PS1 Official Memory Cards - Various info
10Welcome,
This video was initially uploaded as unlisted and simply served as an annex of the main video in which I present the specificities of PS1 memory cards PCB/shells and in which I present my collection of 72 models, but I have now decided to publish it because it contains information (that could not be covered in the main video due to length constraints) that may interest people.
Detailed summary of the content:
* The part from 00:09 to 35:21 contains the info I gathered about the various packages/cases of Sony official PS1 memory cards. Detailed timecodes: early gray memory cards packages: 00:09; special memory cards cases and special bundle packages: 05:32; packages of promotional color variants of 1997: 06:02; silver model package and info: 13:45; packages of standard colors released from 1998 to 2000: 17:12; few packages from the (non Japanese?) Asian market: 26:44; PS one slim era packages : 30:35; colored labels inside packages: 34:56.
* The part from 35:21 to 53:29 contains info about the various color schemes I spoted in the back stickers.
* The part from 53:29 to 1:22:36 contains info on various counterfeit PS1 memory cards and packages, and two very odd PCBs/memory cards that may be counterfeit but that have genuine features.
* The part from 1:22:36 to 1:27:06 shows how to unformat a memory card to make it work as if it was brand new.
* The last part from 1:27:06 is a sort of memory card maintenance utility. Detailed timecodes: how to clean the contacts/connectors of a PCB: 1:27:14; how to remove safely a front label/sticker: 1:32:06; few info about the shells yellowing/discoloration, and method of yellowing removal: 1:37:54.
Based on a thing or two I've seen online in the meantime, it could be that the colored translucent cases shown at 05:37 were incorporated into the PAL packages of standard/gray memory cards shown around 04:00.
Note that my method of yellowing removal is much more effective on opaque memory cards than on translucent memory cards.
Main/part 1 video link:
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