So this is where it starts... the legend of Dave!

This is what KZfaq was designed for - sharing knowledge and experience to help others. The fact that you took the time to list all the part nos and Cap values so others can repair their devices as well is so great. I don't have a PS1 but if I did I'd be over the moon. 👍

Hi! It's been a while since I took a PSOne screen apart, but I'm pretty sure that the LCD driver IC does have a PAL/NTSC selection pin with a convinient test pad. Setting this to NTSC should allow it to play both PAL och NTSC. Could be a fun little project. :) (I did something similar for a project a few years back when building a mini arcade cabinet)

OMG!! The glasses and the Voultar bit...toooo good mate! :-D

I had a playstation back when i was in the US Navy (1999 - 2003) and took it with me everywhere. In my first deployment to the Persian Gulf I had it chipped (modded) and bought a ton of games for $1 each. Memories.

Wow you are doing an awesome job Steve. I mean that's quality right there, running the wires underneath the chipped legs and stuff. That looks very nice, very good. Good skills and soldering through the edge of the wire instead of trimming into length that's a good trick too, using the heat of the solder. That's really neat. This is great, I love the work

That voultar shout out was perfect. 😂

Heya Stez, nicely installed! Just a heads up on cap replacements in these older systems. They tend to use aluminium electrolytic capacitors because ceramics can lose a load of capacitance in areas with high DC bias. Notice how the PS1 has some SMD MLCC caps already? The engineers chose to use electrolytics in the places where they were needed. Using MLCC's like this will have thrown the circuit slightly out of whack, looks like it's not a big deal though at least. It's worth bearing in mind though for future projects. Also I have it on good authority Dave says you shouldn't twist off caps! If you want to be lazy just clip the can just above the plastic base of the SMD with some flush cuts, then desolder the remaining legs with a regular iron. Twisting caps off is a recipe for torn pads :(

I've watched your vids every time they've popped up in my feed for the past month or so, and I'm so glad to finally be led to the Dave origin story.

Neat wiring job with that chip install - Great video man! Enjoyed.

Watching soldering in general is so therapeutic. And you're not too bad at it! I want to mod my PS1 classic but I have no idea where to start or even buy a mod chip from

I love your content, and this video may be 8 months old, but the way you handled that metal gear solid disc was nothing short of sacrilegious. Hold it by the edges, man!!

I had to restart the video because I was laughing about Dave's new immortality that I missed the beginning of the PS One plan of action. Another great video.

Why did the preservation of Dave melt my heart so?

I sit here amazed at you ‘get-cracking’, easy-peazy brilliant

Great video! I just did the exact thing about 2 months ago. On my console I found most of the caps were leaking. The video was garbled but had sound. The Cap replacement fixed the problem!

Neat solution to routing the wires both as in ingenious and literally.

Very clean mod reminds me of my highschool friends who soldered jumpers all over the MB. I called it the mad max desktop

The background music (around 2 mins) is so relaxing. I love it!

Glad to see other people using smd for this. In the process of putting in a PsNee and instructions showed a bent up through-hole one. Having a board similar tot he one you used, but once sided. Expecting it to be easier to solder and place than the larger package.

Dave🤣 That video was really good Steve. Lovely work, very entertaining!

Another great fix and quite interesting too there Steve on your PS One - nice 1 👍

Awesome video mate - and happy to see Dave got saved forever. You can patch NTSC PSX isos to PAL quite easily buddy. There was also an internal Video CD mod you used to be able to get from LikSang back in the day (I'm trying to track one down but having little luck) was cool to be able to watch movies in the car. Fantastic work as always, and loved the Voultar parody, that dudes got some skills

Dude you are the most exciting fix it video guy I've ever seen. I'm actually learning stuff from your videos too. I hope to one day be able to use a soldering iron and actually fix/ diagnose my own game consoles. I've spent a fortune throughout my life paying repair dudes to fix my stuff.

