Comment by falsenapkin
4 years ago
Oh so interesting!
> Along with the region specific license key data, Sony pressed a special pit into the TOC of every disc. This pit, or “the wobble groove” as it would become known, was virtually impossible for consumer grade CD writers to replicate. A CD writer laser would need to be programmed to physically move in three dimensions in order to burn the wobble groove into a CD-R. So the patented pressing process achieved both copy protection and region encoding simultaneously.
A nice game of and mouse with the modchippers described as well.
Cdrdao dumped most PSX games in order to be played under an emulator, tho.
On bootleg chinese games, you could get 20 in 1 cartridges for the Game Boy on your local video renting store.
I first encountered one of these as a 100 in 1 or 150 in 1, sold at a local flee market. I remember it almost broke my brain seeing that thing. Not only had it more than one game on a single cartridge, it had so very many, but the cartridge was also a lot taller, maybe twice as tall as a regular one. And it was sold at less than the price of one official game.
I never got one, tho. My dad didn't allow me to buy one, saying these things were unethical and also saying these things were of an unknown quality and might break easily or may even break my Gameboy (not sure if he really was concerned about that, or said so to stop me nagging, as the ethics argument went straight over my 7 or 8yo head). But some of my friends eventually got one, so I regularly borrowed these things :P
Mine wasn't taller, it had the same form as any other game pak. It had FF III, Batman:TAS, Goal, TMNT, Metroid II... among others. Amazing cartridge.
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