Dude, who are you to tell someone to go to the gym. It’s people like you that give others body image issues. Get a life and take that bull somewhere else.
@@davidlescarbeau521Don’t be all lame with that body positivity crap. Fat is bad, should never be happy like that. I was getting fat and did something about it before it was too late.
I live in Brazil, and early 2000s gaming would not exist here without modchiping. A friend works in a game repair shop, the majority of consoles he fixes are PS2s.
In Indonesia, same situation. Game shops are still offering to chip ps1 and ps2 till this day. Original disc are rarity, there are so many bootlegs. Heck, the PS2 I bought in 2006 (model 75006 HK/SG version) has unknown modchip (not matrix or modbo, simply unbranded)
I was stationed in South Korea in 2001 and received a PS2 for my birthday. Took it to a Korean game shop, stood in line for 20 minutes while the guy modded two PS2s ahead of me, handed him my box, watched him do his thing, got it back and paid my 50,000 won (appx $40 at that time). Picked up a dozen burned ISOs for another 100k won while I was at it.
It’s not a step by step guide because he literally doesn’t tell you what brand mod chip, where he got it from, how much it cost. The mod chip doesn’t even look like his own.
I remember when the first no swap chip (except for DVD games) came out, the NEO 4. It required some 40 or 50 wires to be soldered. I ended up shipping my PS2 to a guy in California to have it fitted, which I still have today in 2022 and it still works.
Oh man, did you send yours to eccsmods? He was the best at the time. I ended up buying my OG Messiah chip from him. Never got around to installing the neo4 I bought.
@@JeffisWinning That's crazy lol. The name just popped into my head when you said Cali. I remember him and foundmy were the main dudes for modding back then.
Love seeing the Voultar Special; the neatly arranged "lanes" of white wires side by side, held in place with glue. It's such a much nicer look than loose wires fanning out like cobwebs.
For real, I'm just sitting here enjoying the music and watching how tight those wires are soldered in. All of a sudden Eiji's theme kicks in and I'm marking out.
It's actually hard for me to watch other youtubers do console mods now, it seems like no one else puts nearly as much effort into making the installations clean.
I did the 30 wire mod twice on a friend's Wii (and his friend's as well). I had to grind one chip a little to get at the three clipped pins too. Man. that was a challenge. I has access at the time to a really nice Metcal soldering iron and a microscope... and then a few years later, I did soft-mods on my own Wii. Confusing as hell but so much easier! :D
I just stumbled across this video and I just gotta say that I love the way you talk about what you’re doing, what products you like to use and things being ‚a walk in the park‘, it’s so incredibly enthusiastic and at the same time calming, it makes me wanna solder mod chips into all the PlayStations in the world!
Omg my body is ready. I was an installer for these back in the day. It was very challenging and I screwed up at least a few. I just finished an infinity mod and working on some broken systems but my skills took a hit and I've been learning again. People like Voultar can definitely show this old buck a thing or too. Awesome 👍
My modded ps1 with a plug mod, a pen spring, and all the blank discs allowance could buy was the only way I got to play so many great games. I remember when my uncle bought a j tag Xbox when they first got big, his son showed it off every time I went to visit (this was a while later) I always wanted to learn, and figured it would be fun to install physical mods, but I never had the spare income when I was young and interested enough to learn. Now I just watch voultar’s videos lol. All my systems are softmodded, except my Saturn has a fenrir in it (but that required no soldering) One has to be creative when one grows up poor, and the early 2000’s mod scene was such an innovative space to watch from the side. It seemed like new exploits were rolled out weekly
This was one of the first hardware mods I did on my collection and I was only able to because your guides were just excellent Voultar, my SCPH-35001 still runs like a champ!
Not gona lie, ps2 phat was the second modchip i attempted after doing a xeno in my gamecube. Nailed it first try but prior to modding i soldered industrially for a living just never circuit boards. I also gotta say youre probably one of my favorite youtubers in terms of soldering, alot of these other guys handle the iron like they are afraid of it
This took me back to welding class in HS. Teacher hated me, not because my welds. They were perfect and held. He'd be pissed cause I was afraid of the torch haha. Good times.
I put one of these in an old PS2 fat this morning, after previously only using software mods to varying degrees of success. I was able to use the KSGER soldering station with the tip I always use, even though these are some really small points. Using wire-wrap wire is a must. While my wiring isn't nearly as neat as this one, and I used Kapton tape instead of super glue, it worked the first time. If there's any question as to whether you have solder bridges, bust out the multimeter and buzz everything out (hopefully, have a meter that has good latching so it buzzes immediately if there's continuity)
I bought my KSGER on your recommendation video a few years ago. Best iron I have ever used in the last 35 years! I look forward to using it every time, so thanks mate!
