Copies/Pirated CD Games Etc.etc.

[Anonymous No.2186379]

Do you Pirate your CD based games /vr/?
Are you handy at burning CDs?
Pirating Imports or Obscure rare games perhaps?
Im pretty used to pirating old Playstation 1 games , since originals are a pain in the ass to get in my country (also expensive if you can believe it), and import policies got retarded last year.

[Anonymous No.2186396]

>copying that floppy

[Anonymous No.2186397]

Yeah, I pirate every game I have for Dreamcast, honestly it's why I got the console.
It's retardedly easy.

[Anonymous No.2186402]

>>2186396
I really wish it could get hold of originals,never been a fan of copying that floppy, but they are so expensive for what it is,At least over this side of the sea. Also, did i metion the retarded import policies? because they are retarded.
Retarded.

[Anonymous No.2186405]

>>2186379
More info on your mod chip? Preferred brand of blank discs? Burning program?

[Anonymous No.2186409]

I always thought burned games were pretty pointless. Now that I think about I never actually seen it done for anything retro while the consoles were new.

Now flashcarts and drive replacements I like.

[Anonymous No.2186410]

>>2186405
To tell you the truth , i dont even know what modchip my PSone has , i have it since i was a little rascal and still boots up to this day.
lens is working like shit even though i change it some months ago and almost didn´t touch it. Been having a lot of problems trying to play Final Fantasy X lately. Skippin FMVs , Magic spells that take a while to load in mid fight.
I use regular green Verbatim , i dont reccomend them though , i wish i could get a hold on a bulk of black cds.
Also i use IMGburn, i think its up to the task.

[Anonymous No.2186414]

About to do a softmod on a ps2. I will always buy official games unless they are going for silly money. Pic related.

[Anonymous No.2186419]

>>2186410
Protip... Select the option to cut the guardian force animations.

[Anonymous No.2186420]

>>2186409
The reason it wasn't done back then was primarily the cost of a CD burner and blank CDs. It just wasn't practical, not to mention downloading 500Mb games would take ages longer than it does now.

[Anonymous No.2186421]

>>2186414
Oh man , I love Odin´s Sphere i have it on my Ps2 HDD , Alchemy is broken as shit.
Velvet a qt

[Anonymous No.2186437]

>>2186421
Got the iso from pirates bay 6 months ago. Going to softmod my ps2 fat with free mcboot method and get on the hunt for some rare titles. No need to pirate everything though, ps2 games are cheap as fuck right now. Got half life for 2 pounds like it had just come out the plastic.

[Anonymous No.2186464]

>>2186437
Is there any place to get PS2 Isos anymore?

[Anonymous No.2186470]

>>2186464
Kick ass torrents and demonoid but probably lots of others.

[Anonymous No.2186481]

Faggot cunt mods

[Anonymous No.2186483]

>>2186379
Being from a tiny thirld world town pirated CDs were the only way to play CD based games way back when (short of travelling to a big city and buying a 10 times more expensive original CD).

So yeah I'm pretty familiar with pirating and burning CDs. My PS2 is modded (which is pretty much how every store sells PS2s down here).

Nowadays with the advent of the internet and me having my own money, I actually buy original games online and seldom if ever burn pirated CDs. Of course, I do emulate the hell out of everything before committing to a buy.

>since originals are a pain in the ass to get in my country (also expensive if you can believe it), and import policies got retarded last year.
where are you from, OP?

[Anonymous No.2186489]

>>2186483
The whitest country on the land, Argentina.

[Anonymous No.2186519]

>>2186420
I did it back then.
>Worked at Babbage's
>Buy $90 Playstation from some walk-in with an extra controller and a mega-memory card
>Have PSX chipped at small import game store
>Buy $200 CD burner
>Buy unbelievably shitty Imation brand CDRs for $2 each
>Check games out from work, take them home and copy them
>Rent imports from small store, take them home and copy them
>Be 90s game pimp

I still have a lot of those copies I made back then and over time they have become literally translucent. It's the craziest thing, I think it must have been some way early dye technology that didn't weather very well. I don't believe in disc rot but I can see how someone who's limited experience with discs included those type of discs might take it as proof that shit is real.

[Anonymous No.2189409]

>>2186420
Dreamcast pretty much turns everything you just said into bullshit.

Also a lot of people burned PlayStation games and other systems in college in the 90s, it's just they're mostly too old to post on this board.

