That sounds extremely imprecise, was that really a thing? I grew up with an NES, so I’m pretty sure I’m old enough to have heard of this (and my friend had a PlayStation). Pirated games already had any copy protection stripped anyway.
That’s why I assumed the sharpie was just for writing what’s on the disc. I did that plenty.
Ah, so you colored between lines? That makes sense. I guess it would make sense for them to have a fixed unusable region to separate game content from copy protection.
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That sounds extremely imprecise, was that really a thing? I grew up with an NES, so I’m pretty sure I’m old enough to have heard of this (and my friend had a PlayStation). Pirated games already had any copy protection stripped anyway.
That’s why I assumed the sharpie was just for writing what’s on the disc. I did that plenty.
Calling it “tracks” probably gave the wrong impression. It was a ring around the hub that looked a bit different.
Ah, so you colored between lines? That makes sense. I guess it would make sense for them to have a fixed unusable region to separate game content from copy protection.