Introduction: Due to the out-of-print cracking chips, the price of a small number of cracked versions of NS hosts in China has increased from the initial 2,500 yuan to the current 4,000+.
With the continuous standardized operation of my country's console game market in recent years, piracy has spread, and cracking the supply and demand relationship that has become a river basically no longer exists. Some e-commerce sellers evasively said, "Please consult customer service for details", because the platform management is strengthened, the hiding situation cannot be achieved at all. Even when talking about cracking technical topics in the player community, they are used to using the incisions to answer questions. They no longer have the daily life of publicly disseminating various resources with great fanfare.
From players to merchants, from merchants to writers, the author has personally written for the cracking technology, transaction methods and specific operating methods related to game consoles in the past twenty years, and has a memory and understanding of the various special historical and regional backgrounds behind this.
Due to the span of the age, although this story is not a "oral history", as long as you have ever had the experience of playing cracked game consoles and pirated console games, you can guarantee that you can see the following "characters" from my next narrative: with the pocket money I finally saved enough, I excitedly ran to the local game store to buy the "first console for young people"; I have rich experience in purchasing the machine, know how to check the "first boot screen" and "original seal", and keep an eye on it myself PS2 players who changed the machine on site with the store; CNGBA friends who know the differences in product functions of the "three-free" burn cards of each brand; help friends move freely in the PSP traps of "hard reduction" and "soft reduction"; unfortunately three-popular, and finally waited until PS3 announced that "no pirated versions will not play Star Man"; until NS cracked chips were knocked down by Tencent from manufacturers to channels, NS is likely to become the "last emperor" in my country's host market.
Next, let’s start with the Chinese game market in 2000 AD and talk about cracking related topics. All the descriptions in the article are the real experiences of me or my colleagues during my career. When I chat with my friends in private, they think “is it impossible?”. I don’t have a more clever explanation for this, nor can I provide evidence. After all, it’s not very useful to us (referring to game merchants).
Even for veteran players, many people don’t know about the first generation of PS host cracking technology
“direct reading” concept was first entered into the player’s cognitive radar with a Christian word, and this word is—Messiah. Foreign hacking organizations completed the cracking project shortly after the release of PS2, investing in the "classic" cracking chip called Messiah. This way of bypassing official detection technology and allowing the host to read pirated game CDs is called "direct reading" by domestic players, so cracking chips are also called "direct reading chips".
At that time, most of the chip welding work was handled by upstream suppliers. Only a few powerful local game stores would hire fresh graduates with welder experience or craftsmen at home to learn chip installation technology and install them on their own to save costs. Some of these students chose to open their own stores and start their own businesses because they were young and over-minded. Before e-commerce and even the Internet were popularized and improved, because information was not transparent, it was far from enough to learn the skills of the world or search for information online. Therefore, many game stores have entrepreneurial backgrounds similar to "stealing teachers".
The basic principle of installing direct reading is manual chip welding. NS is very difficult because of its small body, and soldering is
The research on direct reading chips by players back then was largely related to the "renovation machines" that everyone in the market calls for, and popular science articles that assist in identification are also the topics of articles that game magazines must do before winter and summer vacations.
So some merchants came up with many solutions to prove their innocence, including promising to "first boot screen" (the first boot logo unique to the PS2 host, which has passed away); posting a store "warranty signature" - this is a very crisp customized note. The merchant writes the sales date and then sticks it on the screws that must be dismantled as a warranty commitment. If players dismantle the machine by themselves, they will automatically be regarded as "destroying invalid"; and live performance plus direct reading chip. With the
set, the host quality can be guaranteed to the customer to the greatest extent. Although there are loopholes in every step, Sony's official proud first boot screen can be repeatedly "first" through special reactivated methods, but at least it makes consumers feel more at ease when they walk out, and at the same time it can set certain technical thresholds for new industry competitors. Until 2007 when I opened my own store, "adding direct-reading chips" was a core technology that must be mastered (at that time, it was mainly the Wii host. Compared with PS2, there were much fewer solder joints on the chip, and it was easier to solder).
