My PSX works and I even updated the dash board to English.

"Just a standard white PlayStation 2 controller" is incorrect. The controllers include with the PSX actually had a longer cord on them, likely due to the fact the controller ports were in the back.

The XMB is the best console interface of all time, in my opinion.

So I'm sitting here watching this wondering "when is he gonna open up the white box and show the console". Then you flip down the front flap on it, and it is the console. That's some M. Night Shyamalan stuff you just pulled on me dude.

Finally a video with 'PSX' in the title were it refers to the correct systeem. A PS1 is not a PSX.

(Fun Fact) The PSX had PS NOW© on it. Not the version that exists today, (they just re used the name as it was already copyrighted) I'm not sure but i belive PS NOW© on PSX was some form of internet/media service.

Also, by using Free Mc Boot, you can still play ps1 and ps2 games on this thing, even if the HDD is dead.

My brother just modded one of our PS2s, haven't played any PS1 or 2 games in a while, and now I can't stop :P

Im here in okinawa japan and i found one in a second hand store for about the equivalent of $10. The bar on the front that hides the memory cards is broken off, but i have the bar and the remote too.

Let Ben Heck work on it. He would make a few videos fixing it.

Adam please do a video on the Panasonic game cube

Send it to Ben Heck. He fixed the Nintendo Play Station.

i actually bought one of these on ebay for about $160 w/ the box, and the update disc, the listing said untested and when it srrived it was fully functional and read ps1, ps2 blue disc, ps2 dvd discs and ps2 gold discs, i got extremely lucky, and im glad to have it, its one of the coolest looking consoles i have, im glad i bought it so i could play my japanese ps2 and ps1 games easy without modding my ntsc ps2

Hey, just picked one up for $10. It's a cool looking little box, i'm using it as my main dvd player in the retro setup right now. It's nice to have if you want a cheap curio, even if it doesn't work.

I'm shocked that it had such a large hard drive for 2003. Fast forward to now and Sony can't even be bothered to pack in more than 1GB of storage on the Vita lol.

I think the logic of the controller ports on the back is so the console doesn’t get pulled off the shelf if somebody gets mad and pull on the cord. It’s a half decent idea in theory, but it’s still really inconvenient and hard to wire

One wonders why on earth they didn't put the controller ports on the front and the Memory Card readers on the back, if there's something you don't mind hiding it's those memory cards sticking out! The controller ports and memory card slots are roughly the same size too!

too bad theyre not reliable because I'd love to have one. I love ps2 but it would be cool to have this unique model that none of my friends have

Very interesting and informative video! Keep up the good work!

Hey Adam, I'm pretty sure you are aware there was a TV with a PS2 built in. Do you have any plans to acquire one? it would be awesome for this series.

Love the rare console overviews Adam! Always nice hearing your opinions and insight on these consoles.

Good vid. The hardware videos are so much better than the conventions and pickups.

I love the rare and obscure consoles and the history that comes with them . Another great video !

Got a working one of the earlier models, the 5000, it's on its way. Bought it from a Japanese guy on ebay. It was a bit over 200 bucks, with everything including the PSX controller. I consider that a pretty good deal. Like you said, i have no doubt these will become unbelievably expensive, especially working ones. I'm not one to just look at the thing though, i'll definitely play FFX International on it, just gotta make sure to play on a cool temperature room!

I have heard about this from fellow KZfaqr MeltingMan234 and his forgotten media series. I remember seeing the Dashboard showing the OS that the PS3 had just like you said. He also showed the Picture of the controller that went with it. Very cool collectors piece to own.

Yippee another rare variants! Great vid adam! Do more of these please.

Thanks for the video. I found a Game Changer for the PSX and I was wondering what the heck was a PSX but now I know.

Great video, didn't know about the history of that thing. Thanks for video.

Definitely intrigued by these videos of consoles. Really like what you do with these Adam.

FMCB would help you testing the PS2-side laser-assembley and run applications from different devices, even if your HDD is fried! ;-)

I can't help but call the PS1 a PSX still, due to the excitement I had back in 91', after reading an EGM magazine which had the announcement. Not to mention EGM kept referring to it as PSX.

