The DCEmu Interview - Question 39 - Have You Ever Modded Your Consoles ?

[wraggster]

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A feature i did a few years ago and one im going to repeat now is the DCEmu Interview, a unique idea in which questions are asked by me to the Whole DCEmu Community its a way to learn more about each others and find out what our interests are and much more

Todays Question is Have You Ever Modded Your Consoles ? and what exactly did you do?

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[wraggster]

ive modded 3 xbox/xbox360 consoles with new cases.

On a PSP i replaced the laser assembly and case replacement

On a GBA sis a full case replacement

On a Gamecube (yesterday) i modded it with a new console and a modchip.

[ojdon]

No, I want to but it always requires soldering which I can never do.

Although does installed a custom firmware count as softmodding?

[apex05]

3 Ps1's, 2 Xbox originals, Psp 2000, Ps2 fmcb softmod and a Snes super wild card if that's classed as a mod, also Dreamcast but you can't really call that a mod.

[irishwhip]

installed modchips, tsop flashes and softmods to numerous xboxes, and installed usb ports on a couple.

flashed my psp countless times, installed flash0 themes, etc.
Modified my psp1000 to charge from usb

installed cd-r mod boards into mine and my friends sega saturn, and the 50/60hz switch too.

modified my n64 to output RGB

my earliest mods were snes 50/60hz and region switches, and converting a snes controller to work on a 3do

[Shrygue]

Well I've modified the NAND flash memory of my PSP consoles, changed the shell of my 1004 model to a clear blue one and ajusted the UMD drive spring to fix the door misalignment problem. That's about it for now.

[Eviltaco64]

Well, I've softmodded two Xbox's with a flash drive, a male Xbox plug to female USB cable, and a copy of Splinter Cell.

I've repaired a few RRoD 360's with the copper penny trick.

I downgraded one or two PSP-1000's and used the Pandora Battery on my PSP-2000.

I've played around with Fat/Slim PS2's and PS2 homebrew (which isn't all too great).

I've fixed a few NESes that wouldn't play games by straightening and cleaning connector pins.

I've also fixed a Model 1 Genesis or two that had a broken reset button.

Finally, I've done some Dreamcast repairs over the years (replacing GD-roms, combining two non-working consoles to play through Sonic Adventure :P). In another Dreamcast-related story, I've done some GD-rom repairs (replacing chewed up ribbon cables, calibrating, cleaning the laser off in a delicate fashion, etc.) and, of course, got into DC homebrew.

EDIT: Yes, I know a few of these don't really count as "mods", but I listed the sometimes difficult repairs.

[goshogun1]

Only modchip I have ever installed myself was for the Sega Saturn. Easy stuff, but quite a lot of room for error considering I had never soldered b4.

[Jmclark]

I've never modded consoles. I'd rather to stick to softmodding.

[mike_jmg]

I've never moded any hardware, I have flashed like 10 psps, I attempted to change my phat psp faceplate, I was about to succeed but the damn new faceplate was too cheap and wouldn't fit right, so I changed back the older one.

I've dissasembled and reasembled many console controlers just to clean their parts, snes, N64 and PS2.

That's about it, I have no soldering skills whatsoever.

[-Tj-]

Aside from tearing apart all my consoles to see what made them tick, I've had my Sega Saturn modded for import games, installed the backlight kit on two GBAs, attempted to mod my GameCube, and softmodded my two PSPs. The GC survived, but now it's missing a tiny chip (doh!) that didn't seem to hinder its operation.

After the local game store here lost my Saturn somehow (first generation US Saturn, those bastards), I no longer entrust others with my console modding needs.

EDIT: wow... just noticed how long I've been lurking here. haha

[ruyor]

I received a half-broken PS2 from a friend, it wouldn't read any discs. I decided to try to fix it, so I opened it up.

Because this PS2 (30001) was older than mine (50001/N), I didn't know the Power/Eject buttons were attached to the case, so I accidentally ripped the ribbon cable out of the board and the blue strip that keeps it stiff got caught on the bottom part of the case and ripped off :eek:, after performing open-laser surgery on the disc drive I decided to fix the ribbon cable by scotch-taping the blue strip back on (yes, I said scotch tape!), and to my surprise, it worked just fine! I still have that PS2, and it still works:)

I don't know if you'd count this as modding, but I was surprised it still works :p

[Emulation_Chief]

Hello:

In my case, I only did one hardware mod. A friend's Xbox 1. He bought one of those solderless chips. I install it, program it, and test it before everything goes well after several weeks trying. But I prefer softmod. Much safer in the soldering perspective.

[brandonheat8]

All of mine are softmods, PS2,PSP,Xbox Original, but i tried a modchip on a xbox original as well, didnt turn out well.

[pibs]

Funny you should ask, my transistor blew out on my 360 for the fans. So ima just wire the fans to the disk drive and draw the 12v power. Makes the 360 a bit louder but its an extra 360 that I occasionally use so it wont bug me.

[Xcliber]

I stick to Softmodding for the most part. I did put a fliptop case on my PS2 Phat and used it + swapmagic to install FreeMCBoot on a memcard.

I "FlashMe" patched my DS phat's firmware back when you had to run NDS homebrew from slot-2.

I also replaced a broken LCD screen on a PSP phat, but that's just a repair, not a mod.

I modded an old Xbox controller into a PC gamepad.

Nothing spectacular.

[shedeus]

modding consoles are great fun!

Here's something you don't see everyday: my fully tricked out Sega Genesis Nomad. Hell, it's hard to find one period nowadays

http://www.flickr.com/photos/binolee/sets/72157606461762040/

Ok, this one's not a console (still video game related), but I'm still very proud of it!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/binolee/sets/72157622053902751/

[kaferenza]

Psp-custom firmware.
NDS-Flash cart.
360-DVD firmware.
PS2-Chip.
Wii-Chip with chip-clip, red LEDs in remote and nunchuck.
Atari2600-Composite A\V mod.
XBOX-Paint,USB,LED case jewel,chip.
DC-Paint,port indicator LEDs.
And a slew of misc repairs.
I love modding :)

[Fuseki]

Modded my PSX, Saturn, and Xbox. The PSX was your standard soldered chip. I had two Saturns; a rev 1 and a rev 2. I soldered jumper wires to the door switch on the rev 1 to use the swap trick, and chipped my rev b. I soldered a Duo-X chip to my Xbox (19 wires....phew) and installed a 120 Gb hard drive to it. I've since sold all of them off.

[ThatotherPerson]

I've never done a hard mod before only softmods.

First console I ever modded was my original xbox. I did it the soft modding way involving hot swapping the hard drive. The only other console I have modded is my Wii which I used the Zelda Twilight Princess exploit for.

[CarlGB]

Fixed a blown controller board on my Dreamcast. A short on a standard controller on power up resulted in picture and sound but no controller input on any of the ports.
Performed a simple fix that involved removing the controller board, desoldering and soldering in a new 10 ohm 1/4 watt resistor, resistor 6 pack £1 from Maplins. The resistor acts as a fuse and is soldered at the F1 socket on the board. Note that when removing the controller board the flat controller cable is a bit fragile so wiggle it out slowly. Cheap fix and the kids are happy!!

[mfred90]

what a great stuff.. thanks there is lots of stuff. which can crack DCEmu interview..

[ProjectDLL]

Useful information! Great!!!!

[moritz1992]

Modifying any game console runs the risk of damaging it. Also as soon as you crack the case you void the warranty on. Ask yourself if the modification is worth the risk of destroying your game console.

[WhizzBang]

Yes it is - especially if the console is old and near worthless.