I remember the mod-chip wars of the early 2000's. I personally was modding PS1 systems around then. I did a couple PS2's but very far and few inbetween. Great work Voultar on the install.
This was like watching a short art movie, simply amazing soldering skills, the installation was so clean, simply beautiful. EDIT: You got yourself a new subscriber, great content.
messiah, messiah 2, matrix mxl, mxl2, infinity, dms3, 4.. I memorized every schematic except v3 that were quite rare. Did hundreds of installs. Soldered kilometers of awg30 with a JBC am6000. My favorite awg30 was Ok international brand with 60/30 radial soldering wire. Great times. I started with psx and 12c508s
Great stuff, super neat and tidy as ever. You've covered nearly every rev PS2 install in awesome detail. These are invaluable, studied them before attempting the install. Thanks for taking the time to put them together.
Loved the video Voultar, I've never modded that specific model but did others a long long time ago. It's how I learned to solder and is why I am where I am today. This video brought back alot of awesome memories.
I'm convinced this dude is the best electronics technician in the world. The Millenial nostalgia of classic Playstation gaming mods and throwback music is cool, but it's the Jedi-like precision and Guru-esque hardware engineering knowledge that keeps me watching.
hey voultar, thanks for the great content! i recently did my first modchip on a system! and against both your recommendation and my better judgement, said modchip was a matrix clone in a ps2 slim.... people aren't kidding when they say its hard, some of the smallest soldering I've done to date. but hey it works! (and there was only one casualty... i had a muscle spasm and busted my first board :(.. )
Great music choices! I only wish you had included a list of songs in the description! In particular, could anyone tell me the name of the song/remix/whatever it is at 17:10?
I am experienced in soldering, but I am very impressed by your precision and also the design of the solution! Good when you see better people - that drives me again to get better.
PS1 mod chipping was advertised in local newspapers here lol, just a little classified ad by every guy with a source of chips and a soldering iron. Was a £10-£20 service and every town and city had someone to take your PS1 to.
That's amazing. Maybe weird but I'm impressed by the wire management more than anything. I'm certain I wouldn't have the patience for that. Anyway time to head to eBay and hope scalpers haven't driven of the price of RetroRGB for PS2 up too high!
First of all, very nice tutorial. But your choice of music was top notch. The instant flashbacks I got, as soon I realized I was from the legacy of kain series
I remember my ps2 when I was young, my dad brought it to a guy who installed a modchip for us in the console, what a blast I had, my first time with piracy lmao, by the age of 5 I was already downloading and ripping games on CD by my own, I went through so many goddamn san andreas discs, I miss my ps2 so much, I don't remember what happened to it
I started soldering without knowing about flux and oh my goodness flux is required for any soldering. Not sure why so many early (decades ago) tutorials failed to mention all the steps
This is such an interesting video! I’ve never done any hardware modding myself(somewhat apprehensive to start), but I’ve been a programmer for years. I love see the hardware side of things when it comes to game consoles.
Amazing job. I can see you are very passionate about your work. The effort you put into making the wires clean ... amazing. Super glue trick was great of you to mention
my sweet ps2 is both hard modded AND soft modded, its so flexible in which games i can play and how i can boot them (both translation patches via LAN with my crossover cable from my pc, and japanese ps1 discs) its such a lovable console and i love its library of titles 💕
Nice install as always Voultar! Might have a source a 90001 sometime and brush up my skills, been a while since I've soldered anything. As always have a good day!
Honestly, I greatly appreciate that you were open about killing the PS2 you modded first. I did the same thing when I modded mine way back in 2009! I ended up buying a used one of the same model (50007 IIRC) and successfully modding that. I actually had overheated a trace and burnt it off the board. (Was my first mod ever, even.) Definitely no artful install on mine, though, but works wonderfully in the end! (Of note, I still have the "dead" PS2, and plan on trying to rebuild that trace someday when I feel up to it.) The chip in question was called a ChipMod CM2 or something of that nature, by the way... pretty sure that it was itself a clone chip already, but it's the same as a Modbo V1.1 in design.
@@mattrichardson4351 They're not too pricey, especially if you don't mind it being unboxed. You just need to hold your ground on a decent price on eBay. Mine was a third of the other onrs on sale there.