I might get one of these and preform micro soldering motherboard repair. The only thing I need to find now is a schematic. I also know how to recover data, so getting a new hard drive would be no problem. Thank you for sharing this video and letting people know about it like me.

You should contact Ben Heck, he is here on KZfaq, he just recently fixed up that SNES Playstation prototype, I bet he'd love to get this thing working. He has extensive knowledge of all the video game consoles, their chips, boards and parts since he frequently mods them.

I've been waiting for this😆 as well a Nother great video!

cool video, never even heard of this. was good to meet you in Derby.

Awesome video Adam! I don't know much about rare stuff, it's great that you give us these knowledges! :D

These are so interesting, definitely will watch more

I was always curious about this system, but I had no idea it was so broken.

It's normal for the PSX to go to static after you first turn it on, if you press the select button it should bring up the XMB and you can use it normally from there. But if the TV is not receiving any picture from the PSX then yeah it's fucked.

Keep up this type of vids man their really nice!

i remember reading about this when it came out and thinking this is the most incredible piece of technology ever made

Great video. I've heard of the PSX before and it's a fascinating piece of kit. Maybe I'll get it someday. Right now I'm focusing on Wii U and PS3.

If you somehow figure out the issue with your PSX, you can install Free MC Boot onto your PSX, however it requires a special PSX version of Free MC Boot so you can not use regular Free MC Boot on it. If you get Free MC Boot on it, you can install a patch to translate the XMB into English.

PS2: Front controller ports PSX: Back controller ports PS3: No controller ports Make up your mind, Sony jeez...

I remember seeing one of these at Best Camera in Sapporo and wondering why anyone would pay so much for a PS2 even with the extra features. If I had been silly enough to buy one no doubt the controller fiasco would have blown my fricken mind.

You know they fucked up with when they had the controller ports on the back. What they should have done at least was have the memory card slots on the back and the controller ports on the front. But regardless the fact that these are so unreliable and have so many hardware failures, I think it'd be money better spent on buying a regular PS2 game system. That's pretty cool that store owner gave it to you for free, even if it doesn't work. You know have potentially a high resell value item you can sell later. Perhaps if you get into contact with like an electrical engineer, he/she could repair it or maybe improve it?

I imagine the main problems on that thing are I/O controller chips and all the chips sending commands for all the crazy stuff. The thermal paste they used then was like glue...probably using newer thermal paste would solve most problems. The first PS3's suffer from that.

Came close to buying one of these, of-course it was broken, but would've looked nice in my collection.

Hay Adam, I think with the static when you turn on your PSX needs to be hooked up to a cable wire. Or when you bring up the home screen bring up the cross media bar and turn off the tv part. I have one and that worked for me. 👍🏾

2:46 I think you need to press a home button or something

If we ever get a PlayStation 10, which ain't going to be anytime soon whatsoever, maybe it'll be called PSX, why not? X is 10 in Roman numbers

I really want one of these.

This looks more like some sort of dev kit than an actual console. But as you said, it's a DVR first, game console second.

he didnt even mention that there are like alot of versions of psx

When you power it on it goes to tv directly after the boot screen. You just have to push the x on the remote or controller and the x bar will come up over the screen. That’s what mine does anyway.

That's awesome you getting that for free! I remember seeing that system in a magazine and thought to myself, is Sony gonna make this a standard console? Cause even today, I still think that console looks so damn cool. But I remember I wanted that thing SO bad.

Free McBoot works on it, so if the drive doesn't work it could be Ftp'd into and the hard drive could be utilized for something. The Static may be that it is on a channel for the DVR. Since they use different frequencies in Japan it wouldn't work on out tv signals. I have thought about importing one of these and tearing it down to see if I could repair it. it looks nice but they are a flawed design. They designed it to stand straight up with the disk slot up if I remember right as well as lay flat.Nice pick up either way.

Cheers Adam always awesome to see PSX videos, I wanted one for so long but found out sadly the easily get faulty :(.

Toyratt is so nice! He once gave me a box ps2 games for free and the ps2 for cheap so I could send to Brasil for one of my cousins who couldn’t even afford a PS2 but wanted one

The PSX contoller (DESR-10) had a longer cord than the original ps2 controller.

