PC Master Race just used bleem.

TheMoonCloud bleemcast too.

I think it would be well deserved for pirates to have their consoles and hardware confiscated. Along with a time behind bars, or community service.

@@kjrchannel1480 You wanna put 10 year olds in jail?

Here in Russia weren't unmodded ps1's. Every single unit was modded. So all games were cheap pirate versions, usually with crappy translation to russian :)

I totally agree that time I never consider buying CD burner at all first thing come to my mind was PlayStation CD's

Hardly it was just PS1. Many stuff were happening on CD, like CD Audio and Video CD.

Nope, cd burners and PS1 used different technologies, you just can't use the PS1 laser to burn discs. That, and Sony laser pick-ups used in the PS1 had crappy designs, those things would just fail inside cd burners.

PSX was one thing but CD drives were blowing up in the mid 90s, you couldn't go to a computer store without seeing the words 'multimedia' or 'CD-ROM' at least once. everyone was rushing to get their shovelware full of gloriously crappy 90s-style FMVs out, it was crazy. also by the end of the decade the PC tech explosion was well underway, pretty much everything dropped in price.

They didn't scale production for the PS1 -- they didn't need to. Audio CDs and CD players had been around since the 80s, and were the standard by 1990. By the time the PSX came out even CD-ROMs (non-writable, of course) had been standard on computers for years. Perhaps more importantly: CD-R writers didn't use the same laser hardware as CD-ROMs. In fact, the technology difference in how a CD-R is made compared to a pressed CD-ROM was so large that some CD readers actually were physically unable to read CD-Rs; some were fixed by firmware upgrades adjusting the laser power, IIRC, but the majority of the drives that couldn't read them just became defunct. And considering that most CD-R writers still couldn't write the most popular PSX CDs (due to LibCrypt), the actual bump in effective demand from people wanting to burn PSX discs was really quite low. (I had one of these drives -- I would know! They were *tremendously* expensive compared to the standard drives of the day.)

Honestly if it wasn't for the message giving it away you'd be pulling your hair out wondering wtf you did wrong. Go wasting CD's trying to reburn it because maybe you did it wrong ;p

Part of me wants to call them and see if they still work.

Not really. In my experience (as a lame courier) those phone numbers were usually for a single BBS (one of many operated by the group) and intended as an initial point of contact only. As well as the number you generally needed a new user password and someone who already had an account to vouch for you. Someone who just got the number from an intro, nfo or archive banner couldn't really use it for anything.

Scene Rules, bro. gotta have a pr0p3r release

Mario I need Playstation vita can you buy one for me?

@@melan5611 Why do you need it?

João Maverick It doesn’t really matter who’s got the last laugh. The crack took some time to get out there and Sony just like MVG mentioned, made enough sales in the first 2-3 months of it’s lifetime. That’s when you make the bulk of your sales, especially with single player games. So it was cracked apparently but Sony was not that concerned about it, it had made enough money from Spyro.

@João Maverick i to this day, enjoy the badly cracked copy lol

*Laughs in Russian*

A video on "game enhancers" would be cool. I still have a NES Game Genie in the basement.

Why stop with just the Action Replay? Why not do a history of game enhancers as a whole?

superrayman3 Game Shark was my shit

@@superrayman3 Because they are the only one still in business even nowadays 😉

@@johnnychang4233 Yeah but to really do the subject justice you need to start in the Beginning, which was Game Genie unless there is something that came out earlier that I'm missing.

Your talking about dragons den on riverdale rd in springfield? I used to but my pokemon cards there in 1999 2000 lol. Better times

I had that thing! I bought it from a market in London and it had a little spring with a red string and full instructions!

I'm pretty sure an old friend of mine gave me one of these that was given to him by his dad. No instructions though just a quick explanation of how to do it The dad may or may not have worked for what ever playstation magazine was around at the time. I have no idea how true what my friend said at the time was as you know what it's like when your 12 and want to impress people

@@robertbouchard6661 Naw. This one was in Yonkers, NY. I'm sure there are tons of Dragons Dens, heh.

And way, WAY less time. :(

Both of you are so right

@@lucasmoreirar Lol, sounds like you should have been born with a disabity. I have all of my time :D buuuuut basically no money. Not sure who started the idea of welfare queens but, uh... if someone can get me a how-to manual on that, please do!

Sounds like that's not a problem with the times, but a problem with your lack of self control and discipline.

