Clock Ticking For Australian PlayStation Chippers

DuncanE writes: "On monday morning it will be illegal to modify playstations in Australia to play pirated games. More info can be found [in this Australian IT article]. The new law will apply to all electronic devices." This is one consequence of the same Australian law we mentioned last week. Practice? Meet theory. Theory, Practice.

Comments

Region coding first, piracy second

[bbk]

Playstation Modchipping is the only way to get around the region coding that Sony puts on every playstation game. It's basically same as the DVD regions, except only 3 - one for each of Japan, America, and Europe. If you want to play imported games, you either import consoles from each region or modchip, which removes the region coding from the Playstation.

This also has the side effect of making it possible to play burned copies of games. Oh well.

In australia, I'd bet that the main focus is to get foreign games to play, as australia probably only gets european releases (confirmation?), where far fewer games come out. In america, the main concern is playing japanese games that will never come out here, such as dating sims and music games.

A good technical breif on modchips is availible here:http://www.modgalaxy.com/modchip.htm

BBK