I Bought Two RARE "TEST" PS2's But They're Broken

I Bought Two RARE "TEST" PS2's But They're Broken - Let's Try To Save Them!

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I Bought Two RARE "TEST" PS2's But They're Broken - Let's Try To Save Them! I paid $600 for both of these PlayStation 2 Test consoles. Of course they are broken so I get to try to fix them. Both of them have issues with their disc drives and it's up to me to see if I can get them working and playing games again!
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@Maverick_Jones45

Next video should be buying a lot of broken PS2s to see if u can fix them and if u can make money off of it..

@adriane.8654

The second PS2 is not really fixed: The disc tray doesn't fully opens and closes back after a brief period of time. You'll notice the blue blinking light, it will stop blinking when the disc tray is fully opened or fully closed. Great video, I enjoy watching you repair all kind of stuff. :)

@KosmoCrisis

At Sony, we used to have a room called the "Soak Test" room where these TEST PS2s would be used to run soak tests for multiple revs of a title on a different screens over night. This room was always very hot due to 30 or so consoles in there. This is awesome.

@TelthDeMont

When testing a PS2 you should always test with a PS1 game, a PS2 CD Game (Blue Disk) and a PS2 DVD game (Silver) as it may work for 1 but not the others due to potential laser issue.

@Ali-G-2112

I really think it’s worth checking into if there is anything on that hard drive in the second unit. It’s very possible it could have some demos or betas from games that were developed on there and if so would be a great thing to archive for preservation purposes. Love your videos btw

@AlDim000

That DVD tray still isn't fixed. You need to put way more grease on it, especially where the metal rod goes on the side of the tray. You need to take the rod out, clean everything, and then grease it up.

@rietzhu Күн бұрын

I know its been 11 months and even if they are fixed.. give it time and wait for the inevitable “DRE” (Depending on model #) message that plagued the fat ps2’s… I love Tronix but true gamers know not to waste cash on that version.. a better more interesting repair would have been fixing that DRE.. which I assume would be easy for Tronix! The Dreaded DRE incident ended when The slim rolled out. A little sad Sony history for you.

@TheCod3r

I love how they even kept the font the same for the "TEST" text lol

@SlamdalfTheGrey

It's awesome that these aren't region locked, it's like the ultimate PS2

@paulnewhouse5126

That hard drive you scored inside number 2 could be worth a fortune to the right homebrew developers.

@notmyrealname1526

Those aren't dev kits, they're debug units.

@justinlira1841

@tomekhbr

Both of them had still working clock battery, you can tell by the blue circles spinning in "main menu" (when cmos battery is dead, there's no clock running and there is only one blue dot on screen, not moving). Pretty amazing, considering the system age and guarantee seal not voided (so most likely these were not opened before). Acutually these old fat ps2 had more often working original batteries then much newer slim models.

@CDRaff

One thing to remember about the PS2 is that the laser would get misaligned which would cause it to not be able to read some types of discs. It would be prudent to keep both CD and DVD based games to test them with because the error was so widespread.

@xdragonneonx

The grinding noise/slow moving tray is mainly caused by the railing piece under the disc tray not being well lubricated enough. Doesn't have much to do with the gears

@sirflimflam

Oh man this takes me back!! I used to use these testkits (and later the gigantic PS3 devkits while they were still sorting out ps3 testkits on the ps3 launch) on a daily basis when I worked for SCEA. This particular device isn't actually a devkit per say, since its purpose was mostly for QA meaning we had more booting options and settings we could change. There were literally hundreds of these things lined up side by side at Sony.

@TheChaoticWolf

Awesome! I've always wanted one of these. They're not devkits, but debug kits, though they were used together with devkits during game development to test games

@blueyez1980

That transition at

@LucaBlightOfHighland

What's interesting about that hard drive is that it's clearly a Maxtor model but with the Sony branding on the sticker, I think it's much rarer than the debug units themselves.