Quote Originally Posted by Gameguy View Post
It's possible but I've never heard of any pirates that did this. Datel did it successfully with their Gameshark, those worked on unmodded systems.


From what I've found it is actually possible to make a CD-R with those sectors intact, though it takes a bit of work. This guy says he got it to work but it could be made up. Other sources say that the code is a part of the tracking pattern which is added during manufacturing and can't be written using a CD-R burner. I really can't confirm either way, I'm just going by the info I can find online.

http://baetzler.de/vidgames/psx_cd_faq.html
That's old and has been proven false as ALL new CD Writers can do 2352 + TOC and Sub (RAW for Mode 2) thus a Zero EDC/ECC would be simple by basic text editing.

Due to research br CDfreaks and acording to the Sony patent the PSone protection is stamped in the Wobble which *cannot* be changed on CDRs but can be adjusted on CD-ROM during glass mastering stage. No way in hell to make a CDR that will boot as a real PSX CD-ROM disc.

PS3 Soft Modding has come a long way, look into that. Yeah I had looked into the PSone ports of FF4-6 and they are indeed emulated but the code is somewhat modified (no rom dumping here) so the emulation may not work properly on PS2/PS3 hardware.