/vr/ - Retro Games

Alright! My initial impression of the drive are that it is decently built. I'm able to play FMV's with zero skipping, without even calibrating the laser. Since I bought drives meant to go in SCPH-5501 PSX's, and mine (that needed replacing) were in a 1001 and a PSOne, I had to do some modifications, but nothing too bad.
I would use the original rubber grommets off your old drive rather than trust the new ones; the new ones are far stiffer.
Additionally, make sure you take the four-wire cable off of your old drive, because these drives didn't come with that cable.

imgur album with a whole lot of details and pictures of the installation process here:
https://imgur.com/a/OteVZL4

Note that if you buy one of these you won't need to do any of the cutting or other stuff I did here. I only had to do it because I purposely bought 5501 drives for a non-5501 (so that I'd get a longer flex cable which I am less likely to tear when unplugging).