Cheers :-) Had a play with the Rode Connect settings which seems to have done pretty well with it. I'm still going to grab a filter for it though shortly 👍

Great idea. I have an analogue meter thinking of it, I'll dig it out and see what the result is. Many thanks for the suggestion 👍

@@AndrewPaul Also works for detecting bad/ intermittent spot on potentiometer , good visual indication that digital meter just can't give you.....

Hopefully by the end of this series we can both have a fully working PSX! Many thanks for watching :-)

Thank you :-)

Interesting to know mate, thank you :)

Thanks 👍

Thank you!

Glad you like them bud. Could well be a cap issue, either that or an issue on the ribbons between the AV board and motherboard. I'll try and have a closer look at mine and see if there's anything else I can recommend.

Thanks!

I did consider looking at this, but what concerned me was the extra heat generated in what is already a tight, hot space right next to that hard disk drive as it is. Still torn though as it would be nice if possible 😂

Hi, thank you for the comment :-) When it starts to glitch and you quit back to XMB, if you try to relaunch the game straight away, will it load back up and be OK again for a few minutes or does it start to misbehave straight away again? Any weird clicks or spinning up/down noises from the drive etc?

@@AndrewPaul Thanks for getting back to me! i can relaunch the disc in xmb. The disc drive does not appear to behave abnormally. No clicking of the drive heads or the disc motor ramping up or stopping. It will usually launch the game again but to the same symptom. Sometimes it wont and the system needs to be rebooted(not the common outcome). The only Japanese ps2 game i have is Initial D special stage. It plays the into video and everything fine. Loads the main menu. You can select game mode, your car(all 3d models and music are loading fine), your stage....then it loads the stage. Here is where we get trouble. Sometimes you can play 30 seconds into the race before everything goes nuts, sometimes it freaks out as soon as it is finished loading the stage. There is no set time it takes, it is random. It also does not matter the stage, car, or game mode(i tried). It is funny sometimes. Almost resembles some sort of logic issue. Sometimes the screen goes black with repeating engine noise, but your HUD stays visible. Sometimes your car flys through the air spinning around with the background glitching. When the flying car happens I noticed the speedometer starts rising rapidly. I was apparently flying through the mountain stage at 870 KPH. Thats probably a record of some sort lol. I should upload a video. It wont be for a month though.

That's usually down to a defective hard disk drive :( You can still get some use out of it, just use Free MCBoot to bypass the XMB.

Thanks man. Key is to plan out the install - before you start place the chip where you want it, look at the grouping of the points on the board and orient the chip accordingly so the wires have as natural a run back to the chip as possible. Attach all wires to their motherboard points first, then group them together and run a tiny bead of super glue across the wire group as you go back towards the modchip.

Sure - they're Fluke TP-88s here: amzn.to/3HiXS0W There are some cheaper non-Fluke branded ones on there also but I've no idea what the fit / quality of those are like.