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From: Mark Green <Mark.Green@reading.ac.uk>
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Subject: Re: Licensed Developer
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 12:08:29 +0000
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"J. Pretorius" wrote:
> >   If there were too many developers, they'd be swamped.  Also, the other
> > risk is that development kits frequently are capable of pirating
> > software, and they don't want the risk that their devkits will go to
> > professional pirates.
> Pirating is not an issue. How many people are going to pay $20,000 just so that
> they can copy $60 games? In any case, the development libraries and tools don't
> provide special insight into how to pirate games on non development systems. The
> current system of limiting the distribution of development systems has done
> nothing to prevent piracy - just look at how easy it is to copy games today.

  If the pirates could have gotten at development systems near the
console's release, the piracy could have started much sooner: they'd
just have that much more information about how the console and the
protection schemes worked.  They may have even been able to swipe the
firmware out of the development systems.  
  This makes me thing of another thing, too:  what am I bet that the
PSX2 contains hardware intended to deliberately prevent the production
of Action Replay-type add-ons?

> Unfortunately some of the sheep are 7 and 8 year old kids, or parents, who fall
> prey to commercials and propoganda. But I've seen plently of games with bad
> graphics, sound and gameplay that make the console look like a piece of junk
> like shockwave assault, gunship, and revolution-x to name a couple off the top
> of my head.

  I haven't seen them, so I can't really say.