Building My Ultimate PS2 for 2023

Hi everyone! Sorry that it's taken me so long to get this video out, I've been super busy moving countries. I hope you enjoy this and look forward to more frequent Retrostalgia going forwards!

After seeing all the hype around modding PS2's, I really wanted to mod one to play all of my childhood games. The PS2's in Australia and New Zealand came in very limited colors, so I really wanted one of these Japan only white ones. This involved me swapping the Power Supply Unit with an AUS PS2.

In addition to the PSU, I cleaned a lot of dust, replaced the dead battery and installed a hard drive with freeHDboot. This is the only tutorial that worked for me to install the freeHDboot:    • How To Mod A PS2 With FreeHDBoot Usin...   . Older methods were just giving me a black screen.

Finally, I topped it off with an aftermarket component cable to take advantage of the best quality 480p signal that the PlayStation can output.

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Music:
Grand Theft Auto 3 - Main Theme:    • PlayStation 2 Music - Relaxing Video ...  
Ratchet & Clank (PS2) Beats to Save the Galaxy to:    • Ratchet & Clank (PS2) Beats to Save t...  
eluzai - memory cards (PS2 LOFI):    • eluzai - memory cards (PS2 LOFI)  
Kingdom Hearts Lofi - Lazy Afternoon:    • Kingdom Hearts Lofi -  Lazy Afternoons  

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0:00 - Disassembly
2:44 - Power Supply
3:40 - More disassembly
5:05 - New battery
5:20 - Cleaning
6:28 - Reassembly
7:38 - Donor PAL PSU
9:00 - More reassembly
10:22 - Final result

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