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CD Console Piracy Anonymous Wed Nov 19 23:41:55 2014 No.2077948 [Reply] [Original]

So is the PS1 the easiest console to pirate for ever? All you need is a paper clip and a Gameshark to play burned games. I'm building my collection more every day thanks to the laughable security on this baby. But how does it compare to the Dreamcast and Saturn? Are other CD consoles as easy to pirate for as PS1?

CD-based piracy general

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 19 23:52:50 2014 No.2077965 No, based on your criteria the SegaCD is.

Anonymous Wed Nov 19 23:52:52 2014 No.2077967

The gameshark trick only works on early PS1's as far as I know, and I've heard of compatibility issue.

By far the easiest consoles to pirate for are the 3DO and Sega CD. They straight up play burned games just as they would a legit copy. The Dreamcast works similarly, but a regular CD can't hold as much as a GD-ROM so in many case you have to sacrifice FMV's, music, or voice audio (in the case of Shenmue) to play a burned copy.

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 19 23:54:11 2014 No.2077971 >>2077948 No. Consoles that don't even need the gameshark or paper clip are easier.

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 19 23:57:42 2014 No.2077974 Sega CD and Dreamcast are both burn-and-play consoles.

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 19 23:58:13 2014 No.2077975 >>2077965 >>2077967 >>2077971 >SegaCD has no copy protection Damn. It almost makes it worth having one.

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 20 00:17:52 2014 No.2078006 >>2077975 There's barely any games to play on the Sega CD that are worthwhile. that being said, the PC Engine CD is the same regarding burned discs, and has a great deal more worthwhile titles to play

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 20 00:44:16 2014 No.2078045 Goodluck burning a game on a cdr that a ps can read, let alone the low speeds they must be burned at, most modern cd burners burn too fast, like minimum 8x...

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 20 00:45:38 2014 No.2078048 >>2078006 Do you say that because everyone does or do you genuinely not like the games? PCE discs are even easier as they don't have regions

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 20 00:55:54 2014 No.2078065 File: 111 KB, 815x458, retard alert.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2078045

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 20 01:27:36 2014 No.2078108 >>2078065 you prolly never burned a ps1 game correctly in your life, in the slight chance i am wrong, id like to know cause ive tried many kinds of cdr's as well as the slowest speeds i can get from my cdrom... i heard the verbatims are the best

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 20 01:41:42 2014 No.2078119 >>2078108 Not the guy you're replying to, but I've never had a problem with any burned CD in a PSX. Also, the burn speed doesn't matter as long as you don't burn at a variable speed. DVDs are a little trickier.

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 20 01:44:52 2014 No.2078123 >>2077948 >So is the PS1 the easiest console to pirate for ever? Sega CD and Turbo CD don't have any protection whatsoever. Dreamcast also has a very easily-exploited BIOS flaw that renders its protection useless.

Anonymous Thu Nov 20 01:45:18 2014 No.2078125

>>2078108
All my games are burned. Don't burn slow, that's old folk wisdom that isn't true anymore. If your burner is from the past ~8 years, burn as fast as possible. Prop a paper clip between the top of the PlayStation and the little button to trick it into thinking it's closed, put in a gameshark, and swap it with the burned game when it tells you to. Easier than fuck.

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 20 01:45:53 2014 No.2078126 >>2078108 How do you manage to fuck this up? Just buy a spindle of Taiyo discs and burn at the recommended speed.

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 20 01:46:17 2014 No.2078128 >>2078108 Taiyo Yuden CD-R discs have always worked for me burned even at 16x. You're misinformed.

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 20 01:48:07 2014 No.2078130 PS1 is not really easy unless you have a first rev console. After that it's mods or swap tricks with the latter requiring know how and good timing.

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 20 01:49:34 2014 No.2078136 >>2078128 that goes against everything ive read, my console is chipped, i get past the boot screen and maybe a load screen then it freezes, ill try this

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 20 01:52:05 2014 No.2078141 >>2078126 what exact brand,size and color cdrs? memorez has black cdrs some people said work fine

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 20 02:18:23 2014 No.2078179 >>2078141 Taiyo Yuden.

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 20 02:20:37 2014 No.2078184 >>2078179 any Taiyo Yuden cdr's?

Anonymous Thu Nov 20 02:25:57 2014 No.2078194

>>2078108
Yes, you caught me. I have never burned a PS1 game because it's sooo hard.
Not sure what you're doing wrong. It's about as simple as it gets. I use whatever cheap discs I happen to have laying around and imgburn at whatever the default speed is. Never messed with any settings and never had a problem

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 20 02:27:23 2014 No.2078196 Are there any consoles that you can't pirate for, be it with softmods, flash carts, burned discs, modchips, etc?

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 20 02:47:23 2014 No.2078229 >>2078196 It's very difficult to pirate Neo-Geo games due to the insane architecture of the system. You'd need the hardware equivalent of 4 or 5 "normal" flash cartridges to make it work.

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 20 03:42:01 2014 No.2078281 >>2078194 Protip: PS1 disks have copy protection that can't be written without professional equipment. You're full of shit.

