Anyone know where I can buy a new Japanese PS1 / PSone?

[masqdgamer]

My Japanese launch PS1 (Dec '94) has died. It died a good death while playing some Raiden DX.
Anyone know where I can find a replacement?
I need a way to play my Toaplan Shooting Battle 20 years from now =)

Anyway, anyone know where I can find a new replacement, or I am I going to have to find a used eBay unit?

thanks

[Guspaz]

Are you sure it's not repairable?

[masqdgamer]

the piece that the game CD connects to actually broke off. The plastic was all brittle.
I was like WTF?
It was still connected to the game disc when I removed it. The Playstation itself still works, at least powers on. I glued the broken piece back on, but I have not tried to run a game yet.

Just doing a little reconnaissance to see if its still possible to find a new replacement.

[Guspaz]

I'm a bit confused, find a *new* unit? They stopped making even the PSOne more than a decade ago. Maybe you could find a sealed new-in-box unit, but it'll cost many times more than a used unit. In North America, they seem to go for $250 CAD and up for sealed NIB. I see a sealed NIB Japanese unit for $640 CAD. The normal price for a North American unit is $60-80. So you're paying anywhere from 4x to 10x the price to get a new one.

Have you considered just buying a used North American unit and getting it modded?

[masqdgamer]

Yeah I kinda figured that pricing was gonna be nutty.
Was just hoping there might be some place that had a bunch of old stock sitting around in a WHS.

Really wish I bought a backup or 2 back in the day like I've done with all of my other systems.
Just figured that using a PS2 w/BC would be fine for PS1 games, and using my old PS1 only when necessary with games that dont work on PS2.

looks like used ones are about $50 or under on eBay, so maybe I'll just get a couple of those.

thanks brotha.

EDIT:
Oh, and I havent really considered getting a modded US unit. Guess I should.
I dont know much about modding or that whole scene or were to even look tbqh.
I do have a couple US PSOne units still NIB that I got for $50 back in the day.

[Guspaz]

Installing a mod chip involves relatively small soldering, so if you're not experienced with soldering, it may be simplest to just find somebody who does them. There are a bunch of people who post in here who do various mod work professionally, maybe one of them is experienced with PS1 region mods.

[masqdgamer]

thanks, I'll look into it =)
BTW, just tried out my 'broken' system after super-gluing that piece back on. Seem to work ok, played 20 mins of TSB and Strikers 1945 without any issues.
Hopefully it holds together till I can get a replacement.

[Triple Lei]

Yeah, my PS1 broke in the same place, and I just glued it back together again.

Worked fine for years, but I'm having problems with it right now; at the very best, games will work with skipped music when upside down. Time to get some alcohol and/or Windex and a Q-tip, I suppose.

[masqdgamer]

Yeah, my PS1 broke in the same place, and I just glued it back together again.

Worked fine for years, but I'm having problems with it right now; at the very best, games will work with skipped music when upside down. Time to get some alcohol and/or Windex and a Q-tip, I suppose.

ah, ok.
sorry your's broke too, but I'm glad to know that this is something that **can** happen in general and wasnt related to improper storage at my house.
I ordered a used PSone (J) of eBay too to have in case old reliable fails again.

[mvsfan]

what is broken the cd spindle?

those you can get new ones on ebay cheap.

[Ed Oscuro]

what is broken the cd spindle?

those you can get new ones on ebay cheap.

This was my thought, you might even be able to get by with something from a cheap CD player even. But certainly the entire laser assembly is available online.

[masqdgamer]

what is broken the cd spindle?

those you can get new ones on ebay cheap.

Not sure what the spindle is.
The piece that the CD clicks on to, that broke off when I removed my game.

I super glued it back on, seems to be holding ok (tho I only tried it for an about an hour since)

I also ordered a used (J) PSOne on eBay, should have that in a few days.

thanks for the help fellas.

[BazookaBen]

You can also just harvest a CD laser assembly from a US ps1 and put it in your JP unit.

[Ed Oscuro]

Depending on what kind of plastic it uses, acetone might be a better glue (actually it would melt the plastic and allow it to re-fuse). Messy and slightly dangerous, though.