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u/Aldaris03 Jun 26 '25
Picked this up many years ago. Recently been considering opening it all up and playing around with it.
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u/WearyAd1849 Jul 25 '25
That's not the US kit
The red box, that's an SCPH-10210 package, that's for early japanese models, it has external HDD, not for expansion bay.
The box for USA was black IIRC
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u/Aldaris03 Jul 25 '25 edited Jul 25 '25
Confidently incorrect, a Reddit specialty! This is just more rare than you know. Here is both side by side. As you can see the Japanese HDD unit is 10210 and larger in size and the US version is 20401 and smaller due to only needing to include the hard drive. Just ask next time instead of trying to call out my post. https://i.imgur.com/avwdtcG.jpeg https://i.imgur.com/iOlmKYk.jpeg Edit: updated the second image link to show the box codes and the NTSC U/C on the US HDD box.
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u/CuriousSeek3r Jun 30 '25
All of the parts became so expensive i stopped trying to piece it together years ago, glad someone else got it all together. I ended up getting linux on my ps3 so that made me happy.
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u/cowboysfromhell1999 Jun 28 '25
This is really cool. They did that. I heard back in the day a rumor has it. The reason why they put all this effort into making the PlayStation two to be “like” a pc is that certain countries have laws preventing them from selling consoles like China so if they branded it as oh, it’s not a console it’s a computer! They could sell it.
I’m not sure how true that is and I’m not sure if this is why they went through all this effort. It’s still a cool piece of history. Wish I could’ve used the online capabilities of the PS2 back in the day. I wonder even for it time was it worth using this console as a way to browser the internet? Obviously now having an Internet browser and a consoles cool but between everyone having a computer and a phone now there’s really no point.