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Only in Japan and in its first week were sold about 900.000 consoles. The spectacular initial sales of the PlayStation 2 were due in large part to the success of its predecessor, the PlayStation, and the fact that it is compatible with the games of this. Very few people got their console at the end of the year 2000 due to manufacturing delays. Sony knew what was going to happen on the day of the launch of this system so it gave the possibility to sell this equipment through the ebay auction site, however the compulsive buyers did not mind paying $1000 dollars for this team through the ebay. The news came largely to the buyers, which generated a great expectation that caused the shortage of system in the stores on the day of the launch. The official launch of PlayStation 2 was on Main Japan, and on October 26th of the same year in the United States. In 2000 came news of the first videogame for PS2, Jak and Daxter: The legacy of the forerunners.

Initializes undocumented CPU hardware registers (timing, etc.In April 1999, the first news about the successor of the PlayStation was met, shortly after the launch of the Dreamcast.

It is copied to 0x80030000.Īt the very end of the shell is some kind of structure with lines about the BIOS version. It also contains system calls to tables B0 and C0. Directly the part of the BIOS that performs the kernel boot and contains most of the system calls of table A0. This BIOS has been disassembled in detail and is considered “stable” for working in emulators. And even within the same motherboard model there may be different BIOS versions, depending on the revision of the motherboard of one model.Īlmost all emulators consider SCPH1001.BIN to be the standard BIOS version.

This is a difficult question, because the BIOS versions firstly differ from the region, and secondly they differ between the motherboard models. This article is originally from Table of Contents

A 512 KB ROM contains the BIOS startup bootloader, a copy of the PlayStation OS kernel, as well as a “shell” that opens if a game disc is not inserted in the console and contains a memory card manager and a CD player.