No need to worry about that. If you wear out the Yaroze laser unit, just find an old SCPH-100x and swap it. You can't even differentiate Yarozes and their matching 100x's just by looking at their boards, unless there is some special marking on the CD controller.
Myria, I answered that question couple posts above this one but here you go. Mine is SCPH-7001 (US model with no W or anything at the end). it only boots NTSC-U/C games. I have tried Japanese game NTSC-J and PAL and it wont boot. I have the Net yaroze DTL-S3040 boot disc but haven't tried it on the 10th Million Model yet. I'll do it soon
7000 or 7000W? I'm curious whether all the Japanese midnight blue systems are these W models that seem to act like they have Yaroze CD controllers and have American BIOS's. If I had to guess why the W models have the American BIOS, I'd say that it's because the Japanese BIOS blocks imports from booting by looking at the license area, independently from the CD controller's usual check of the SCEx copy protection string. Same reason why you can't run American PS1 games on a Japanese debug PS2, I think (it freezes).
Goood that thing is sexy, looking black like that (i know it's blue) but just looks so amazing black still not being a Yaroze. xD I wish there had been more official colors, Red, purple, white etc. :/ limited production though! Edit: Seems people are overpricing those, since someone sold for 500. I'd say that is a fair price, not 1200...
The only color that comes to my mind beside grey, blue, midnight blue, green, and black is the White VCD model. I'm not sure the painted yellow F1 formula and the black Men in Black count as official.
There is actually a part-official one that happens to every single PS1 that lays in the sun! it gets gray-yellow true story. That's the coolest color ever! I have one used for 6 years (9002) my 1st one and it's more yellow then gray now, I don't consider it gray anymore.. it's so yellowish! Upper one is my 1st, the one under is a mod-chipped one.
Yes, it does. Interestingly, although the boot disk (DTL-S3035) was originally supplied with a PAL Yaroze kit, it booted up in NTSC mode on the SCPH-7000W - which I guess just goes to show that that bit in the TRCs about not dynamically selecting video mode only applies to licensees, and not Sony themselves.