@@MeepChangeling Work and family take most of my time, but it ends up making those short gaming sessions that more special. No big deal.

Of course, the winner is..

me

Lmao good meme

Nintenbros, we got too cocky...

A chip... Only bums used the swop trick ... Especially when modding was done for £15

Dedication lol

the PS1 was fine in 2000

That's how I played all the Japanese Dragonball games. Start with the action replay and an American disc in, load into the replay, keep the system propped open with a spring, swap out for some DBZ goodness.

@referral madness yeah and also the ps one released and by that time the playstation had an awesome library of games, many pushing the console to its absolute limits

I loved my gameshark, and I got a mod chip installed but only had two bootleg games which was golf and boxing so I wasn’t that excited about the console hack until I got my hands on dbz games and loved them

Sony's actual first mistake was making the region lock be an artifact of the copy protection. If region bypass was as easy as it was on the Saturn (bascally just solder a switch to the board), many fewer people would have cared about playing pirated copies.

That's actually what it sounded like.

Where did You live then? In Central Europe You would just pack Your console and go to Your electronics market on the weekend and there would be few dudes that would mod it while You wait. Same for Xbox360, not sure about PS3 at the time. Now we don't have electronics markets on the weekend :(

@@MindBlowerWTF West Coast of the USA.

When it came to Latin America (Argentina/Uruguay mostly), it already was modded lol, only VERY few legit consoles came over here, most of the ones that became available as years passed where consoles bought and chipped by other people, as a result, the main way to get them was to buy them on ebay's equivalent sites, trough newspaper ads or similar, seeing one in a legit store was pretty damn rare, specially at launch Seems like Sony took note of this as well, the PS3 and PS4 came in VERY few numbers at launch date, the PS3 sold VERY poorly specially when compared to the Xbox360 and the PS4 came in batches of 4-6, 1 month after release and only to very few stores at TWICE the price that it had on the US (that's indeed 1000 dollars,for wathever reason) Needless to say, it didn't sell almost anything until they fixed the price

@@theowinters6314 Westcoast here to and I knew many people who had modded playstation 1's lol

I’m with you, I’m from mid america and I never heard of a mod chip back then. If you wanted another game you just had to wait for Christmas! 😔

Mistake (buying the retail copy) wasn't made!

*STONKS*

Capitalism

I'm pretty sure you're referring to Cactus Data Shield, developed by Midbar Technologies. I don't recall Sony ever using CDS, however they're a big company so it's possible that it may have been used by a subsidiary.

or turning off autoplay. lots of audio CD DRM depended on Windows autoplaying the disc as the OS would auto run the data sector. Of course if AP was turned off or temp disabled(holding shift I think it was in 95 and 98SE) it could not sneak the malware in. And Audio CD DRM is what we would call today as Malware.

See this, is why I use Linux and cdparanoia.

@@filanfyretracker that's not... No.

Music DRM is the dumbest shit like if someone wants to pirate it just record the thing with audacity

The original SCPH-1000 Japanese launch model had a really easy disc swap that didn't require any precise timing at all - just turn the console on with the drive door open, go to the CD player and put a valid game disc in then operate the door switch - after the drive loaded the TOC, you could just swap the disc and then exit from the CD player, at which point the game would boot.

Dubious I'd rather go to the club and play on the PS1 with the boys

If you eat Avocado, shop at Trader Joes or go to Starbucks, or pay $1000 for a smartphone, you have disposable income. And I see plenty of 20 somethings that do.

@@neoasura Ok Boomer

referral madness same lol broke afaf

lmao its because our generation just has to have the best of everything if its not organic free range gluten free chicken then it's not good enough, can't just have a toast with butter need to have avacado toast. Yes previous generations had it better but they also made sacrifices in the short term to achieve long term goals something most of the younger people arent willing to do, they have to have the best just because thats what their parents gave them ignoring the sacrifices their parents made to get them to that position.

uga

Ayaya?

Sounds like youtube in a nutshell

@Samuel Giam Region locking is BS, luckily there's not even a need for that anymore

@@rompevuevitos222 Don't know about no need, but region locking is alive and well

@@steelbear2063 I mean, they can try, but bypassing it is real easy, unless you live in an authoritarian dystopia, like China or North Korea

I would love to know more.

It doesn't happen to work, if you were wondering. It wasn't rewritten and it was more than likely just shown as an option to give cheap bragging rights.