is said to be "core technology", but in fact, all you need is a soldering iron , a few bundles of solder, a box of rosin (for washing soldering iron), and eyes and hands - the key is still proficiency. Even if you are not from a professional electrical engineering class, you can master it by practicing slowly according to the drawings. The only problem is to report the cost of loss, because if you are tempted and have bad luck, the wrong solder joints can sometimes cause the motherboard to be damaged, and the brand new machine will suddenly become semi-dissolved. The merchants are definitely unwilling to memorize this cost. They usually repair the machine and then wait until the "appropriate opportunity" to pass the test and sell it. The market that exists because of cracking also becomes chaotic and opaque because of cracking.
Indescribable Nintendo Home machine cracking
When PS and SS set off a fierce battle in the player camp in the Chinese market, Nintendo was as quiet as a manufacturer that had never launched N64 at all.
Due to the technology and cost of the cartridge, N64 was not cracked until it exited the market. At that time, many domestic game stores did not even do N64-related businesses at all. After all, compared with the prices of the other two cabbage games that cost 5 to 10 yuan, N64 cartridges worth a few hundred yuan are too expensive. Although I often meet ordinary consumers who are interested in buying NS, but question "Why do games still cost money?", but now they are just a tip for consumption concepts. In the past, they really have no money.
N64 cassette internal
To a certain extent, it is also the beginning of N64's generation hosts. The inability to crack and the lack of third-party games have become the main factor for Nintendo's home computers to gradually move away from most Chinese console players. For example, although the subsequent NCG was better than the PS2 of the same period and its fame was naturally better than the first generation of XBOX that just came to test the waters, the lack of cracking kept it unwilling to be cold. Even XBOX, which is considered unsuitable for Oriental Asians, has become a cheap technical test field for some DIY players after cracking it.
Nintendo host cracking situation before NS can be roughly divided into three categories: 1. NGCh, which is cracked at the end of the product life cycle. NGC's initial cracking method was very violent. In order to prevent piracy, the host used a special size miniaturized DVD disc. Therefore, in order to allow the optical drive to accommodate pirated conventional CDs, it is necessary to use a chainsaw and other tools to cut off the walls around the optical drive chamber and expand the capacity before the disc can be smoothly fixed in the optical drive chamber and run and rotate. From an economic perspective, around 2005, the price of NGC in game stores in domestic big cities was less than 1,000 yuan, and some mid-year-old machines with a price of 900 or above can be sold within 300 or 500 yuan. Except for some rare models, most of the genuine games are less than 100 yuan. It is actually not very meaningful to crack them or not.
Wii host homemade system installation interface
2, because the cracking method is enough "oldschool" and the Wii, which is very popular in the times.Although the cracking has been completely digitized on the game carrier, for some old players born in the 1980s who have experienced PS and PS2 era, "Panbener" was once the source of their happiness. Its pleasing pleasure and the satisfaction of what you see is what you get is far more vigorous than what players are looking at their STEAM game library now. The original cracking of
Wii was achieved by installing direct reading and running cheap pirated CDs. Later, hackers found a more "linear" system vulnerability from the Wii's own web browser function. "Hard brushing" turned into a "soft break", and the vulnerable pirated game disk became an external hard drive that is more durable and easier to copy. Around 2008, the Beijing Olympics set off a wave of national fitness. Combined with the Wii's somatosensory characteristics and the software and hardware characteristics of "one-time purchase of the machine, all have", it has really become popular.
3. WiiU, which no one cares about even if it is cracked. WiiU can be regarded as the "Next Generation Pain Continuation Edition" of NGC, and it was not favored by players until it was cracked in the later stage of the product life cycle.
"The poster is a good person, the poster is safe for a lifetime"
This is the most common "sofa" remark in many resource sharing forums.
PSP and NDS are once the two heroes in my country's game market, and are also the top of the Forbidden City where cracking technology is contending and folk masters are surging. The cracking journey of the two handheld machines was also full of controversy and magic.