[Anonymous No.2189414]

>>2186379

cd games only for piracy for me. i like to have my saves stored, makes me feel like i accomplished something (I didnt).

so systems with memory cards i burn for, but i like cartridge games to have my save on them. everdrive and such doesnt really do it for me in that instance.

[Anonymous No.2189428]

I have all my favourite vidya and anime backed up on DVD-R

I eventually plan to phase them out and replace with Blurays, but then it would be forced to make a database of what is on what disk

[Anonymous No.2189435]

>>2186519
>I don't believe in disc rot but I can see how someone who's limited experience with discs included those type of discs might take it as proof that shit is real.

Disc rot is real, but the affected disks are long gone and we have a better production technology so even shittiest brand disks don't fall apart after a year.

[Anonymous No.2189464]

>>2189409
not him, but you sound like an ignorant kid. Unless you lived in Sweden or South Korea, fast internet was an expensive luxury and CD-R drives and media were just starting to come down in price by the time Dreamcast's lifecycle was over.. Also, WTF does being in college in the 90's have to do with anything? Furthermore, I laugh at your assumption that this board is limited to some age-group.

[Anonymous No.2189465]

People say that if you have a serial port cheat device for a PS1, you can play burned discs. Any truth to that? Any games you recommend for the code read disc? Do any games not specifically work?

I remember trying to play Symphony of the Night using Final Fantasy 7 as a booter, and it never worked as advertised. It would either have awful audio or crash.

[Anonymous No.2189506]

>>2186379
Dont own a single Dreamcast game. Have a garbage bag full of cd-rs of the whole Dreamcast library

[Anonymous No.2189515]

Been through the whole collecting craze and spent a fortune ,these days I'm just interested in actually playing the games so If I want to play something I just download it and burn it ,there's no incentive for me to buy the real game anymore

[Anonymous No.2189518]

>>2189465
Yes it works ,turn it on with a real game ,the cheat menu comes up and disc stops spinning ,swap disc then start game,you may need a spring for the cd lid.

[Anonymous No.2189520]

>>2189464
Back then most people bought pirates as burning them yourself was voodoo.

[Anonymous No.2189523]

I'm glad that nobody here is using the term "backups". Just call them what they are, pirated/bootleg copies.

[Anonymous No.2189524]

>>2189435
Well,after my experience with those Imation discs I definitely believe there were some writable media with shockingly short lifespans and I don't even place great faith in modern blank media but disc rot on pressed, mastered discs is a myth.

[Anonymous No.2189531]

>>2189524
Not a myth but pretty much non existent these days,HD-DVDs had a pretty bad run in with disc rot,mostly Warner brother releases I think.

[Anonymous No.2189604]

I just bought a 50 pack of verbatim azo and used them all in a couple if days making psone games.
I'll buy games if I really like the game but I prefer burning games because it reminds me of when me and my friends were broke ass 12 year olds splitting the cost of cd-rs and rental fees to get Playstation games

[Anonymous No.2191386]

>>2189409
i started doing it in 1999 but I had a friend who had the burner before and would sell games.

[Anonymous No.2191401]

Until I can get a hold of the original yes

[Anonymous No.2191406]

>>2186379
Almost all my Dreamcast games are burnt, I have a lot of burnt games for my PSX as well but because my local cash generator sells them for 50p a time when it has them, I've built up a small collection of official games.

Neither of those systems are ones I had form childhood and I'm not really interested in collecting for them, I bought them with burning games in mind..

[Anonymous No.2191435]

>>2189409


I still remember a carabiniere, friend of my father, gifting me ps1 games he downloaded from winmx thanks to the insanely fast connection they had at the commissariato (police station)

[Anonymous No.2191453]

>>2189409
tell me how piracy effects a company anymore than used videogame selling and borrowing?

99 percent of all users of products flat out refuse to pirate because they don't understand the system so they are afraid. like the pirated footage will be transferred directly to an fbi server. they don't want to download the shit because they think people care enough about it to track them. etc. but everyone buys used games. tell me what the bigger evil is and tell me what microsoft has been recently attempting to prevent? tip: it isn't piracy.

[Anonymous No.2191735]

>>2186379
Well, the statute of limitations on these has expired by now, so I guess I can tell. Between 1997 and 2002 I burned every PC release I could get my hands on, because no high-speed Internet at the time, and I was a piss poor student. Games like Tomb Raider and TR2, Carmageddon 2, Thief, Need for Speed 3, Unreal, Half-Life, Soldier of Fortune, Aliens vs Predator... I was lucky to know people who knew people.

