Except it wasn't.

Alex raised an eyebrow. Five Bitcoin was absurd for a BIOS file. The SCPH-10000 was the original, flawed, beautiful Japanese launch model from March 2000. It had a PCMCIA slot instead of a modern drive controller, and its BIOS was notoriously finicky. Most emulator users just grabbed the more common SCPH-30001 or 39001 BIOS files. But this person wanted the original. The ghost.

The SCPH-10000 BIOS is known to cause problems with memory card emulation.