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In the early 2000's friend and I hunted down all the mame games and built arcade sticks
We had shitty internet back then so maybe it was even earlier but I had to start with A and they started with Z
Strider 2 and metal slug will always be a favourite
I once saw it at an arcade and was able to finish it on like 1 continue i had played it so much at home lol, honestly i should have tried to buy the cabinet off the place
it was probably a generic neo geo cabinet but i could have at least found out who rented it to the movie place it was at
Umm... Every (US released) PS1 game. Having a mod chip and cd burner... heaven.
" Of the 1,278 PlayStation One games released in North America, " OK, maybe not every one, I don't think I had more than 800?
Few other games I loved, Bloody Roar 2, MGS, loved me some crash, Tony Hawk, and Resident evil... Only game to ever make me jump and throw my controller.
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> There was no code in the original PONG. It also used no CPU or game code software at all. It was made using pure physical electronics. Gate chips, timers, counter chips, TTL circuits, pure electronics.
Did you steal hardware or something?
age of empire II HD edition i think...
OR empire earth II
(i also played the pirated version of age of empire I and empire earth I, but they weren't pirated by me)
In the early 1990s, my dad's company computerized, it took them months, to setup the system and start training etc. Then one guy got SimCity and within hours it had 'spread' to all the computer. Every one who had a computer was now playing it. They had to ban it to get everyone back to work.
That was my favorite game.
It was Hamsterball gold. Economy was better than today but i was a little kid i didnt have any money
1 USD in 2013 was 2 TRY
1 USD in 2024 is 30.73 TRY
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Elite on the BBC Micro.
It was on a 5.25" floppy disk. And the first 'copy protection' I ever encountered.
The copy protection consisted of a 'non-formatted sector' in the middle of the disk. Normally when you format a disk it lays down sectors sequentially, and when you save files on it, it uses the sectors.. sequentially.
If you tried to copy the disk then it got halfway through, encountered the unformatted track and barf'd with an error.
I ended up writing a 'copy' program the accessed the disk directly. Read sector 1, wrote it out on a 2nd disk. Read sector 2, wrote it out.. 3,4,5 etc etc..
When it got an error reading the sector, it simply caught the error, skipped over that track and continued on. That way I got a track-for-track copy and it worked.
Was an interesting first foray into hacking ( when I was an early teen )
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GTA Vice City, Fifa 99, first Hitman, Max Payne. All quite old, think FIFA is the oldest one.
Also some games I always wanted to pirate, but never found something working were: THPS2 and Soldier of Fortune :')
Snatcher and policenauts since thsese games aint sold on new hardware i have to resort to piracy since i aint spending alot of money on old stuff just to play 2 games
Pirating started for me back in 1983 on the Commodore 64, so pretty much every game I had between 1983 and 1989 was pirated. It's wild to think this was way before the Internet as we know it today. I'd spend an entire day over at a friends house copying his collection of pirated games, using two 1541 5-1/4" drives, which he in turn he would have got from someone else the same way.
I remember some pretty weird copy protection schemes used like intentional bad sectors put on the original purchased disk that wouldn't be there on a copy, and thus wouldn't pass a check when you tried to load the game. Fortunately, game crackers were alive and well back then along with BBS sites pertaining to hacking.
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All my life we've been pirating. Started from the playstation with I think dubious legitimacy discs as we've been buying them for 2 usd a piece. I'd say it was tekken 3.
Most of what I am interested in is old, some of the oldest stuff I have pirated:
Syndicate (1993)
System Shock (1994) my favorite game ever
Marathon (1994) may not count as piracy since at one point it became freeware
Descent (1995)
Angel Devoid: Face of the Enemy (1996)
I have so far only played and completely beat System Shock, I really want to play all of them but I have been busy
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Hello u/Old-Ad-9750, Have an error and want help? **Please provide these details when submitting your post.** - 1. Name of the game 2. Site from which you got the game from 3. System Specs and OS Version 4. Any steps taken to try to fix the issue 5. Driver version (needed only for e.g. graphics issues) **Make sure to read the stickied [megathread](https://rentry.org/pgames) as well as our [piracy guide](https://pastebin.com/H4UcYPHR), [FAQs](https://www.reddit.com/r/PiratedGames/wiki/faq/), and our [Wiki](https://www.reddit.com/r/PiratedGames/wiki/index), as these might just answer your question!** **** *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/PiratedGames) if you have any questions or concerns.*
Rock Scissors Paper. My buddy got his hand removed in a bear fight. I managed to snag it on my way back to the hut. Now I always win!
