15th February 2007, 1:32 AM
Well no matter. I have realized something. What exactly does Sony's built in emulator do to get around the BIOS requirements? Hmm... Well they could go the Bleem way (an emulator that wasn't really illegal from what little I've read, but was sued out of existance because they simply couldn't afford a legal defense, which recent California laws would have done something for I understand...). However, they didn't need to. They could have just stuck the 1000 BIOS in the firmware update and thus allowed for any PS1 game to be played (region free with that BIOS version). In fact, the Playstation logo does come up whenever I start a PS1 game, suggesting exactly that. If that's the case, I need only wait for someone to extract that bios from there and I have legal access to it for computer emulators, if for whatever reason I want to play PS1 games on my PC (higher resolutions I guess). Thanks Sony! (Maybe)
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)