How to Softmod Your PS1 | UniROM Install Tutorial
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2024
- Ever want to mod your PS1 but you're tired of swapping discs and you don't want to go through the effort of installing a modchip? UniROM is an excellent solution for original PlayStation consoles sporting the Parallel I/O port, allowing you to easily boot up imported and CD-R based backups without the need to swap discs or install a modchip. This works by reflashing a GameShark or similar cartridge with UniROM, which boots up as soon as you turn on your console with the cartridge plugged in. From there you can insert the disc you wish to play and boot it up using the on screen instructions. This installation requires you to do a one time disc swap in order to get the UniROM install disc working, afterwards you can boot up your imports and backups easily through UniROM itself!
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Worked perfectly. Had the GameShark cartridge V.3.0.... The black one. Happened to be the 512kb version. Thank you and XeCuT1oNR.
Much appreciated. :)
Happy to assist! BTW theres a NEW v6 of UniROM with improved booting/etc fixes
Will look into that. Thank you. :)
I have now successfully modded my ps1, ps2, ps vita and original xbox because of you. Thank you so much man. Your videos are very well explained. Keep up the good work!
Does doing this let you play burned game discs?
Hey are you with Curse? if so get back to me
the disk swappping at the beginning is the so called swap trick method and works with nearly all games without copy protection, some need patches to work. At the first slowdown it reads the boot data and at the second one the games copy protection key. it should not get standard to play games cause the drive will fail in the future.
The EEPROM Method with the gameshark is quite nice, I didnt know about this exploit on the parallel port.
My advice: Flash the gameshark on a PS with a modchip, you dont need to swap the cd one time. after that just plug the ready cartridge in its unmodded PS of your choice
Thats a great alternertive to soldering in modchips, thats really hard cause of the tiny soldering points, the risk to fuck up the system is quite high with cheap soldering irons.
In my opinion this is a quite nice DIY PS Mod, especially as a gift for example cause modchips or modded consoles are getting quite rare these days. You can find cartridges (broken or not) much easier and cheaper.
I agree with you for the most part, however I have chipped consoles and this reflashed cart because I find this stuff to be fun. Most people have one or the other, not both, so most likely someone with a modchip in their PS1 will never have the urge to do this.
Modchips actually aren't too rare! You can find them a few places online plus the hex files are readily available so you can burn your own chips 😸
using a modded ps1 to flash the cartridge is a smart idea lol!
I guess I should be happy I kept those 15 "game hunter cd version" cartridges I got a few years ago. Neat.
Do not do this. You will break the spindle hub.
Happy to help out on this video, Mr Mario! Hopefully it make some people's lives easier doing imports, originals & backups for the ol' PSX!
+XeCuTioNR Hey thanks for the help! I learned about softmodding the Saturn's AR card and it worked out well but had no idea this was a thing until you let me know, plus it wasn't as consumer friendly when it came to instructions and installation :p
XeCuTioNR help please, i have a cheat cartridge known as Smart Cartridge. I tried to install software,it says no eeprom any idea, thanks.
At the X-Flash main menu, have you tried unplugging the cart then replug it in then rescan the eeprom check? Also make sure you grab the newest UniROM CD as well (v6 as of this post). If you still get the unknown eeprom, its basically 50/50 chance..you either flash it and it will work...or you will brick the cart.
XeCuTioNR I have V6, I'll give it a try again to see if this works by repluging the cartridge again.
XeCuTioNR hells to hells yes! I have been using the POPS emulator thing on the PS2, and while I LOVE IT it's compatibility is rather low. Very happy to have found this.
I'd say technically this isn't a softmod as you aren't just modifying the software on the machine (like you do with the Original Xbox softmod). This is more of a hardmod because you are actually re-flashing a cartridge in order to get UniRom.
Same logic as a FreeHDBoot/FreeMCBoot install for PS2 - nothing installed or modified on the console itself yet it's regularly referred to as a softmod.