I discovered you a few weeks ago and have been binge watching. I’m glad I finally got the see the video you put Dave in resin. Last week I saw the one you found him. I’m easily distracted.

How the hell do you not have a gagillion subs is beyond me. Best engineering channel on KZfaq.

Thoroughly enjoyed my binge watch to catch up! I'll try not to get so behind next time ;)

Voltair!!! He does great soldering!

Another excellent video Steve keep them coming mate 👍🏻

Even though I'm not going to even think about opening my PSone I still like that you gave time to screenshot the list. Nothing worse than trying to time a screenshot of a list that's off at an obscure angle in the background and only visible for 2 frames. Keep up the good work man. Love the content!

Omg. Your comedic timing with your facial expressions is classic in your vids. Keep up the great work dude!! You made my day.

Lol I like how he pauses and questions voultars phrases. The thing voultar says definitely aren't family friendly but he does great work.

From now on all your videos are either B.D. (Before Dave) or A.D. (After Dave) - how we love him

Having a early morning coffee and nearly spat it all out when i looked up and you was looking back with hem stunnerz on.

Beautiful work. I use thinner enamelled copper wire, but I didn't think to use one of those PCB breakouts for the PIC.

thanks steve you made modding them easy and re capping as well i love the way you listed the codes and values for each cap a fully educational video

Your Voultar impression made me cackle! 🤣 Great job man! I wish I had your skills as I have already assassinated a psone console attempting this stuff 😅 I'm subbing right away look forward to more videos 👌🏻

Ahhhhhhh..... now Dave makes total sense!

Great work. I would wear protective glasses if you get those caps hot they have the ability to explode or pop with the cap going airborne. I always using hot air cover those caps and make sure no direct heat is being applied to the caps. However, great job and I always love the videos.

i love your repair videos. Keep up the exelent work

Lol you made history with Dave!

It's a PAL(50Hz) vs NTSC(60Hz) issue with the screen, see if there is an menu option to switch it. Great video Steve!

Who ever given the idea about the dave . Could gift award lol

Nice job, Crash Bandicoot and Crash Team Racing are my favorite PSone games.

Love the legend of Dave.

Really nice and tidy work Steve 😉

This must be your most classic episode "The Birth of Dave!!"

Lmao that Voultar reversed quote sent me! 😂😂

YEESSSSSS! The Dave-lore is complete ;)

Nice work on those capacitors!

I didn't hear a word you said for the first 5 minutes because I went into deep thought about the preservation of Dave 😆

2:11 I have never seen such an honest face before and I belive you.

O.M.G! Dave the Lice! reminds me of 2 things. Them magazines you used to buy monthly, with bugs in square resin blocks. Other is Jurassic Park! Now if we get giant bugs taking over, it's Your fault brother Steve! giving them them D.N.A 🤣🤣 Now do the (DFO) Mod Kit Install and try the screen, The (3.3V SMD Version) is the best! Gone! are the days of seeing peoples, abomination installs of the MultiMode3. You made it look so good!!! 👍🏻

Dave immortalized!

Wonderful job, Always excited to watch your videos, thank you.. 💗 💗 💗

"So strap back, and sit on" - You cheeky little so-and-so!! HAHAHAH!

This is a very important part of Dave's character arc 👍

The man is back! Nice!

I enjoyed the music on this one.

I had that problem when I was a kid. Had a modded PS1, but I couldn't play NTSC games on my PAL console. My TV would do the same thing as your LCD screen. Remember downloading a tool that could convert any game into PAL and that worked wonderfully.

Great video mate and a very tidy mod. As soon as I seen the screen not working I new it would be a Pal/NTSC issue. If it’s not possible to change the setting on the screen you can find Pal converters for the ps1 that just plug in to the display port of the console, maybe you could mod it somehow to be inside the console, there is also other converters but not specifically for the ps1.

