alt Hacker NewsBack in the day I remember my brother got his hands on a PS1 modchip, but it didn't require any soldering- you just plugged it into the "parallel I/O" port in back of the console and it let us run games on burned CDs. We really got our moneys worth at blockbuster after that
My buddies brother did the same thing with a PS1 and maybe sent his Xbox off somewhere to get it modded. However he was an asshole hermit and wouldn’t let us play or burn any games.
My dad would never cheat or do anything illegal even though he was an EE who could’ve done the mod himself. Today he might do it but there was a strict no stealing policy even for digital things. Like the time he freaked out because I was grabbing stuff from The Scene and wrote down a bunch of terms to research, he saw the word Warez and freaked out.