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| CrazyMike 474th Post
 
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|  "Re(4):Why modchipping a Ps2 when you can do T"
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Here's the skinny:
The way it works is similiar to the swap tricks you can do with little knives or credit cards for the PS2, only this makes it a simple, fast, and easy way.
It comes with 2 boot discs, one for CD-R games, one for DVD games, it boots both CD-R, DVD-R/W and import games. However, due to Sony protection, CD-R data taking up more then 72 minutes of data won't load, DVD-R/W will load no matter what.
If you want to play PS1/Imports, you need a Gameshark, and no, a burned copy of this won't work. You need an original, so truth be known its probably just as much money or cheaper to buy a modchip and find somebody to install it for you. However, living in the midwest, I know of no such person who can do this and I'm considering buying one of these (Must have Gihren's Greed from Japan now!!!!)
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| CrazyMax
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| "Re(5):Why modchipping a Ps2 when you can do T" , posted Sun 2 Mar 06:44
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Business-wise I suppose region code's existence does make sense. Companies that publish games, sometimes only own the publishing rights for specific countries. Therefore, it is "ensuring" that the companies will only get sales from the regions they have paid for. Of course, one could argue that importing isn't that prevelant, so it wouldn't make much of a dent in sales anyways... but that's probably not how they think.
Being a fan of Spike's wrestling games, games that do NOT make it here in the states, I've kept a wary eye on modding. On the DC it took just a boot disk, and Fire Pro Wrestling on that system took off. Now Spike makes the King of Colosseum games for the PS2 instead of Fire Pro. It's made a few hardcores get into modding. I've seen that they highly recommend this version as a cheaper alternative. I myself have still been a little wary.
Fortunately the rumors of the game coming here domestically have increased. I chalk it up to lost sales. After all, Spike released a new wrestling game for the PS2 to also get in on a format with a larger installed base. But I imagine the sales have been a little lower, without the constant purchases from the UK & US for copies.
When I ran a videogame store, it was explained to me that the reason for Region codes has more to do with sales. When Namco releases a copy of Tekken or Soul Calibur it is always released at specific quarters of the year to maximize the total yearly sales. Thus the supposed real reason why it takes 6 or more months to bring a fighting game with very little localization over to the states from Japan.
Sales of games from Japan, impact on the divisions here in the the States or Europe, and screw up their bottom line. Or so I was told. This rep that explained it to me was speaking to deaf ears. He's a rep for a company that makes videogames. I'm a fan wondering if a game I really want will make it here, and depending on someone's corporate whim when and if I will get it. Sometimes they just don't get it, and are the very reasons why modding has become so prevalent.
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| Radish 964th Post
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| "Re(6):Why modchipping a Ps2 when you can do T" , posted Sun 2 Mar 07:02
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Business-wise I suppose region code's existence does make sense. Companies that publish games, sometimes only own the publishing rights for specific countries. Therefore, it is "ensuring" that the companies will only get sales from the regions they have paid for. Of course, one could argue that importing isn't that prevelant, so it wouldn't make much of a dent in sales anyways... but that's probably not how they think.
Being a fan of Spike's wrestling games, games that do NOT make it here in the states, I've kept a wary eye on modding. On the DC it took just a boot disk, and Fire Pro Wrestling on that system took off. Now Spike makes the King of Colosseum games for the PS2 instead of Fire Pro. It's made a few hardcores get into modding. I've seen that they highly recommend this version as a cheaper alternative. I myself have still been a little wary.
Fortunately the rumors of the game coming here domestically have increased. I chalk it up to lost sales. After all, Spike released a new wrestling game for the PS2 to also get in on a format with a larger installed base. But I imagine the sales have been a little lower, without the constant purchases from the UK & US for copies.
When I ran a videogame store, it was explained to me that the reason for Region codes has more to do with sales. When Namco releases a copy of Tekken or Soul Calibur it is always released at specific quarters of the year to maximize the total yearly sales. Thus the supposed real reason why it takes 6 or more months to bring a fighting game with very little localization over to the states from Japan.
Sales of games from Japan, impact on the divisions here in the the States or Europe, and screw up their bottom line. Or so I was told. This rep that explained it to me was speaking to deaf ears. He's a rep for a company that makes videogames. I'm a fan wondering if a game I really want will make it here, and depending on someone's corporate whim when and if I will get it. Sometimes they just don't get it, and are the very reasons why modding has become so prevalent.
Yeah, that's pretty much the way I understood it too. However I would think the vast majority of games imported would have little effect of domestic sales. I mean, if I want to play Princess Maker or Wonder Project J2, it's not like if I wait long enough EA games is going to port it over. Plus people who import are more likely to buy lots of games compared to casual people who buy the latest Madden once a year and maybe a few others in between. I'd like to see Sony's data on how much importing REALLY hurts their sales.
Nothing pissed me off more than when Sony tried that mod chip lockout bullcrap with Dino Crisis on the PSX. It punished people who used their systems for importing games and not pirating them (since there was a ISO mod that circumnavigated the lockout, or at least I'm 99% sure there was) while importers had to buy Gamesharks to play games they legally bought. Ugh. I hate when companies think they still own products that we've bought from them.
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| Grave
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| "Re(7):Why modchipping a Ps2 when you can do T" , posted Sun 2 Mar 11:00
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Nothing pissed me off more than when Sony tried that mod chip lockout bullcrap with Dino Crisis on the PSX. It punished people who used their systems for importing games and not pirating them (since there was a ISO mod that circumnavigated the lockout, or at least I'm 99% sure there was) while importers had to buy Gamesharks to play games they legally bought. Ugh. I hate when companies think they still own products that we've bought from them.
Mod lockout is a pain, but yeah, there were easy ways around it. Unfortunately, the pirates got around it easiest of all.
Sometimes it has a reason. Like for Xbox. I'm really glad people who modded their Xboxes can't get on Xbox Live, because the possibility of using cheating devices exist, which would make online gameplay degenerate in a hurry. Sure, it screws over some people who had good intentions, but it keeps out the ones with bad. And it doesn't screw over nearly as many people as keeping the network broadband-only.
Don't think Sony was the only one who had mod protection, and it was just on PS1, though. Sega's own Sonic Adventure 2 for DC has an anti-piracy feature. I had a Japanese DC long before the US release, and I played US games by swapping them in with a boot disc. I got to the very end of SA2, and in one of the Eggman levels, I kept falling through the floor of a level every time it started. I thought my copy was bugged, so I emailed Sega many times. No help. Then a friend of mine told me what was up: it was an anti-piracy measure. Of course Sega wouldn't tell me about it. So I bought a US DC just to finish the game. Shitty.
However, the US DC has been a great help to me, since then I bought tons of US games and like to play them without a swap. But it still pissed me off that at the time I had to throw down $100 to buy a console I already owned to finish a game I paid for.
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