Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!scea!peter_alau@playstation.sony.com From: "Steve Tolin" Newsgroups: scea.yaroze.freetalk,scee.yaroze.freetalk.english Subject: Re: Does the Final Fantasy 8 anti-mod chip CD work on Yaroze??? Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 16:29:18 -0500 Organization: BitSlap Software Lines: 52 Message-ID: <7a26ck$2i82@scea> References: <7a0a6u$714@scea> <36C40EC4.E4082468@datasys.net> <7a187m$o0v10@chuka.playstation.co.uk> <36C488C0.8DF59CF0@datasys.net> Reply-To: "Steve Tolin" NNTP-Posting-Host: sud-tcs1-port88.vianet.on.ca X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.0810.800 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.0810.800 Xref: chuka.playstation.co.uk scea.yaroze.freetalk:1173 scee.yaroze.freetalk.english:3459 Guess what I found...... Well that didn't take long.... Upon checking one of my regular sites (www.rpgamer.com) I found something quite interesting.... There is already a GameShark code to disable the anti-mod chip code... I guess piracy is an unstopable machine... With this in mind I guess the chances of a proprietary medium for the PSX2 is inevitable... Darco wrote in message news:36C488C0.8DF59CF0@datasys.net... >ROBERT C SHAND wrote: >> >> >all 4; SCEI, SCEA, SCEE, and SCED) >> >> Hi Darco, and Co >> >> I understand who/what/why/wheer when it come to SCEE, SCEA and SCEI, but >> what/who/where are SCED >> >> Sony Computer Entertainment ???????? > >Ehhhhh..... I'm not sure..... I thought that 'SCED' was for Sony >development discs, that will only run on blue debug units and black net >yaroze playstations... (The Net Yaroze Boot Disc is a good example) But >I could be wrong. It's probably not even refered to by 'SCED', it might >just be ' ' for all I know... > >Anyway, the point is that the net yaroze playstation doesn't intercept >and replace territory codes like the mod chip does, it just accepts them >all. FF8 and all other anti-piracy PSX software that comes out in the >future will run perfectly fine on the NY PSX because it'll see the >country codes it was looking for. > >However......... This brings back the old "swap trick"... From what I >know about the anti-piracy mechanism, the old swap trick would still >work fine. And now there are AR replacement roms that make the swap >trick possible on all PSX models, not just the 1000 series. So... Peh. >Oh well. > >At least we can now laugh at all of the fools who modified their >playstations -- they won't be able to run ANY game with this new >protection mechanism built into it, even games from their own territory! >HAHA! > >This new anti piracy CD will really hamper PSX piracy, which is a good >thing. I don't know why Sony hasn't been doing this earlier. > >'Darco