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HEX codes that work for the 12C will work for the 12F. This is an old model and continuing to use them is unnecessary unless you have them stockpiled. HEX codes for the modchip of your choice (provided below).Some kind of wiring & breadboard to connect the PIC to to the PICkit.

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Also download and install MPLAB IPE from the MPLAB X IDE package.

If you want to make a PSNee modchip, you can follow the instructions here to flash the. While I do have an Arduino, I prefer to use the MM3 and Mayumi chips over PSNee. In this tutorial we will focus on making MM3 or Mayumi v4 modchips. It's generally pretty easy to make a PS1 modchip provided you have the right tools. If you want them I am selling flashed, prewired modchips. I worked out the pinout for the Attiny45 but I ended up going with MM3 and Mayumi because it's easier. The provided diagrams are atrocious and nowhere near as simple as the available diagrams for MM3 and Mayumi. Unfortunately PSNee is complicated to install.

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Based on the code I believe it attempts to infer where the PS1 is in the boot process to begin injecting fake SCEX strings. Development on it was later continued by others and it appears to work rather well on all Playstation 1/PSOne models. PSNee is an open source modchip originally written by TheFrietMan. This reduces the chance of the oscillator sync issue from happening however, Mayumi v4 is considered a bit difficult to install. Mayumi v4 attempts to use the oscillator used by the CD drive. If this happens you simply need to reboot your console to try reading again. Its only real downside is that it uses an internal oscillator which can become out of sync with the oscillator used by the CD drive. MM3 is the most common PS1 modchip seen/used today. The three have their pros and cons but generally they can be summarized as follows: Today, there are three main modchips which are still used by the community today. He originally reverse engineered a commercial PS1 modchip that was designed by a western engineer working for a Chinese company. It's from his modchip that most other modchips are derived from in some sense. Surprisingly, The Old Crow specializes in electronic music synthesizers, not hacking video game consoles. The first "open source" modchip was reverse engineered by a guy named "The Old Crow". Modchips that work under these updated circumstances are known as "stealth modchips" because the console shouldn't be able to detect them at all. However, modern modchips already deal with this.

Changing the overall process to make it more difficult to bypass by simply emitting the correct strings.

Checking for the magic strings during the game instead of at boot.

Later on Sony added more complicated checks like: This causes the PS1 to believe that whatever disc is inside is legitimate and proceed to boot up. PSX modchips work by electrically stifling the output originally generated by whatever CD is inside the drive and then injecting a new, faked signal into the CD microcontroller. If you want a real in-depth discussion you can read the original posts by The Old Crow or the No$PSX documentation page or this Modchip FAQ

Because region ( A for America, I for Japan, E for Europe, and W for Net Yaroze) as well as authenticity are rolled into one string, Sony kills two birds with one stone here and achieves region locking as well as copy protection.

However, because the PS1 needs to account for disc read errors, there's a good amount of leeway in what passes the authenticity check.

If the string can't be found or is garbled, the PS1 knows the disc isn't an authentic PS1 game.

Once the controller decides that the disc is/isn't official, the main CPU reads this decision and acts accordingly.

The CD drive controller looks for those strings to identify a disc as official.

This video and this post discuss it reasonably well. SCEA, SCEI, SCEE, or in rare cases SCEW) into official PS1 games in locations which cannot be replicated by a regular reader.

Sony baked (not the technical term) strings (i.e.

Very simply, the principles behind PS1 DRM work as follows: If you are looking for them I am selling flashed, prewired modchips.

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And so then the journey begins, how do I mod this thing? So why keep an old console? Turns out the answer is nostalgia and memories. I remember some games wouldn't load anymore and I had gotten a PS2. They say the apple doesn't fall far from the tree.įast-forward to today and I no longer have my original PS1. He modded my PS1 to have a little switch in the back that would allow it to play burnt games. While I wasn't smart enough to mod game consoles when I was young, my dad wasn't bad at it. I can trace the history of how I got involved in computers back to playing and modding video games. It was one of the first, if not the first, game consoles I owned and it had a profound effect on my future. When I was young I owned a PlayStation 1 (PS1).