Buying RETRO TECH from Japan!

I recently purchased a PlayStation (PSX) at an auction for about $100, which is a really cheap price considering it's supposed to be in working condition. I was excited to find it because I also have another PSX in the house.

I found the PSX at auction and it literally hopped an ocean to come here. Okay, so wow - I must say this is in really good condition. I mean, there are scratches on the top case here, it's made of clear acrylic plastic, so naturally these will get scuffed anyway. So, I guess there's nothing for it.

Let's get some power hooked up to a TV and fingers crossed that I got my money's worth here. This TV is so reflective - hello! How's it going? Alright, moment of truth - powered on! Ooh, it smells like an old Japanese home. No signal... Oh boy, got a nice blinking light over here. Things are spinning.

Except, uh, that video doesn't look good. A lot of it is scuffed. Alright, maybe we're partially working here. But let me do some more troubleshooting quickly. I couldn't find an S video cable, so I just brought another one for the other PlayStation TV Fu. Okay, I forgot this TV is British - it needs a different power connector.

We need to adapt the voltage into Freedom Units... oh wait, no! I'm dumb. I'm dumb. I'm dumb. There's a plug on the side of this TV - hey, we got some color! Hell yeah! Oh look at this - we got some TV recordings here! Ooh, someone did not format this before they sent it to me.

Can I guess what period this is from? When... when were these TV shows recorded? Here we go - we got a car in this shot. Okay, Billy Joel... that's a really cool look at what TV was like back in the day. Oh no... that really dates this video!

While I don't have a Japanese PS2 game to try out, I have a PlayStation One game - it's for NTS CJ, so it should work perfectly fine on our PSX if the drive is working properly. This inin it took it... we got it! We got a game! We got a game! Okay, was that just a loading screen? Success! We did it! We have a working PSX.

Got some basketball tips off, yeah! Two languages - I don't know Japanese and basketball... what is going on here? H, keep spamming buttons. Maybe something will happen. Okay, um the game works. The last thing that I would like to test out is a Japanese DVD - this is from Honeyworks actually, with a famous song that some people might know. Hopefully, this DVD should just work... y'all hear that! It made some kind of noise... uh, that didn't sound good.

What does that say? Dubbing footage from your hard disk to a DVD disc... oh no, no no no no no no no. Where's my DVD? I want to play my DVD. Yeah, our DVD video is not showing up... that is a shame. Although, we were able to play a PlayStation game on it, which is the most important part of why we even own this thing.

Anyway, it is in fact a PlayStation, so good job there! I'll take it as like a 90% win. Obviously, this video is not entirely about this device, but let me know if you want to see another video where we try to actually preserve the hardware... maybe back up the hard drive because those are the most volatile things about this console and are very hard to replace.

And we can also do some mods as well! And I'll actually put in some more care this time, not to break. But let me know if you want to see more content on the PSX - I'd love to do more overall! I'm really happy with the items we found on syo and the shipping process itself was really easy to use... granted, shipping stuff from Japan through Sendico can cost a pretty penny.

But the fact that there's a whole world of Japanese Tech available out there for your collection, and that the yen is super cheap right now makes it a better time than ever to give it a go. Honestly, it probably won't be the last time I'll be using this service on the channel... but let me know what you think about it in the comments below!

WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: entoday on the channel we're going to try to buy some fun and interesting Tech directly from Japan using a website called send.com now they aren't sponsoring this video but in case you've never heard of them basically they aggregate results from a bunch of different online retailers such as merari Yahoo auctions and rocken and puts all of them together in one relatively easy to use website so let's Jump Right In let me type in smartphone which I think in Japanese is just smartone so this is the Sharp Aquos Crystal the claim to fame for it was that it had very tiny screen bezels back in the day like in 2010 or something like that yo and this one turns on it looks like it's fully working too for 8,000 Yen or about $50 as of the recording of this video the yen is almost $1 to 160 Yen which is insane it's bad for the Japanese Market but our US dollar goes way further here never actually held one in person this would be really cool to get in all right yeah let's do it what about if I just type in Nintendo oh what the heck a Game Boy Pocket Hello Kitty Edition wow I like that pink actually Hello Kitty now to be fair with Sendo you don't have to just buy old Tech but I think that's where we're going to get the most unique results so I'm typing things like camcorder old game consoles and stuff like that Sega Kata super prologue 21 karaoke That's a thing what bro it even has all of the audio coming out the back and a bunch of ports that I've never seen in my goddamn life this video is going to get expensive fast dude oh what the fck is this it's a portable wireless record player interesting uh beef Tomahawk Steak anime meat ooh ooh what about if I type in PlayStation oh welcome back good old friend it's the PSX catalog I'm going to buy this but also while I'm here what about if I just bought another PSX one that's not broken which just kill the console all right I've seen enough listings here on sendico so let me put my orders in and we'll be back in a couple of weeks to show you guys what I got all right what we have here appears to be our smartphone so this is one that we never got in the United States but had a really unique design for when it came out back in 2014 this one is called the Aquos Crystal 305sh or as I like to call it the bezeless smartphone there are some signs of wear and tear like the screen has some pits in it maybe some lights scratching here and there but now that I've gotten most of the the gunk out of the way oh yo I love that rainbow effect around the screen when you turn it on I mean that's not particularly special you do get Edge Lighting on Galaxy phones for example before I do anything what version of Android is this even running well I can tell you that it is very very old because of how dated this notification shade looks basically because they made the bezel on the screen so minimal the whole front of this phone vibrates to mimic a speaker don't know what that's going to actually sound like we're going to test that out in a moment once I find something to play the hardware in this device is so dated that media websites such as YouTube definitely take a while to load we're loading we're loading we're loading this is an iPod wait wait wait this speaker ain't too bad basically the writer was a nostalgic for the good okay so when you are making a call the phone will vibrate in your ear from the screen but if you're playing back media there's actually a speaker on the back here I thought it would be like a vent or something I don't know why I thought that but uh the sound does come out of here when you're playing back video there is a bit of a discrepancy here though when the video stutters every now and then the audio ever so slightly drifts from the video so it can be out of sync my mouth is not matching the words I'm actually saying yeah you can see that delay very easy ah ah ah a remnant of phones from the past a removable back though wow can you not take out the battery okay what else ooh there's a camera we should try that selfie I don't know what else to say that looks okay I mean not the highest resolution thing but uh decent oh I also realize because the screen on this phone is shifted upward and it has quite a bit of a chin here to house some other components um they also have a front-facing camera that's on the bottom it probably makes for the most unpleasant looking angle if I had to guess that is unfortunate all things considered the fact that the screen looks absolutely gorgeous the design holds up today to an extent and also the fact that it runs decently well considering how dated the Hardware is and its version of Android I think this was a pretty good deal of course uh given that we paid uh $51 not too shabby woo we got a Sony Walkman the good old classic if I'm being honest I haven't looked at these enough as much as I probably should because they have gotten pretty damn expensive especially in the aftermarket here in the US but but from cico I was actually able to find this one for $80 which might sound like a lot of money for an old piece of tech but in terms of walkman's especially one that's W very clean might as well have struck gold at that point and it came with a retro pair of headphones as well these are super old school probably very comfortable to wear very light so you won't feel the fatigue wearing these for a while oh yeah these feel like nothing it's like I'm wearing nothing nothing at all nothing at all nothing at all stupid sexy Flanders so by the looks of it this Walkman also has AM FM functionality aka the radio for the kids that might not know what that is uh basically um if I set this to the right