There was a website, I don't recall the name anymore, where you could download "game fixes" to eliminate the copy protections. I always downloaded those on my local library's Internet PC, before they started to tighten security around 2003. I used floppies to carry the cracks home. It had to be done in secret, because the library naturally did not condone to such behavior. I always had to wait until the librarian went somewhere else before I could copy the file, because from her desk, she would've heard the loud noise of the floppy drive.

Fun times, I was such a gangsta...

[Anonymous No.2191789]

>>2191735
game copy world?

[Anonymous No.2191795]

>>2186379
is there a way to pirate games for the PS1 without buying a now expensive add on or disk that doesn't involve that iffy and system ruining disk swap method?

[Anonymous No.2191807]

I don't think you can even speak of pirating anymore when the games are out of production, not available in retail anymore and half the companies are defunct anyway. At that point it turns from pirating into preserving cultural value in my eyes. And yes, I do it. I can see an appeal in physical collections with the finally finding that one high up on the list cartridge somewhere or completing a full set of that favorite series of yours and so on, but for me personally experiencing and sharing the games is far more important than owning them.

[Anonymous No.2191810]

>>2191453
Playstation's online store on the PS3 and 4 feature psx games, the wii virtual... what ever the fuck they call it.. features games from varios segga consoles as does Xbox Live Arcade.

[Anonymous No.2191812]

>>2191795
softmod a ps2 with a hard drive :^)

[Anonymous No.2191816]

>>2191812
well there is that, it can also be softmodded without a hd, just burn the games, but I don't have the equipment needed to do so and asking for some one to do it for me on one of those forums seems pretty sketchy.

[Anonymous No.2191823]

>>2191807
see
>>2191810

[Anonymous No.2191826]

New to "backup" here.
Shown in my pic are the files extracted from the downloaded .rar

How do I burn it to make it ps1 ready?
I remember exploring legit ps1 discs that contains "Speed Dial" inside them. These roms doesn't have it. Wat do?

[Anonymous No.2191831]

>>2191826
you burn them like you would an iso... and yeah... not telling you the rest and fuck off

[Anonymous No.2191836]

>>2191831
Heh stfu. Anyone?

[Anonymous No.2191853]

I have stacks of CD-Rs for sega CD, saturn, and dreamcast. Fuck collecting CD games.

[Anonymous No.2191864]

>>2186379
its the only way i play saturn and ps2 games

[Anonymous No.2192001]

>>2191831
Why do people do this? "Tee-hee, it's illegal, I'm not letting you in on the secret"

[Anonymous No.2192029]

>Got my PSX modded and burned CDs back in the day
>Back when the PS2 was new, the best mod chip had 41 solder points... fuck that. I installed a "swap trick" mod.
>Got a Dreamcast, burned discs like crazy.

I used to have stacks like a motherfucker. I'm talking like 800+ burned CD's and DVD's, largely Japanese-only import games, most of them complete shit that nobody would ever want to play. I also have huge stacks of DVD's and SVCDs of mediocre Chinese, Korean, and Japanese movies.

I have no idea why I obsessively did all that. I never used them. Lost them all many years ago in a move.

[Anonymous No.2192038]

>>2191795
>>2191816
Keep the disc tray button closed with a paper clip, insert a gameshark, select load without codes, insert burned game, play

[Anonymous No.2192045]

>>2192001
>>2191831
>>2191826
Because you can figure it out by using fucking Google.

The rest of us figured this shit out back in 2001, back when it was even harder.

So why should I sit here and explain it to you, rather than using your goddamn brain and doing it yourself? Are you saying your time is more valuable than mine?

[Anonymous No.2192090]

Each one of my consoles besides the Saturn and my Famicom are pirateable for me in one way or another right now, and I own a lot of consoles. I don't play my PS1 that much anymore because it doesn't read my burnt discs all that well and I don't feel like ordering a new laser yet.

[Anonymous No.2192109]

>>2192045

>2015
>implying that google results aren't now filled forums full of dead links and faggots bitching about roms being able

>implying that you and your time is in anyway valuable or special

[Anonymous No.2192117]

>>2192109
Google results in 2015 are better than anything back in 2001. You're fucking insane if you think otherwise.

