Current Events > Was pirating then norm during the Playstation 1 era?

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I literally didn't know anyone who bought real games during that era.

though during PS2 era onwards everyone I knew bought real games besides a few. must've been harder to pirate during this era?
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og xbox had bootlegs like crazy in korea
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Pirating died when online became a staple part of gaming
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PS1 was ridiculously easy to pirate for.
My dad knew a cop who drove to all nearby video stores to rent games and just copied the games. His kids had several huge binders filled with games they never even touched.
And then there's the thousands of moderately tech savvy dudes who sold these pirated copies at 10-20$.
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Piracy existed, but it always took them time figuring it out.
I remember one of the early PS2 attempts was a case mod that installed a hatch above the disc reader. Start a retail game, open hatch, wait for it to spin down and switch it with a burned game.
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Older consoles often required hardware chips to be installed, even soldered onto the board. It wasnt as simple as navigating to a web page and it running a script to hack your console for you
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Rika_Furude posted...

Older consoles often required hardware chips to be installed, even soldered onto the board

yeah back in the day everyone had an Indian or arab guy they went to and installed this. then bought the games off these same dudes for $10 or off that one Asian kid in school
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Trayvon posted...

Rika_Furude posted...

Older consoles often required hardware chips to be installed, even soldered onto the board

yeah back in the day everyone had an Indian or arab guy they went to and installed this. then bought the games off these same dudes for $10 or off that one Asian kid in school

just needed that 1 tech guy in the family. from then on you rent games from blockbuster on 2 dollar tuesdays and burn them on your pc
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PS1 era games weren't not easy to emulate at that point. Emulation was mostly for (S)NES era and older. And the games were more available, imo during that time period anyway. Gamestop hadn't eaten up all the various game resell chains at that point.
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Kineth posted...

PS1 era games weren't not easy to emulate at that point. Emulation was mostly for (S)NES era and older. And the games were more available, imo during that time period anyway. Gamestop hadn't eaten up all the various game resell chains at that point.

Bleem was sold in stores next to PS1 games.
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there used to be a few shops that had binders full of game covers. you just order and the guy goes to his van to get stock or they say come back in a few days.

$10 a disc compared to i think $80-$100 rrp
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Yeah, looking at the games listed, that's well into the PS1 era, so obviously computer hardware capabilities had improved over the same timeframe.
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