You’ve Had The Ability To Play Burned PS1 Discs This Whole Time
One of the reasons often cited for the Dreamcast closing up shop after just 2 1/2 years of service is that Sega accidentally made it super-easy to pirate games on the system. While most other disc-based consoles had an anti-piracy detector that could tell if one was playing a burned CD-R off the computer, the Dreamcast could not tell the difference. Bad for Sega, lucky for the kids who couldn’t afford all the games. If you had a Playstation, you couldn’t do this. Except, it turns out….you could. No one knew until 23 years later, but an ex-employee of Argonaut Software has just confessed he left an exploit in the code of the game he was working on that would allow burned discs to boot. The game, Alien Resurrection, shipped that way and sold millions of copies, and no one knew it was capable of turning the PS1 into a piracy machine until now. The programmer revealed the trick to YouTuber Modern Vintage Gamer, who revealed it to all his