mode it will wirelessly have music beamed to it from some Tower probably like 20 M Away really cool stuff just check it out okay so how do I turn you on where's the sleep wake button do I have to slide to unlock oh du there's a you could load a cassette in here too that's actually kind of cool though there's no button for it I know a lot of walk mins have an actual physical button to release a spring-loaded door but this one thankfully does not and the spring actually functioning pretty well I hear static maybe I should tune it to an actual radio station first radio sounds surprisingly good I think what's impressing me here is that these very small and lightweight headphones have a surprising amount of Base considering that they just sit on your ears and again are very tiny but in order to listen to this with the best possible quality I think we got to use the cassette function and luckily sendico got me covered it's wee hours ladies and gentlemen so what I have here is something that I've actually wanted in my anime collection for a long time one of my favorite shows ever is this music one called Kon and one of the coolest Parts is in the eye catches in the middle of the show where there would air commercial breaks and whatnot they'd have a little card to transition from the first half to the second half of the show which was a cassette tape he and it just so happened that with one of the CD releases of the music in the show they included a cassette tape and now I have this bought it on sendico for 4,000 Yen off auction or about $25 with the current exchange rate yeah if you were super into anime in 2009 odds are you probably knew what Kon was it sounds like anime Lemonade Mouth if they never went anywhere did you see Lemonade Mouth no I did not I have no idea what that is I watch Cadet Kelly uh yeah I don't know about that Hillary Duff are you kidding me so yesterday so yesterday let's see what tracks do we have here I want to hear full full a time because that is my favorite Kon song play Oh full full a time this is actually my go-to karaoke song it's like my warm up this is such a Vibe listening to old school headphones an old school media format and listening to an audio tape that was recorded probably in 2010 but sounds like it was recorded with a potato I don't know if anyone will even find this interesting but uh if you like Kon let me know in the comments next up we have soundburg delicious look at the pattern on the box that's cute but most importantly here is the sound Burger itself along with some accessories I don't know if I mentioned this fact yet just in case I didn't this is a record player the idea was that the Buns if you will was the actual player itself and your Patty would be some kind of vinyl record which over here I have Idol from yasobi oh nice there is a handle so you can carry this around if you want maybe to a beach party or to your friend's house if you have friends don't look up at me I don't know if you don't have friends or don't have friends so 2100 milliamps 7. 56 wat hours does it have a charge the answer is yes it is moving okay let me open this up we slide this Notch to open the sound bger okay I'm guessing we take off this protective cover for the needle scratch that I took off the needle whoops the sound Burger doesn't have a speaker on it but if you hold your ear to the record you can hear the needle going through it let me actually try to hook this up over Bluetooth the power button blinking which I think means that something is happening if you're wondering why I'm surprised there's no screen interface or anything here so it just assumed that between this pairing and this pairing they both just kind of found each other look at the chorus going I don't cool yeah that is awesome it just works in terms of sound quality it's not going to be the best over Bluetooth right you're always going to get better audio coming out of the line outport here which is just a normal 3.5 in Jack in terms of price it costs $150 which might not be the worst honestly because I feel like there are cheap record players out there but a lot of them don't sound good this one is actually not too bad next up we have a chunky woo that made a noise look at at this bad boy man yeah this absolutely looks like the new station special in fact I believe we actually might have used this at my film school for documentaries it has a little motorized caddy to put your DV tape because that's the recording format here which uh now that I think about it I don't have any tapes to use right now so we're going to have to come back to actually get real impressions of this but some impressive things here this has built-in ND filters which I feel like is kind of luxury in cameras unless you pay a lot of money for them like 3 to 5 grand at least as you can imagine with a bulky lens such as this uh the amount of Zoom that you can get is insane you see our anime figures in the back there yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah there's some edity action this is what it looks like to be on the other side of it anyway we'll be right back once I get some tape to film with this camera I cannot wait man all right so it took a little bit but our camcorder is finally ready forgive the mess on the desk here but you might notice that this camcorder setup is a little more complicated than we initially started with and that's because when it comes to these devices with tape drives offloading the media obviously isn't straightforward like recording on a digital camera and grabbing a file you have to actually linearly watch all the media off the tape record that and then you can edit it in your final cut or Da Vinci