James is the best, he actually fixes the junk random silly things most youtubers would only laugh at.

It's so weird seeing such a huge company like Sony make a famiclone in the shape of Namco's wonderful Polystation.

I think the James method of "take it apart, laugh at it, and fix it" is a perfect complement to Wade's "plug it in, yell at it, and break it"

This thing was such a classic in Latin America that Polystation is the word we use to call all NES clone console, it's great, love it

Opening the disc tray lid and seeing a cartridge slot instead is so funny to me

I love that Wade has like an infinite amount of “stinky names” that scroll and James has a handful. It seems more grass roots over here on this channel. I LOVE IT HERE.

Oh a Polystation, that's a classic, how many Christmas Dreams did that thing ruin when their parents thought they bought the console their kids asked for. lol Nice video, nice piece of history, famiclones were the first contact of a lot of people with videogames

oo thats a classic up here in brazil, so glad i never had to suffer with one of those

This brings me joy to see you fix bootleg junk like this. The PolyStation needed to be preserved so future generations can know true gaming.

Funny enough, as a chilean guy, i have fond memories of the Polystation. My dad gave me one as a birthday gift when i was like 8 years old. At the time, he knew i liked videogames (mostly because i played them with my cousins at their home) but didnt have enough money to give me an original console and games, but i love it anyway. I remember my Polystation looked a lot like the second model of the PS1.

As a collector of bootleg stuff, I’m so happy that you repaired the dingus instead of just yelling at it and then throwing it away! :)

I'm glad I'm not the only one who likes bootleg stuff. I'm often laugh uncontrollably in a Sunday market!

Always a joy to see you rip into electronics, thanks for the entertaining vids man

James is truly becoming the new Ashens, I love him so much

I now deeply need to acquire a copy of "RESCUE KUCK". What a title.

Seems wrong seeing one of these not on a brown sofa

PolyStation is what they called my dorm room

These types of systems were my childhood. After the breakup of Yugoslavia, us kids had to have the latest toys to play, so this is what we had... In 2000s... It still did great job diverting attention from the real world

The Namco Polystation really is one of the consoles of all time.

the Polystation, a Latin American cristmas classic! nice vid as always james channel!

I'd love to see more playstation repair/modding videos, like a CD drive replacement etc

I love how I can come here for laughs (which you provide very much of), but also incidentally learn how old consoles worked.

love this style of video James! lot's of folks take a look at bootlegs and just come to the obvious conclusions "yeah it's a curiosity, but it's junk. don't buy it" love that you actually went the distance to not only look at it's ugly guts but also attempt to diagnose and fix it

Excellent video James, you strike a really good balance of being informative, funny, having good pacing, AND you've got a cute cat. Truly a Renaissance man.

I'm a software engineer and do a bit of reverse engineering from time to time, but I know basically nothing about electronics. I love how easy and similar (on some level) to what I do you make it look.

Apparently the Polystation's main market was in Brazil. I've heard a lot of people from the 90s have nostalgia for NES games not because of the NES, but the Polystation. Kinda wish to have one, one day, love me some terrible NES clone I'll play once and never touch again

Your method of determining polarity is genius!

James be like "come on kitty meow, daddy needs an outro"

I've been going through a rough time on my way to getting an electrical engineering degree. Your channel has given those sparks to keep me going

I adore that you actually bothered putting in a better voltage regulator and fixing the controller

Man, I've always heard of the Polystation... and also saw the kinda design in a video on the "Polystation 2" Shocked to finally see a real Polystation, thanks James!

“Why stop at a million games, a billion, infinity! sky’s the limit when you don’t give a shit!” - Jontron

My dad actually bought me one of these back in the day when I asked for a psone (he didn't really know what a play station was but he saw this at the local flea market and bought it lol). I was disappointed initially but it did grow on me soon enough. For like 20 bucks it cost at the time the gaming experience was solid. It ran decently enough and was something the entire family enjoyed playing. Lasted us for like two years and it probably would have lasted longer if it werent for a thunderstorm power surge that took it out. It amazes me there are still examples of this thing surviving in the wild.

Thank you for the education . I love this channel

2 minutes in and I’ve learned like 5 new things, great video!

I am so glad your channel finally got recommended to me. Been binging your videos which has been a blast ❤❤

Excellent James content!

That's a great example of how far miniaturization progressed between when that thing was built and the original NES though, that's about all it really shows.

Thank you James, I’m going to be a computer engineer one day, and I’m learning a lot with you! I’ll know how to take crap and make it okay.

Oh wow! I learn so much from watching these videos. I really enjoy your content man. Thanks!

ohhh! i had a polystation when i was a kid, and for a 4 year old kid it was pretty cool

Seeing this today made my lunchtime dump scrolling really worthwhile. Thank you !

James channel is great. Can't wait to see what the secret message his cat has been to telling us all along, turns out to be.

Man this channel gets better and better every time love it 😍

when i was a kid my dad meaning to buy me a playstation 3 got me a polystation 3 instead and i still remember how funny and sad it felt as he so happily pulled the box out of the bag and in big ugly spiderman font it screamed Polystation 3. it literally played the exact same games as this one. truly a humbling experience thank you james

This poly thing is so old I remember seeing one when I was going to school back in the early 2000s with my childhood girlfriend. They've been around for a really long time, I never expected to see one again. 😃😄

Legitimately one of my favorite channels at the moment.

