Just to add what you said about Saudi Arabia, in Latin America, especially Brazil, there was no chance of a PS2 without a modchip. 95% of PS2s sold in Brazil had modchips, initially retail stores sold sealed consoles and owners put modchips in videogame repair shops, but, from 2008, some large stores in Brazil realizing that they could make money with modchips too, started selling PS2 with modchips. It was unbelievable, giant companies like "Carrefour" (a French Wallmart, famous in Brazil), selling modified PS2s. Anyway, this was a consequence of two reasons, the Playstation division was never officially in here, only from 2010 with the PS3, so, before, playing backup games was the only option. Second reason was the high price and taxes, A single original game cost practically 1/3 of the average salary of a brazilian worker. Latin America helped a lot in PS2 sales and Sony never valued it. Your videos are great, congrats!

You're pretty spot on about the middle eastern pre-modded systems! One of the last times I visited Jordan I saw several pre-modded PS2s available in shops. They were much more expensive, selling for about $300 USD when you could buy them in the US for $100 or a bit more. However it was a lot harder and more expensive to find original titles, while as pressed silver bootlegs were $1 or $2 USD each.

Now this is some Soldering Job ASMR! Love that wire management you pulled off!

Love this cable management. welldone!

Man the wiring, soldering and everything is so professional and nicely done! very satisfying to watch.

God damn, that's some of the best wire looming / wire management I have ever seen. Well done mate.

Really like the color choice of wires reminds me of blue/purple ps2 logo on the front of the console

I made my first attempt at wiring a modbo to a ps2. My only other experience wiring a mod was for my PS1. I really appreciate your videos. They are excellent primers. I did half of my mod without watching anything and then I watched your other video on your process and I noticed a decent improvement in my soldering. I will try again after mid febuary.

Same thing in Brazil. We didn't have official ps2 til 2009, so the ones that we bought pretty much all came modded. My uncle bought one in the store "sealed" and it was modded.

I modded my Fat PS2 59001 back in 06 and let me tell you even then, at 26, it kicked my ass!! The mod was definitely above my head and my soldering skills were about as bad as someone trying to cut their own hair with a potato peeler during an earthquake.. I done spent money on a bunch of bullshit from Radioshack like a set of helping hands lol.. Needless to say, about 4 hours later, I was actually successful, but the motherboard looked like rice noodles exploded all over it with puddles of hot glue everywhere!! It was definitely a humbling experience, especially seeing the level of expertise and pride that you guys put in your work.. This mod is a fucking work of art and I could never emulate that even if I practiced every day.. Much respect and I hope the PS4 can be fully modded one day..

3:01 I live in Saudi Arabia and you’re 100% right. We had problems when booting PS1 games, because modchips have varieties in booting backups.

You are the best in modding a ps2 i love all your videos and all your work keep it up 👍👍

Your work is phenomenal. Love the video too. Would love to hear more stories and facts about how you've gotten into do this etc on the voice overs

Awesome vid bud. Looking forward to the next.

Nice job man, i love it!

So I kinda got hooked to stuff like this after seeing my uncle do these kinds of things a lot and eventually I wanted to started doing it like I have the tools but idk what kind of soldering kit to get for handhelds/consoles

Awesome time-lapse video... Thanks for the content and tutorials...

Great video Paul. Your work is art!

Amazing video! Looks awesome!

PRETTY! Outstanding work. I can solder, but not as well as you, and I really enjoy your wire colors and layout. P.S. I subscribed, and of course thumbs-up! All good wishes.

This was a neat Job, bravo man

Another piece of art work :D Didnt knew about the Saudi Arabian consoles all beeing modded, so i learned somthing today. Very curious what the 30 hour project is.

Goddamn your wiring sorting skill are out of this world! Question, with this modchip you can load isos from the HDD ?

Your PS2 mods are tops! Thanks for posting

Davbere and NorCal mods I haven't heard those names in years! I was from psx-scene as well. Matrix Infinity was my chip install of choice back then. I can't count how many I installed. These days it's all about FCMB and OPL and trying to get through a multi Terabyte backlog of PS2 games I never got to play because I was too busy modding :)

Therapeutic. Nicely dond mate!

So satisfying to watch :D What kind of glue do you use to hold wire in place ? Thx

Who still does PS2 mods that are on par with this and davbere, jinn, etc?

I appreciated this video

Cheers Paul 🍻!

Same here in kuwait bahrain and uae. Those countries doesn't buy a stock ps2 console. Cause it's not a big deal if it doesn't play region or vlone games

This cable management really pleased me.

Do you plan to do a video about explaining what is been modded exactly on the board? About the microchips and what is been bypassed in that process? Which pins you connect to the mod and why etc. ?

