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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