@@Larry yeah in Australia I’ve seen it once or twice come up for sale but the PS3 3D LCD one was sold here and ended up being discontinued heaps and now are hard to find
Thx to you sir I always come back to old projects where my skills failed me and now with all that confidence from your videos Im literally motivated to pick up one of them again :D Best teacher out there
Would of though that would be a more complex. Maybe had conformal coating on the board potting over the cpu and IC pins. Looks so much easier than what I suspected, your soldering was nice. No cold joints and clear cable management
I’m a huge metal fan, and the stuff in the middle is awesome, but I gotta say, it feels outta place considering how extremely relaxing your commentary is. When from Bob Ross to Black Sabbath real quick 😂
Just so you know, MG Chemicals emailed me and confirmed that 836 and 8351 no clean fluxes are identical formulations. He couldn't give me an answer as to why they were selling the same product under two different names. Maybe they were different before but changed? Additionally, 835 liquid rosin flux could be considered "no clean" because they advertise it as leaving residue that is non-conductive and non-corrosive. Again the rep from MG could not tell me why it wasn't labeled no clean. and lastly, I am not going against what Voultar says, but I personally like a no-clean gel flux, such as MG chemicals 8341. It does leave kind of a sticky mess behind, but as it's a rosin-free flux, it does not need to be cleaned up (supposedly).
Possible they are supplying 2 different companies with product, and to avoid legal or contract issues they have different part numbers. Locktite also does this
Exactly. The only time you need an extremely small soldering tip is when you're working with ridiculously tiny components. The kind where you need a microscope to properly view them for the repair. For anything on the 6th generation of console, going that small just means dwelling on each joint longer than you'd like to get it hot enough to wet out.
This just gave me an idea for a product to go along with the mod chips. A pre cut capton tape sticker that goes on the system chips to cover unused pads, help prevent bridges and guide less experienced installers.
What an amazing job, I hope nobody thinks this is as easy as you make it seem. Thanks for your tips, since they are very educational, all the time. Cheers.
10:59 it's not that simple removing the silver RF shielding, it can be very stuck tight cause of the thermal pad, it feels like the motherboard can snap in half due to it being so tight when trying to remove it, I use a heat gun to warm it up so I could removed the thermal pad.
Mr. Voultar, I know its probably outside of your brand but, can you help us poor PS3 owners and give us a way to permanently fix the overheating/YLOD of the PS3? Would replacing the thermal paste with IC Graphite thermal pads work okay? I'm not comfortable opening mine up without your loving guidance.
How are you man, nice shades. I walked all the way from my PS5 to my PC just to tell you that I really enjoyed this video and to subscribe. Oh yeah I was also going to tell you a story. I installed one of those very 40 wire? or 40 solder point early PS2 modchips on my brothers 1 day old PS2.. The thing cost 450 AUD from memory. I was a young man with good eyes, the hands of a surgeon and a 10 dollar 15 watt Weller iron. The only soldering experience I had was what I was taught in highschool, never soldered surface mount before and had no flux other than the core of my solder. I used enameled wire and I was SO stressed.. But it worked and to this very day that PS2 is still in near daily use. I'm sacred to open it.. Because there's a giant nest of wires in it lol. These days I'm old and blind but could solder those in my sleep if I wanted to. However the memory of the stress that day gave is always with me.
I never understood why modders never used pin connections instead of soldering the cable directly to the components, I would recommend you to use harness tape instead of superglue
Wasn't the 70000 series booby trapped that would fry the laser using dvd-r and you needed a diode fix to shutdown the console once mechacon sends a command to the laser coil? and it later backfired with legit users and Sony got sued?
Data point of one: I did this mod when I was still in school. It was hard but my young eyes certainly helped. I shudder to think what my wire routing looks like over a decade later but it was a fun mod. I was sweatin' the whole time though. I especially love RGB daddy on the disc. My favourite cowboy.
Really cool video with a solid introduction to the background of the Playstation modding scene & challenges it has faced & overcome. Whilst this isn't a tutorial, I think your confident and competent soldering skills will inspire many and there's still a lot of technique on display to be picked up here. One small piece of criticism I'd give is that whilst your jumper wires are very neat and totally sufficient, I reckon you'd find it a lot easier to use solderable enamelled jumper wire which is specifically designed for this type of SMD re-work. If you get the solderable stuff, you don't even have to scratch the enamel coating off.
back in the day my dads mate was a master with the soldering iron and he charged £100 to supply and fit a messiah 2, he used to take a ps2 from you and swap it with a premodded one from his stock so you got it the same day, £100 was worth every penny, this is a expert level installation not for the faint hearted, especially involving your brand new console that you shelled out hundred's of quid for
Nice to see the solder techniques, thanks for the video. BUT... Totally disagree on softmod/hardmod bit at the end. Softmod might require extra steps do all the things you want, but in 15 years of owning a ps2 I've never felt limited by going the softmod route at least in terms of playing the games I want, which, after all, is the whole point. That said, beautiful work. You've certainly improved that ps2.