[Anonymous No.2192149]

>>2186397
I do the same, however I always wonder what gets left out from the original rip. Because GDI's have more data than what a CD-R can hold. I heard some audio gets taken out or compressed.

[Anonymous No.2192182]

>>2192149
Videos get compressed (sometimes even removed), audio quality lowered and/or mono-mixed

[Anonymous No.2192297]

>>2186397
Hey anon, how did you learn how to burn games for dreamcast? There's so many different ways but i'm not sure what the best one is. What do you personally do?

[Anonymous No.2192343]

>>2186379
If I can, I do. 3DO and (when I get it fixed again) my PSX/PS2.

I considered it for Saturn but I think I'll end up buying one of the new SD loader chips.

[Anonymous No.2192386]

>>2186379

If you pirate PS2 games by burning them to physical discs than you are a total doofus.

The best way to play pirated PS2 games on physical hardware is to grab a fatty and a network adapter and throw an old IDE hard drive in it.

Playing games from a hard drive using FMCB is the best way to play them. The load times are significantly reduced, you save wear and tear on your laser (and can even play games on a system with a broken/dead laser assembly), and you never have to deal with swapping discs.

It's super easy to install (easier if you have someone with a softmodded system that can do the install for you).

[Anonymous No.2192407]

>>2186379
>Pirating Imports or Obscure rare games perhaps?

I've been learning Japanese for some time. Got the grammar almost done, so when playing Japanese games it's looking after some kanji compounds from time to time.

But this skill brought a new kind of problem; (J) Isos, roms... are kind of scarce and I'm not used to full Japanese browsing yet so I don't know of Japanese torrent sites/blogs, if they do exist. Japanese gaming always seemed to me more into second hand market than piracy fest like we are.

[Anonymous No.2192419]

>>2186379
I used to try to use the same typography the game had when writing the name on the disc with a marker. If the cd had a case sometimes I drew a rough sketch of the cover as well.

[Anonymous No.2192437]

>>2192386
Do the videos during game play show up alright? I use PS2 OPL on a slim and most videos are slow and choppy.

[Anonymous No.2192441]

>>2192419
I used to make my own custom artwork for Lightscribe discs. The discs can only be found on online and it takes around 30min to burn a image on to a disc. I want to purchase a CD printer though.

[Anonymous No.2192442]

>>2192441
This one is Trigger Heart Exilica

[Anonymous No.2192447]

>>2192442

[Anonymous No.2192451]

>>2192437
They are fullspeed,yours is slow because of the USB transfer speed.

[Anonymous No.2192469]

>>2192441

What program do you use for Lightscribe? I've used it years back with some trial program.

[Anonymous No.2192480]

>>2192045
Why do you want me to lose an entire hour searching down many pages on Google if you could sum up all the information needed in a post within two minutes?
I still think you are just being an egotist faggot.

>I lost my time searching so you will need to lose yours too, 'cause I am not telling muh sekrit

[Anonymous No.2192481]

>>2192469
Nero cover designer + Photoshop
Once I finished editing the artwork on Photoshop I would use Nero cover designer to burn the image.

[Anonymous No.2192484]

>>2192480
I've never done this before and I just found out how in less than a minute with Google. It's actually way faster than waiting for a response.

[Anonymous No.2192503]

Only Saturn and PS2 games, most of time when I play PS games is on emulators.

[Anonymous No.2192516]

>>2192480
1. Burn the ISO file after you unrar it with 7zip
2. Either use the swap method with a cheat device or modchip to boot the game
/explanation

[Anonymous No.2192519]

>>2192516
More helpful than just "google it" so, thank you

[Anonymous No.2192523]

>>2191826
Big clue - Clonecd

Btw - some games do not benefit from their iso's being in that format - typically those without music tracks on the disc and those that don't have libcrypt encryption in the subchannel data. Bin/Cue is enough for these e.g CDRwin.

So for games that have separate music tracks on the disc (e.g Vigilante 8 I think) and/or subchannel copy protection (e.g Ape Escape, FF9, RE3) you can use CloneCD sub/img/ccd format.

[Anonymous No.2192524]

>>2191826
>>2191826
Big clue - Clonecd

Btw - some games do not benefit from their iso's being in that format - typically those without music tracks on the disc and those that don't have libcrypt encryption in the subchannel data. Bin/Cue is enough for these e.g CDRwin.

So for games that have separate music tracks on the disc (e.g Vigilante 8 I think) and/or subchannel copy protection (e.g Ape Escape, FF9, RE3) you can use CloneCD sub/img/ccd format.

