For any of you who still uses their old PS1 consoles, the most common problem with this console is not the memory card connection, a bulb problem nor the model of it that can play Action Replay (PSX 1XXX to 5XXX models), the main problem of any PS1, ANY, is the damn lens, that son of a ***** is the worst problem when you get it fucked up.
Why?, first, when none of your games can't even pass the blank sony screen because the lens decided that fun is something you should not have, is annoying. This is when things get uglier, you see, as long as the lens can spin a disc (RIP old lens that couldn't even do crap by it's own) you can get it working, the problem is, getting it working.
To get it working, you have to open the console, remove the carcass, and around the lens there is a small screw connected to the lens, attached around an orange flex, this little screw is what the stability and possibility of playing a PS1 game relies, and now, with a screwdriver, you move it around the little screw attached to the PS1, you turn it around the left or right, in most cases, this means something.
If you turn the screw too much to the left, the CD will go Super Sonic.
If you turn the screw too much to the right, it will be as slow as Slowpoke Rodriguez.
You have to turn it to one side that is PERFECT, the side that doesn't go neither too fast and neither too slow, and also the one that maintains the spin, because if after 10 or 15 seconds the CD stops and goes back to spin, it means that you have failed during the calibration.
Newer models tend to be easier to calibrate like the PSOne, but older models like the PS1 Model 5XXX are natural assholes in that, in fact, since the lens was so bad, I had another one that was "older" but it was a more recent model, a lens from a PS1 7XXX to be exact.
I replaced it with the now defunct lens, and now it works, but the amount of time needed to calibrate that bitch was too much, and don't get me started on some games that, for X or Y needs another kind of calibration in order to get it working, that shit is just too much for me, and some games makes the calibration fails anyway.
So, any suggestion for anyone interested on recovering their old PS1's?, patience, loads of it, you can get it working definitely, but don't expect that it will last too long either, after a year or so you'll have to recalibrate it, but the good side is, that after loads of tries, you feel like a winner when you get it working.
Why?, first, when none of your games can't even pass the blank sony screen because the lens decided that fun is something you should not have, is annoying. This is when things get uglier, you see, as long as the lens can spin a disc (RIP old lens that couldn't even do crap by it's own) you can get it working, the problem is, getting it working.
To get it working, you have to open the console, remove the carcass, and around the lens there is a small screw connected to the lens, attached around an orange flex, this little screw is what the stability and possibility of playing a PS1 game relies, and now, with a screwdriver, you move it around the little screw attached to the PS1, you turn it around the left or right, in most cases, this means something.
If you turn the screw too much to the left, the CD will go Super Sonic.
If you turn the screw too much to the right, it will be as slow as Slowpoke Rodriguez.
You have to turn it to one side that is PERFECT, the side that doesn't go neither too fast and neither too slow, and also the one that maintains the spin, because if after 10 or 15 seconds the CD stops and goes back to spin, it means that you have failed during the calibration.
Newer models tend to be easier to calibrate like the PSOne, but older models like the PS1 Model 5XXX are natural assholes in that, in fact, since the lens was so bad, I had another one that was "older" but it was a more recent model, a lens from a PS1 7XXX to be exact.
I replaced it with the now defunct lens, and now it works, but the amount of time needed to calibrate that bitch was too much, and don't get me started on some games that, for X or Y needs another kind of calibration in order to get it working, that shit is just too much for me, and some games makes the calibration fails anyway.
So, any suggestion for anyone interested on recovering their old PS1's?, patience, loads of it, you can get it working definitely, but don't expect that it will last too long either, after a year or so you'll have to recalibrate it, but the good side is, that after loads of tries, you feel like a winner when you get it working.
