Playstation protection modchip detection

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 · 5 years ago

Most of the latest released PSX games are protected and are able to detect if a modchip has been installed in the Playstation. When the game finds one modchip, it will show the picture below and it stops playing the game!

Screen that appears on a Japanese Playstation if a protected game is played in a console with an installed modchip.

Screen that appears on an American Playstation if a protected game is played in a console with an installed modchip.

One of the first game to use this protection scheme was Dino Crisis in japan.

There are several ways to bypass the protection:

• remove the modchip from the console
• use some Action Replay codes to bypass the check
• install a stealth modchip