New kind of protection for PSX games????
 

In the computermagazine I buy each month there was a article of PSX-games. In it they talk of a new kind of "protection" for the new games that acts like a virus. Every time you play your backup it ads faults to the game and in the end it becomes unplayable.
Has anyone else hear about it or seen it???
I haven't but I only have backups for PS1.

I heard that this protection is used on LMA 2001 (PAL).

The new protection is used on LMA but it can be beat. I have a perfect workin copy...

Yeah right, for the moment maybe........but what after playing it for a zillion times??

no no you guys are wrong. the protection is still libcrypt based but instead of the game crashing, it degrades. geez how would the game know its a copy unless it asked for that magic code then did a mod #####!!!! it is also probably an LC3 or 4 protection so it will ##### all the time.the patch for it will (should) stop the game from #####ing therefore it wont ever degrade.

How is it physically possible to degrade a CDR in the PSX. What does the PSX do to make the copy degrade?

It doesn't!
It stores data when you 'save' game.

dont know bout that bot I had a tester lose player value after the patch wihtout any save being done but that was on memorex disk so I wouldnt read to much into that could quite easily have been the media no probs yet on kodak silver/gold been weeks now so I would presume its safe to use.