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This guide should help you to play your copied/burned PlayStation games without a Modchip.
Steps
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1Find the PlayStation game that you want to make a copy of. You may find it in your old game collection, on e-bay, or from your friend's or family's games. It doesn’t matter; just get yourself a game.
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2Burn a CD of your chosen Playstation game.Advertisement
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3Open the lid on your PlayStation One. Locate the clips which keep the lid shut. Put a piece of electrical tape on the button below the clip on the inside of the PlayStation so the PlayStation will spin while the lid is open. After you place the tape, when you open the lid the tape should be stuck in the button, holding it down.
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4Put in the original game disc, and turn on your PlayStation with the lid open. After the game loads to the second black screen, listen for the sound of the PlayStation reading the disc. (The disc speed will slow down and then speed up again.)
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5After it’s done reading, wait a second, and switch the disc with your copy disc. Wait for it to finish reading, then switch your copied disc back with your original disc.
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6Be prepared with your copied disc in hand. As soon as the screen switches to the next screen, put in your copied CD and it should load up.
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Community Q&A
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QuestionWill this work for the PS3?Community AnswerNo, not unless you have a PS3 slim. Also, this can (and has) kill a lot of PlayStations, so it's not a good idea.
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QuestionWhich type of disc should I use?Community AnswerYou must use a CD, preferably a CD-R and not a CD-RW. The PS1 cannot read DVDs. Any brand of CD should work, however, if you try to burn games to a certain brand of CD, not DVD, and none of them work, you may want to try another brand.
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Warnings
- Disc swapping, if done incorrectly, can possibly damage the motor in the disc drive. Use at your own risk!⧼thumbs_response⧽
- This could be hard on the disk reading sensor in your PlayStation.⧼thumbs_response⧽
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Things You'll Need
- A computer
- Blank CD
- PlayStation 1
- PlayStation game
- CD burning program (Google ImgBurn, a free CD burning program)
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