/vr/ - Retro Games

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>1) I live in the U.S. and I bought mine on eBay. No modchip.

And? If you live in a 1st world country you would have to seek out a modchipped one or do it yourself. Are you under the impression that pracfically nobody had a modded console fi they could not buy it pre-modded from a major retailer?

>One of my friends who had both a PS1 and a PC knew nothing about the swap method, it wasn't common knowledge and he had the world wide web at his finger tips to find out this information

.... are you seriously arguing because one of your friends did not know about it, this was some secret hidden knowledge? I saw fucking webcomics in the 90s referencing it. Anyone with internet would be able to know about it, especially if they were looking up ways to play burned CDs in a PS1.

>Every friend I knew

Seeing a lot of arguing anecdotal evidence here. Devices to plug into the slot that on top of acting like a Gameshark were also a modchip were not rare. You want anecdotal evidence? I had one.

> I'm incredibly right because it's true that modchips aren't common on PS1

You are incredibly wrong because the PS1 was highly pirated. And you are unbelievably laughably wrong by claiming that it was very rare on the PS2. You and your stupid friends are not the world, just because you and your dummy friends did not do it does not magically change reality and make piracy nonexistant on the PS1 and PS2. That single statement alone completely and utterly blows any credibility to your arguments out of the water, nobody in their right mind would claim piracy on the PS2 was very rare.