You were hilarious here Steve. I lol'ed several times x

Ey this will be a nice video to fall asleep to. Resin piece Dave

Yes there are PAL and NTSC LCD screens. Pal PSOne has a boot protection and it measures the freq on boot. Onechip sets this freq at 60Hz and That's because you can't properly see the boot sequence in your pal LCD screen, because it needs to be set at 60Hz in order to make the Usa/JAP games compatibles. And That's why the NTSC PSOne doesn't need the onechip extra features.

the answer is simple: the modchip you installed is a onechip. it forced the bios to goin on NTSC video mode for bypass the executable region mode. And yes, your screen is PAL Only

I for one am comforted knowing Dave is immortalized in resin. Years from now you can wear Dave as an amulet. Friends forever and Everrrrrr... Meanwhile you can sell "Daves" in resin key-chains and rings, amulets ! for $5.00 not including shipping OFC (not kidding btw, Its Y.T. it ll work.)

Good imitation of voultar 👍 approved :)

I have always wanted to do a mod chip, you made it look so easy. I hope you can find a way to use the screen so we can get another video on this :D haha

Oh my god, I found Dave’s entombment origin.

All hail dave for he is born again!

Quality repair skills in action, great job. I’m still squeamish about twisting capacitors off circuit boards but I’ll try to be more positive in future. Many thx and keep up the great work 😀👍

Hi, great videos! Any plans on making a video on how to solder and what tools you need? Like temperature, soldertip size, why use flux, what solder to use when etc?

Skills 10:10. Video & Content 10:10. Drawing, meh 6:10 🙂. Great stuff as always matey

This is great content. I fix pinball boards and find this very enjoyable

Very nice video. Always love soldering work, and your take on Voultar's mod work is just as nice! (Sadly, mine wasn't and I ended up mostly killing my board. You know this already, but never twist. The hot air station is the best way, although I have seen soldering tweezers. I was kind of hoping you'd blow off some smaller components around there, but that didn't happen. Instead of converting the LCD to NTSC, why not convert the modchip to only output in PAL?

Wny why isn’t your channel getting traction.. it’s so much fun .. keep it up

I love Dave 😍

the programable chip reminds me of the early 90's when we had eproms that got erased with light and were programable.

DAAAVEEEE!!!

I used a burned disk to choose PAL or NTSC Accidentally i downloaded this swap boot disk image i thought it's can run backups like the Dreamcast boot disk I just made a search i found new version called *ImportPlayer Light v2.1*

Great upload many memories of my old PS 1 is this the model that is the audiophile or was that the older larger one.?

love your vids

Clean as heck

I am learning how to repair electronics watching all your vids. Keep up the good work. 🙏

why am I binging this channel?

Oh wow - Dave’s origin story.

amazing. just a tip next time you incase a Dave in carbonite. Hit the resin with a heat gun or solder hot air gun. to remove bubbles and end up with a crystal clear ball. unless you where going for a snow globe look? I'm sure Dave doesn't mind either way.

Thanks for another enjoyable video. So glad you got your Barbie game backed up! Peace of mind 🤣

I had an original PS1 that I got a mod plug for. It was great, didn't even have to open the case.

Very interesting watch that. I'm sure the same software is used for the PS4 if you've got a "corrupted" NOR chip 👍🏻

Voultar's thing he use to say is "spit on it, climb on and rotate", or am I all wrong? I found your channel a couple of weeks ago, and in my opinion you do some of the more integrering videos! Thank you!!

Back in the day the psone needed 2 mod chips One chip was for back ups and region free Which is what you put in And the other was to allow n t s c games to show in colour when you used the r f lead on a tv and ps1 screen as most kids bedroom televisions only had r f and not the r g b inputs All other PlayStation s used a single chip but we chipped the psone with two

It’s a long time ago but I remember patching the iso files to convert games to PAL, the dodgy sites where those patches were found are probably long long gone! Perhaps nick the circuit design from a cheap ntsc/pal converter.