[Anonymous No.2192526]

>>2191826
Big clue - Clonecd

Btw - some games do not benefit from their iso's being in that format - typically those without music tracks on the disc and those that don't have libcrypt encryption in the subchannel data. Bin/Cue is enough for these e.g CDRwin.

For games that have separate music tracks on the disc (e.g Vigilante 8 I think) and/or subchannel copy protection (e.g Ape Escape, FF9, RE3) you can use CloneCD sub/img/ccd format.

[Anonymous No.2192532]

>>2192523
>>2192524
>>2192526
Dude, what is wrong with you?
Your post has been uploaded, just wait a little and update the thread

[Anonymous No.2192579]

>>2192532
The person that thinks it takes an hour to look up something with Google probably needs it posted three times to be able to find it.

[Anonymous No.2192581]

>>2192579
Fuck you, dude.
He is not me and that is offensive.

my posts:
>>2192480
>>2192519
>>2192532

[Anonymous No.2192585]

>>2191826

Rather than use clonecd i would go into deamon tools lite ,open the CUE file

Then go into IMGburn,select read mode to read the virtual CD you have just made in deamon tools.

Rip disc to bin/cue format to your computer.

Change from read mode to write mode,open the cue file and burn.

[Anonymous No.2192587]

>>2192581
Shouldn't /vr/ have IDs?

[it's an ANONYMOUS chinese imag(...) !.AhJe1gllo No.2192592]

>>2192587
>Shouldn't /vr/ have IDs?

[Anonymous No.2192602]

>>2192592
Are you implying there is something wrong with my phrase or implying it's a good thing to be a tripfag?
Anyway, noped
IDs are much better.

[Anonymous No.2192610]

>>2192602
i was implying IDs are unnecessary on this board for when the identity of a certain poster needs to be confirmed, we have tripfag codes.

no one needs to know who you are on a retro video game board.

hell, even in the bst threads (RIP IN PEACE) people just put their emails, didn't even tripfag.

[Anonymous No.2192613]

>>2192581
I didn't say he was you. I said he probably posted it three times because you need so much help finding things.

[Anonymous No.2192616]

>>2192613
or 4chin has been fucking up the last three days, since the freeeeeeeze

i've had double posts go through when i most certainly only clicked it once.

how 'bout dem "backups" huh?

[Anonymous No.2192630]

>>2192610
>IDs are unnecessary
>the identity of a certain poster doesn't need to be confirmed
>no one needs to know who you are on a retro video game board
>tripfag is good
What... I... but... dude
DO YOU EVEN FUCKING UNDERSTAND HOW IDS WORK? IDIOT
They are not used so people can know who you are, these are the tripfags
IDs are just to know which posts are from the same poster in one damn thread, fuck, you must be new

sorry, I got a little mad here

[Anonymous No.2192638]

>>2192630
Do you not realize how many countless hours of research it would take to Google the difference between IDs and tripcodes?

[Anonymous No.2192642]

>>2192638
Did you start browsing 4chan last week?
Everyone here knows this shit, read the fucking FAQ please.

[Anonymous No.2192646]

>>2192642
This is all I have to say:
>>2192480

[Anonymous No.2192651]

>>2192630
>tripfag is good

i'm not sure what post you read but it wasn't mine.

there are so very few situations where IDs would come in handy on this retro video game board.
we don't have shitty roll threads
we don't have a huge user base
anyone with a highschool education can follow the chain in any thread

IDs are not necessary on this board.
trips are only necessary IN CASE identity needs to be confirmed which will never happen on /vr/
they are for special snowflake faggots, i never said they were good.

examples:
i worked at a retro video game company and i start a, albeit shitty, AMA thread.
tripfag would be used to confirm identity.

this example doesn't happen on /vr/
so perhaps you are new and you need to lurk more.
faggot
ha jk i'm not even mad

[Anonymous No.2192662]

>>2192638
>>2192646
>countless hours of research
Yeah, I guess that's what this thread is about now, butthurt

Here you go, you're welcome:
https://www.4chan.org/faq

IDs: pic related

[Anonymous No.2192678]

>>2192651
>i'm not sure what post you read but it wasn't mine.
You said:
>we have tripfag codes
when I was talking about IDs, tripcodes are unnecessary, IDs don't bring any personal information, it's only for recognizing which posts have the same poster

>>2192651
>we don't have shitty roll threads
>we don't have a huge user base
Now these are good points, roll threads are very stupid

[Anonymous No.2192679]

>>2192662
Do you notrealize how many countless hours it takes to click on that link? I wish someone would just tell me the differnece in this thread instead.

