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My collection of Sony Playstation Video Game Consoles
in Nostalgia | Wednesday, August 13, 2025 | 17:01


Thought I would just for my own personal reference write down in history the current Playstation 1,2 and 3 models I own. These was either found free at trash places, purchased cheap in thrift shops or given to me by friends for free. One Playstation 1 is unique and special, because it was something my brother bought way back in the mid 90's!


As documented more in detail on my My computer history post, here's some visual images to go along with that.


4 pcs of Playstation 2 (PS2) FAT
1 pcs of Playstation 2 (PS2) SLIM

4 pcs of Playstation 1

1 pcs of Playstation 3 FAT
1 pcs of Playstation 3 SUPER-SLIM


The earliest in my collection are from 1995, then followed by items from 2012 to 2015. I have documented below the production date, model number, internal firmware versions along with their serial numbers. All models are naturally PAL, since I'm in Europe, Norway.

Some of the information came from ChatGPT 5.0, so we must take it with a grain of salt.

All of the machines work great, only very minor repairs have been done on a few. Futher some of these are still beeing used as active game consoles and/or watching YouTube on them :-)

Throughout the years I even bought some second-hand accessories to these machines on EBAY, or simply picked with me every cable, box, game or controllers when I saw them at flee markets and/or thrift stores locally.



Update: The Demo 1 CD for Playstation 1 - 1995 (Earlier than June 1995)

I added a scan of my original sleeve cover which reveals what CD I'm currently looking for "PAL EUROPE SCES-00048". This was missing in my collection and I would really one day manage to find a copy one day :-).

The games, demos and extras apparantly was this:

Playable demos:
- Battle Arena Toshinden
- Destruction Derby
- Wipeout
- Loaded

Preview:
- Total NBA '96 (controllable camera)
-Starblade Alpha
- Ridge Racer
- Rapid Reload
- Warhawk
- Tekken
- Twisted Metal
- Jumping Flash

Tech Demos:
- Dinosaur
- Mantaray
- V-CD



Update: The Demo CD's for Playstation 2 - 2000-2002)

During my TV-Series of "Unpacking My Treasures" I came across some DEMO CD'S even for Playstation 2, and I was shocked to see that I do indeed have the very first version of the official PS2 Demo CD with its sleeve + 2 additional ones.This is good news, because honstly I thought I had control of all my collected Playstation 2 cd's and dvd's :-)

The offical cd had PBPX-95204 and released in 2000, the contents of the disc seems to be (according to the back sleeve):

Playable demos:
- Wild Wild Racing
- FIFA 2001
- SSX Snowboarding

Videos:
- Fantavision
- Dead or Alive 2
- ISS Pro
- Ridge Racer V

Extras:
- Find My Own Way (graphical technology demo)
- Yabasic (programming software)

and

Playstation 2 DEMO DVD SLED-50359:
- Devil May Cry Promotional Copy (December 2001)

and

Playstation 2 DEMO DVD PBPX-95514 (2002) and its content (missing sleeve):

Playable demos:
- Alpine Racer 3
- Ferrari F355 Challenge
- Ratchet and Clank
- Sly Raccoon
- Disney's Stitch: Experiment 626
- Stuntman
- Tekken 4
- This is Football 2003
- WRC II Extreme

Videos:
- Ape Escape 2
- Formula One 2002
- Kingdom Hearts
- Pac-Man World 2
- WRC Challenge Corsica



Playstation 2
Console: SCPH-30004R
Browser: v1.20
CD Player: v1.20
Playstation Driver: v1.10
DVD Player: v2.10E

Version: PS2 "Fat" - SCPH-3000x family (European launch revision), "R" = remote/DVD IR receiver variant.
Production estimate: late 2000 > early 2001 (approx. Nov 2000 - Mar 2001).



S/N: C4505697




Playstation 2
Console: SCPH-35004
Browser: v1.20
CD Player: v1.20
Playstation Driver: v1.10
DVD Player: v1.30E

Version: PS2 "Fat" - SCPH-3500x family (GT3/next revision of the 3000x fat models).
Production estimate: 2001-2002 (roughly within the 2001 model run for SCPH-3500x)



S/N: C3043151



Playstation 2
Console: SCPH-39004
Browser: v1.20
CD Player: v1.20
Playstation Driver: v1.10
DVD Player: v2.13E

PS2 network adapter is installed with a working HDD inside, including working ethernet.

Version: PS2 "Fat" - SCPH-3900x family (later fat revision).
Production estimate: late 2002>2003 (many SCPH-3900x units are dated around Nov 2002 and into 2003).



S/N: FC2260387

PS2 network adapter was removed to view the label :-)



Playstation 2
Console: SCPH-50004
Browser: v1.40
CD Player: v2.00
Playstation Driver: v1.11
DVD Player: v3.00E

Version: PS2 "Fat" - SCPH-5000x family (cost-reduced later fat revision, with IR receiver built-in).
Production estimate: 2003>2004 (the 500xx fat series began appearing around 2003).



S/N: FC4573675



Playstation 2
Console: SCPH-70004
Browser: v1.40
CD Player: v2.00
Playstation Driver: v1.11
DVD Player: v3.10E

Version: PS2 "Slim" - SCPH-7000x slim launch model (European, charcoal black).
Production estimate: from the slim launch - around Oct/Nov 2004 and onward (late 2004 > 2005).



