Alien Resurrection can be turned into a "boot disk" for playing burned PS1 games
  • JanoRis@kbin.social
    201·
    11 months ago

    But isn’t the whole point to play a burned copy of the game?
    This seems like scalping concert tickets to a concert that allows you to copy tickets in the printer.

    • loutr@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      591·
      11 months ago

      No, the point is to use a legit copy of this game to run burned copies of other games.

      • BreakDecks@lemmy.mlEnglish
        101·
        11 months ago

        Which is silly for scalpers to try to profit off of this. You may get some short-term profits, but there are plenty of ways to circumvent copy protection on PS1 that are much cheaper and easier to work with than this.

        It’s also seemingly just an experiment that a dev decided to sneak into the game, so there’s no guarantee that the loaded game will actually play reliably.

        I’ll wait for the hype to cool off and some real data about performance to exist before I consider buying it.

        • 9point6@lemmy.worldEnglish
          71·
          11 months ago

          Oh yeah, this is a bubble, but fwiw, there should be minimal compatibility issues possible from my understanding as this is essentially the change disk mechanism we see in several games, but without the check that the correct disk has been inserted. Of course there’ll be edge cases (and I’m gonna imagine there might be some late stage additional copy protection in some games that doesn’t rely on the boot up checks), but on hardware as simple as the playstation it’s going to be pretty much: if you’re running the executable, you’re running the game as if it’s passed the checks

    • PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.worldEnglish
      23·
      11 months ago

      No, the legit copy of the game allows you to play pirated copies of other games. It bypasses the piracy check in the console and allows you to swap discs to a pirated copy of whatever other game you want.