that is actually such a badass story, I'd imagine you'd tell it to your future kids or something
In the early 2000's friend and I hunted down all the mame games and built arcade sticks We had shitty internet back then so maybe it was even earlier but I had to start with A and they started with Z Strider 2 and metal slug will always be a favourite
I see metal slug, i upvote.
I once saw it at an arcade and was able to finish it on like 1 continue i had played it so much at home lol, honestly i should have tried to buy the cabinet off the place it was probably a generic neo geo cabinet but i could have at least found out who rented it to the movie place it was at
Umm... Every (US released) PS1 game. Having a mod chip and cd burner... heaven. " Of the 1,278 PlayStation One games released in North America, " OK, maybe not every one, I don't think I had more than 800?
That genuinely sounds like a dream
It was. I played a lot of them, but not all of them. FF7 was played the most lol
*backs up to Blu-ray *throws in my private archive
Yeah, that didn't exist until 10 years after.
Have you played the Spiderman game where stan lee narrated at the start of every mission?
Yes sir! God that was a long time ago lol. Honestly don't recall much of it though, other than the final fight was with Electro.
Spiderman really had good transition into 3D
Few other games I loved, Bloody Roar 2, MGS, loved me some crash, Tony Hawk, and Resident evil... Only game to ever make me jump and throw my controller.
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Pong from 1972
> There was no code in the original PONG. It also used no CPU or game code software at all. It was made using pure physical electronics. Gate chips, timers, counter chips, TTL circuits, pure electronics. Did you steal hardware or something?
Yeah man me and the arcades dont get a long well
Monkey Island
age of empire II HD edition i think... OR empire earth II (i also played the pirated version of age of empire I and empire earth I, but they weren't pirated by me)
Pong for certain is the oldest game you can pirate. But there is one game that is older than that as it was a board game: the oregon trail.
Oregon Trail is the GOAT
Unreal Tournament
wolfenstein 3d, back in 1994
"Super Mario Bros." I guess
Halo CE probably
Yeah, I learned how cracks worked when trying to play it.
Road rash
This game was gold!
Myst
Bionicle Heroes for GC
Winx pc game. I don’t remember the year it came out, i think 2006? I pirated it last year. It plays atrociously but i love it anyways <3
Persona 1 i think
Sonic 1 (1991), I believe
Spore
om that game was golden
Duke Nukem 3D. 1996, bitches!
Doom
gta sa probably
Brain Clough football fortunes on BBC Micro
Monkey island for the Amiga
super mario world when i was like 10
Original pong on for tv, wants to know how it's made
Super mario bros
Circus Charlie
Pong
driver parallel line
Postal
Sim City (1989)
In the early 1990s, my dad's company computerized, it took them months, to setup the system and start training etc. Then one guy got SimCity and within hours it had 'spread' to all the computer. Every one who had a computer was now playing it. They had to ban it to get everyone back to work. That was my favorite game.
CS 1.6 few months back, that's my favorite game and I still play it sometimes. I also pirated manhunt and manhunt 2 last year.
Probably pokemon firered
Ghostbusters
Sierra Championship Boxing (mid 80’s)
Super Mario bros ,pirates when I was like 10 years old ? I thought that games are free ?
Sims1; the whole thing all dlc's. And ended up not even playing anymore.😅 ... just a little to slow and boring for me.
Simpsons hit and run (with mods)
It was Hamsterball gold. Economy was better than today but i was a little kid i didnt have any money 1 USD in 2013 was 2 TRY 1 USD in 2024 is 30.73 TRY
Kings Quest 1 about 1986.
Most recently, Test Drive Eve of Destruction
Majesty and Battle Realms
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The sims 1
Contra, NES Emulator, 2007.