Very nice video but as I can see from your GameCube video you stop going to the gym right ?
That's right. I'm fat, now.
@@Voultar I'm glad that you answered my question. Love your videos and thanks for all the good tips but... GO TO THE GYM 🤣
That was cold man! We all get a little bit too much on our plate sometimes! Gotta learn to love yourself with them curves ❤
Dude, who are you to tell someone to go to the gym. It’s people like you that give others body image issues. Get a life and take that bull somewhere else.
@@davidlescarbeau521Don’t be all lame with that body positivity crap. Fat is bad, should never be happy like that. I was getting fat and did something about it before it was too late.
I live in Brazil, and early 2000s gaming would not exist here without modchiping.
A friend works in a game repair shop, the majority of consoles he fixes are PS2s.
In argentina everyone had a modded PS, I only knew people with original games during the PS3 era and on.
@@GeomancerHT Here on Brazil, I sincerally never seen anyone with a PS1 or PS2 that had original discs. In fact, I never seen one to this day lol
In Indonesia, same situation.
Game shops are still offering to chip ps1 and ps2 till this day.
Original disc are rarity, there are so many bootlegs.
Heck, the PS2 I bought in 2006 (model 75006 HK/SG version) has unknown modchip (not matrix or modbo, simply unbranded)
I’m from USA OHIO and I still buying original PS2 games for my collection. But that’s just me, if it’s not original I won’t buy it 🤷🏻♂️
same for mexico, most consoles of the cd/dvd era where chiped or software hacked so we could run pirated games.
I was stationed in South Korea in 2001 and received a PS2 for my birthday. Took it to a Korean game shop, stood in line for 20 minutes while the guy modded two PS2s ahead of me, handed him my box, watched him do his thing, got it back and paid my 50,000 won (appx $40 at that time). Picked up a dozen burned ISOs for another 100k won while I was at it.
Damn, he did it for a good price imo
"This is not a guide" -- *shows how to remove literally every screw, do everything, solder every wire*
"things are gonna get quiet" *metal music starts*
was thinking the same thing... for not being a guide, sure was step-by-step like a guide ..
He's teaching us how to make a ps2 from scratch
It’s not a step by step guide because he literally doesn’t tell you what brand mod chip, where he got it from, how much it cost. The mod chip doesn’t even look like his own.
That’s the kind of quality you get with Voultar! Always giving more!!
For people wondering what the song is at 13:00 it's Thunder Force IV - Lightning Strikes Again
I remember when the first no swap chip (except for DVD games) came out, the NEO 4. It required some 40 or 50 wires to be soldered. I ended up shipping my PS2 to a guy in California to have it fitted, which I still have today in 2022 and it still works.
Oh man, did you send yours to eccsmods? He was the best at the time. I ended up buying my OG Messiah chip from him. Never got around to installing the neo4 I bought.
@@GLAAAAAR Yes, it was eccsmods! Lol wow I had forgotten the name. He did an awesome job for sure.
@@JeffisWinning That's crazy lol. The name just popped into my head when you said Cali. I remember him and foundmy were the main dudes for modding back then.
respect to the OGs in the chat recognizing good mod chip work. I had a Korean hookup for my mod chip installs.
@@GLAAAAAR That's wild dude! Such a flashback.
Love seeing the Voultar Special; the neatly arranged "lanes" of white wires side by side, held in place with glue. It's such a much nicer look than loose wires fanning out like cobwebs.
Wouldn't be a Voultar video without some Toshinden music somewhere.
For real, I'm just sitting here enjoying the music and watching how tight those wires are soldered in.
All of a sudden Eiji's theme kicks in and I'm marking out.
Hey its Gamesack Kickass!
I was about to like this comment but it's already at 69 likes, the perfect amount
I hear your God damn theme music everywhere
Was the title battle Arena Coshinden?
I'll never forget the time my dad and I broke my ps1 modding it. Good times.
Damn
@@waterguy7463 it happens! I learned a bunch and we didn't break the next one!
Bummer, That's when it's time to throw it out and get a new dad. :D
@@iamthelobo I jtagged my Xbox 360 and use to make thousands of dollars
I bet you was wounded when freemcboot came out for the ps2 😂
It's actually hard for me to watch other youtubers do console mods now, it seems like no one else puts nearly as much effort into making the installations clean.
