Rant: That $60 PS1 modchip I bought was a total waste

I grabbed one of those cheap PS1 modchips off eBay for $60 because I wanted to play burned copies of games I already own. Took me like 4 hours to solder it in because the traces on the board are tiny and easy to mess up. Got it all hooked up and the system just blinked a red light and wouldn't boot at all. I tried reflowing the joints twice and checked every connection with a multimeter, still dead. Turns out the chip was a knockoff that didn't match the right model number for my PS1. Now I'm out $60 and I probably fried my original motherboard trying to get it working. Has anyone else here been burned by those cheap modchips or should I just stick to buying originals off Lukiegames?

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fox.jesse1mo ago

You get what you pay for with that stuff.

abby_palmer1mo ago

My friend Jenny bought a $20 battery pack from a gas station last month and it caught fire in her glovebox. She was lucky she smelled it before it burned anything else. @fox.jesse is 100% right, you really do get what you pay for with that stuff. She learned the hard way, now she only goes with brands she actually knows. That cheap stuff is just not worth the risk, man.