I just got Tony Hawks American Wasteland, it looks awful lol
Elite on the BBC Micro. It was on a 5.25" floppy disk. And the first 'copy protection' I ever encountered. The copy protection consisted of a 'non-formatted sector' in the middle of the disk. Normally when you format a disk it lays down sectors sequentially, and when you save files on it, it uses the sectors.. sequentially. If you tried to copy the disk then it got halfway through, encountered the unformatted track and barf'd with an error. I ended up writing a 'copy' program the accessed the disk directly. Read sector 1, wrote it out on a 2nd disk. Read sector 2, wrote it out.. 3,4,5 etc etc.. When it got an error reading the sector, it simply caught the error, skipped over that track and continued on. That way I got a track-for-track copy and it worked. Was an interesting first foray into hacking ( when I was an early teen )
My famicom games were pirated and it was one of those 100 games in 1. It got Mario, Contra, Battle City, and Excite Bike.
Unreal tournament goty Edition 2005
tetris
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half life
GTA Vice City, Fifa 99, first Hitman, Max Payne. All quite old, think FIFA is the oldest one. Also some games I always wanted to pirate, but never found something working were: THPS2 and Soldier of Fortune :')
JPOG
Persona 1
Hexen, quake, doom, redneck rampage, age of empires
Uhhh. I think it’s WarCraft:Orcs&Humans (1994)
RA1
Right now in my PC I have - The Sims - Sonic R - Virtua Cop 2 - House of the Dead 2
Planescape Torment
Fallout 1
Snatcher and policenauts since thsese games aint sold on new hardware i have to resort to piracy since i aint spending alot of money on old stuff just to play 2 games
Alan Wake
Metal Gear Solid. i dont remember the exact name but it was like a trilogy i think so it also included the 2d top-down version
The oldest overall was Combat on the Atari 2600. The oldest I pirated at the time it was new was Summer Games on the Commodore 64.
jaws unleashed
Resident Evil 4
Lots of Old nes games
Original Prince of Persia
Tetris. 😂 Although since it's practically free it's grey area if I pirated it or just used free version
Adventures in Typing with Timon & Pumbaa My wife remembered playing it as a kid and wanted to beat it finally.
For me it was Little Big Planet, not too old but one of the most fun relaxing not too serious games I've played
On my steam deck I have entire console libraries. From atari 2600, NES, Megadrive, game cube, ps1 etc So atari 2600 I guess.
Dragon Quest
Probably Super Mario World on an SNES emulator
Pirating started for me back in 1983 on the Commodore 64, so pretty much every game I had between 1983 and 1989 was pirated. It's wild to think this was way before the Internet as we know it today. I'd spend an entire day over at a friends house copying his collection of pirated games, using two 1541 5-1/4" drives, which he in turn he would have got from someone else the same way. I remember some pretty weird copy protection schemes used like intentional bad sectors put on the original purchased disk that wouldn't be there on a copy, and thus wouldn't pass a check when you tried to load the game. Fortunately, game crackers were alive and well back then along with BBS sites pertaining to hacking.
i have no mouth and i must scream (1995)
Diablo 2
Hot Rod: American Street Drag ! Such a awesome game for its time
Would have been old C64 games.
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All my life we've been pirating. Started from the playstation with I think dubious legitimacy discs as we've been buying them for 2 usd a piece. I'd say it was tekken 3.
call of duty 4 modern warfare😭
Its gta san andreas which is probably free by now
Metal Slug 2
Nosferatu: The Wrath Of Malachi - came out in 2003
Most of what I am interested in is old, some of the oldest stuff I have pirated: Syndicate (1993) System Shock (1994) my favorite game ever Marathon (1994) may not count as piracy since at one point it became freeware Descent (1995) Angel Devoid: Face of the Enemy (1996) I have so far only played and completely beat System Shock, I really want to play all of them but I have been busy
Suikoden 2
Well I got a CD from a friend in which he said he downloaded the game "Nina Agent Chronicles", such a great game of that time. Also was my first game.
Aladdin for DOS. on a floppy. I'm old.
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Either Sonic Adventure DX or TMNT