PlayStation 1 question

Nulltooth23 · October 19, 2022

I have an old PlayStation 1 from back in the day which to my knowledge has never been modded but I found a burned copy of tomorrow never dies in my attic (yes It’s legal yes I own the game it was because I had 2 PlayStations and could never be bothered to go to the other room to get games) but I didn’t use any special software I just put the game on the disk back in the day as far as I remember and don’t recall ever mod chipping it. Is this even possible or do I have some kind of magical ps1 that can do this or is there some other reason

Many thanks

Alex

Nulltooth23 · October 19, 2022

Also another question are the scph 5552 supposed to have the blocks menu or the colourful menu

demonix00 · October 19, 2022

It shouldn't be possible unless the console is modded as there is no known way to replicate the wobble groove copy protection on burned media as disc imaging software isn't even aware of its existence.

Nulltooth23 · October 20, 2022

As far as I am concerned there is no mods it has been mine since new and as a child I would have never had a soldering iron or even a place to buy mod chips like that and I took a quick look under the top case and there is nothing obviously changed and most of the screws look un touched and not stripped or chipped at all

SteveGrabowski0 · October 20, 2022

13 hours ago, Nulltooth23 said:

As far as I am concerned there is no mods it has been mine since new and as a child I would have never had a soldering iron or even a place to buy mod chips like that and I took a quick look under the top case and there is nothing obviously changed and most of the screws look un touched and not stripped or chipped at all

Maybe your dad chipped it when you were a kid? You looked at the board and there is no modchip or you just opened the case but didn't remove the metal shielding that would cover the modchip? Like @demonix00said there is no way to replicate that wobble groove on a CD burner. Plus the first softmod for PS1 wasn't discovered until a couple of years ago (namely, Tonyhax).

October 21, 2022

I had this weird PS2 game that played on my og xbox... there's ghosts in the machines.

Rusty Proto · October 21, 2022

Maybe some pictures of the circuit boards would help, but I bet there was a mod chip put in, or a magic memory card, or something. Everything about the way the Playstation read the CD was logged, including the wobble, which is specific to the disk. Since these microadjustments needed to read the disk aren't logged outside of optical drives not used in the PlayStation, burning software has no way to pick it up, so a new, burned disk will be different, and will rat the burned disk out as fake. It may be possible some games don't do that check, but most would catch a burned disk, unless you used a disk swap harness, which can be a bit hazardous for the disks. I have a feeling that something has been done somewhere to defeat the piracy protection features for you to be able to run that one.