For people that are having trouble running a backup game try the following. At the start up screen click on x to continue, at the following screen use the directional pad and click down to fast boot. You should see the x moving down, when the x is at fastboot click x and your game should load. No need to click R1 or R2 that was not working for me as the game would never load.
Thanks I was having the same problem
TheTheHypebeast this needs to be stickied at the top I bet a lot of people have the same issue I know I did :)
Thanks man this worked for me!
TheTheHypebeast thank you,i thought I'd fucked my cartridge up with a corrupted file,just tried this ,worked first time 👍
Thank you! This helped a lot. I was having the exact same problem.
50 swapping attempts later............Success, definitely not easy. What helped me was swapping the disc a tiny bit just BEFORE it slows down.
Repeat it a few more times. Took me a while to perfect it aswell but it will work
OMG ive been looking for that game since i was achild BLASTO i only had the demo💖
Still have it
For anyone having issue booting with gameshark. Instead of doing R1/R2 at the menu just go down to where it says "Fast Boot" and hit X. Worked for me
S&L Gaming ur a life saver worked for me thanxs a bunch
No problem. Glad I helped
Appreciate it!
im still going to call this a hard mod. Your soft modding the game shark into a mod chip then installing said mod chip. That aside ...... I remember a couple different companies selling cartridges like this commercially back in the day ..... still had the cheat code ability as well. I'm pretty sure if i remember right ... pro action replay was one of them. was basically a game shark, but had an option on it to "enable MOD play"
With that logic then FreeMCBoot is a hardmod as well. Both involve installing software to a piece of storage you hook up to a console, yet no one refers to FMCB as a hardmod.
Lol a Composite to HDMI converter. I got three letters for you, RGB
Got a Framemeister shortly after making this video, solid piece of hardware. ua-cam.com/video/ZBDwQ67fCPc/v-deo.html
I don't think the US ever had native RGB like Europe did
RGB was so noticeable, as a kid I played with RF cables 😂😂😂😂
MrcabooseVG most us consoles do actually support rgb through scart. You can watch my life in gaming for more info
the file does not work for me it does not want to recognize the EEPROM and it gives me an error
Try disassembling your Gameshark cartridge to ensure a snug fit or burn unirom v8 to a blank cd.github.com/JonathanDotCel/unirom8_bootdisc_and_firmware_for_ps1/releases
I dont even have a PS1 but i watched this video...
based
This basically turns the GameShark into a Modchip (Game Enhancer)?
This is very interesting. 😀
What's the game compatibility of the Unirom? I need it to play some Japanese and American games on PAL console.
Does this work on the SCPH-5502 model?
Answered in the video.
I have booted in to the unirom installer but it can't recognize my gameshark 1.9. It says unknown eeprom 08 01 and none of the Roms will flash. Any ideas?
I have a japanese one laying around. Nice to know that i can use it that easy, but you guys should know that you can make a modchip for the ps1 for a few bucks if you have an oldshool eprom burner.
yeah tried to do it step by step... was able to get to the flash menu...
i have a PS HACKER cart, i guess its a bootleg gameshark; so i flashed that... but it is detected as a "UNKNOWN EEPROM"
must be a bad flash
will this work with playstation classic?
Title
wait back in the day I used the same gameshark. / action replay to play imports and backups.
I was doing this with a custom rom previously, but i always needed to start the ps1 with an official disc, i just changed my device to use this it's much better. Thanks for the video.
my only problem is I'm using a pink clear cart that says plug mod cart on it and it detects the cart but when I go to flash the eerpom it says it can't detect it, can you maybe help ?
Hey thanks for the great upload man. The only thing that sucks, is when you load your game you don't get the cool Sonny bios anymore just black screen and then the game. Also, the switch on the side of the GameShark no longer works, so you can't turn it off to see the original bios. Hopefully the work something out and I update
You remove it to see the BIOS. That's it.
