There has been a significant increase in fake PlayStation 1 discs being sold on AliExpress, a well-known online marketplace.
90% of everything on AliExpress is counterfeit.
Maybe if you weren’t
scalpingprice gouging that shit then there wouldn’t be a market for knockoffs. Personally, I don’t care if I have a knockoff or the real deal anymore. As long as I and the console can’t tell the difference, who cares?What exactly is your definition of scalping in this case
Sorry, wrong term. Price gouging. The market is absurd and most of it is thanks to WATA’s pump-and-dump shit.
For PS1?
95% of games are below $60, and the vast majority of those are below $20.
You might mean “more than I’m willing to pay,” but it’s a market. There are millions of copies of certain titles, so no one is cornering the market. People are just willing to pay more than you. In the case of PS1, maybe $10-20 more. No one is getting rich from that.
Hmm…if the price of retro games lowers, I’ll be more likely to get good deals…
But I’ll be in a worse position if I ever need to sell parts of my existing collection…
Wouldn’t these not work on an unmodified PlayStation without an exploit? The system has copy protection that’s specifically meant to prevent bootlegs from running. Did they figure something out to bypass that like on the Dreamcast that I don’t know about?
They totally might have figured something out. Hell, they could have gotten a hold of some of Sony’s original disc-pressing hardware to reproduce the copy protection. It really is the Wild West when it comes to these retailers
Why is anyone susprised about this? This is the most predictable outcome.
Then again, you’d probably already have a jailbroken PS1 to play copied games, you could burn them yourself. Or emulate, it’s so easy to emulate PS1 nowadays. No need to spend money importing those copies from China.
Do these actually work on unmolded consoles?
I imagine if the legacy silicon hardware is straight from the factory the shape of the plastic doesn’t really matter too much
In all seriousness, afaik not unless they can replicate the wobble groove pressed into the discs, which is possible if they can press their own discs in bulk, but probably more expensive than it’s worth unless they are selling a ton of these
I’m also in the “I don’t care” camp.
A lot of us just want a piece of nostalgia that the big companies choose not to produce.
If it looks close enough that it inspires my happy nostalgia, and it plays fine in my console, that’s what I’m happy to pay for.
If the license holders are still selling the game, I’m happy to buy from them. If not, I’m happy to buy from someone else producing reasonable facsimilies (of abandonware games).
I get how someone could be upset if they thought they were getting the real thing.
I haven’t, personally, felt misled by makers of abandonware facimilies.
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