resolve which you can then upload onto YouTube it's a bit more of a process and so I've set up the camcorder with an ingenious recording device so not only is this a preview display that hooks up directly to my camera but it also has a Micro SD card slot on the top so that I can record directly to this without having to use the DV tapes I mean come on tell me this is not a vibe don't mind me just vlogging with my camcorder we're going to go say hi to Matt hi hello how's it going it's going look it's my rig wow I remember 2007 it's got some good dynamic range if it's getting out out the window actually you know it ain't too bad it's not terrible the only thing to really keep in mind when buying a Japanese camcorder especially a Sony is that the menu settings are all in Japanese so uh you can't scroll through and it makes a lot of fun noises but uh yeah good luck reading all of that and also something I didn't realize until later is that there is also an HDMI port on here and why that's useful is because this camcorder can actually record in HD using mini DV tapes so while I'm doing this whole mess in HD for effect you can in theory get an HD recorder and do the same thing with higher quality all in all this camcorder setup pretty freaking good hell yeah this next item is pretty cool it is a PSX catalog now if you don't know what the PSX is we did a video on it a couple of months ago and basically it was an offshoot of the PlayStation 2 that Sony released in 20 and three that basically did a whole bunch of stuff for your living room apart from playing video games yeah this flyer is kind of sick we only paid like seven bucks for it and it is in pristine condition these will make great display pieces maybe for the coffee table here in the deny Studio but my friends that is not all that has to do with the PSX in this syo video because I also happen to have another PSX in the house I was able to find it at auction for about $100 which is really cheap for these things especially considering that supposedly it's in proper working condition I mean I would hope so because it literally hopped an ocean to come here okay so wow I must say this is in really good condition I mean there are scratches on the top case here it is clear acrylic plastic so naturally these will get scuffed anyway so I guess there's nothing for it let's get some power hooked up a TV on the table and fingers crossed that I got my money's worth here this TV is so reflective hello how's it going all right moment of truth powered on ooh it smells like a old Japanese home no signal oh boy got a nice blinking light over here things are spinning oh fancy except uh that video does not look good uh a lot of that is scuffed all right maybe we're partially working here but let me do some more troubleshooting real quick in my Infinite Wisdom cuz we couldn't find an S video cable I just brought the other PlayStation TV Fu okay I forgot this TV is British so it needs a different Power connector we need to adapt the voltage into Freedom Units oh wait no I'm dumb I'm dumb I'm dumb I'm dumb there's a on the side of this TV hey we got some color hell yeah hell yeah oh look at this we got some uh TV recordings here ooh someone did not format this before they sent it to me can I guess what period this is from when uh when were these TV shows recorded oh here we go we got a car in this shot okay Billy Joel yeah that's a really cool look at what TV was like back in the day oh Mero oh that really dates this video okay while I don't have a Japanese PS2 game to try out I have a Playstation One game this one is for NTS CJ so it should work perfectly fine on our PSX if the drive is working properly this inin it took it we got it we got a game we got a game we got a game okay was that just a loading screen success we did it we have a working PSX got some basketball tip off yep two languages I don't know Japanese and basketball what is going on here H I keep spamming buttons maybe I'll maybe something will happen Okay um the game works the last thing that I would like to test out is a Japanese DVD this is from honeyworks actually with a famous song that some people might know hopefully this DVD should just work y'all hear that it made some kind of noise uh that didn't sound good what does that say dubbing footage from your hard disk to a DVD disc oh I don't want to burn it no no no no no no no no where's my DVD I want to play my DVD yeah our DVD video is not showing up that is a shame though again I will take that we were able to play a PlayStation game on it which is the most important part of why we we even own this thing anyway it is in fact a PlayStation so good job there I'll take it as like a 90% win obviously this video is not entirely about this device but let me know if you want to see another video where we try to actually preserve the hardware maybe back up the hard drive because those are the most volatile things about this console and are very hard to replace and we can also do some mods as well and I'll actually put in some more care this time as to not break but let me know if you want to see more content on the PSX I'd love to do more overall I'm really happy with the items we found on syo and the side itself was really easy to use granted shipping stuff from Japan through sendico can cost a pretty penny but the fact that there's a whole world of Japanese Tech available out there for your collection and that the yen is super cheap right now makes it a better time than ever to give it a go honestly it probably won't be the last time I'll be using this service on the channel but let me know what you think about it in the comments below and otherwise thanks for watching