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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???

And how many of these people who are against Software Piracy have videogame Roms of Licensed games on their PC's?

Don't have mine chipped don't want it chipped, no boot disk needed either. Only original PAL games will do.

Your Honour wrote:


Unles you want to spend vast amounts of
> money on a DVD writer of course.......

The new apples write both DVD and CD in one drive, and yes it does have the capability to produce DVD video for all you piracy obbessed freaks.

Just to make it clear that I do not want mine chipped I am just curious as then I will have a better knowledge of what happening. And in my last post I meant Bonus not Bouns.

Didnt know that. I knew they could be chipped as I said that in my post, but I didnt think they had been able to do the DVD just yet. Maybe its just come out. Also have you got yours chipped Bouns? Do you need a boot disk to play them? If you have got yours chipped you want to get GT3 as that is amazing and there isnt too much Japanese Text in it.

A shop calle dGametek in dundee chips them and gives you a 6 month warranty on your ps2

You be so wrong. PS2's can be chipped in Dundee to be all region dvd, allow rgb playback, play imports and play copies. PS2 Roms can be donloaded off of the net, I stumbled across RR5 without even looking for it, and I can get any game which is on cd from someone I know.

It just hasn't reached you yet.

PIRACY IS THE SCURGE OF GAMING.

PS1 was easy to fool therefore early models could play copied or imported games just by disk swapping. No boot discs are needed to run the PS1 games, just a simply chip or cartridge in the back. Games can be copied easily.

DC has the 1GB disks therefore cant be copied. But if you rip the data off them they will fit onto a CD. To play them you need a boot disk. Again another easy machine to fool. The ripped data(ROMS) can even be downloaded off the internet, but these can be from as little as 100Mb right up to 700Mb, it just depends on the game.

PS2 is a different story. Chips can be fitted but are expensive and only allow import games I think and not copys. You still need a boot disk and Iam certain that it only works on early Japanese models. So just to play import CD games is very hard as I dont think UK machines can take chips or boot disks. At the moment NOBODY knows how to get around the DVD region, so for DVD games you cant import them as they have the region coding like movies. Copied DVDs are way to expensive at the moment and they wont even work with the chip or boot disk. The very early Japanese machines can do region change as the DVD drivers had to be loaded from a CD onto a memory card and therefore can be hacked and changed.

N64 has a special CD unit which you can buy. This allows N64 games to be copied onto CD and run from this machine. An N64 game like Mario 64 is 64 Megabites big in size which is 8Mb therefore a 650mb CD can hold 81 games. These games can be downloaded off the internet. Of course alot of N64 cartridges now are 256 MegaBites which is only 32Mb. So if you have the equipment and can get the ROMs(The game information) then its quite easy to priate games. You could sell CD's with 10 games on.

So at this moment in time the PS2 is looking to be a console that is pretty priate proof.

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