Finally approaching the end of my run buying a bunch of spare Japanese region consoles for my setup with this ceramic white fat PS2 I got off of Mercari. I've always liked this color of PS2, but it's extremely prone to yellowing from the looks of it, so it took a while to find one this pristine, with the yellowing mostly limited to the controller connectors, which I'll take as a compromise. (The memory cards were bought separately on the cheap at a Hobby Off and I'm less fussed about given the price.) Glad to finally have it either way; my silver US one has been a trooper for over 15 years and it's only just now starting to show some minor maintenance issues, mostly slightly flaky controller and memory card ports. I intend to tackle those eventually once I hopefully build up the soldering skills to work on that sort of stuff, but for now, it's going into semi-retirement as this new white one takes over, which itself seems to work like a charm. My all Japanese PS2 game diet continues unabated.😌
Definitely puts into perspective what an engineering marvel the PS2 slim remains, though! Genuine shame we've never seen anything get remotely close ever since. Alas. 😩