Clone CD

Gannin (02-12-2001 11:31):
So does that mean that because CD burners cannot physically access the portion of the CD that you refrence in PS2 (and probably PS1) CD's, that even a 1:1 copy with CloneCD will not yield a copy which can be played, by itself with no intervention, on a PS1? Thank you.

Yes - that is a sound analysis, certainly for PS2. That is why a modchip is used, to boot a SONY conformant disk, interrupt the process and allow the process to continue from the games loading point with a swapped in disk. This may be the time to move to a chipped PS2 (MESSIAH, ORIGACHIP or NEO4) that will boot a PS1 backup (made with CloneCD!) directly. This generation of chips does all the booting from within itself, fooling the PS2 into thinking that it had a valid boot original.