I wasn't sure if I was watching a man install a modchip or start a tent revival! I'm noticing some odd music choices with these older videos 😂 I was also gonna talk shit on Voultard, but I'll leave it. I'm actually quite surprised he's not in the comments section as he loves the attention.

Dave is reborn

Dave knew all along Steve,but you couldn't hear him because you entombed him in resin ! 😂

Man, you make me wish that I could send you my SCPH-7501 to have a mod-chip installed. I bought a chip off eBay - it came with the wires and that little green board already attached to the chip, so I figured it was already programmed and would be ready for an easy install. Anyway, you make this stuff look so easy... it didn't work when I tried installing it, and in the process of redoing it, I think I killed that PS1. I have two, so my second is still good and works, and I can work with capacitors / do a full recap, but as far as the mod-chip, I gave up on that :(

Screen must work on composite. If using screen can at least use RGB cable to side step issue.

It is the programming on the chip, change it that is will force run US games in PAL mode, that will fix your issue. Your other option is to go with a different firmware for your chip

I'm not an expert on PS1 mod chips but I know that there must be a plethora of different mod chip firmwares out there. The chip installed in my old PAL-PS1 for example allows NTSC original games, but not copies - neither PAL, nor NTSC, which is fine as I collected original games only and I wanted to play US games for a) the lack of censorship and b) the original language (the German language version of MGS has atrocious dubbing, for example). That being said: At 11:25 you program the chip with a firmware that is named "ONEChip for SCPH-102 (PAL Only + Boot NTSC region fix included).hex". This filename would indicate to me this: - it only works on this specific "SCPH-102" Playstation model, which is a PAL variant The bits in the parentheses are even more interesting: - "PAL Only": this MAY indicate that it only allows for copies of PAL games, but not NTSC ones (as the SCPH-102 already specified that it is for a PAL console) - "Boot NTSC region fix": allows for NTSC originals(!), as the "only" in the bit before it signals that only PAL copies are allowed A different firmware, if available, could give you different results in regards to NTSC copies... About the display: While PAL Playstations CAN NOT output NTSC signals they CAN indeed output 60 Hz signals so you CAN play NTSC games on it, if you modded the console and provide a display that accepts 60 Hz signals. Most later (mid 90ies+) PAL CRT-TVs apparently were able to accept 60 Hz video -- similar to the popular PAL video monitors from Commodore for the Amiga (I have the 1081 model). While there were a few true multi-region PAL displays that would also accept NTSC signals the vast majority simply didn't have the hardware for it. This means that if you use the composite or S-Video outputs of the Playstation (which both have color encoding) you would only get a black & white image on most PAL displays. However, if you use the RGB-output of the Playstation you CAN display NTSC games in color as you circumvent the color encoding altogether (as you feed the red, green and blue signals separately into the display). The SCART inputs of the aforementioned 60 Hz PAL-TVs usually accept RGB signals so you would get the best image quality possible from the PS. Todays PAL flatscreens might also work because AFAIK they are specified for both 50 and 60 Hz (in HD modes but LIKELY also on their analog inputs) and still have SCART inputs, many (most?) of which are still RGB-capable. From what I know, NTSC flatscreens don't necessarily accept 50 Hz but most NTSC users don't care for PAL games anyway... ;-) The "original" mini PS One LCD screen may not work with NTSC games at all (I never had one), but there are definitely multi-system mini-LCDs out there that accept both PAL and NTSC. Ashens has a good video on those tiny screens of the PS One ("PS One Portable Screens"), BTW... Finally, I don't remember when exactly the mod chip inserts itself into the boot process but it COULD be that it always switches the video output of the PAL PS1 to 60 Hz first (which would explain the "running" boot screen on the mini LCD) before it recognizes the PAL game (Metal Gear Solid in this case) and switches the PS1 to 50 Hz, which then shows a stable image on the mini LCD. Sorry for the long text... ;-)