@@slimnim1753 yes that's true, but I was just making a note to retro gamers that are nostalgic over the bio splash screen, it sucks you have to choose one or the other
Hi everyone. I got Xplorer FX cartridge, burned the CD but unfortunately flashing UNIROM stucked and now my cartridge is not working at all. The white PS1 boot screen doesn't show up if the cartridge is plugged into parallel port of the console. I get only black screen. How can I bring this cartridge back to life? Please advice something
Can I use a Tonyhax memory card, so I don't have to do the swap trick to boot the CD with the flashing program on it?
I have an audiophile ps1 :)
its bullshit lmao
Mod that ps1. Wtihout mods is a meh player.
Followed the steps to the letter, but my burned backup did not load. Any idea why? Used the same rom you did (14, unirom standalone), tried to play a burned backup of symphony of the night, but no dice
Is anyone else having a problem where after the loading screen cuts to black, the game just never boots and the disc just keeps spinning?
I’d really appreciate help soon I bought a cartridge thing just for this and I don’t want to feel like I wasted 15 dollars
Also in case it’s the reason it’s not working the game I’m trying to load is Vib-Ribbon idk if it’s like incompatible or what please help me I want to slam my head into a brick wall
I know your video is old man but for 10$ people could just buy the Goldfinger softmod instead cause i have one for my PS1 still which is able to play imports and copy games without any problems and still includes gameshark on top of it.
I have one of these, but i ended up using a modchip. It SO worth the little hassle. BTW, i like how you discarded the PSone haha it was a POS, altough nothing comes closer to absolute shit than the PStwo, that thing was complete garbage.
Hi i have the 1001 japanese ps1 , after a flashed the cart, i turned off the system and powered it back on, but i can't play any games, it just blank screen, can you help me?
would this method work if you play a ripped/imported game with 2 discs? i assume that’s what the option labelled “enable swap” on the unirom menu means, right?
Can you do this with the Tonyhax Exploit than just disc swapping?
If you do this wrong would it kill the PS1?
So can you play PC games on the PS1 with this?
I am new to this I have a question What do I have to have for it to work do I have to have a computer or will it just work by just putting it in the PlayStation one Do the chat codes work That way
the website: localhost/wp-downloads/sicklebrick.com_unirom_release_v6.rar for version 6 seems to be down is there by any chance another website were i can get v6 of unirom?
not really a softmod when you need additional hardware (cartridge)..its basically turning the cartridge into a modchip
it won't let me download these
Hi there, looking to do this, but do you do this with the game shark not plugged in at start? your video shows you swapping disks without the game shark connected. Concerned about plugging up the game shark while the PS1 is turned on.
Who else was doing the disk swapping to play copied games in the 90's? makes me feel old :p
Does anybody know if this could work on a Game Enchancer cartridge or a VCD/Action Replay card ?
My brothers were doing this 20 years ago xD I was like "what the hell are they doing".
Amazing, haha.
Great now a bunch of people are gonna go out and destroy working gamesharks. Thanks.
so basically what you have here is a USB jailbreaker for the ps3 , but in a parallel port of a ps1 :P
Soo basically this video shows us "how to play burned copies of are own games"?
All links are dead
Why don't you use the gameshark itself as in easier swap method rather than double disc swap?
Apparently that sickleburn website has been hacked or something since it's completly gone now.
Whats the benefit of this soft mod over a mod chip? One original PS1 game plus a Game Shark is 4x$ more then a mod chip today.
mod chips require soldering, and if the system ever dies, you'd have to mod another console, with this method, you just mod one cartridge and if you have to replace the system, just make sure it has parallel port..plus no soldering
How likely is the soldering system to die? lol
Considering how clumsy and useless most people are with dextrous work (hence why they pay "tech experts" big bucks), i imagine most people will ruin their console trying to modchip.
swapping discs is just time waisting not the right way to go i think unless you wana mess your discs up and may by break the spindle inside the ps1 or even mess up your ps1 lazer
Does the GameShark have to be in the port during disc swap?
