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[–] [email protected] 39 points 2 months ago (2 children)

This applies tenfold if you lived in a country where the are only pirated copies of games and all consoles come pre-modchipped (especially if your game was a multi-language copy with a built-in selector/launcher). I assume the modchips had shit timing, so when the chip was having a bad day I would sometimes have to restart my PS2 for 10-15 minutes straight until it loaded. Sometimes I gave up and came back later to repeat the cycle.

Bonus memory: PS2 is supposed to play PS1 games. So when we got a PS2, on the first day I tried one of my bootleg PS1 games and it loaded fine. After that, it never loaded another PS1 game ever, showing the "please insert PS1 or PS2 disc" error.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Thankfully there was a magazine here that wasn't afraid of talking about chips, which ones were good, which ones enabled ps1 games too, etc. It's why I purposefully asked for a matrix chip for my fat ps2.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This reminds me of the story behind CD Projekt RED getting started in Poland. The only way for them to bring games to their community was basically bootlegging them, so that's where they began.

That's rough. :(

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

As kids we didn't realize it could be any other way, so we didn't suffer. Much... :)