Jordon Pollock GT2000 was supposed to be a quick remake of GT2 but on PS2. This was cancelled and GT3 was then released. Not sure why it was cancelled but I speculate it was music licensing and vehicle licensing issue polyphony digital could not overcome.

@@TheMadhatter2561 I'm well aware, even spent hours finding a rom for it to play it. Shame it died off, would've been really interesting to see GT2s engine on PS2 in its full glory. Even though what we got in GT3 was objectively much better.

ikr, i only ever remember calling it the ps1, no one i know calls it PSX in real life, only online

Yes. Channels like Jenovi call it "psx".

@@NB-1 Here in Germany? Okay... I know only that it's called PS1, no matter where I am. PSX is actually new for me.

Just curious, but what do you think people called it before there was a PS2?

HeroesLeftInMan just play station.

Retro Jeegee £3 each or 2 for £5 lol those were the days

Ya, the Technology Connections video on this topic was an excellent watch as well.

One of the top comments on that video suggests the space was that big just to make it easier to put in and remove discs. Seems like a pretty good reason to me, but who knows.

Probably didn't do that because it would've negated the entire "cd-roms are cheaper and easier" bit

Absolutely. I don't understand why this wasn't more widely done.

I had this aswell haha

i remember that.

I always wondered why those cheat programs were called like that. Then it hit me, those programs are made by training them on certain memory addresses that contains values for lifes ammo and such.

Trainers are very much still a thing on PC.

Search for Technology Connections' video about it. It's great.

I think that it was only possible trough special machinery wich only Sony had access to

he lie. there's no such burner

I've never seen any proof of any burned CD-R being able to pass the authentication check. There has always been talk about some special firmware with some mysterious cd burner that could do it but it's never materialized. It is probably safe to say that no CD-R and writer combination is capable of reproducing a disc with the protection intact. If it were possible then we would most likely have heard about it by now. Someone would be busy using one burning copies of high priced games and trying to sell them on ebay. Sony's engineers knew how CD-Rs worked and would certainly have chosen a security mechanism that could not be replicated by a CD-R.

Yes.

You think pirating has slowed down? 😂

@@KaitouKaiju Xbox One. DENUVO.

I knew it, because in 1996 when you buy one of those consoles imported, it came with a interactive disc from playstation magazine, and it was a black disc. I have the interactive 5, that came with gex 2, colony wars, and other I don't remember. The ps1 of a friend came with Interactive disc 8, time when I first found metal gear solid demo, the most beaten demo of my life. Played most of that demos discs even with a modded console. Those was good days

Also, manuals, i tought you could only get that kind of stuff as a collector's thingy trough a separate purchase, but aparently some games just came with it

....i have 2 working playstation 1s that are still, to this day, unmodded... but there is hope, i just bought a bunch of arduinos and have psnee burned to a nano 328p board already :D

and me

i never pirated on the sony psx (at least, not that i'm aware of). emulators, however.....that's a different story :P

I had one but it played NTSC in black and white (and later a fully functional one), ty god for having a mum in IT

I have a ps1 that I got 2nd hand for free, and, I don't think that it is modded.

Me too my Friends, im agree the sony Playstation is the best Consoles at all time,😄

I remember trying to solder one into mine, and accidentally bricking it (instead of doing the smart thing and finding somebody who was good at soldering)......THEN saw the pro action replay swap device and was like "YES"

no one gave a flying shit about the saturn, the ps1 was the console to crack...

@@omegarugal9283 It's a shame as well, the Saturn rocks.

@@omegarugal9283 Trick please. Saturn running circles around the Playstation. Sony just had a strong reputation with electronics in the 90s. Also invested more in marketing, and was cheaper than the Saturn.

@@SHUJINCELL where?

The Saturn was pretty thoroughly hacked early on - the swap trick was worked out within a few days of the console's release (you had to open it to disable the door switch though). You could get arbitrary code execution from the cartridge port, although that doesn't really even qualify as a hack since there was no security whatsoever (all you needed was valid executable header at address 0 in the ROM and the console would run it on power up). The first modchips came out about 6 months after the release of the console in Japan - they just connected into the CD drive cable and monitored the command stream the CD block sent to the drive checking for the "Seek to security track" command - once it was received, the board switched over the status and read data from the drive and sent fake data that matched a real disc. Once the disc was authenticated, the chip detected the seek back to the data track and started forwarding real data again. One interesting thing about the Saturn was that the regional lock and the media authentication were completely separate - so if (like me) you wanted to be able to play imported games but didn't care about copies you didn't need a modchip and could either use an Action Replay or install a region switch. So you can't really say it wasn't hacked, because it was, thoroughly - it is true to say that nobody ever managed to hack the CD block until recently, but that's because other methods already existed that allowed the use of out-of-region discs and bootleg games. And yes, the CD block hack is a superb piece of reverse engineering - but all it provides is another way of doing things that were already possible.

