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What's Inside a PSone
Posted on Nov 19th 2012 at 03:52:11 AM by (nupoile)
Posted under psone, playstation, ps1, sony, inside

Sometimes you have to open things up to clean them. It doesn't really take much to convince me to do this. Even though my knowledge of circuit design is fairly low, I enjoy looking at the little cities laid out in solder, resistors and ic's on that green board.

This is a PSone, model no SCPH-101, made in December of 2000. It really wasn't that dirty but there was some dust and hair I couldn't get to without opening up the case.

Six screws hold it shut, one of them under a warranty seal. These were actually tough screws to loosen, they require a small phillips and a bit of effort.



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Here you can see the disc transport. I'm going off of memory here but I think this is a different piece than in the regular PlayStation. At least I think the other one is all black plastic.

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There is no power supply because the cord for this is the wall wort kind and the power is taken care of there. The yellow bit is were the cord plugs into. Everything is contained on one circuit board. Not that I have much to compare it to but there seems to be more IC's (integrated circuits (black rectangles)) than I would have suspected.

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Here is the backside of the board. Lots of tiny traces and solder spots, not really like the Odyssey^2 board huh?

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Anyways, there you go, nothing too exciting but not something you see everyday either.




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Comments
 
There's a lot less there than I would've expected, especially for the traces. Makes you wonder how they could charge so much for something so little.
 
@Shadow Kisuragi: I agree, in total there isn't much there. There aren't too many traces, although most of what is there is so tiny. I am still surprised at the number of IC's though.
 
The PSOne is pretty boring inside, not too much to look. If you really wanna have fun with the Playstation go for the bigger ones, I think in North America there are 3 different releases, all with different board layouts as they figured out how to make the systems cheaper and with less stuff as time went on.

Its easy to see why the early PS had hardware problems when everything was just kinda crammed together with no flow in mind.
 
what are you drinking there?
 
@noiseredux: Ninkasi's Sleighr - A "Dark Double Alt Ale", which is a made up style but that's how we do it in the NW. It's a seasonal release, not bad, but not my favorite either. I think it is better than the first couple years though.

Alameda's Yellow Wolf Imperial IPA - This is from Portland, just up the road, but I don't know this brewery. I don't really think its an Imperial IPA either. It kinda tastes like a poor man's Doggie Claws from Hair of the Dog. I think HotD calls it an American Barleywine. Oh well, like I said, you can just make up whatever style you want around these parts.

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