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Shadow Robert
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Posted: 8th May 2003 21:48
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i'll check it out later .. but i can assure you it is possible - just wish i understood howto achieve this, because i know other have ... but you know profit pirates, they keep this secrets close because they think you'll be competition - and warez guys just don't give a crap if you can do it or not.

i think the main problem is i'm not exactly a CD Writer literate person, i know squat about most of this past the technical stage - when we get into the realms of actually using software to achieve what i know ... god knows what happens but i'm like and idiot using a hammer, i keep pressing copy hopeing it'll work

what i'm using is hardly the "idiot proof guide to copying PSX software for use on the PSX, PSOne and PS2"

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Rob K
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Posted: 8th May 2003 22:22
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@Raven

Most of these pirates use mod-chipped consoles or they dupe a factory into producing the boot-discs. Most Taiwanese / Chinese CD factories don't look too closely at the orders that they get and even if they did know, profit first. Besides, America can do little to stop them.

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Shadow Robert
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Posted: 9th May 2003 02:36
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perhaps, but i doubt some of the guys down the market selling CDRs with penned on names have Taiwan/Chinese contacts that are burning these
and as has been noted you don't have to have a modded PSx to play these games - besides with all the informaiton available and blatent piracy on the streets this tells me there IS a way to do this.

I mean i wouldn't goto all the trouble to write out lengthy explainations on howto to do this detail for detail figuring out each aspect for the end user just for a laugh... i know i have a sick sense of humour sometimes but even i wouldn't do that.

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Richard Davey
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Posted: 9th May 2003 03:19
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The majority of the "market trader" PSX games require a chipped console. I'd be surprised if you found some that worked straight out - primarily because chipping a PSX is, quite honestly, a piece of piss!

20 mins and a steady soldering iron hand and you're done. A darn sight easier than fitting the Messiah2 to the PS2! But even that's not impossible with a good schematic (and there are lots on the web). Ironically the easiest console to chip is the X-Box. 8 wires and you're done. Heavenly.

Once you've chipped your console there's no facking around with bootstraps or anything like that. You just copy the CD with any bog-standard CDR and you're away.

These comments are of course in no way related to Dark Basic Software Limited

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Rob K
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Posted: 9th May 2003 04:29 Edited at: 9th May 2003 04:32
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@Rich

Imagine the headlines, "DarkBASIC Software Accused of Terrorist Acts! - Links to Saddam, Al-Quaeda, King-Kong II and Satan found. Damning dossier of evidence! (On a minor unrelated note they helped some users to pirate PSX games as well)"

@Raven

I have just been speaking on IM with a Russian guy and he reckons that making working CDR copies is impossible (short of manufacturing specialised CDRs), when it comes to tales of hacking exploits, Russians are unusually reliable

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Posted: 9th May 2003 04:37
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"making working CDR copies is impossible"

On a non-chipped PSX - I'd agree with this totally. It's one of those "technically it's possible" things, but the fact still remains its way hard to do. Much harder than learning to solder a tiny chip into place

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Shadow Robert
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Posted: 9th May 2003 05:18
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lol... as i said both Playstations are still under warrently and are for the next 2years, to be honest i don't really wanna break a warrently which so far has saved me £110 (Playstations seems to short out at the mildest hint of powersurges) - so basically chipping is out of the question. Probably end up getting an official bootdisc late next week ... but i know this is possible to do, so i've gotta find a way to actually do it
i know russia is well known for its pirating, however as right now i have a few CDs i've bought from the market they're standard 3Com 80min CDR and they worked right away (and my PSOne definately isn't chipped)

so this kinda has left the Q, how did this guy do it? the only instructions i've been told that work 100% i need 2 tools for both of which i can't find for love nor money - a Regional Code Tool & a Jeremy's PSX Boot Cue Tool.
i've gotta let this lie for a little while though, because i've got an engine to program within a matter of a fornite

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Posted: 9th May 2003 14:43
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Try doing an Alcohol or CloneCD copy of the working CDR and let us know if the copy works in a PSX.

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Shadow Robert
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Posted: 9th May 2003 15:33
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as soon as i reinstall my software was one of the first things on my mind
if it does i'll open it up in CDRWIN and see what the boot sector looks like, probably export as a cue template

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