[Anonymous No.2192683]

>>2192679
>giving a link
>not giving source
ha, 10/10 b8 m8 I lul'd

[Anonymous No.2192685]

>>2192683
Clicking on a link takes almost as much time as Googling something which, according to >>2192480 takes at least an hour. Clearly the only way to learn anything is to have someone specifically tell you in a 4chan thread.

[Anonymous No.2192693]

>>2192685
I don't know if you are trolling or just really, really stupid so
Clicking on an specific link is completely different than searching detailed information thru many stupid foruns on google, so please go fuck yourself

[Anonymous No.2192696]

>>2192437
Use a cross over cable with PC. The videos will run fine

[Anonymous No.2192697]

>>2192693
Searching "how to burn psx games" on Google instantly brings you to a guide. Explain to me how that takes an entire hour and I'll believe it.

[Anonymous No.2192703]

>>2192697
Great, so explain to me why you didn't just give a damn link to the guy>>2191826
You are just being annoying

[Anonymous No.2192718]

>>2192703
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=how_to_burn_psx_games

[Anonymous No.2192721]

>>2192718
That is fair enough IMO

[Anonymous No.2192735]

>>2189531
>HD-DVDs had a pretty bad run in with disc rot
...and nothing of value was lost.

[Anonymous No.2194045]

>>2189524
Laserdiscs commonly suffer from disc
rot.

[Anonymous No.2194086]

>>2194045
I thought that was more a result of the laser

[Anonymous No.2194090]

>>2194086
No it was the discs,its a very common problem mostly with the older discs.

[Anonymous No.2194583]

>>2192149
Often times it's stated where you're downloading it. Cutsceneses can be omitted, and yeah, compression. I don't think the majority of the games do this.
However, some games, like Space Channel 5, can have upgraded quality things added to it. I found my copy with the PS2 cutscenes cut into it.

>>2192297
Well. I googled it. I use Padus DiscJuggler. Most of the information is out there, I just remember having trouble finding the matching version of DiscJuggler.

Shouldn't be too hard to figure out, but don't expect every CD you burn to work. I probably had a success rate between 85%-95%. Sometimes you just need to wipe off the CD and put it back in your Dreamcast. Sometimes you need to take it out and put it back in a few times before it reads correctly. Sometimes CDs that worked fine stop working. Looking at you Death Crimson OX. Other times you'll download various different disc images and none work. I can't tell you how many times I tried burning Chu Chu Rocket before I got a working copy, and let me tell you it was worth it. My roommate and I ended up using the non-working games as frisbees.

[Anonymous No.2194660]

I'm pirating CD DOS and windows games that are using CDAudio music onto CD-RWs. So I don't have to use Daemon Tools or other similar software that makes dos games choppy on my pc.

[Anonymous No.2195371]

>>2194583
Thanks anon, I appreciate it.

[Anonymous No.2196687]

Is there a way to make a PAL Playstation run games from a different region, or even pirated games, without chiping the console?

I've seen some forums offhandedly mention a boot disc, or something similarly named, years ago, that allow you to basically do just that. Put in the disc, take it out, put in the game you want to play, bam. Nut I can barely find any info on that, if that thing is even real

[Anonymous No.2196737]

All the time. Why? Because I have better things to spend my money on than tracking down originals of games and paying ungodly jacked up prices just because they're "collectable" or whatever.

I like to play video games. That's it. I had quite a few of the Saturn and Dreamcast games I've pirated, but eventually it got to the point years ago where I decided that I really only cared about playing video games and not necessarily having them. Sure, it's cool to be able to have that stuff sitting on the shelf and there is a certain feeling about having the actual thing, but it's all about playing games in the long run.

So yes, I pirate and emulate like a bastard.

[Anonymous No.2196741]

>>2196737
It's gotten so fucking ridiculous too

Metal gear solid sold 7 million copies, I doubt it is such a huge scarcity they have to ask 60 dollars for the bloody thing

[Anonymous No.2196772]

>>2196741
Exactly. When I used to be able to walk into McVan's Video Games in 2001-2002 and buy a fistful of games for $15 bucks, things were different. But no, because all kinds of people suddenly woke up and realized that 90% of today's games are shite, I now have to pay almost the same price (double in some cases) that was originally paid in 1996 or whatever. It's horseshit.

