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From: "Craig Graham" <c_graham@hinge.mistral.co.uk>
Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.freetalk.english
Subject: Re: New Yaroze Dev FAQ
Date: 30 Jun 1998 13:47:30 GMT
Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE)
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Daniel Hartmeier <daniel@reichardt.ch> wrote in article
<3599db5a.22105475@news.reichardt.ch>...
> On Tue, 30 Jun 1998 12:59:46 +0100, Philip Gooch <philg@easynet.co.uk>
> wrote:
> 
> > Wouldn't it be possible to boot up the Yaroze from the boot CD, then
take the CD
> > out and put in your CD-R containing all the game data and graphics.
Then use
> > CdReadFile(...) etc to load in data off the CD-R. Haven't tried this -
would it
> > work?
> 
> An unmodified black PlayStation will only read from black discs due to
> the copy protection. You could boot a gray PlayStation with MOD chip
> from the original boot discs (access card required), download your
> executable using siocons. While the program is running, you can change
> the discs. The gray PlayStation can then read from CD-R (of suitable
> format) and your executable may load any data files using CdReadFile().

Blue tack. You can swap the CD in a Yaroze after it's booted without
chipping it
if it doesn't notice you swapped CD's on it.

Craig.