I think I'd rather buy the games than risk losing a finger taking one of those out.
I grew up with a big case of burnt PS2 games. It was more common back then
the entire 3rd and lower world were using them. half of the second world was using them. a chunk of the first world was using them. Piracy wasn't just rampant, it was fricking normalized. And the way the greedy moronic corporations behave, it might go back to that pretty damn soon. Because nobody wants over9000 subscriptions to some bs.
if you look close outside the dark inner ring of a disc, there is a distinct extra lighter ring (it's hard to see here) that's the file table.
the larger lighter ring outside of it is the burned data. you can see this burned data ends roughly a third through the disc.
you have therefore just inferred that data is read from the inside out. you can also take a rough guess of exactly how much data is written to the disc. if this were a DVD i'd say there's about 2GB of data on it.
I remember going to the market with my dad and buying a bunch of these since they were everywhere and sold for scrapss, of course you never knew what you were getting and in most cases the picture was a lie but thanks to this i managed to play all the mario, sonic and other games.
well it is, it was however super popular in Eastern Europe and all the poorer kids had one since you were not able to afford the real deal due to how overpriced it was.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminator_2_(console)
When I was a kid during the early 2000s my dad would take me to Blockbuster during their unlimited rental summer promotion and we spent a couple days renting every PS2 game and filling a disc binder full of copied games to play on our chipped console. He even printed out fake labels for the discs too.
very common in Croatia, you could literally find ads for pirates in the newspapers and police mostly ignored them unless they pirated movies or software from local companies and PlayStation 2 were sold with pirating chips in the stores because otherwise nobody would buy them. From a guy I used to order from it was very cheap, like 3 bucks per game so me and a buddy used to make a big list every couple of months and order like 20 games at a time. One time I ordered from a different guy and both games were proper fricked, burned badly.
First one was Jak 2, it didn't load other parts of the city except the slums properly
Second one was hitman 2 silent assassin, dialogue and music was completely missing and as a stupid kid I thought it was an artistic choice because you know "silent assassin"
yea true
I used to buy the pirated copies from some Internet cafe or whatever the hell they were. They had a giant book of all the games they had available, you picked one and they'd go in the back and burn it for you real quick.
Both of my playstation 1 and 2 were hardmodded and I think I only owned like 1 or 2 legit games
Every kid who owned a ps1 in my village (rural france, about 1000 ppl) had a chipped one. We traded games and had a friend's older brother with a PC who could burn them so we could own them all.
I was born in 1986 and never remember hearing about console mod-chips or piracy back when I was in high-school, however PC game piracy was of course huge. I had a friend who burned Diablo 2 and Baldur's Gate 2 to CD-Rs for me, etc. I didn't get a mod-chipped PS1 until about a decade ago when I found one by chance and it had a Gran Turismo burned to a CD-R inside.
I literally never had an "original" game until the ps3 because I wanted to play online, and even then I still pirate a ton of shit on obsolete consoles, everything i have is homebrewed aside from my ps4 which ill probably still use for a long while and my gamecube which i don't homebrew because it is expensive and I can achieve the exact same result with my homebrewed WII
I also used plenty of emulators back in the day as well on my uncle's PC
I remember going to the market with my dad and buying a bunch of these since they were everywhere and sold for scrapss, of course you never knew what you were getting and in most cases the picture was a lie but thanks to this i managed to play all the mario, sonic and other games.
I think I'd rather buy the games than risk losing a finger taking one of those out.
I grew up with a big case of burnt PS2 games. It was more common back then
Usually you sanded the edges lightly.
the entire 3rd and lower world were using them. half of the second world was using them. a chunk of the first world was using them. Piracy wasn't just rampant, it was fricking normalized. And the way the greedy moronic corporations behave, it might go back to that pretty damn soon. Because nobody wants over9000 subscriptions to some bs.
I knew a kid that knew a kid that had a fat stack of pirated Dreamcast games as a kid.
I don’t think discs work like that
I remember reading that data is stored from the center outward. I don't think that was true but images of cut up discs in gamecubes make me smile
>I don't think that was true
it's true
if you look close outside the dark inner ring of a disc, there is a distinct extra lighter ring (it's hard to see here) that's the file table.
the larger lighter ring outside of it is the burned data. you can see this burned data ends roughly a third through the disc.
you have therefore just inferred that data is read from the inside out. you can also take a rough guess of exactly how much data is written to the disc. if this were a DVD i'd say there's about 2GB of data on it.
Very common over here in europe
ye it was kino times
I remember going to the market with my dad and buying a bunch of these since they were everywhere and sold for scrapss, of course you never knew what you were getting and in most cases the picture was a lie but thanks to this i managed to play all the mario, sonic and other games.
Where are you from?
I never jumped famiclone hype. I had like a 40 multi-game cassettes for C64 tho
Looks very chinese
well it is, it was however super popular in Eastern Europe and all the poorer kids had one since you were not able to afford the real deal due to how overpriced it was.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminator_2_(console)
>Where are you from?
Czech Republic
>Czech Republic
ummm its Czechia now sweetie
it was huge for europoors and south america.
When I was a kid during the early 2000s my dad would take me to Blockbuster during their unlimited rental summer promotion and we spent a couple days renting every PS2 game and filling a disc binder full of copied games to play on our chipped console. He even printed out fake labels for the discs too.
>He even printed out fake labels for the discs too.
based dad.
I think everyone in my neighborhood had their PSX chipped.
very common in Croatia, you could literally find ads for pirates in the newspapers and police mostly ignored them unless they pirated movies or software from local companies and PlayStation 2 were sold with pirating chips in the stores because otherwise nobody would buy them. From a guy I used to order from it was very cheap, like 3 bucks per game so me and a buddy used to make a big list every couple of months and order like 20 games at a time. One time I ordered from a different guy and both games were proper fricked, burned badly.
First one was Jak 2, it didn't load other parts of the city except the slums properly
Second one was hitman 2 silent assassin, dialogue and music was completely missing and as a stupid kid I thought it was an artistic choice because you know "silent assassin"
>silent assassin
yea true
I used to buy the pirated copies from some Internet cafe or whatever the hell they were. They had a giant book of all the games they had available, you picked one and they'd go in the back and burn it for you real quick.
Both of my playstation 1 and 2 were hardmodded and I think I only owned like 1 or 2 legit games
Every kid who owned a ps1 in my village (rural france, about 1000 ppl) had a chipped one. We traded games and had a friend's older brother with a PC who could burn them so we could own them all.
I was born in 1986 and never remember hearing about console mod-chips or piracy back when I was in high-school, however PC game piracy was of course huge. I had a friend who burned Diablo 2 and Baldur's Gate 2 to CD-Rs for me, etc. I didn't get a mod-chipped PS1 until about a decade ago when I found one by chance and it had a Gran Turismo burned to a CD-R inside.
Post the gif/webm of the guy playing the burned CDs from his Gamecube without issue.
I literally never had an "original" game until the ps3 because I wanted to play online, and even then I still pirate a ton of shit on obsolete consoles, everything i have is homebrewed aside from my ps4 which ill probably still use for a long while and my gamecube which i don't homebrew because it is expensive and I can achieve the exact same result with my homebrewed WII
I also used plenty of emulators back in the day as well on my uncle's PC
brazil still has a ton of those
In south America, you can find PS1 consoles selling for cheaper than a original copy of any tomb raider