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 20 03:43:00 2014 No.2078282 >Have Sega CD >download Snatcher >burn Snatcher onto CD-R >put into Sega CD >play Snatcher

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 20 03:56:15 2014 No.2078297 File: 3 KB, 150x120, mm3usa_small.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2078281

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 20 03:58:48 2014 No.2078298 >>2078281 You don't try to spoof the copy protection with the disc, retard. You install a mod chip that injects the signal onto the CD controller directly, and then burn any normal CD-R.

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 20 04:09:20 2014 No.2078320 >>2078196 There's probably a few consoles that nobody has bothered to make a mod chip for

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 20 04:31:25 2014 No.2078340 >>2078281 OK, now I know you're just trolling. Even a retard isn't that stupid.

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 20 09:36:48 2014 No.2078672 >>2078108 >I've wasted $20+ on CDRs when what I really needed was a $10 replacement drive assembly. How does it feel knowing all those "bad discs" you've probably thrown away were perfectly good?

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 20 09:43:42 2014 No.2078681 >>2078672 this

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 20 09:44:26 2014 No.2078682 No, that would be the first model dreamcast. No copy protection, you could burn a disc and have it work without any modifications.

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 20 09:47:45 2014 No.2078685 >>2078682 but that's wrong anon. only the first model can play burned cd-rs without issue. the answer, which is solely opinionated, is sega cd and turbo/pce CD. no copy protection at all in all released models.

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 20 09:49:04 2014 No.2078686 >No, that would be the first model dreamcast >>2078685 >but that's wrong anon. >only the first model can play burned cd-rs >first model >no, it's the first model wut

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 20 09:52:49 2014 No.2078690 >>2078686 how did i not see that? my bad. my point is still valid though, i guess.

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 20 12:42:40 2014 No.2078837 anyone know why gamegenie.com is down

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 20 13:21:05 2014 No.2078882 >>2078685 >>2078682 All Dreamcasts have copy protection. In fact, GD ROMs are weird as hell. Just look at the bottom of a legit Dreamcast game. The thing is that their copy protection had a bug in it.

Anonymous Thu Nov 20 13:29:18 2014 No.2078901

With saturn, you technically just need to learn how to swap discs. You need 1 legit game, and the timing is a pain in the ass when you really just want to boot it up. I just got a modchip for that, fuck it.

dreamcast *had* security, contrary to popular belief, but people found a way around it by making it think it was loading music off a CD rather than booting a game. End result is piracy without needing any tricks, softmods, or hardware modchips.

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 20 13:30:39 2014 No.2078903 File: 179 KB, 800x794, 1407611412572.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2078045 I burn all my ps1 games at 16x on shitty best buy brand cd-rs and they work perfect

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 20 13:35:58 2014 No.2078909 >>2078682 The only reason you can just burn a disc is because someone else already put a lot of effort into ripping and converting it. If you had an original game you wanted to copy you wouldn't even know where to start.

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 20 13:36:16 2014 No.2078910 I've always wanted a Sega CD since I was little. If I got one and wanted to play Lunar or Sonic CD, would I just download a ROM of the game and burn it to a CD? Or is there something else I would need to do?

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 20 13:37:51 2014 No.2078915 File: 71 KB, 1001x602, 234.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2078281 >can't be written without professional equipment aw kids these days...

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 20 13:38:28 2014 No.2078916 >>2078910 yeah, essentially. just download the .iso and burn to a quality disc at whatever speed and you'll be good as gravy. who's the fattass that came up with that stupid saying? was it me?

>>	Chris*4914-3603-2609 Thu Nov 20 13:40:54 2014 No.2078920 >>2078916 Thanks anon. I'm definitely going to try and get a Sega CD to try this. Also, if I were to guess, Paula Deen came up with that phrase.

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 20 13:43:17 2014 No.2078921 >>2078916 Thanks anon. I'm going to get a Sega CD and try this soon. Also, if I were to guess, it would be Paula Deen that came up with that phrase.

Anonymous Thu Nov 20 13:46:32 2014 No.2078925

>>2078921
>Paula Deen
i thought her's was
>YOU BUTTER BELIEVE IT! NIGGER

if your sega cd doesn't power up first thing to check is the board fuse. it takes a center-negative power supply and often times people just plug in whatever fits within the specs and blow the fuse

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 22 01:29:50 2014 No.2081484 >>2078882 they left in an opening for music CDs with dreamcast content, MIL-CDs later dreamcast revisions changed slightly so that the way people burned games didn't work anymore, but you can burn them slightly differently to work on every dreamcast

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 22 01:50:39 2014 No.2081505 >>2078921 Don't forget to get a backup RAM cart for your Sega CD, otherwise you'll have a super limited amount of space for savegames, and you can kiss them goodbye if your system loses power and the save battery is dead.

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 22 02:07:08 2014 No.2081524 >>2078184 Just normal Taiyo Yuden CD-R's. You can get them on ebay for around $27 shipped for 100. I've had 2 discs fail and they were because of bad images.

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 22 13:58:47 2014 No.2082273 >>2081524 got em coming, any software or seting to use?

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 23 09:28:36 2014 No.2083786 >>2078281 >just need custom firmware >that writes bad sectors >and linux >says you need professional equipment

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