Under the hood, the SCPH-5502 utilizes a 32-bit RISC processor, commonly identified as the MIPS R3000a, often clocked at around 33.8 MHz. It features 2 MB of main RAM and 1 MB of VRAM, providing the necessary resources to run the iconic library of CD-ROM based games. The model number’s suffix “2” is the key identifier: SCPH-xxx0 models are for Japan, xxx1 for North America, and xxx2 signifies the PAL region, which includes Europe and Australia.