I noticed this video was marked as private for a few days. Any reason why?
Well if someone does that it could be to let youtube process the quality of the video, and then you turn it Public...
Im having a problem with my ps1 some games like spyro doesn't let me play them it says something about modified
This probably won't work with those games with extra protection.
So to switch games you can just throw another disc when it’s off or do you have to do it again
so once it's modded are the games on the gameshark or can i then play burned games in the ps1
YOU HAVE BLASTO!!!! THAT WAS LITERALLY MY ALL TIME FAVORITE GAME GROWING UP AS A KID!! ALMOST NO ONE HAS EVEN HEARD OF THAT GAME!!!!!!!! DUDE!!! BADASS!
LOL lovely
My game gameshark is not recognized by X-Flash.
I have a Gold Finger/Game Enhancer and that works by booting an original PS1 game, then it stops the disc to allow a swap. That's good and all but when I'm playing a backup with CDDA like Twisted Metal 2 or Tomb Raider I run into the problem of it's already read the first disc's TOC (table of contents) and the music is either is messed up or not there at all. Sometimes the game won't even work. My question is, if I flash this to my current parallel port cart, will it eliminate disc swapping altogether? As in I can just boot the backup right from the start? Thank you in advance.
PS
Are there still cheats?
I cannot verify it at the moment but I would assume CDDA audio would work fine, although if I were you and you didn't want to sacrifice your Gold Finger you could buy a cheap GameShark off eBay or somewhere else and flash that.
No cheats.
This might be a stupid question, but ... couldn't you flash that cartridge somehow from your computer, so you wouldn't have to do all that disc swapping?? just wondering.. :)
no
This is definitely incompatible with multiple different Gameshark and Game Hunter versions. Many of the old GameShark versions don't work at all, and the dev confirmed this.
Can you please link where he states the ones that do and don't work? I wanna be able to do this properly.
I’m very new to this video game modding stuff I was wondering when you mod your ps1 this way if your able to install the games directly to
The ps1 or is this only so you can play games that are burned to disks..??
The latter.
I had a box that did this in the late 90s
How does this method work with games that use multiple disks?
can anyone explain to me why do i want to softmod my Playstation?
unirom is not detecting my gameshark for some reason
MrMario2011
I want to do this soft mod this but the only thing i cannot find any info on is the requirements for the cd-r?
such as write speed and size.
well thanks but i already did tho mod with a gameshark pro v3
Do not do flash the cart with a Dev/test unit or Net Yaroze! Please!
Swapping disk's is a good way to ruin your PS1.
Will it work on the Asian PS1 Models? (Not Japanese, But Asian...)
Yep
A gameshark costs more than a pre chipped ps1in the uk
Is it normal for some games to not work quite right when using this?
Entirely possible.
What's the difference with the Roms on the disc?
I just bought a ps1 but dunno if its got that input at the back. Have to check when I get home!
Wait, this will let my PS1 play burned games or I totally missed the point of the video?
You can play burned games with it.
So are you flashing the EEPROM to the psx or to the game shark?
Cranky Jay to the game shark
It might be cheaper to buy a used softmodded PS3. It plays all ps1 games from the hard drive and you get the nice wireless controller
yeah, that's not going to be cheaper, not even close
Ok, more convenient is the right word. I bought my PS3 slim for only 120 euro. Got 320 GB of space for 700MB ps1 games. No switching discs, upscaling, wireless controller. Its perfect
except ps1 games look like crap on HD TVs
Really how do you get ps1 games to show up with component cables I just get a black screen when using them on my ps2.
mine is to its the only way I can play games on my ps2 until my new ribbon cable arrives the old one was scratching my disks.
Thank you mr Mario your the greatest !!!
fak i have slime.
i used to have the fat one but its 6 feey underground.
any advice for slim?