this video on Dany Channeltoday on the channel we're going to try to buy some fun and interesting Tech directly from Japan using a website called send.com now they aren't sponsoring this video but in case you've never heard of them basically they aggregate results from a bunch of different online retailers such as merari Yahoo auctions and rocken and puts all of them together in one relatively easy to use website so let's Jump Right In let me type in smartphone which I think in Japanese is just smartone so this is the Sharp Aquos Crystal the claim to fame for it was that it had very tiny screen bezels back in the day like in 2010 or something like that yo and this one turns on it looks like it's fully working too for 8,000 Yen or about $50 as of the recording of this video the yen is almost $1 to 160 Yen which is insane it's bad for the Japanese Market but our US dollar goes way further here never actually held one in person this would be really cool to get in all right yeah let's do it what about if I just type in Nintendo oh what the heck a Game Boy Pocket Hello Kitty Edition wow I like that pink actually Hello Kitty now to be fair with Sendo you don't have to just buy old Tech but I think that's where we're going to get the most unique results so I'm typing things like camcorder old game consoles and stuff like that Sega Kata super prologue 21 karaoke That's a thing what bro it even has all of the audio coming out the back and a bunch of ports that I've never seen in my goddamn life this video is going to get expensive fast dude oh what the fck is this it's a portable wireless record player interesting uh beef Tomahawk Steak anime meat ooh ooh what about if I type in PlayStation oh welcome back good old friend it's the PSX catalog I'm going to buy this but also while I'm here what about if I just bought another PSX one that's not broken which just kill the console all right I've seen enough listings here on sendico so let me put my orders in and we'll be back in a couple of weeks to show you guys what I got all right what we have here appears to be our smartphone so this is one that we never got in the United States but had a really unique design for when it came out back in 2014 this one is called the Aquos Crystal 305sh or as I like to call it the bezeless smartphone there are some signs of wear and tear like the screen has some pits in it maybe some lights scratching here and there but now that I've gotten most of the the gunk out of the way oh yo I love that rainbow effect around the screen when you turn it on I mean that's not particularly special you do get Edge Lighting on Galaxy phones for example before I do anything what version of Android is this even running well I can tell you that it is very very old because of how dated this notification shade looks basically because they made the bezel on the screen so minimal the whole front of this phone vibrates to mimic a speaker don't know what that's going to actually sound like we're going to test that out in a moment once I find something to play the hardware in this device is so dated that media websites such as YouTube definitely take a while to load we're loading we're loading we're loading this is an iPod wait wait wait this speaker ain't too bad basically the writer was a nostalgic for the good okay so when you are making a call the phone will vibrate in your ear from the screen but if you're playing back media there's actually a speaker on the back here I thought it would be like a vent or something I don't know why I thought that but uh the sound does come out of here when you're playing back video there is a bit of a discrepancy here though when the video stutters every now and then the audio ever so slightly drifts from the video so it can be out of sync my mouth is not matching the words I'm actually saying yeah you can see that delay very easy ah ah ah a remnant of phones from the past a removable back though wow can you not take out the battery okay what else ooh there's a camera we should try that selfie I don't know what else to say that looks okay I mean not the highest resolution thing but uh decent oh I also realize because the screen on this phone is shifted upward and it has quite a bit of a chin here to house some other components um they also have a front-facing camera that's on the bottom it probably makes for the most unpleasant looking angle if I had to guess that is unfortunate all things considered the fact that the screen looks absolutely gorgeous the design holds up today to an extent and also the fact that it runs decently well considering how dated the Hardware is and its version of Android I think this was a pretty good deal of course uh given that we paid uh $51 not too shabby woo we got a Sony Walkman the good old classic if I'm being honest I haven't looked at these enough as much as I probably should because they have gotten pretty damn expensive especially in the aftermarket here in the US but but from cico I was actually able to find this one for $80 which might sound like a lot of money for an old piece of tech but in terms of walkman's especially one that's W very clean might as well have struck gold at that point and it came with a retro pair of headphones as well these are super old school probably very comfortable to wear very light so you won't feel the fatigue wearing these for a while oh yeah these feel like nothing it's like I'm wearing nothing nothing at all nothing at all nothing at all stupid sexy Flanders so by the looks of it this Walkman also has AM FM functionality aka the radio for the kids that might not know what that is uh basically um if I set this to the right mode it will wirelessly have