Sony's Clever but Flawed PlayStation Copy Protection
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUwSOfQ1D3c
Super cool stuff. I always love learning how older consoles work.
Yes, he said couldn't care less, thank you for saying it correctly.
Always fascinated by the tricks and techniques used in older hardware, very interesting.
That disc loading noise will forever be ingrained in my memory, espically the noise it makes when it has trouble reading a disc and you know you're fucked
Was hoping he might mention this:
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51RV69BV24L._AC_.jpg
Was pretty cleaver, it loaded the bios just as an official PSX game would, then load a small program to RAM and stop the disc from spinning.
You'd then swap your disc and on the screen select the option to load game and the disc drive would spin up again, it essentially removed both the risk of a chip and the risk of a disc swap.
I remember there was some other thing along the lines of this, it did pretty much the same thing but didn't need the disc. It was one of those chips, but i remember it being like a pretty big block thing behind the console. Did the same thing though.
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