Me too, watching shitty solder and wire jobs makes me cringe now
I just ran into his channel and I am amazed at how nicely he installs every wire
To appear un-modded, would be a clean install... winkwink
Modsville USA is really good too.
I did the 30 wire mod twice on a friend's Wii (and his friend's as well). I had to grind one chip a little to get at the three clipped pins too. Man. that was a challenge. I has access at the time to a really nice Metcal soldering iron and a microscope... and then a few years later, I did soft-mods on my own Wii. Confusing as hell but so much easier! :D
Beautiful, elegant work, btw. :D
Hey friend! I have done two ps2 chips on some ps2s I have. Always fun haha. And of course his work is nice. He's a god among men.
The wii was the first system I modded. Was quite the learning experience for a very younger very dumber me.
It is the blue🦙himself!!! I love how I keep bumping into the same people in these videos from way back in the day!
@@boz89 Hi! I don't recognize you with this nick. Who are ya? :D
I just stumbled across this video and I just gotta say that I love the way you talk about what you’re doing, what products you like to use and things being ‚a walk in the park‘, it’s so incredibly enthusiastic and at the same time calming, it makes me wanna solder mod chips into all the PlayStations in the world!
Omg my body is ready. I was an installer for these back in the day. It was very challenging and I screwed up at least a few. I just finished an infinity mod and working on some broken systems but my skills took a hit and I've been learning again. People like Voultar can definitely show this old buck a thing or too. Awesome 👍
My modded ps1 with a plug mod, a pen spring, and all the blank discs allowance could buy was the only way I got to play so many great games. I remember when my uncle bought a j tag Xbox when they first got big, his son showed it off every time I went to visit (this was a while later) I always wanted to learn, and figured it would be fun to install physical mods, but I never had the spare income when I was young and interested enough to learn. Now I just watch voultar’s videos lol. All my systems are softmodded, except my Saturn has a fenrir in it (but that required no soldering) One has to be creative when one grows up poor, and the early 2000’s mod scene was such an innovative space to watch from the side. It seemed like new exploits were rolled out weekly
Hell yes! Beautiful work as always my dude. Modchip > Softmod 4eva 🤘
I've said it once, I'll say it 100x again. Hot glue is perfect for console modding, when used appropriately.
What about the super glue? It looks like a mess too me!
Agreed. There's no such thing as a bad or good tool. It always depends on the use case.
@@nowonmetube
nearly impossible to remove if you ever have to
I always use double sided tape. hot glue degrades and becomes brittle with age
Hot glue is a hot mess.
This was one of the first hardware mods I did on my collection and I was only able to because your guides were just excellent Voultar, my SCPH-35001 still runs like a champ!
Not gona lie, ps2 phat was the second modchip i attempted after doing a xeno in my gamecube. Nailed it first try but prior to modding i soldered industrially for a living just never circuit boards. I also gotta say youre probably one of my favorite youtubers in terms of soldering, alot of these other guys handle the iron like they are afraid of it
This took me back to welding class in HS. Teacher hated me, not because my welds. They were perfect and held. He'd be pissed cause I was afraid of the torch haha. Good times.
I put one of these in an old PS2 fat this morning, after previously only using software mods to varying degrees of success. I was able to use the KSGER soldering station with the tip I always use, even though these are some really small points.
Using wire-wrap wire is a must. While my wiring isn't nearly as neat as this one, and I used Kapton tape instead of super glue, it worked the first time. If there's any question as to whether you have solder bridges, bust out the multimeter and buzz everything out (hopefully, have a meter that has good latching so it buzzes immediately if there's continuity)
I bought my KSGER on your recommendation video a few years ago. Best iron I have ever used in the last 35 years! I look forward to using it every time, so thanks mate!
I remember the mod-chip wars of the early 2000's. I personally was modding PS1 systems around then. I did a couple PS2's but very far and few inbetween. Great work Voultar on the install.
Good to see you back Voultar! Looking forward for some crazy Gamecube mods!
Love watching your videos. Mesmerising soldering skills and tips i now use 👌 👍
This was like watching a short art movie, simply amazing soldering skills, the installation was so clean, simply beautiful. EDIT: You got yourself a new subscriber, great content.
Love the metal gear reference at the beginning. Keep up the good work ✌🏻 thanks for your amazing videos.