music beamed to it from some Tower probably like 20 M Away really cool stuff just check it out okay so how do I turn you on where's the sleep wake button do I have to slide to unlock oh du there's a you could load a cassette in here too that's actually kind of cool though there's no button for it I know a lot of walk mins have an actual physical button to release a spring-loaded door but this one thankfully does not and the spring actually functioning pretty well I hear static maybe I should tune it to an actual radio station first radio sounds surprisingly good I think what's impressing me here is that these very small and lightweight headphones have a surprising amount of Base considering that they just sit on your ears and again are very tiny but in order to listen to this with the best possible quality I think we got to use the cassette function and luckily sendico got me covered it's wee hours ladies and gentlemen so what I have here is something that I've actually wanted in my anime collection for a long time one of my favorite shows ever is this music one called Kon and one of the coolest Parts is in the eye catches in the middle of the show where there would air commercial breaks and whatnot they'd have a little card to transition from the first half to the second half of the show which was a cassette tape he and it just so happened that with one of the CD releases of the music in the show they included a cassette tape and now I have this bought it on sendico for 4,000 Yen off auction or about $25 with the current exchange rate yeah if you were super into anime in 2009 odds are you probably knew what Kon was it sounds like anime Lemonade Mouth if they never went anywhere did you see Lemonade Mouth no I did not I have no idea what that is I watch Cadet Kelly uh yeah I don't know about that Hillary Duff are you kidding me so yesterday so yesterday let's see what tracks do we have here I want to hear full full a time because that is my favorite Kon song play Oh full full a time this is actually my go-to karaoke song it's like my warm up this is such a Vibe listening to old school headphones an old school media format and listening to an audio tape that was recorded probably in 2010 but sounds like it was recorded with a potato I don't know if anyone will even find this interesting but uh if you like Kon let me know in the comments next up we have soundburg delicious look at the pattern on the box that's cute but most importantly here is the sound Burger itself along with some accessories I don't know if I mentioned this fact yet just in case I didn't this is a record player the idea was that the Buns if you will was the actual player itself and your Patty would be some kind of vinyl record which over here I have Idol from yasobi oh nice there is a handle so you can carry this around if you want maybe to a beach party or to your friend's house if you have friends don't look up at me I don't know if you don't have friends or don't have friends so 2100 milliamps 7. 56 wat hours does it have a charge the answer is yes it is moving okay let me open this up we slide this Notch to open the sound bger okay I'm guessing we take off this protective cover for the needle scratch that I took off the needle whoops the sound Burger doesn't have a speaker on it but if you hold your ear to the record you can hear the needle going through it let me actually try to hook this up over Bluetooth the power button blinking which I think means that something is happening if you're wondering why I'm surprised there's no screen interface or anything here so it just assumed that between this pairing and this pairing they both just kind of found each other look at the chorus going I don't cool yeah that is awesome it just works in terms of sound quality it's not going to be the best over Bluetooth right you're always going to get better audio coming out of the line outport here which is just a normal 3.5 in Jack in terms of price it costs $150 which might not be the worst honestly because I feel like there are cheap record players out there but a lot of them don't sound good this one is actually not too bad next up we have a chunky woo that made a noise look at at this bad boy man yeah this absolutely looks like the new station special in fact I believe we actually might have used this at my film school for documentaries it has a little motorized caddy to put your DV tape because that's the recording format here which uh now that I think about it I don't have any tapes to use right now so we're going to have to come back to actually get real impressions of this but some impressive things here this has built-in ND filters which I feel like is kind of luxury in cameras unless you pay a lot of money for them like 3 to 5 grand at least as you can imagine with a bulky lens such as this uh the amount of Zoom that you can get is insane you see our anime figures in the back there yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah there's some edity action this is what it looks like to be on the other side of it anyway we'll be right back once I get some tape to film with this camera I cannot wait man all right so it took a little bit but our camcorder is finally ready forgive the mess on the desk here but you might notice that this camcorder setup is a little more complicated than we initially started with and that's because when it comes to these devices with tape drives offloading the media obviously isn't straightforward like recording on a digital camera and grabbing a file you have to actually linearly watch all the media off the tape record that and then you can edit it in your final cut or Da Vinci resolve which you can then upload