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Just throw it out if it’s bung like that and stop wasting your time, it’s a lost cause.Ĭurrently in mine: Modified KSM-440AEM (long cable) Mine was missing a portion of plastic on the spindle which throws off the disc balance. This thing sucks by proxy of it’s plastic assembly, which is well known for deteriorating due to the orientation of the CD drive unit in this model (it’s close to hot parts of the PSU, which is why it used to get worse the longer the unit was turned on). I just couldn’t in good conscience take that lid sticker off.
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Read on to find out more about this quirk and what it means. The most ‘special feature’ of the SCPH-3500: It has a system BIOS that will only allow NTSC-J discs to play regardless of modchip. This unit has the external RCA jacks (no S-Video), Gameshark-friendly port, and often has a PU-8 motherboard (mileage may vary). I’m hoping my knowledge will save someone else many valuable hours. The SCPH-3500 is worth posting about because it’s a bit of an oddball in the PSX revision timeline, and this model has some specific peculiarities. Honestly I probably should have given up and thrown a RetroPie together, but I digress. The PSX is old as heck, and I’ve spent way too many hours tinkering with this specific model.
#PSX MM3 MODCHIP INSTALL SCPH 5501 UPDATE#
I have made some minor changes to update it throughout.) (I originally posted this write-up to a Reddit thread but figured it could go here too.