Blue PSX dev unit worth?

[zemmix]

Just curious but what does a blue PSX dev unit usually go for and where do they sell? I can't imagine ebay letting these be posted.

[Mattiekrome]

Not much help in the price dept, but I'm sure I've seen some on eBay in the past...

[Buyatari]

last I looked most were 100-150

[DefaultGen]

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[Buyatari]

I just bought a green one on Ebay for around $80. I've been told they vary in price significantly depending on how the wind blows, blue being $30-40 and green being $50-100. However...

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=310020651488&_trksid=p3907.m32&_trkparms=tab%3DWatching

Whoa! Boxed ones are supposedly worth significantly more.

Thats alot cheaper than I remember these must have hit bottom. Green is harder to find than Blue. Grey is tough too but just try to find a PSone debug. I know of only one.

[DefaultGen]

Thats alot cheaper than I remember these must have hit bottom. Green is harder to find than Blue. Grey is tough too but just try to find a PSone debug. I know of only one.

Something about Activision or someone clearing out a boatload of these drove down prices I heard? And yeah I think theres only one known PSOne debugger.

[The 1 2 P]

Something about Activision or someone clearing out a boatload of these drove down prices I heard? And yeah I think theres only one known PSOne debugger.

Does anyone know what the PS1 debugger looks like? In the past I've seen what I thought was an EA PS1 debugger on ebay, but I was outbid.

[ProgrammingAce]

Woah, i'd say more like 50-80. I haven't seen one sell for over a hundred in a few years. Last one i bought was $43 shipped, and that was off ebay.

you can see what one looks like, and find more info here:

http://www.gamerhistory.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=337

[PapaStu]

Blues are devalued thanks to the Acclaim liquidation. AsseMBLER bought pretty much all of the debug units they had and worked them into the market over the last few years. Greens are still harder to get than the blues and whoever listed the 40-50 and 50-100 is about right. I can see the blues being a SMIDGE higher, but not by much.

There are PSOne debuggers, out there I can only think of one forum member that owns one (and the only spoken for one, as well) from what i've been told by those in the know, They really didn't make a ton of them, and it was actually a PSOne with stuff just plugged/attached into it, if my memory serves me.

What's harder to get ahold of are the official DC adaptors that are out there for the US Blue's. And boxed debuggers are still worth good good money due to the boxes being so damn rare.

[zemmix]

Wow I didn't think they would be so devalued. Should have sold mine right away when I got it a few years ago.

[ProgrammingAce]

I really wouldn't be suprised if the official PSOne debuggers just have a mod chip inside. I know that some of the grey "debugs" Sony used at E3 just had mod chips.

[udisi]

I love my blue one. Plays protos, imports, etc. For 40 or 50 bucks I say they're a steal, I know I spent more than that for mine. Mine was a fox interactive one though, so I know mine wasn't used much :)

[The 1 2 P]

Ok, so that EA one was a debugger. I don't have a PS1 debugger yet but I have the next best thing: a US Net Yaroze system.

[ProgrammingAce]

Actually, a yaroze is better for development.

People tend to get kinda pissed when i mention this, but a chipped yaroze is the only way to natively test a disc against all regions.

That being said, i don't recommend chipping one unless you actually *need* to do multi-region testing.

[The 1 2 P]

Actually, a yaroze is better for development.

People tend to get kinda pissed when i mention this, but a chipped yaroze is the only way to natively test a disc against all regions.

That being said, i don't recommend chipping one unless you actually *need* to do multi-region testing.

Net Yaroze's play all region disc. Granted, you'll need an up convertor to play PAL games on a US/JP Yaroze and vice versa, but they still will accept all region games. Atleast mine does with an RGB cable.

[ProgrammingAce]

True, but if you mod it, it will actually auto load the right bios for the disc region you're looking for. Again, not really pratical unless you're working on a release for the system.

If you're just looking to play pirates and japanese games, install a $5 mod chip in a $10 PS1.

[The 1 2 P]

True, but if you mod it, it will actually auto load the right bios for the disc region you're looking for. Again, not really pratical unless you're working on a release for the system.

If you're just looking to play pirates and japanese games, install a $5 mod chip in a $10 PS1.

Why waste money and time for a mod chip when an import convertor will do the same trick for the same(or less) money and no installation process. I use my game enhancer(essensially a modified game shark) to play all my imports and my one pirate(Thrill Kill). I still don't see people's fascination with modding everything in sight, especially when it's completely unnessesary.

[Buyatari]

I really wouldn't be suprised if the official PSOne debuggers just have a mod chip inside. I know that some of the grey "debugs" Sony used at E3 just had mod chips.

Are mod chips a third party product and does the PS1 use the same mod chip the PSOne does?

The Psone debug I have was sent out prior to the release of the system.

[MarioMania]

What's the diffenet's between the Blue & the Green

How did you Mod you Gameshark to play imports

[PapaStu]

Blue's came out earlier and the first models (there are 2 blue model debugs) have some issues handling an orange/redish color. Greens are just the later model revision, and by the time they came out, there were lots of blue systems out, so no where near as many greens were shipped to developers.

[The 1 2 P]

What's the diffenet's between the Blue & the Green

How did you Mod you Gameshark to play imports

You don't mod your Gameshark, it comes like that. It's a third party peripheral that acts just like a Game Shark(plugs into your i/o port on the back of old PS1's or you can get the boot disc for the new smaller PSOne's. Here's a link for one: http://store.videogamecentral.com/plorgaencop.html

Granted, that one is way over priced at $29.99, but you get the idea of what it looks like and how it works. And this just further adds to my point. There was never any real reason to mod the PS1 because you could play imports or back-ups/copys with this simple little inexpensive device.

[The 1 2 P]

If you scroll down on the link above you can see the boot disc, which serves as an import convertor for the smaller PSOne's. Ebay prices for both run $5-20.

[MarioMania]

I have a Gameshark...didn't work for me like about 4 years ago, I was trying to plau DOA(J) on it..Do I need a Gameshark Pro

[The 1 2 P]

I have a Gameshark...didn't work for me like about 4 years ago, I was trying to plau DOA(J) on it..Do I need a Gameshark Pro

A normal Gameshark will not let you play Japanese imports or back ups. You need an import convertor like the Game Enhancer for that. However, one time I used just the Gameshark disc to help boot one of my import wrestling games. But it only worked for that particular game.

[kentuckyfried]

I sold a blue (debugger? Dev? I forget) PSX (had AV ports, single speed drive) on ebay for about a hundred last fall.

[The 1 2 P]

I sold a blue (debugger? Dev? I forget) PSX (had AV ports, single speed drive) on ebay for about a hundred last fall.

Thats a good price since they generally sell for alittle less than that, sometimes as cheap as $50.

[Buyatari]

There are PSOne debuggers, out there I can only think of one forum member that owns one (and the only spoken for one, as well) from what i've been told by those in the know, They really didn't make a ton of them, and it was actually a PSOne with stuff just plugged/attached into it, if my memory serves me.


Mine doesn't have anything attached to it. Unless you mean on the board which it might. I've never opened it up. It looks like a retail unit except for the stickers.