Hey bud, you got anymore of those modbos? Need one for a v7 as well here

Yoooo meth buddy. Ive been putting this mod off. Maybe this vid will inspire me to get on it. You got a link to a qebsite w good install diagram instructions

I actually got the notification. Click the bell guys lol. Random question paul. Have you ever made a mod baord from scratch like for really old consoles like the nes or Atari? Just wondering

Wow, that's a beauty!

Excelente trabajo, la soldadura y el uso de los cables es asombroso 🔥🔥👐🏽

OMG i remember doing these the 1st DMS4 i remember pinching the kynar and womdering why it would "boot loop" did about 100 after that but never appeared this good! this is modding most people would never fully get unless they have done it. The wires look big on the video but are sooo tiny and a small slip of the soldering iron is hours of work to get the contacts free'd.. I started with the ps1 and modded all the way till the wii original then stopped console mods and went pc

Any videos on your video game convention you recently went to? RGC had to leave early and didn't get to see you.

Yeah my PS2 slim from Riyadh in Saudi has a warranty seal in Arabic but has a modchip preinstalled

ARTE PURO!

Impressive!!!

so neat

mis respetos te quedan bien limpias las instalaciones

I am from Iraq and i bought it new i think i paid $170a ps2 and all the games in Baghdad priced at $1 only so you know what thats mean, your work look very nice, its look like pcb traces,

What wire You can reccomend to mod Ps2 console? What is this glue used to glued wires to ic's and motherboard in order to put wires nicely?

Thats probably not 10000 times speed, rather 10000% speed

Skills !!!

Que modelo de ps2 fat es? Yo quiero instalar el modchip 4.0 para la SCPH-39001 me pueden darme los diagramas para esa versión.

Great work

I'm curious where you can buy modded (with chip) PS2 consoles. Of course from a place that's trustworthy. Would really like to know.

does the Mobdo 5.0D plays psx backups natively on the ps2 fat ? or does it use OPL to run them ?

Hey what is the gauge on those wires you used? I want to get a roll or two I want the smallest ones

Retrogamingarts, Its been a long time and you might not remember me but I was able to collaborate with another member on assemblergames now obscuregame(r)? Anyways the comsoft fix was tested and so was summ0nes on the other members systems. I tried on mine and learned to use double sided tape. Anyways, I can confirm from them it works, if I make a schematic would you be willing to try a v9 or v10/11? Gonna try to create the forum post in a few days and will give the link.

Can you make a tutorial to install Modbo 5.0 on PS2 Fat series SCPH 3500, please

Soo i live there and you're actually right every system sells with modchip but the problem is no one knows it's modded like my self when i was young , yesterday i went and opened both my ps2's fat and slim and i was shocked it has a modchip my fat has super7 e17 modchip and my slim has g-9 both of which are very rare and not well knows chips i was looking all over the internet about both chips but sadly nothing , back in the day you can't get the official games only bootlegs both for games and not very memory cards i actually have san andreas and vice city but not the official games their bootlegs , sadly like VERY SADLY they are scratched and i can't make a backup of them bacause they are VERY rare and i would like people to try them and see for them selfs , also i should mention this you ABSOULOTLY can't find component or rgb in middle east or composite because who cares right?? so european people has the advantage of rgb but us? NOPE! only composite video also if anyone knows about super7 or g-9 modchips and how to access their menus i'd appreciate it.

10000 times speed I wonder if 120min/5min=10000?

😊👍

You should have more subscribers.

30 hour mod video? are you installing a NEO4?

Hello! How do you glue the wires to the Board?

Не понятно зачем это нужно, но было приятно смотреть

I thought i heard a king of fighters 96 theme song in the background

I was expecting Voultar to be mentioned but...))

i'm from iran every ps2 that sold past there also been moded ps2

same in algeria :') No chance to put ur hand on reatail PS2

What tools did you use to install that chip?

wallpaper ???? xD

вентиляторы на видяхе не работают

MY STYLE IS MAKING A YELLOW FLEX PCB AND EVERYTHING IS ALREDY IN PLACE MUCH EASY

ii use soft mode i wish some day I able soft mode Xbox 360

Yo where u beeeeeen

0,25x still look so fast 😅

You didnt go all the way and speak at time lapse speed. For shame.

First. Keep up the good work.

强迫症，反正封装在机器的里面又看不到

I sent you a message on Facebook regarding a mutually beneficial video idea. Obviously no pressure and no hard feelings if you aren't interested, but I thought it'd be right up your alley.

And finally, the PS2 don't work. Your RESET point is wrong, young padawan ! Pfffffff....... -_-