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Sony PlayStation 2 fixing frenzy

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… or writing a blog post with old pics and data again

Intro

Yeah, again, a blog post based on years-old pics. I still have at least 20 blog posts to write that will be based on stuff that I’ve worked few years ago 😀

I guess, chasing my own tail is never-ending 😀

Some Playstations that I bought the other day…

I once wrote a blog post about Nintendo Wii controllers. That post was already based on old data, and the job presented in this blog post is from roughly the same period of time when I bought around 60 various consoles to learn how to fix them and to show them to my son.

I had around 9 PlayStation 2 units. Seven were the FAT PS2s, and I will be covering only fixes/mods that I find a bit more interesting than the usual clean&run scenario. Obviously, a lot of time passed, and nowadays there are way better mods available, but anyway, let’s go.

Lemme first show you how it all looked.

The main issues to sort out were rather simple. Cleaning, broken plastic, dead fans, dead RTC battery cells, etc.

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