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I looked for that in the article, but it seems the issue was deliberately avoided. I doubt it will be allowed. My memory on this is fuzzy, and I can't cite auth
by 0xcde4c3db 11y ago
I looked for that in the article, but it seems the issue was deliberately avoided. I doubt it will be allowed. My memory on this is fuzzy, and I can't cite authoritative sources for obvious reasons, but I'm pretty sure there are multiple companies that know how to press PS2 discs with the obligatory "copy protection" [1] signatures. I assume the market wasn't flooded with these ~10 years ago because anyone with a DVD burner could be selling the latest games on the street for chipped consoles before a pressing operation was even finished cutting a glass master.
[1]: Scare quotes because these mechanisms don't directly have anything to do with copying. They're designed to distinguish between licensed and unlicensed discs, regardless of the content. Copying the content of a PS2 disc is trivial, as these things go.
- rasz_pl 11y agonot to mention they will want to sell you same games twice
- danieldk 11y agoInterestingly enough, the XBox One now supports XBox 360 games using original discs. Currently, there are about 100 compatible games. http://www.xbox.com/en-US/xbox-one/backward-compatibility http://www.xbox.com/en-US/xbox-one/backward-compatibility
- robin_reala 11y agoIt… sort of does. It doesn’t actually use the original disk as anything but a piracy dongle; the game you play is downloaded from their servers and run directly from the hard drive.
- danieldk 11y agoIndeed, but that means you do not have to repurchase it, which was the point ;).
- balls187 11y agoThanks for the reply and analysis. I still have my 1st run PS3 which has the PS2 hardware built in and has ~100% backward compatibility with PS2 games. However, I ideally prefer to use just my PS4 and not have a 2nd system to manage.