.

It was hard for even the best pirates to replicate the black dye in those discs. They'd basically have to have access to one of a few makers pushing out colored discs of that type at the time.

Colored CD-R/RWs would come down the pipe but usually a lighter hue and not the solid black that PS1 had even when "black".

[jonasduell]

7:10 ooh the nostalgia, getting that mod chip delivered with glossy pictures of the different revision boards and pin wiring on a piece of cheap copy paper <3

[dorkalt]

The Cybertruck looks like a whole bunch of polygons put together carelessly

[MarbleFox]

I’m so nostalgic for the PS1. I remember back in 2000, I would slide my bed away from the wall a foot or two far enough to squeeze in a medium sized crt tv in and put blankets and pillows in the space between the bed and the wall, and I’d play Spyro, Croc 1&2, Tony Hawk, and Test Drive 6. Such a good console!

[randysmith]

OMG! FLATTEN the legs out man!!! 8:26 - Just bend the 8 chip legs out straight so they don't stab toward the mobo traces!!!

[TheZombersLMAO]

0:08
Matt: Those beautiful blocky pixelated polygons

Footage: *videos of cybertruck*

Matt: oops wrong footage

[dinosantic]

Dude the second that Gran turismo footage and The Cardigans hit, i liked the video instantly