SCPH-50009

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.

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.