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The only PS2 model released on the Chinese market, available from December 20th, 2003, for a price of RMB 1988. Its retail variant is always a satin silver fat H-chassis console. It has its own dedicated game region ("NTSC-C") rather than the NTSC-J region that is used on the other Asian PS2 consoles (Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan). The DVD region code is 6, which is also a dedicated China-only DVD region code. As another specialty, it is the only retail PS2 console to have a third ROM(-section) other than BOOT and DVD, which contains a Chinese character set. | The only PS2 model released on the Chinese market, available from December 20th, 2003, for a price of RMB 1988. Its retail variant is always a satin silver fat H-chassis console. It has its own dedicated game region ("NTSC-C") rather than the NTSC-J region that is used on the other Asian PS2 consoles (Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan). The DVD region code is 6, which is also a dedicated China-only DVD region code. As another specialty, it is the only retail PS2 console to have a third ROM(-section) other than BOOT and DVD, which contains a Chinese character set. While this rom section is required to boot most of NTSC-C games due to software checks, only 2 of them really use it (Ape Escape 2, Viorate no Atelier: Gramnad no Renkinjutsushi 2). CDVDMAN included in games for that region perform additional check for valid value in 0x1F402038 register. | ||
Revision as of 09:04, 4 May 2024
The only PS2 model released on the Chinese market, available from December 20th, 2003, for a price of RMB 1988. Its retail variant is always a satin silver fat H-chassis console. It has its own dedicated game region ("NTSC-C") rather than the NTSC-J region that is used on the other Asian PS2 consoles (Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan). The DVD region code is 6, which is also a dedicated China-only DVD region code. As another specialty, it is the only retail PS2 console to have a third ROM(-section) other than BOOT and DVD, which contains a Chinese character set. While this rom section is required to boot most of NTSC-C games due to software checks, only 2 of them really use it (Ape Escape 2, Viorate no Atelier: Gramnad no Renkinjutsushi 2). CDVDMAN included in games for that region perform additional check for valid value in 0x1F402038 register.
Another oddity is found: DTL-H50009 is the only PS2 console that shares the ROMVER with a PSX (DVR). This console has 1.80 ROMVER like the 1st gen PSX.
Only very few games were released in China, as the PS2's release for the Chinese market happened during a period where game consoles were heavily regulated and for the most part actually banned.
The following Chinese PS2 models are confirmed to exist:
- SCPH-50009 (Satin Silver)
- DTL-H50009 (Satin Silver)
- DTL-H50009J (Black)
Dragon Modchip
The "Dragon" was an exclusive Modchip made specifically for the Chinese PS2 consoles.
It's also the reason why Sony stopped producing Chinese models.