That's not soldering, that's a work of art. Freaking beautiful ❤️ so satisfying to watch the master do his magic 😃👏
messiah, messiah 2, matrix mxl, mxl2, infinity, dms3, 4.. I memorized every schematic except v3 that were quite rare. Did hundreds of installs. Soldered kilometers of awg30 with a JBC am6000.
My favorite awg30 was Ok international brand with 60/30 radial soldering wire. Great times.
I started with psx and 12c508s
That RetroRGB DVD... 🤣 Fantastic work !
That is hands down the HOTTEST soldering work I have ever seen.
You deserve serious props for shooting, editing, etc etc, but also that clean work.
What glue do you use at 15:36, is it just normal super glue or something special??
Your solder job was a work of art and was really satisfying to watch
Great stuff, super neat and tidy as ever. You've covered nearly every rev PS2 install in awesome detail. These are invaluable, studied them before attempting the install. Thanks for taking the time to put them together.
Loved the video Voultar, I've never modded that specific model but did others a long long time ago. It's how I learned to solder and is why I am where I am today.
This video brought back alot of awesome memories.
I'm convinced this dude is the best electronics technician in the world.
The Millenial nostalgia of classic Playstation gaming mods and throwback music is cool, but it's the Jedi-like precision and Guru-esque hardware engineering knowledge that keeps me watching.
hey voultar, thanks for the great content! i recently did my first modchip on a system! and against both your recommendation and my better judgement, said modchip was a matrix clone in a ps2 slim.... people aren't kidding when they say its hard, some of the smallest soldering I've done to date. but hey it works! (and there was only one casualty... i had a muscle spasm and busted my first board :(.. )
Great music choices! I only wish you had included a list of songs in the description! In particular, could anyone tell me the name of the song/remix/whatever it is at 17:10?
i have the same question!
"Cupido's Theme" from Battle Arena Toshinden Remix
@@Ameto What's the one at 2:32?
Fantastic video as always, and the Thunderforce IV music just adds the chef's kiss.
So... what is the music that starts up at about 16:30?
"Cupido's Theme" from Battle Arena Toshinden Remix
Voultar, your manner of communication with confidence and pride elevate my own self esteem. I would watch you clean a toilet.
I am experienced in soldering, but I am very impressed by your precision and also the design of the solution!
Good when you see better people - that drives me again to get better.
Voultar, are you there?? Hope all is good. Been waiting for a vid BAD for a few months now
PS1 mod chipping was advertised in local newspapers here lol, just a little classified ad by every guy with a source of chips and a soldering iron. Was a £10-£20 service and every town and city had someone to take your PS1 to.
When the montage started I was pleasantly surprised to be rocking out to the music!
The way you lay out each wire is incredibly pleasing to watch, excellent work and excellent skills soldering!
That's amazing. Maybe weird but I'm impressed by the wire management more than anything. I'm certain I wouldn't have the patience for that.
Anyway time to head to eBay and hope scalpers haven't driven of the price of RetroRGB for PS2 up too high!
Dude I just noticed you're rocking dual KSGERs. I bought one of those stations cos of your review! Absolutely love the thing 🤘
I blew up my KSGER building my Nintoaster, FML
@@rdaws73 That blows. What happened?
@@eastwood4 My fault. Touched a live wire with Mains voltage, blew it up. Dumbest thing I've done in my years of soldering and electrical work.
With Free McBoot, you no longer need to mod chip your PS2 to play copies
Would be useful to have a visual aid to advise when the noise is over, so we can unmute the video without guessing.
First of all, very nice tutorial. But your choice of music was top notch. The instant flashbacks I got, as soon I realized I was from the legacy of kain series
I remember my ps2 when I was young, my dad brought it to a guy who installed a modchip for us in the console, what a blast I had, my first time with piracy lmao, by the age of 5 I was already downloading and ripping games on CD by my own, I went through so many goddamn san andreas discs, I miss my ps2 so much, I don't remember what happened to it
I started soldering without knowing about flux and oh my goodness flux is required for any soldering. Not sure why so many early (decades ago) tutorials failed to mention all the steps
Hotdamn! I love that you're still installing modchips in 2022. I've always liked the chips better than softmods...they just work.
This is such an interesting video! I’ve never done any hardware modding myself(somewhat apprehensive to start), but I’ve been a programmer for years. I love see the hardware side of things when it comes to game consoles.
You got hands of a surgeon, excellent work. As Always, Be Smart and Stay Safe.