The Polystation is pretty famous for being in that song about bootlegs. See if you can find a Power Joy. It's a famiclone inside a modified N64 controller that has a light gun built into it. The slot needs slight modification to get actual famicom games into it. The controller looks like someone tried to make a jet fighter out of a N64 controller.

Oh shit, that's how you read the ac-dc converters

I use to have one of these when I was a kid with a few "100 in 1" cartridges. This bring back some memories alright 😂

This was a good video, interesting to see inside one of those and glad to see you got it working

used to have a weird obsession with this when i was like 6 cuz it was hilarious to me when i saw the cartridge port under the cd lid. thanks for the epic videos !!

Very cute cat of yours!

I cheer everytime I see a 7805. What a true blue legend that reg is.

I consider myself a repairer, but I feel like watching James will teach me quite a lot of useful things. go mate!

easily one of my favourite channels despite everything going over my head

I remembered that my parents would buy this one for us. This might be one of my first exposures to gaming. Good times (even the bootleg feel of this "console")

This brings me back to way better times, what a nostalgia trip!

I actually reaaaaally enjoyed seeing you fix that trash!

Thanks, James.

I love how James' red desk is like a Yin to Dank's green Yang.

This channel is bloody great.

This was great, entertaining ,fun ,informative and fixing stuff just fantastic many thanks for all the effort 🙂

Honestly, seeing you fixing this Famiclone was the best part.

Great video 😊🇧🇷

Famiclones were super popular here in Brazil back in the day and a remember a friend of mine had the Polystation, really cool seeing somene talk about it in a video.

it's always a gr- awesome day when james uploads.

I love that you fixed the junk up.

Nice video James. This was my first ever console when i was a kid. Mine was shaped like the smaller, slim version of the PlayStation. It had only 10 actual games, a white background with some trees and a short music loop on the menu. At that time my family coudn't afford the real console, but a few years later i got my PlayStation 2. For some reason (i can't remember why) i also got a version of the Sega Master System made by a brand called TecToy - it had around 130 classic games from the console, and was a licensed product by Sega. Even though i already had my ps2 i still enjoyed playing on it a lot too xD Aerial Assault, Gain Ground, the original Sonic and a few other games where my favourites on it.

Very famous in Romania around 2000's. The polystation is still close to a nes console. We had a console called Terminator 2 and besides the nes games, nothing was compatible with NES console. Still,we had a lot of fun with it

I had this exact model. I'm nostalgic for it, simpler times.

2:36 oh dang I recognize that "some weird guy in an Armenian hat" Mario; that's the version of the game Russian kids got on their sketchy unlabeled Dendy cartridges back in the early 90s. that is one old-ass bootleg.

Wow this still exists?! I had This exact Polystation Nes back in 1998 when I was 7 years old.

Love your content James! I wish you could cover more topics though.

Oh I had one. The moon Mario had the physics tweaked so you could do hilariously high jumps if you don't run if I remember correctly. You could pass almost all the levels just jumping and staying outside the screen for some seconds. For the time, it was fun. The fancy one if it's the same, had a bug that made some of the previous/next blocks to draw again on a "fancy" way, they were fake and silverish.

I remember seeing a boxed PolyStation in a charity shop and having a chuckle. I sort of wish I'd bought it

Now those are some amazing polygon graphics 👌

This is actually kind of interesting - I can remember seeing the "PolyStation" in Hong Kong, but it was significantly different from this. The most obvious difference was that it had a 60 pin Famicom cartridge connector. It also had a 50/60Hz switch and was doing the same sort of dubious trickery that the HK version Famicom did to allow 60Hz games to display on a 50Hz TV when set to 50Hz mode. The built in games were different - I think the one I saw was "22 in 1" - but amazingly they were all actually different games.

As much of a treasure as wade is i like this style of content so much more Both of you are amazing tho

You managed to fix an old nes clone AND showed how to was done. Wow. I’m subscribing .

Nice video!

As always old mate James delivers with a banger video

"Thanks Grandma. This is exactly what I wanted for my birthday...."

Love everything about this

I remember when I was in Madeira in 99, there was a shop in Funchal (I think) that had these stacked floor to ceiling :D

James i love all the little wade inspirations. Maybe that's why you two are friends. Saw a lot of wade in this video.

Ooh, nice wee trick for finding the polarity of DC power inputs.

I love that Super Mario title screen every time I see it. It's known as "Mary 2" on my 31 in 1 multicart.

Beautiful fluffy cat at the end 🐈🙂

You know it’s a good day when James channel posts😊

My aunt got me this for Christmas when I was small, box had all kinds of characters on it including pikachu lmao came with a cart that had thousands of games and had even more when it was booted without a cart. Good times lol

The Polystation is a legendary system !

I really didn't think that you would be able to make the 192043084890th Famiclone I've ever seen interesting, but alas, you did exactly what I didn't expect. Great job! Also: what decides which video you work on when?

Somewhere there is someone who was introduced to videogames through one of these. I assume they are now a serial killer or a politician.

Polystation takes me back to the ashens polystation videos

Honestly for a cheap NOAC, it works suprisingly well. Got the duty cycles correct. Basically like a slightly better Dendy. Also pretty surprising it uses the 72 pin connector. Usually it’s 60.

"I needed the female end for another project." Sentences you don't want to hear out of context.

The polystation was the only console I ever owned. Directly to PC gaming after that, since it was "more affordable".

I had one of these. Sort of? It was also called a Polystation but the controller was a more direct copy and it came with a bunch of NES and SNES games pre-loaded with no option for cartridges. It was pretty fun honestly.

when he said "thats some terrible soldering" i felt that