onto YouTube it's a bit more of a process and so I've set up the camcorder with an ingenious recording device so not only is this a preview display that hooks up directly to my camera but it also has a Micro SD card slot on the top so that I can record directly to this without having to use the DV tapes I mean come on tell me this is not a vibe don't mind me just vlogging with my camcorder we're going to go say hi to Matt hi hello how's it going it's going look it's my rig wow I remember 2007 it's got some good dynamic range if it's getting out out the window actually you know it ain't too bad it's not terrible the only thing to really keep in mind when buying a Japanese camcorder especially a Sony is that the menu settings are all in Japanese so uh you can't scroll through and it makes a lot of fun noises but uh yeah good luck reading all of that and also something I didn't realize until later is that there is also an HDMI port on here and why that's useful is because this camcorder can actually record in HD using mini DV tapes so while I'm doing this whole mess in HD for effect you can in theory get an HD recorder and do the same thing with higher quality all in all this camcorder setup pretty freaking good hell yeah this next item is pretty cool it is a PSX catalog now if you don't know what the PSX is we did a video on it a couple of months ago and basically it was an offshoot of the PlayStation 2 that Sony released in 20 and three that basically did a whole bunch of stuff for your living room apart from playing video games yeah this flyer is kind of sick we only paid like seven bucks for it and it is in pristine condition these will make great display pieces maybe for the coffee table here in the deny Studio but my friends that is not all that has to do with the PSX in this syo video because I also happen to have another PSX in the house I was able to find it at auction for about $100 which is really cheap for these things especially considering that supposedly it's in proper working condition I mean I would hope so because it literally hopped an ocean to come here okay so wow I must say this is in really good condition I mean there are scratches on the top case here it is clear acrylic plastic so naturally these will get scuffed anyway so I guess there's nothing for it let's get some power hooked up a TV on the table and fingers crossed that I got my money's worth here this TV is so reflective hello how's it going all right moment of truth powered on ooh it smells like a old Japanese home no signal oh boy got a nice blinking light over here things are spinning oh fancy except uh that video does not look good uh a lot of that is scuffed all right maybe we're partially working here but let me do some more troubleshooting real quick in my Infinite Wisdom cuz we couldn't find an S video cable I just brought the other PlayStation TV Fu okay I forgot this TV is British so it needs a different Power connector we need to adapt the voltage into Freedom Units oh wait no I'm dumb I'm dumb I'm dumb I'm dumb there's a on the side of this TV hey we got some color hell yeah hell yeah oh look at this we got some uh TV recordings here ooh someone did not format this before they sent it to me can I guess what period this is from when uh when were these TV shows recorded oh here we go we got a car in this shot okay Billy Joel yeah that's a really cool look at what TV was like back in the day oh Mero oh that really dates this video okay while I don't have a Japanese PS2 game to try out I have a Playstation One game this one is for NTS CJ so it should work perfectly fine on our PSX if the drive is working properly this inin it took it we got it we got a game we got a game we got a game okay was that just a loading screen success we did it we have a working PSX got some basketball tip off yep two languages I don't know Japanese and basketball what is going on here H I keep spamming buttons maybe I'll maybe something will happen Okay um the game works the last thing that I would like to test out is a Japanese DVD this is from honeyworks actually with a famous song that some people might know hopefully this DVD should just work y'all hear that it made some kind of noise uh that didn't sound good what does that say dubbing footage from your hard disk to a DVD disc oh I don't want to burn it no no no no no no no no where's my DVD I want to play my DVD yeah our DVD video is not showing up that is a shame though again I will take that we were able to play a PlayStation game on it which is the most important part of why we we even own this thing anyway it is in fact a PlayStation so good job there I'll take it as like a 90% win obviously this video is not entirely about this device but let me know if you want to see another video where we try to actually preserve the hardware maybe back up the hard drive because those are the most volatile things about this console and are very hard to replace and we can also do some mods as well and I'll actually put in some more care this time as to not break but let me know if you want to see more content on the PSX I'd love to do more overall I'm really happy with the items we found on syo and the side itself was really easy to use granted shipping stuff from Japan through sendico can cost a pretty penny but the fact that there's a whole world of Japanese Tech available out there for your collection and that the yen is super cheap right now makes it a better time than ever to give it a go honestly it probably won't be the last time I'll be using this service on the channel but let me know what you think about it in the comments below and otherwise thanks for watching this video on Dany Channel