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the "POWER" and "OPEN" buttons now have their respective labels in light gray. The job's a little splotchy but it's good enough for me.
The upper tray and the disc drive cover. They're both now matte black with no lettering. They sit in my closet atop the cardboard box they were painted in.
The reset button with an initial primer layer. It's been jammed into the crack of a small cardboard box to hold it upright and in place.
Top shell of the PlayStation. It's inside an open box and has an initial coating of dark-grey spray primer applied. It's on the sidewalk in my apartment's parking lot.
The demon core and it's associated screwdriver
Deleting my initial posts on putting an xStation in a broken PS1 since I fucked up the image uploads
An unholy union between ABS (the original plastic) and PLA (the haphazardly applied grey plastic). It's very bad looking and the mix of grey and tan is repulsive. The outer shape more or less resembles what it should, however!
A screenshot from my order confirmation for a (hopefully) equivalent SMD fuse. It's rating is 300mA shy of the base spec, but if the various reddit comments I saw are to be believed, this should be "OK". The size also differs, I think it won't be a problem though.
A brown dupont wire is haphazardly connected to the rightmost pin of CN701. It's not even connected really, the wire's way too big for the fuckin pin.
Me pointing a dupont wire to IC402. Well, rather a capacitor that leads to DVDD, the digital positive "lead" for the IC.
A blurry shot of fuse PS604. It's next to the 7-pin power connector and labelled with a "50" up top.
A confirmed order for a "BROKEN Sony PlayStation 1 PU-20 Motherboard with Metal Heat Shields". I paid $26.34 for it on the 9th of April and received the board 4 days later on the 13th.
The dashboard for the xStation. It's empty and showing a Christmas theme.
The XStation QSB installed along the bottom of the board. The board made the install very clean - only a single purple wire runs across the board, everything else is connected to a purpose-built PCB.
IC308, the sound processing unit in this console, sits atop the board, detached from the pads that previously were connected to the QFP chip. Some flux residue is present.
My flatscreen showing the second half of the PlayStation startup. The significance of this is that this part of the boot animation is not stored on the console - it's stored on the disc. This was a copy-protection measure employed by Sony - by requiring the PlayStation logo to be present on each disc to start a game, Sony could crack down on unlicensed games via means of trademark infringement.
A blurry shot of the system board. Despite being covered in some dust, the system is otherwise unremarkable. Peeking at the board revision on the top edge, we can see that this is a late PU-8 board, specifically the -22 version. This board type has all the pros of the early "audiophile" PlayStations while also having SGRAM instead of VRAM for the GPU - see https://www.psdevwiki.com/ps1/Motherboards#PU-8. These later sub-revisions with SGRAM have 8-bit dithering rather than the 5-bit dithering sported by earlier models - see https://consolemods.org/wiki/PS1:PS1_Model_Differences.
The received console now sits atop a cluttered table. It's significantly yellowed in its many years of service, save for the controller ports, which remain true to their original shade of grey.
The bottom side of the PlayStation as shown in the eBay listing. The console is covered grime and is thoroughly yellowed. Surveying the model information listed, the console can be observed to be one of model SCPH-1001, one of the select models that the XStation optical drive emulator is compatible with.
A masculine figure breaks a set of chains which previous bound their arms. The sun sets in the distance, leaving only a silhouette visible. The escapee is overjoyed, with both fists in the air.
Screenshot from the ABC news article. Subeading reads "Addressing Underlying Anger". The section reads as follows: Overall, what needs to be addressed is the increased anger being expressed in society against corporate entities, especially the health care industry, the experts told ABC News. Mihalek said that both law enforcement and the general public will need to keep an eye out for anyone who seems in distress and shares angry rhetoric against health care companies and CEOs, and act if they encounter it. "Concerning behaviors should not be ignored: They need to be reported and addressed. If somebody says something, don't be afraid to be the someone to raise the flag about it," he said.