[Anonymous No.2196780]

>>2196687
game shark or game hunter or similar cheat cart, load it up with an official disk, it well enter the cheat cart menu and you can swap disks. You'll need to tape down the button inside the disk drive though. You'll also need a playstation with a serial port. Use Google for more info.

[Anonymous No.2196796]

>>2196780
Can't you just do that swap trick with any official disc though?

[Anonymous No.2196804]

>>2189464
you dumb mother fucker with your anime reaction and assumptions. you fucking rent the game and burn a copy, we had stacks of 100s of games for ps1 and dreamcast. you just get the fucking blockbuster summer pass where you can rent like 5 games a day or whatever and burn em all.

your petulance is astounding, how you just assume "no i am 100% right about this thing" to the point you are so narrow minded you can't even accept an alternate conclusion entirely within the realm of logic.

get off 4chan, you are literally 4chan incarnate. youre not a troll, youre not joking, you missed the point of this site entirely now fuck off

[Anonymous No.2196808]

>>2196804
1.) You are replying to a week old post

2.) You are a spoiled first worlder shitter if you could rent games, we actually had a CD burner guy who sold burned games for a dollar

[Anonymous No.2197131]

>>2196808
>2.) You are a spoiled first worlder shitter if you could rent games, we actually had a CD burner guy who sold burned games for a dollar
Or perhaps, you were just very poor and I don't even mean it in any insulting way.
I don't know where you are from, but computers weren't that expensive in Germany (IBM-compatible PCs that is), so once we learned from our uncle that you could actually save money by burning a 50 stack of CD-Rs, we bought a PC soon after like four months.
Renting a game wasn't that expensive either. You had to pay like 5DM (currency of Germany that was before the Euro) for a membership and a game would cost 1,50DM per day. We only needed to rent a few games for one game and then just needed to copy that floppy. CD-Rs were the most expensive thing, if I remember it right. It was something like 30DM per 50 stack.
By most expensive, I mean what you needed to buy repeatedly. Obviously the computer was the most expensive thing for the whole procedure.

[Anonymous No.2197248]

>>2191435
>cop giving away pirated games
lel

[Anonymous No.2197276]

>>2194045
That's what they say but I haven't run into much trouble with mine. I might blame my unreliable LD player when it's actually the discs though.

[Anonymous No.2197280]

>>2186410
You have to adjust your laser intensity. There is a little screw thing on the side of the laser mechanism that you can turn.

[Anonymous No.2197286]

>>2189464
in college people had t1 connections which were the greatest and latest at the time
we used our middle schools computer to dl stuff all the time because of that

[Anonymous No.2197293]

>>2186379
You expect me to track down all these fucking Sega CDs?

[Anonymous No.2197738]

I wish I had a Sega CD so I could pirate Sega CD games

[Anonymous No.2197748]

Hmm. I used to pirate games for my PS1 when i was younger. Nowadays, i dont remember how. I got one of those chips installed in the back of the console too. I just frankly dont remember shit about it.

[Anonymous No.2197754]

>>2197286
I can corroborate this for NYS SUNY colleges.
t1 2000

[Anonymous No.2197985]

>>2186379
Yeah. I burn PS1 and PS2 games. While I like using the keyboard for playing games I find that I'd rather not deal with emulation issues.

Emuparadise was my go-to place but I've gotten quite a few shitty ISOs from there, stuff that won't even boot. I don't know where to go anymore

[Anonymous No.2197991]

>>2186483
Oh I know this feel bro. I love how big stores pretty much sell the PS2 already mod chipped for us. It's funny.

[Anonymous No.2197992]

>>2189428
Wow. Just buy a bunch of 4 TB Hitachi disks.

[Anonymous No.2198010]

>>2197748

Not a chip, you had a gameshark, it would stop the disk for you to facilitate the swap trick.

[Anonymous No.2198012]

>>2198010
Where do you put this thing even?

There is a big suspicious hole on the back of my PS, does it belong there?

[Anonymous No.2198016]

>>2197248

Don't you believe a carabiniere would give pirated games to a friend ?
Fuck, a carabiniere specialized in informatics crime has a computer store near me, and not only he download NDS games for people (he ask 5-10 €), he inflate prices on pc hardware to a point of being ridicule and evade taxes whenever he can.