Always an interesting video, thanks for making consistently great videos.

ah note don't try using the rf on your tv as this is primarily used for cable connection and I think the tarket was more the hotel industry than the home console market given the video passthrough

Picked mine up recently for $68 from ebay

Thats the console? holy shit I thought it was the box

I have one, and it works... To a degree. It could record video (Though I think it was analog, so, yeah, that'd need a new thing.) The CD based games would still work, so I'm guessing it's a laser problem. Makes enough sense.

Awesome video Adam. I always thought the PSX was Sony's Developmental PS1 console. Or was that the Net Yaroze?

we need more variant vids please ;)

Hey Adam, it's a bit of a longshot, but have you thought of sending it to Ben Heckendorn from the Ben Heck Show? Granted it might sound a bit silly but I imagine that he would have the skills to either repair it or at least make some headway from the way it is now.

I was thinking of grabbing one but didn't know if I could run backups on there

If the video is cutting out just as the intro ends, it may be overheating, these are very good at overheating, as thy only have a small strip for vent. If you take off the sides, and try it may work. Another way is the intro runs at 480p, but the menu runs at 480i. This could be your problem because after the intro, the resolution is changed and the cross media bar shows up. Maybe the TV you are using does not support the video mode it switches to (like when you reviewed ps2 to HDMI, but your TV doesn't support HDMI at 480i) You could try using different video ports on the console or a different display. maybe

At 3:45 I thought he was gonna say "the PS logo".

I think I've heard that the PSX also runs some formats of karaoke-discs, and maybe that's why it only got released in Japan? I might be wrong since you didn't mention it.

It's so weird to hear “Sony” and “unreliable” in the same sentence, most of their products are usually very reliable.

@AdamKoralik mine works but the static its because its in dvr channel mode I think. When I got mine I experienced the same thing until I plugged in a controller and got to exit that mode into the main menu mode.

annotations / cards for the xbox and gamecube videos? (edit no joke my video buffered at 1:57 )

does anyone know how reinstall the firmware on a psx? cause my hdd is fucked up so i wanted to try to change it....is possible?

5 years later you did another video of the psx

I have a friend here in Uruguay who has one of this PSX but The "DVD recorder" dont work lol

Interesting that even if a console fails there is always something that is born for further generations eg tomb raider on saturn, xmb on this device.

Looks like an Xbox One even has all of the DVR tv stuff interesting

Is like my same model 7100 i got that problem don't read disc, laser is hard to find

Great video! So interesting.

I've found out that Japanese PS1/PS2 games work on a USA PS3 slim when it's jailbroken.

I had an oppertunity in 2011 to get this plus 50 games all japan reg. for 200 bucks but i said no, because back then i didn't know what the hell this thing was

I've always wanted a PSX.

nice doorstop adam :)

hi Adam, I know you've said you might not care about fixing because something else might break, but you can try Ben Heck. he looks capable and is a good idea there for a video together :)

Lucky i am, got one from ebay working well

Rare Variant Wondermega video?

so i wonder.. since none of them ever work could you transfer the innards of a ps2 fat model into the psx and at least get a working psx?

It always blows my mind companies will create crazy expensive hardware with no market or need in Japan, but they'll refuse to localize a game in a well regarded franchise that'll only make a modest profit

I'd definitely prefer the ol' PS1 grey, even yellowed, over this malfunctioning mutant-princess box!

awesome!!! great video!

Anyone notice that odd audio for a sec 5:31?

Memory Card ports should have been on the back. Even if you never unplugged your controllers you still lose a foot of cable length because they have to go further to get into the machine.

The memory card slots should have been in the back instead tho

there are to said that there is infact even rarer version of the already rare PSX... the DESR-5100S for example is the easier one of the rare's, and the S on the end stands for Silver. i picked up an 5100S for infact 120$, and it works... kind off... (plays PS1 games and CD's, no DVD's are playing on it) but got a broken front lid and kind of scratchy... but as Adam points out they are more for the collection. you then also got the Y, B and R versions... yeah, Yellow, Blue and Red... don't even know if they even "produced" em else from some show-off models

I like my collectors pieces to work. Will never buy something that is broken just to have it.

You should get yourself a Panasonic Q and review that. :D

I ve always wanted it!