Im very sorry to be asking so many questions im learning....

[JLiddell97]

I'm considering on buying a PS1 *NOT PSone* and want to know a few things.

My PSone at the moment can play burned games. What part of the hardware reads the disk? I'm 13 so give me some help!


If I replace the disk drive with the new PS1 will it read the burned games? (The one that I have atm can play burned. It hasn't been modded before, but it still plays burned games..)
EDIT: Sorry, wrong section, I believe it's in General Programming or Questions, sorry.

Proof it hasn't been modded.

[blaze3927]

im guessing that if it can read burned games it has been modded, unless your doing the swap disc trick.

swapping the cd drive over will not change that ability, as the mod is to a lockout chip or something

[Haunted360]

The PS1, has multiple chips.

However, there is one IC that reads Proprietary Sony Code. It is a four-character sequence, which is checked by the CD-ROM drive's controller chip. But because you have a Modchip (And yes. You console is MODDED as I can see that you have many wires connected to the Modchip), that 'Modchip' is telling the CD-ROM's driver chip to skip the Sony Character Sequence - and so, it can boot any game, copied / non-copied within any region (PAL, NTSC, NTSC-J and so on. Though, this depends on the chip you have)

And yes. You can swap the CD-ROM (1x and 2x Speed) drive over with the SAME drive from another. This is because the MoBo (Main / Motherboard) does the 'thinking' if you want.


Thanks, and I hope that solved you problem.