

An infrared receiver was added for use with a remote to control DVD playback, leaving both controller ports free from the external receiver.


There was also the SCPH-3000x, 3500x, 3900x, and 500xx models.īeginning with model SCPH-500xx (v9 & 10), the i.LINK port was removed. V7 and V8 included only minor revisions to V6. V5 also introduced a more reliable laser than the ones used in previous models. V5 introduced minor internal changes, and the only difference between V6 (sometimes called V5.1) and V5 is the orientation of the Power/Reset switch board connector, which was reversed to prevent the use of no-solder modchips. In V4, everything except the power supply was unified onto one board. V3 had a substantially different internal structure from the subsequent revisions, featuring several interconnected printed circuit boards. SCPH-10000 and SCPH-15000 did not have built-in DVD movie playback and instead relied on encrypted playback software that was copied to a memory card from an included CD-ROM (normally, the PS2 will only execute encrypted software from its memory card see PS2 Independence Exploit). These models instead included a PCMCIA slot. Three of the original PS2 launch models (SCPH-10000, SCPH-15000, and SCPH-18000) were only sold in Japan and lacked the expansion bay of later PS2 models.
