Lets look into history. The original Playstation went through about five internal modifications and the last one that led to the removal of the parallel port in the back which was used for devices such as Game Shark and many variations of game enhancers. Those PS modifications were done with a goal to make production cheaper, not to reduce piracy even though mod chips and game enhancers were already on the open market. I am not saying that the SCPH-15000 is not geared against mod chips, but if history guides me correctly, I can say that there is very large chance that they are not. Even if Sony tries to do something against piracy, it won't work, someone will always be two steps ahead of them.

      Who is producing these chips already? So far we only heard of shipments coming from Asia. Temporarily ModChip.com will be getting them from Hong Kong, but Asia won't be the major source for long time. Fred told us that they are expecting to get the source code of the mod chip very soon. The source code will allow them to make those chips in their own plants, which is much cheaper, allows virtually unlimited quantities to be produced and lets them be made of high quality that they like to sell.

      I will wrap this report up for now, but we will update on it as we get our hands on the actual chips. There is still some small details to explore about the mod chips and we will try to unleash more info as it becomes available. Stay tuned.

06/13/00  Webmaster

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