This isn't for Slim consoles.
How good is compatibility with games?
I used to use this same type of soft mod method on one of the PS2 slim models. You would swap disks while the tray was open on the Playstation startup screen, and you'd be able to play your PS1 game no problem. You could even save your game to a
PS1 memory card and everything
I got the error: No roms found, can someone help?
Wait, do I have to do that whole process every time I want to swap game?
Just boot the disc through UniROM
will the burning proccess work witha DVD-R?
No
Awful method! you still have to do multiple awfully fast swap discs that might damage the lens
git gud
Does anyone know how to avoid "Software Terminated Console May Have Been Modified"? I wanna play backup Japanese Games on my PSX 7501 but I can't. I've read that there's a way to patch ISO's so they can boot properly. How can I do that?
Can I use a memory card
It won’t pass the loading screen
Gamesharks / Action Replays boot backups already :p
+jse07 Only with a disc swap or spring trick.
Yeah via disk swap, insert retail game, boot to action replay / gameshark, hit select and the retail game disk will stop spinning, swap disk for back up, and close the lid, then boot game with or without codes, you do need to use a spring or some blutac on the switch though like you say. but this way you retain the functionality of the gameshark / action replay. Still very cool that you can reflash the devices. Nice video mate.
used to do the door trick with a spring. Whatever it was I had was miles easier than all this.
That is no more difficult than this, the only difference is you're taking an extra step of flashing a cartridge.
Smart Catridge or Xplorer will work?
I just ordered a PS1 mod chip. Still happy to learn there is another way. The thing that bothers me currently is for modding the PS2 everybody is all about Free McBoot which I have gotten setup and working, the only issue I have is it doesn't work with PS2 backup discs which seems like a huge oversight to me? Yeah I know you can use network boot and USB boot (also hard drive sled) but USB is slow and Network can be challenging to setup correctly, and the hard drive sled requires buying more stuff. I find it curious that they have so many features and functionality of Free McBoot and yet the single probably most in demand feature does not exist? Oh well I guess I'll just get another modchip for the PS2 as well.
You need to patch your physical PS2 game backups with ESR if you're wanting to do that on FreeMCBoot.
@@MrMario2011 Thank you very much fox hat man. Chip on the way already was only 5 bucks. But I have an original PSX as well as one of the smaller PSOnes so perhaps I can chip one and still have a plain one for FreeMCBoot if I ever do want to try that method.
I thought i had gotten this but i have a problem when i try and boot a game. I see loading. hang on * it never goes past this screen. Anyone got a clue what to do next? I used the new Version 6 on a gameshark v2.4 card.
Re: 3/31 - I have given up on this method as it isn't working for some reason and will use a gameshark cd disc 4.0 version i got from ebay. What ever is the problem with this method for me i have no clue. It doesn't seem that anyone is commenting on this video anymore so i have given up on it.
So you have to swap discs 4 times everytime you want to play a game?
No swaps needed once you reflash the cart.
Can someone explain to me what happens during the process of swapping disks?? I'm very curious how its tricking the playstation
You're swapping an original game at the times when the security checks for an original are required. Once those checks are successfully completed, with proper timing you can pop in another game and have it load that game's data.
@@MrMario2011 Ahhh that's clever. How did they know when its the right time to do this?
Title was kinda misleading to be honest. This isn't soft-modding the PS1 itself, it's reflashing parallel add-on devices to work as a modchip basically.
Same logic with a PS2 softmod and no one complained when I used the terminology for that. No mods are being done to the actual console, only hard drive or memory card. Take either of those out or delete the files and the system is no longer modded.
I would say that with the hdd or MC method too, it's not so much a soft-mod as preparing a device to work as essentially a mod-card for the system. Saying the system was soft-modded sounds like it's a method to re-flash the BIOS of the device itself, like you could with the original Xbox.
Is a game shark pro 3.0 256kb