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"Eradicate Piracy"

How many people only a bought a playstation when it surfaced that, a little chip or "Cheat cart" could let them play back-up games, which a mate of a mate could get. With-in a couple of years of this the cd-r market was in lift off. But wait who made the best cd-r's and the best cd-rw drives to back up Playstation games, Sony. Sony knows fine well that it made a back-door killing on the playstation through piracy. 75 million ps's sold worldwide, but the number of games sold is minimal for a figure this size. Sure it would have made more money if everyone had bought all of the original games and piracy ad never existed, but in reality it wouldn't. Now everyone knows someone with a CD-r drive, everyone knows someone who copies games and anything else worth making money from. Even sales on the dc picked up once the news that pirated games had been produced whilst the n64 fell by the wayside. But at least Sega had made a valiant effort to curb piracy by producing GD-Roms. One of the first big news stories about the ps2 other than record numbers being bought worldwide, was the fact that it could be chipped. Piracy is a scurge on the face of gaming, even the most law abiding of people seem to have a disregard for thier morality when it comes to piracy. I'm sure once the ps2 drops in price that sales of pirated games, cd-r's and cd-rw drives will again hit record levels worldwide, as people will not be so worried about having to replace faulty ps2's out of thier own pocket. But at £300 each they'd think twice. Here is where console manufacturers are in a catch 22 situation, high console prices and low software prices inhibit piracy, but they make very little money, as do the games firms themselves. Low console prices and high games prices sends piracy through the roof. Sony made a lot of money out of the Playstation because early on it was expensive and there was little piracy, no one had really thought of it. Now, people will hold off buying games and consoles until it is as cheap as possible foe them to break the law but still make great games.

But how does the games industry stop piracy???

You do not understand the technology that is a cd and the way they are created do you. Shame on you, go to jail do not collect £200.

But why shouldn't it be able to tell the colour? I think it's a very good way of detecting pirate CDs.

Oh, and maybe changing the colour of a DVD stopped them from working, or made production too hard. Still, it's very hard to pirate a DVD.

It's not it's stupid, any CD reads data not colour thats why your PS2 can tell it is playing a PS2 game, the same way the disc's TOC tells the PS2 whether it is an audio cd or a dvd, and anyway PS2 games which come on dvd are silver!!

Yes, but music CDs and DVDs are differant formats and so probably bypass the CD colour.

Anyway, this is what I was told and I'm just passing it on. I don't see why I am being criticised for beleiving it, as it is a very believable explanation.

You are a boob, the PS2 has a software piracy protection the same as the PSOne where patches are required to get around this, however the PS2 and the PSOne have a clever system which now checks for these patches on some games, but not all. For these games you need a boot disc. The colour of the cd is not a determining factor in the playing of the disc or else music cds and dvds would more than likely not work either.

Bonus wrote:
> About the colour of the cds, you do not have to have them the same
> colour as the ps2 disk, that is absolute tosh.

That's what I was told, and it explains a lot of things: Why you can't play cpoied games, why imports work and why they actually are that colour.

About the colour of the cds, you do not have to have them the same colour as the ps2 disk, that is absolute tosh.

PS2s can be chipped, as I know someone who has.

The thing is:

a) You can't copy games unless you get a CD that is the same colour as the PS2 disks.

b) Very early on games will be able to detect chipped PS2s

c) You will NEVER be able to use the net with it as it will inform Sony you are using a chipped PS2, which is illegal

d) PS2s break down a lot, and if it does you will find yourself up a rather famous creek with no paddle (to quote the Vic of Dib)

DON'T DO IT! IT'S NOT WORTH IT!!!

I have a MarioAllStars Rom, but I also have the original cart. To be honest Roms arent that good, you cant really beat playing the original game on the original cart.

I have none.