IIRC only worked on early consoles

@@omegarugal9283 Well, he did say early ps1's :p

yep, and i meant very early ones, those that had the rca outputs, the 2nd revision still had the bug but it was harder to pull off, you had to quickly insert the music cd, allow the ps to recognized it as cd music, press back and quicky swap the copy and press run, if you did it correctly the ps will skip the checks and boot...

@@omegarugal9283 I have one with the audio outs and video out. The so called "audiophile" version. Also the parallel port which you need for that SD card loader.

@@6581punk you have a rare console then

Reminds me of core and razer1911 keygens

FBI, please.

@@Azazel010101 I wish

Yeah same, that sounds like an urban legend to me.

alv, las vendian crackeadas? yo pense que simplemente habia mucha gente vendiondolas pirateadas en mercadolibre O sea, no me sorprende ya que compre 2 PCs durante mi infancia en una tienda de esas y me vino con el Windows trucho :/ Estaria para meterles denuncia, solo para romperle las nueces

@@rompevuevitos222 Si, ya vendian chipeadas xq sabian que era mejor vender los stock de esa forma. Total los juegos los conseguian aparte Y si, pero ya es tarde para eso xd

@@Ziimbiian Ahora ni preciso, para eso uso emulador, pero la verdad que no me la esperaba, o sea, e visto policias comprar juegos/peliculas truchas en las esquinas, pero un local que sabe lo que hace? mamon

@@rompevuevitos222 see, pero emular no es la misma experiencia que tener la consola fisica...y si, es creer o reventar pero vendian las PS1 Y 2 Chipeadas La cosa cambió con PS3 y 4 jaja

@@Ziimbiian Y si, eventualmente les hiba a caer problema si seguian con esa Pero personalmente prefiero emulado, guardas cuando quieras, usas el control que te salga del huevo izquierdo, mas graficos (que ni uso pero igual ta weno)

Very great mistake.. Wait for a Lite's hack, Nintendo..

Really? Did he?

@@diegoarthur Yes, there's a video where he explains why he got the strike

@@diegoarthur yes he got it. he is a hacker that was hacked. which makes a pathectic hacker.

@Mike UK haha i am only saying what happened to mvg. his ass got hacked by nintendo. :).

Eh, tons of lost revenue is a stretch. All the popular games still sold millions and millions of copies which are the ones most likely to be pirated. Despite how it sounds most folks didn't have mod chips. It was still the 90's and online commerce wasn't really a thing. You needed to know a guy locally who could source the chips and hopefully install them correctly. It was still a tiny minority of PS1 owners. Also, corporations are fairly notorious for exaggerating the effects of piracy.

And not even due to piracy, even legit PS games were less expensive than N64 games because of CDs being far simpler and cheaper to manufacture than cartridges.

Back then piracy probably didn't even cost Sony 1%. Information on modding during the PS1 era was sketchy, and modchips practically required a degree in electrical engineering to install, not to mention the higher costs of CD burners. So your average Joe gamer wasn't modding as much.

@@neoasura You don´t need a degreee in electrical engineering to install a modchip. You just need to know how to solder a couple of wires (on pads that are reasonably big) and you are done with the modchip installation. Also there were diagrams that showed where which wire needs to go... so that even idiots could do that easily.

@@devilmikey00 The modchips had a BIG upside however, it made the console viable for poorer countries (i should know lol) It came to the point where there were 2 consoles per store at any given time wich where RARELY sold, but there where a bunch of modded PS1s going around, in fact, the only way to sell a PS1 reliably was to sell it already modded since when someone would buy one, they would factor how expensive it would be to mod it, as it would be impossible to afford the games otherwise This got even "worse" when the PS2 came around, since even legit stores sold it already modded (not kidding, they all had the Matrix chip) All of this was mostly due to Sony increasing the prices of the console and it's games by up to 100% (like they did with the PS4 within the first month of launch)