Might blow your mind, but PC gamers used to PAY to actually play Playstation games on their toasters.
>>724754903It was dogshit emulation, too.
>>724754963No it wasn'tI played Hercules, Tomba 2 and Speed Racer on it and they ran perfectly.
>>724754903i wanted these so bad when i was a kid
>>724754903Implying I paid for it
>>724754903pc "gamers" have always been second-rate sub humans
>>724754903Advertising piracy in gaming magazines was pretty ballsy.
>>724755235>piracyFound the retard
>>724755048You can get them for stupid cheap these days.
>>724754903I love how when modern pczoomies larp as oldfags they pretend the pc had games back then. All they had was the sim kek
The interesting thing about Bleem! Is that back then it was Sony the litigious bastards that all gamers hated because they were extremely anti emulator. They didn't even beat Bleem! but they force it to shut down because of all the lawsuits. Funny how now it's Nintendo the ones doing it and their simps will defend it
> To allow for full-speed emulation on lower-end computers of what was at the time a current generation console, the authors coded Bleem! in assembly. This allowed them to create precise optimizations. Unlike Connectix's commercial Virtual Game Station, it made use of a PC's 3D graphics hardware for rendering, allowing for enhanced resolutions and filtered textures not possible in real-time software rendering of the time.Actual gigachads
>>724755321Get mad.
>>724754903>payWhat? Never
>>724755729It's not piracy when you need the actual game disc to run it.
>>724755424yeah, but now i can just play ps1 games on my pc even better than the dreamcast could.
>>724755589It was always Nintendo even in the 90s, they've always been hard-core anti-emulation. Sony only went nuts over Bleem because it was being sold at Gamestop, advertised in EGM and played current-gen games at the time.
>>724755424Couldn't the dreamcast play ripped CD-roms by default? Why not just burn a disc?
>>724755589>Funny how now it's Nintendo the ones doing it and their simps will defend itNintendo lost two generations in a row because they were scared of piracy so they cucked the gamers with n64 cartridges and gamecube mini discs
>>724755589>Funny how now it's Nintendo the ones doing it and their simps will defend itYou sound brown.
>>724755929Yes and no. Dreamcast used GD-ROMs which were a bit larger than a standard CD-R, so the images had to be compressed to be playable.
>>724754903Not just PlayStation.
>>724754903>Connectix VGS was the original reverse-engineered PlayStation emulator>Connectix VGS was the one that fought Sony and won>Bleem gets all the creditIs this just YouTube brainrot, or because Bleem had a wider audience?
>You do absolutely nothing wrong nor illegal>Another company comes along and sues you claiming you have wronged them>You win in court but ultimately go out of business because of legal feesWhat is this strategy called? And how is it that they weren't able to recoup legal fees from Sony?
>>724756569"Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation" but this wasn't one because it was alleged copyright violation
>>724755235i know this is tendie bait but do you realize 90% of the emulators support playing the game off of the computer's CD rom drive?
>>724756838The WHAT drive now?Go to bed grandpa.
>>724756569It kind of falls under the patent trolling umbrella. Its the same thing games workshop did to chapter house
>>724755048Dude, you could've just downloaded them from dcisozone and burned them onto a blank CD. I did that with GT2, and years later, I threw the CD into my modded PS2, and it actually recognized it.
>>724756838>tripfag>calling anyone else retardedkek
>>724754903There was also a time when the internet wasn't ubiquitous and buying physical media was the only way to get software onto their computer for many people.
>>724754903Android people still do that.
>>724757062Seethe harder kiddocloud services is now a thing
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>>724754903Had this bad boy on CDFeels good man
>>724754963It wasn'tSony wouldn't have cried so hard if it was.
>>724754903I got it for free pirated.>>724754963I played Battle Assault 2 and it ran just fine.
>>724755589Yeah and they later hired the lead dev for PS1 Emulation on the PSP