First look at the PSP. PSP was initially cracked under the official 1.5 system. At that time, the 4G memory card (Mermory Stick, commonly known as "memory stick") alone costs 200 to 300 yuan. The opaque market price and the next-generation game quality made many players willing to give it all. Compared with the previous simple game console, the biggest feature of PSP is that its multimedia capabilities are fully released after cracking. Various e-book software and simulators make PSP a "electronic toy" that players and digital enthusiasts like to tinker with. On game forums such as CNGBA, a "audio and video zone" was also born for players to exchange their experiences of ".AVI to.MP4". I believe that I have seen someone next to them using PSP to watch romance action movies on the subway.
and unlike the previous one-time transaction of hosts in previous generations where "one-time cracking, the whole generation breakdown" was achieved. As Sony discovered problems, its ability to solve problems was continuously strengthened, the later PSPs will set a higher system version to plug the previous loopholes, resulting in the situation where the new hosts cannot be cracked. Therefore, PSPs on the market were once divided into two price ranges of "cracking" and "non-cracking".
has a foot higher, and the magic has a foot higher. After version 1.5, hackers found new loopholes in version 3.71 combined with the UMD disk of "GTA Free City Story". The magical effects of this game also made its price soar. In that era when the genuine game was basically unpopular (2007), as a wealth code, this game once had a market price of more than 700 yuan.
This game is also the world's highest-selling game in the entire life cycle of PSP
Pulling "Free City Story" from the cracking altar is a prop called "magical battery". As long as this thing is inserted into the battery compartment of any version of the PSP host, and the specified steps are simple to operate, you can directly complete the complete flashing process in the engineering mode. Because it is truly "magical", it was once circulated in the market that this technology came from an internal programmer of Sony. The operating interface of the magic battery is truly zero risk and one-click flashing
, since it is a "two genius", NDS is certainly not showing any weakness. From using a screwdriver to implement "overload" flashing, to the Warring States Period when each company had three free to burn cards, now a certain fish sells NS Pokémon Illustration Book and the gray transaction of Animal Crossing Small Animals, it is simply the only thing that all the masters played in those days. What's even worse than the NS cracking chip that Tencent has just reported is that the NDS burn card is not only "Made in China", but also "Design By China".
Another misunderstanding needs to be clarified here. When many people mention cracking and pirating, they are always proud to say, "We Chinese have the ability and can do any high-tech for them." In fact, many times, foreign hackers and chip factories are the ones who really won the cracking work. On this basis, my country simply reversely engineers the cracking chip and cracks it again and quickly puts it into mass production. Due to the reduction in cost and the special market environment, it is sold to domestic and foreign countries. Sometimes, Chinese people will participate in the research and development or cracking of homemade programs or specific games.
But NDS burning cards can definitely be called the "Chinese fine products" that cracks the world. DS2, M3, R4, EZ5, M6, and five burning cards form a veritable "Four Heavenly Kings" lineup. Most of them are handled by Chinese people from research and development to production. Among them, the youngest team was just a university student at that time.
During that time, foreign players and even merchants often came to our country to purchase record cards. I have met colleagues from the United States, France and Japan. Generally, they would prepare a few mobile hard drives. While communicating with Chinese merchants, they brought back various related cracking software and game resources in our computers. A market that was originally built on parallel goods eventually exported pirated products. Until NS, this gray, but also brought our generation of players’ cracking era of Chinese game consoles, has come to an end.
Conclusion : Tencent's heavy blow to domestic cracked chips from production to channels has led to the cracked version of the Chinese bank's cracked version of NS from the lowest level of 2400 to the current 4000+. And unless you are well-informed, there should be no more cracked chips on NS in the future. Behind the current 1 million shipments of the Chinese version of NS, many consumers are actually resistant to genuine games, but no matter what, everything is still moving in a good direction, which is enough.
Finally, it was a live photo of Nintendo destroying pirated software in the 1980s, and Mario also visited the supervision of
