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Solid_Snake4RD on 23 May 2010
Onibaka said:
Solid_Snake4RD said:
Slimebeast said:
Solid_Snake4RD said:
Slimebeast said:
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Wow, that's very convenient. No wonder piracy is big on PSP. Luckily it's not as easy to pirate X360 games. Not that easy on Wii either, right? I mean the Wii doesn't support memory stix rite?

ITS very easy to pirate 360 games.as easy as PS2,just download and write on disc

 

the problem with Wii is that Nintendo always uses a different format from the established ones.

 

SO there less writers for their format type and if they are costly so you run it like on PSP

 

The Wii is like PSP where the physical drive writers aren't available widely

Doesnt the Wii have DVDs?

BOTH the Wii and GAMECUBE opticle discs are very similar to DVD.Nintendo chose not to go with the DVD cause it was so widely used and eveybody had DVD-writers so it could have caused piracy so to protect their games they made a stightly different optical media disc so that common people can't just pirate their game,it was also done to avoid paying licensing fee to DVD consortium.

What are you talking about?

You can run pirate games on DVD on both Wii and GC. GC needs modchip, and Wii can play downloadable games trough modchip(like Wiikey) or firmware hack. In GC you need to make a mod on the case to fit a DVD5 and make multi-games DVDs, unless you are fine with min-DVDs(more expensive and only able to carry 1 game). In Wii you can play games trough DVD, SD or USB Drivers.

EVERY DVD writter can Burn a Wii or GC. But only a few DVD drivers can read the Wii Disc and make a .ISO out of it.

I think both the Wii and GC use essenttialy DVDs. The difference is in the format of compression and structure of the files .

yes they can but not without the mod and not on homebrew(swap magic on PS2)



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RafaelOrix on 23 May 2010
Dgc1808 said:
The_vagabond7 said:
lol, pirates will have it hacked in a week. Never underestimate the resolve of thousands of the greedy and entitled.

I wouldn't underestimate them that much... On PSP, any firmware above 5.03 is unhackable on a PSP with TA-088v3 mother board or higher. SONY's had these on the market for over a year and [not so much for the firmware but 5.5's been out for months] they still aren't hackable. SONY's getting a lot better at this.

True, same thing goes for the PSP Go. I think no one can play pirate games on PSP Go. Maybe that was one of the major use for PSP Go: trying a different approach against pirate games before they release a completely new model. Also, seems like people can't play pirate games online anymore on any PSP model.