S/N: AC4580441



Playstation 1
Console: SCPH-1002
- Parallel I/O
- Serial I/O
- 3 x RCA (Audio Left/Right and Video)
- AV Multi Out
- RFU DC Out

This was our family's first Playstation purchased during 1995.

PAL BIOS Version(s) & Date:
2.0 (10 May 1995), 2.1 (17 Jul 1995), 2.2 (04 Dec 1995)
Mid-1995

RFU DC OUT Details:
Power supply socket for Sony's optional RFU Adapter (model SCPH-1001 RFU Adaptor in some regions). Sony made the RFU Adapter so people could still play using the TV's RF (antenna) socket. The DC OUT jack meant you didn't need a separate power supply for that RF box - the PlayStation powered it directly.

It provided 12 V DC power to the external RFU unit, which converted the PlayStation's AV signal into a modulated RF signal for old TVs that only had an aerial (antenna) input.

Think of it as "making the PlayStation work on a 1970s/80s TV" without AV inputs.



S/N: C5865338



Playstation 1
Console: SCPH-5502
- Parallel I/O
- Serial I/O
- 3 x RCA (Audio Left/Right and Video)
- AV Multi Out

Own soldered ModChip from the 00's.

PAL BIOS Version(s) & Date:
3.0 (06 Jan 1997)




S/N: C7668928



Playstation 1
Console: SCPH-9002
- Serial I/O
- AV Multi Out

PAL BIOS Version(s) & Date:
4.1 (16 Dec 1997)



S/N: C1554766



Playstation 1
Console: SCPH-9002
- Serial I/O
- AV Multi Out

PAL BIOS Version(s) & Date:
4.1 (16 Dec 1997)



S/N: C7439735



Playstation 3
Console: CECHC04
DateCode 7A
- HDMI Out
- LAN RJ-45
- Digital Out Optical SPDIF
- AV Multi Out
- 4 x USB in front

Symbols on side: Blu-Ray Disc, DVD Video Rom, Super Audio-CD, Compact Disc, Dolby TrueHD, Dolby Digital, DTS Digital Surround, Bluetooth, HDMI

Originally this was a 60GB model, but I have replaced it with a 320GB (at least).

Sold in PAL regions starting 23 March 2007. Unit's serial number range suggests it was from the first few production runs ahead of the European/Australian launch.

Considered rare, ChatGPT says:
Only model in PAL regions with the Emotion Engine + Graphics Synthesizer PS2 hardware inside (full backward compatibility). Discontinued within a year due to cost. First-run "launch" hardware often had more premium build features (card reader, 4 USB ports, chrome trim).



S/N: 02-27430423-7030239-CECHC04



Playstation 3
Console: CECHC-4003C
DateCode 2D
- 1 × HDMI OUT (HDMI video + audio)
- 1 × DIGITAL OUT (OPTICAL) - TOSLINK digital 5.1 audio
- 1 × AV MULTI OUT
- 1 × LAN (Gigabit Ethernet) (10/100/1000BASE-T)
- 1 x AC IN
- 1 x Wi-Fi (802.11 b/g) (wireless network inside the unit)
- 1 x Bluetooth 2.0 (EDR) for DualShock 3 pairing

This is the Super-Slim PAL model.
Manufacture date October-December 2012 (Q4 2012).



DateCode: 2D



S/N: 03-27445849-5739184-CECH-4003C



This is our original cover for DEMO 1 or DEMO ONE for the SCPH-1002 Playstation 1 from 1995.

This CD was before June 1995, as the interior page says "correct at June 1995" for the phones.

Unfortunately the cd inside is missing, but here is at least the front and back cover scanned. It says "PAL EUROPE SCES-00048" on the front which indicates that this is also what the CD inside contains.

Sony made a gadzillion of these Demo 1 cd's.



This is our original cover for DEMO 1 or DEMO ONE for the SCPH-1002 Playstation 1 from 1995.

This CD was before June 1995, as the interior page says "correct at June 1995" for the phones.

Ufortunately the cd inside is missing, but here is at least the back side or insides cover scanned.



Ref image from internet.
The actual CD says SCES-00048 and is designed like this. However, I feel that our CD was actually black and had the words "DEMO ONE". So, at this point I'm not really sure anymore.



As I was doing some research for my next video about "tape racks", I suddenly saw this footage from a video snippet filmed in by the local TV-Channel, TV Haugaland at the toy shop (Centro Leker og Hobby) - and hence we now can recognize the CD they inserted from 1995, its the DEMO 1 actual plate!

This confirms that the CD we had was never black, but was now confirmed to be the Brown colored type. I went down a rabbit hole trying to find this demo cd, but in black color. That appeared later in Playstation 1's many many demo cd's.



PBPX-95204 (2000) - First version of Playstation 2 DEMO CD



PBPX-95204 (2000) - First version of Playstation 2 DEMO CD - Sleeve



SLED-50359 Devil May Cry Promotional Copy - December 2001



PBPX-95514 (2002)




Please review these related article links:
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