PlayStation 8in1 game disk

They basically cut out the security ring from a real PS1 game (like a demo disc or something) and used that to boot the bootleg games without needing a modchip.

 

I've never seen that before. I'd be somewhat skeptical about it if ASSEMbler didn't say he saw it before. Perhaps it was only popular in some specific markets, but at least in Chinese stores they always worked with Mod chips, parallel port “swapâ€￾ devices, or first generation “springâ€￾ mods.

 

Wow, that looks a bit costly...

Maybe I just couldn't understand how it works, but why the Saturn don't get something like that?
And with the first-gen ps games?

oh well.. it has sony written on it, and I remember reading that people used to "wear" the ubercool memory cards on their necks, so it's possible that people used to compare the contents of the memory cards, so the number of games they had gave them powers, that's a good reason to create such incredible measures to pirate first-gen ps games...
ok, j/k, back to life now... =DDD

 

To me it sounds strange because in the early PS years, the swap was the easiest method of getting around the boot protection. In fact, the first PS firmware contained an exploit where it actually helped you do a swap.

Of course once chips came around it quickly became the standard. Since you could mark up the console with "Install" costs before you sold the machine, it was very profitable for dealers since the actual chips in quantity were cheap. And by setting up your clients with mods, your silvers would sell so much faster.

 

Doesn't the Saturn have the security ring on the outside edge, but the PS1 have it on the inside? might be a pure technical barrier rather than it being impossible.

 

My old friend used to have a multi disk bought in turkey of all places. If I recall correctly it had Doom, Final Doom, Duke Nukem and Duke Nukem Time to Kill.

We used to use a cheat cartridge and a spring to disk swap and get it working. I remember once we managed to use 1 cheat cartridge and a considerable amount of Disk-Swap-Fu to do a link game with the one disk!

I'll see if I can lay my hands on it for pics.

 

Yep I got that one too. Doom 1 & 2 (both were originally included in the same game disc), Final Doom, Duke Nukem: Total Meltdown, Duke Nukem: Time to Kill, Duke Nukem: Land of the Babes, and Hexen.

 

that's really interesting with the security ring...did they have a machine cut it ?

 

i remember these multi games discs, i could often see for sell here in brazil, but the highest number was 3in1, never noticed the diference of audio and video.

 

I've had 2 multidisks - they're mainly done by some russian or chinese hackers. a 4in1 fighter for the psx (ehrgeiz, sfz3,tekken3 and some other game i can't remember) and taiko no tatsujin 9in1 for the ps2 :3

 

I just make them myself these days lol... very fun to do and test out.

 

I managed to sqeeze FULL versions of Crash 1, 2, 3 and Crash Bash into a single disc, and even added a nice menu to it.

Pics of compilation taken in ePSXe (works perfectly on a modded retail console too):

 

If I recall, some scene hackers wrote an on-the-fly decompressor for the Skies of Arcadia DREAMCAST scene release. That took some dedication, but it was a big game (in scale, disc size, and demand), so it was warranted in that sense.

 

In, lets say 96 or 97, fewer people had fast internet connections. I could get 20mb / h (ISDN) around that time, so downloading 650 mb took longer than 30 hours.. I'm sure some people went for the ripped versions because of this.

I dont know why anyone would buy/sell a ripped version though

 

Actually when i was in the Philippines with the wife last July I saw a few of these. Not the exact same but multi psx and ps2 games...

 

There is a multi-shooter PS2 disc going around that has a lot of 2D Shmups on it. Gradius V, Psyvariar, ESP-Galuda, seem to be included, but it's got a fuckload more.

There was a Dreamcast one that had Ikaruga, Border Down and Psyvariar as well, back in the day.

 

Now that I see this post, this in my country Argentina is not so extrange, I have one disk with 12in1 game for PSOne but all the game are riped, in this country are a lot of game hack for all the consoles and for all the tastes, like the GTA Argentina( hack mod for the GTA San Andreas for PS2) for the GTA are a lots of hack, or the Guitar Hero: Cumbia Villera( Hack mod for the Guitar Hero 2 for PS2) I are surprised that in others country this stuff is not so regular.

 

Im finding this hard to believe..anyone got any proof?

 

its real mate, swap magic i believe uses this system to boot on unmodded systems

 

It was my understanding that the protection was simply reversed. I'm not sure how feasible it would be to cut the security ring of legit CDs for future use.