How's the PlayStation piracy scene in your country back

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UK here.
i dont know anyone who didnt have a chipped ps1 growing up.
everyone had one, and everyone knew a bloke who'd give u a list of games, and charge £5 per game.
i actually had a modded ps2 as well from the same fella, but sold it a while back

We had a couple kids who would rent every game they could from blockbuster, make copies of them, then bring a big cd case full of burned games to school. any game you want for 5 dollars.

I got tons of great games off them till they got suspended and stopped doing it. CD burners were still expensive as hell at the time so I couldn't do it myself.

Southeast USA.

Were modchipped ps1's common in the USA back then? I imagine they could all just ask their parents for legal games for christmas so they might not have needed such a thing.

Where I lived though, a ps1 that wasn't chipped was pretty much considered a brick that could only play whichever demo disc you had lying around. And you could always buy pirated games at the nearest cyber.

>>3677827
In most places in the US I'm sure most people just purchased their games.
I grew up in an indian reservation (think of a 3rd world country just sitting in the middle of the US) so I had to mod my playstation to ever get to play any games.

Visiting family back in Trinidad, PS1 piracy was pretty much standard, especially since games were fucking expensive.

>>3677770
this was extremely common
especially around '99 or so, when CDs and burners finally started to get within ordinary person range

>>3677827
I don't know about chips where I lived (northeast PA), people did disc swaps.

>>3677758

Hell even retail stores sold chipped consoles under the desk for years before Sony caught on, I remember getting one at Electronics Boutique for like £10 extra. Never found many cd-r copies for sale though, just a pack of 20 Net Yaroze games one time.

Until recently it was common to find PS1 games dime-a-dozen.
The only thing that changed is the system, it moved to PS2 now.

>>3677743
Poland here

We had Polish translations made by Russian students for Red Alert 2, Legacy of Kain, GTA2, Driver
COMPLETE WITH FUCKING DUBBING.

some exemples:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmh5Qmv0qXM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIMogyMGfD8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VAgaO7kOvc

>>3677902
shame most of the good titles have gone though.
when ps1 titles were still abundant, i used to go to bootsales and find a few spyros or crashes every week, always resi's as well, and few other valuable games. alot of crap too ofc.

but with ps2, theres far less out there comparitively.

>>3678056
Yep, here in Brazil, every other counterfeit PS2 title is just a reskinned Pro Evolution Soccer.

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>>3678078
Don't forget this.

>>3678084
>>3678078
i used to be able to go to charity shops and find good stuff too.
those days are long gone. i am so sick of seeing wii play and fifa 07.
should you come across a ps1 game 99.99% of the time it is who wants to be a millionaire, or the weakest link.
the days of finding good stuff out in the wild are truely gone, its a shame, but was bound to happen.

Russian here.
Lots of hacking/translation groups with translation quality that varied from "unplayable" (some important information cut, game is glitched, so on) to "passable".
Finding games with original text left intact was a huge challenge, especially in late years. Downloading, burning and exchanging game discs is how I got into local game and anime community.
Consoles were chipped, I have never seen anyone to do a swap.

>>3677758
>>3677886

Scotfag here, PSX chipping and pirate games were relatively common at car boot sales, as I recall. There was one guy I very distinctly remember who was offering to chip systems there and then at his stall at one near Edinburgh, he had a chipped system hooked up to a telly running a pirate copy of Ninja Shadow of Darkness to draw people in.

You can still find chipped systems really easily on eBay as well and they tend to run cheap, like £30 or so.

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>>3678084
>Varig

>>3677743
>there's a group who managed to translate a Harvest Moon game to our language.
Breath of Fire IV was also translated. Actually made some of my pleb friends play an RPG.