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The only PS2 model released on the Chinese market, available from December 20th, 2003, for a price of RMB 1988. | The only PS2 model released on the Chinese market, available from December 20th, 2003, for a price of RMB 1988. It's retail variant is always a satin silver fat H- (and/or I-) chassis console. It has it's own dedicated game region ("NTSC-C") rather than the NTSC-J region that is used on the other Asian PS2 consoles (Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan). The DVD region code is 6, which is also a dedicated China-only DVD region code. As another specialty, it is the only retail PS2 console to have a third ROM(-section) other than BOOT and DVD, which contains a Chinese character set. | ||
Another oddity: DTL-H50009 is the only PS2 found that shares ROMVER version with a PSX. This console has 1.80 ROMVER like the PSX 1st gen. | |||
Another oddity | |||
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The following Chinese PS2 models are confirmed to exist: | The following Chinese PS2 models are confirmed to exist: | ||
* SCPH-50009 (Satin Silver) | * SCPH-50009 (Satin Silver) | ||
* DTL-H50009 (Satin Silver) | * DTL-H50009 (Satin Silver) | ||
* DTL-H50009J (Black) | * DTL-H50009J (Black) | ||
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== Dragon Modchip == | == Dragon Modchip == | ||
The " | The "dragon" was an exclusive Modchip made specifically for the Chinese PS2s | ||
It's also the reason why Sony stopped producing Chinese models. | It's also the reason why Sony stopped producing Chinese models. | ||
[[File:PS2_DRAGON_CHIP.JPG|200px]] | [[File:PS2_DRAGON_CHIP.JPG|200px]] | ||