Thats the best soldering job ive seen on UA-cam for a very very very long time
Amazing job. I can see you are very passionate about your work. The effort you put into making the wires clean ... amazing. Super glue trick was great of you to mention
my sweet ps2 is both hard modded AND soft modded, its so flexible in which games i can play and how i can boot them (both translation patches via LAN with my crossover cable from my pc, and japanese ps1 discs) its such a lovable console and i love its library of titles 💕
we need to get you a sponsor so you can keep cranking the vids out, very educational. Keep up the good work.
Nice install as always Voultar! Might have a source a 90001 sometime and brush up my skills, been a while since I've soldered anything.
As always have a good day!
Honestly, I greatly appreciate that you were open about killing the PS2 you modded first. I did the same thing when I modded mine way back in 2009! I ended up buying a used one of the same model (50007 IIRC) and successfully modding that. I actually had overheated a trace and burnt it off the board. (Was my first mod ever, even.) Definitely no artful install on mine, though, but works wonderfully in the end! (Of note, I still have the "dead" PS2, and plan on trying to rebuild that trace someday when I feel up to it.) The chip in question was called a ChipMod CM2 or something of that nature, by the way... pretty sure that it was itself a clone chip already, but it's the same as a Modbo V1.1 in design.
Was the PS2 in the PS2TV the same model as this?
Yeah I believe it was .. well it was one of those models.. it’s pretty rare now to get them and had a awesome 1080p screen too
@@mattrichardson4351 720p unfortunately, i own one.
@@Larry first off , jelly second off darn .. still good collectable item
@@mattrichardson4351 They're not too pricey, especially if you don't mind it being unboxed. You just need to hold your ground on a decent price on eBay. Mine was a third of the other onrs on sale there.
@@Larry yeah in Australia I’ve seen it once or twice come up for sale but the PS3 3D LCD one was sold here and ended up being discontinued heaps and now are hard to find
The music is like a mixture of F-Zero 64 and Dragonforce. Love it! Love the mod work even more.
Thx to you sir I always come back to old projects where my skills failed me and now with all that confidence from your videos Im literally motivated to pick up one of them again :D
Best teacher out there
I chipped a PS2 slim a few years ago. Not gonna lie, it's not an easy job even for an experienced solderer. You make it look so easy
what is the min 16:30 kicking in song name?
Awesome mod! Thanks for the inspiration and the tips on which stuff to use. I am really looking forward to your OG Xbox video mod!
I don't do any type of soldering or mods, but damn it these vids are so entertaining. Keep 'em coming Lord Voultar!
that no clean flux is great for anyone wondering i have some, and i can solder upside-down while spinning around and it still flows where i want it
Do you still offer a mod service for fat NTSC-J PS2’s ? I’d love to be able to play all regions of both PS1 & PS2 discs….
Thanks for making these great how-to videos! I learn so
Much by watching your
Soldering techniques!
Would of though that would be a more complex. Maybe had conformal coating on the board potting over the cpu and IC pins. Looks so much easier than what I suspected, your soldering was nice. No cold joints and clear cable management
2:26 that timer beeping sound effect make it seem like the PS2 turned into a bomb and was gonna explode any second
It was the most professional solder I have ever seen, thanks man, it was really instructive 🙏👏👏
Does anyone knows the name of the song played at 13:32?
I’m a huge metal fan, and the stuff in the middle is awesome, but I gotta say, it feels outta place considering how extremely relaxing your commentary is. When from Bob Ross to Black Sabbath real quick 😂
Metal has its own relaxation feeling in a way though, so after awhile it’s relaxing again. Something about the visual of soldering work like this.
Just so you know, MG Chemicals emailed me and confirmed that 836 and 8351 no clean fluxes are identical formulations. He couldn't give me an answer as to why they were selling the same product under two different names. Maybe they were different before but changed?
Additionally, 835 liquid rosin flux could be considered "no clean" because they advertise it as leaving residue that is non-conductive and non-corrosive. Again the rep from MG could not tell me why it wasn't labeled no clean.
and lastly, I am not going against what Voultar says, but I personally like a no-clean gel flux, such as MG chemicals 8341. It does leave kind of a sticky mess behind, but as it's a rosin-free flux, it does not need to be cleaned up (supposedly).
Possible they are supplying 2 different companies with product, and to avoid legal or contract issues they have different part numbers.
Locktite also does this
OMG! He did it! Solid Voultar! Wooooo
Exactly. The only time you need an extremely small soldering tip is when you're working with ridiculously tiny components. The kind where you need a microscope to properly view them for the repair. For anything on the 6th generation of console, going that small just means dwelling on each joint longer than you'd like to get it hot enough to wet out.
This just gave me an idea for a product to go along with the mod chips. A pre cut capton tape sticker that goes on the system chips to cover unused pads, help prevent bridges and guide less experienced installers.
