I purchased a junk PlayStation 2 for ¥1 - My Japanese PlayStation 2 Journey
Welcome everyone to my epic tale of owning a Sony PlayStation 2 (I'll use the PS2 abbreviation from now on) for the first time in 2023. It actually started in 2021. I'd just imported a Toshiba Laserdisc player from Japan, and it arrived in a Sony box for something called a PSX. I know the original PlayStation was often abbreviated as PSX, but this definitely wasn't an original PlayStation. It looked more like a fancy DVD player from the image on the box. I also noticed on the box that it had the PS2 logo. Now I was really curious. After a bit of Googling, I found out that Sony released a DVR (Digital Video Recorder), DVD and PS2, all in one convenient unit. It was only ever released in Japan. I decided to hunt Yahoo Auctions and a few models were available. Working units were well over ¥20,000, but there were quite a few junk units available too. In the end, I ended up bidding on a model DESR-5100/S (the S means it's a limited-edition silver colour - normal PSX consoles...