[charlie_ps2]

Now that v9 is appearing in US and Australia, the position with Messiah 2 v1.31 is as follows.

The development assembly works perfectly on all PS2 versions including the 50000.

The production assembly (which is handbuilt onto a production pcb) works on every PS2 version except the 50000. However the signals on the 50000 are all nominal.

This leads the Messiah 2 development team to suspect that the particular 50000 is faulty or out of spec. So a second 50000 has arrived and in the coming days will have the production chip applied to it. (At the moment the 50000 is being photographed for diagrams etc).

We'll let you know.