Hacking a Playstation 2 powr button to admin panel

[Negativecreep0]

is there any faq or does anyone have any suggestions on how to modify the ps2 power button on the front to the admin panel so I can turn it on without going into cab? Thanks

[bkenobi]

It looks like the switch is a rocker style switch.  If so, then you can't put another one in parallel like you could with a PC case which uses a momentary switch.  However, you could put one in series and use a latching switch (either a rocker or push button).  Radioshack sells all kinds of switches that could be used.

I just did a quick google search and it appears that the switch has leads on it that connect to the motherboard of the PS2.  If so, this is REALLY easy. 

1) cut one of the leads on the existing switch.
2) attach leads to it that connect to the switch you want on your CP (or elsewhere on the cab).
3) done!

You just have to remember that the PS2's original switch must be on for the new switch to work.

[saurian333]

It looks like the switch is a rocker style switch.  If so, then you can't put another one in parallel like you could with a PC case which uses a momentary switch.  However, you could put one in series and use a latching switch (either a rocker or push button).  Radioshack sells all kinds of switches that could be used.

PS2 switch is momentary; press for on/reset, hold down for power off, just like an ATX PC.

I haven't had my PS2 open in quite a while, but I think my model (older, gen 5 I think) had a ribbon cable instead of regular leads, which would make it a b***h to solder to, and therein lies the question.  I could be wrong, though.  I do remember that there is definitely a ribbon cable for the eject button (that's why I had it open the one time; installed a mod chip that circumvents eject detection).

If they're just regular leads (i.e. 2 individual wires), then bkenobi is right, it would be a simple matter of wiring the new button in parallel.

[bkenobi]

Yeah, I haven't owned a PS2 in years so I couldn't remember what the power button looked like.  The pictures I saw on google looked like something on the back of the box.  I remember there being a little momentary button on the front that you used to toggle power, but that's not what I was finding.  Anyway, if there is a button on the front, you can always desolder it from the small PCB and put leads in it's place (or perhaps even connect leads to the back side of the existing button to keep it working).  I would NOT try messing with the ribbon cable.  If you can't find a connection on the PCB, use a DMM to trace the connections back to the main board and find a better connection there.  If you search hard enough, I'm sure you will find something workable.

[DJ_Izumi]

Here's an alternative if this does't pan out: V7 or higher PS2's used an IR port and the PS2 remote control could power on the PS2 remotely.  You could attempt a solution using a canibalized PS2 remote or an IR Blaster or something.  It'd keep you from hacking apart the PS2 itself.

[Negativecreep0]

Here is what the PS2 power on switch looks like



it has a small ribbon cable to the reset power button.............. if it cant be hacked the power ribbon to extend it, then i may see if i can put a piece of tape over the power on button to keep it on all the time then have the ps2 plugged into a power outlet that is rigged into my arcade so when the arcade turns on the ps2 will and the piece of tape will auto turn on the ps2.............

[Jack Burton]

Different models of the PS2 have different types of power switches.

I've seen both ribbon and wired versions.  I've even seen a version that allowed you to remove the entire upper case and left the switch intact. 

The wired version looked super easy to hack.  You might want to try to track one down.

[Negativecreep0]

but those versions of the ps2 cant use the internal hd to store all the games............... anyway is it possible to buy a replacement ribbon and somehow tape it to the already connected ribbon to somehow extend the ribbons total length? that way i can have it lead up to my control panel?

[bkenobi]

I think you might be better off trying to solder to the board on the back side of the connector.

[DJ_Izumi]

Actually the V7 PS2's were fat models, though the last version of the fats.  The V7 PS2 differs in that it has the IR port instead of the firewire port like all the other fat PS2s.  Makes them easy to identify however, since you just need to see if there's a firewire port next to the USB ports.  If there isn't, you have a V7.

[saurian333]

it has a small ribbon cable to the reset power button.............. if it cant be hacked the power ribbon to extend it, then i may see if i can put a piece of tape over the power on button to keep it on all the time then have the ps2 plugged into a power outlet that is rigged into my arcade so when the arcade turns on the ps2 will and the piece of tape will auto turn on the ps2.............

Erm...does it work that way?  If it does, that might actually be the easiest method.  Does it turn on and stay on if you flip the switch on the back while holding the button in?

I think you might be better off trying to solder to the board on the back side of the connector.

Agreed.  Attaching a momentary switch there should work just fine.

Actually the V7 PS2's were fat models, though the last version of the fats.  The V7 PS2 differs in that it has the IR port instead of the firewire port like all the other fat PS2s.  Makes them easy to identify however, since you just need to see if there's a firewire port next to the USB ports.  If there isn't, you have a V7.

Forgive me if I remember incorrectly, but I believe you are partly right.

V12 was the first slim model.  You're correct in that the IR port replaced the 1394 port on the last of the fat models, but it was V9-V11 (which were all pretty much the same), not V7.

Sorry to get off-topic, though; since Negativecreep0 doesn't appear to have one of those models, this is all academic.

[DJ_Izumi]

In checking, you're right, I did have the versions mixed up.  I was thinking the V7 was the last fatty, but it is the V8.