Damn when's that RetroRGB dvd coming out?? 22:28
I installed a DMS3 plus in my PS2 when I was 14. I am terrified to open it up and take a look now.
Sony: thou shalt not mod a ps2
Voultar: are you challenging me?
Voultar never ceases to amaze me with his soldering skills, this channel has made me the pro I always wanted to be with an iron thanks again :)
What an amazing job, I hope nobody thinks this is as easy as you make it seem. Thanks for your tips, since they are very educational, all the time.
Cheers.
10:59 it's not that simple removing the silver RF shielding, it can be very stuck tight cause of the thermal pad, it feels like the motherboard can snap in half due to it being so tight when trying to remove it, I use a heat gun to warm it up so I could removed the thermal pad.
This channel deserves more subscribers. Great content as always. I always leave here feeling inspired to do some modding.
Mr. Voultar, I know its probably outside of your brand but, can you help us poor PS3 owners and give us a way to permanently fix the overheating/YLOD of the PS3? Would replacing the thermal paste with IC Graphite thermal pads work okay? I'm not comfortable opening mine up without your loving guidance.
I've read that the ylod is not because of overheating but the nec/tokin capacitors dying. You need to replace those with something better instead.
How are you man, nice shades. I walked all the way from my PS5 to my PC just to tell you that I really enjoyed this video and to subscribe. Oh yeah I was also going to tell you a story.
I installed one of those very 40 wire? or 40 solder point early PS2 modchips on my brothers 1 day old PS2.. The thing cost 450 AUD from memory. I was a young man with good eyes, the hands of a surgeon and a 10 dollar 15 watt Weller iron. The only soldering experience I had was what I was taught in highschool, never soldered surface mount before and had no flux other than the core of my solder. I used enameled wire and I was SO stressed.. But it worked and to this very day that PS2 is still in near daily use. I'm sacred to open it.. Because there's a giant nest of wires in it lol. These days I'm old and blind but could solder those in my sleep if I wanted to. However the memory of the stress that day gave is always with me.
I never understood why modders never used pin connections instead of soldering the cable directly to the components, I would recommend you to use harness tape instead of superglue
Wasn't the 70000 series booby trapped that would fry the laser using dvd-r and you needed a diode fix to shutdown the console once mechacon sends a command to the laser coil? and it later backfired with legit users and Sony got sued?
@Hanz Obi mostly correct but axe the diode fix.
Use the matrix pic fix/ Comsoft v4 fix or subzero fix but forget the diode fixes.
I love seeing someone at the top of their craft. That was a very clean job, thanks for sharing.
i had an exact silver ps2 just like yours as a kid, and i adored it deeply. i always preferred it over my other black ps2s 🤩
Data point of one: I did this mod when I was still in school. It was hard but my young eyes certainly helped. I shudder to think what my wire routing looks like over a decade later but it was a fun mod. I was sweatin' the whole time though.
I especially love RGB daddy on the disc. My favourite cowboy.
Really cool video with a solid introduction to the background of the Playstation modding scene & challenges it has faced & overcome. Whilst this isn't a tutorial, I think your confident and competent soldering skills will inspire many and there's still a lot of technique on display to be picked up here.
One small piece of criticism I'd give is that whilst your jumper wires are very neat and totally sufficient, I reckon you'd find it a lot easier to use solderable enamelled jumper wire which is specifically designed for this type of SMD re-work. If you get the solderable stuff, you don't even have to scratch the enamel coating off.
As a electronics designer i'm most impressed with the cable management, its a pitty that your work of art is covered up.
why is that wire routing so sexy it hurts, great job
I used this video to mod my PS2.
Didn't use lead solider that's just wreckless
Thank you!
I'm sure you hear this ad nauseam, but it needs to be repeated. You are a master of your craft.
back in the day my dads mate was a master with the soldering iron and he charged £100 to supply and fit a messiah 2, he used to take a ps2 from you and swap it with a premodded one from his stock so you got it the same day, £100 was worth every penny, this is a expert level installation not for the faint hearted, especially involving your brand new console that you shelled out hundred's of quid for
Chipped my psone myself, that being my first chip job and it somehow worked.
Never felt so proud in my whole life.
Nice to see the solder techniques, thanks for the video. BUT... Totally disagree on softmod/hardmod bit at the end. Softmod might require extra steps do all the things you want, but in 15 years of owning a ps2 I've never felt limited by going the softmod route at least in terms of playing the games I want, which, after all, is the whole point. That said, beautiful work. You've certainly improved that ps2.