[Anonymous No.2198018]

>>2198012

Yes.

[Anonymous No.2198024]

>>2198016
>evade taxes

Pretty much everyone does that whenever possible. Why the fuck would you willingly give money to government

>asking money for NDS games

People here charge $50 to install windows so that's perfectly fine in my book

[Anonymous No.2198027]

>>2198024
>People here charge $50 to install windows so that's perfectly fine in my book

Goddamn he does the same shit.

[Anonymous No.2198029]

>>2198027
Truth is lots of people won't even google that shit or be willing to put in any effort, charging money is perfectly fine.

I don't charge my friends

[Anonymous No.2198042]

There's a Russian website old-games.ru that hosts a vast amount of old pre-2002 pc games, no need to register, cd rips and patches are supplied right on the site. You can either use a torrent or download from the browser. English version of the website can be switched in the upper right corner, however detailed explanations are written in Russian so a translator will probably be better.

[Anonymous No.2200357]

would I need to mod my dreamcast to play pirated/back-upped games.

[Anonymous No.2200368]

>>2200357
only if its the latest model they released.

it's pretty rare to get a dreamcast in the wild that doesn't have the exploit.

also, while i'm at it:
>>2196804
>you fucking rent the game and burn a copy, we had stacks of 100s of games for dreamcast
so you had a GD-rom and the ability and knowledge to rip the dreamcast GD-roms, at over 1gb to under 700mb?
fucking.
lying.
fag.

[Anonymous No.2200371]

>>2200368
what is the latest model they released

[Anonymous No.2200392]

>>2200371
v2 is the last model. you need a v0 or v1 to play backups using the mil-cd expoit.

picrelated, look for 0 or 1.

if it says 2, it will not play cd-r backups (without a modchip)

[Anonymous No.2200396]

>>2200392
the number will be at the bottom, left of NTSC U (or J or PAL E)

[Anonymous No.2200402]

>>2200392
thanks anon.

[Anonymous No.2200405]

>>2200392
All versions play backups fine. This is a myth. Also
>>2200368
Most games are well within c size. And it wasn't difficult to rip games. Just a little slow unless you had the bba adapter

[Anonymous No.2200406]

>>2200402
you're welcome, anon.

[Anonymous No.2200409]

>>2197985
Romhustler has perfect rips of everything up to ps2 and gc

[Anonymous No.2200416]

>>2200409
They told me the same thing about emuparadise too. Thing is there is no PS2 redump, so no way to verify that claim.

[Anonymous No.2200417]

>>2200368
>so you had a GD-rom and the ability and knowledge to rip the dreamcast GD-roms, at over 1gb to under 700mb?
Nah, I had a broadband adapter for Dreamcast and I dumped the games over that - then you just have to replace the AV files with smaller ones - either dummies or lower bitrate versions depending on how much you need them or how much space you need to make up.

Just kidding, I'm not that Anon. You told him.

[Anonymous No.2200420]

>>2200405
>All versions play backups fine. This is a myth. Also
so my v2 i got from a flea market that didn't play a single game i burned was because i burned them all wrong? when they worked on my other dreamcast? and my friend's dreamcast? yet originals worked?

>And it wasn't difficult to rip games
if by rip you mean a simple 1:1 copy, yeah. but you expect us to believe you were ripping your own dreamcast games and compressing them to fit 700mb cdrs? when it took release groups some serious effort to reduce the size?

you're wrong and you know it.

[Anonymous No.2200426]

>>2200416
There has been a ps2 redump. Romhustler uses a mix but they are all verified good. Also at worst you'll waste 10 minutes downloading it so what's the harm.

[Anonymous No.2200434]

>>2200420
I'm not the one you were having a conversation with but I'm just saying you could rip games and many of them were under 700mbs. And v2 plays backups. Not necessarily all scene releases. They ha e to be burNed a certain way. There used to be a cdi burning tool online that would add the proper exploit required to boot for you. It was called dreamboot I think.

[Anonymous No.2200435]

>>2200426
>There has been a ps2 redump

Huh... This is the first time I hear of this. Where can I find more info

[Anonymous No.2200439]

>>2200435
I don't have much more info for you sorry. It was started on UG. It wasn't completed but most games have been redumped. Bottom line though I haven't had any issues with romhustler isos. He generally uploads the best available scene release. And it downloads at my cap so that's nice too.