It's crazy to me how people even figure these things out. I love hardware and coding but the ingenuity and understanding of these systems is crazy impressive.
I think it can be summed up as: DRM, even the original paper-based copy protection, did nothing but punish the people who bought a legitimate copy of a game.
in many ways the old versions were far worse because if the got the code wrong then bad luck or if you unfortunately lost the manual you were basically stuffed.
I liked the approach with Spyro 3: it was basically transparent to legitimate owners and the developers understood that they just needed something to delay cracking long enough for sales to fall off the initial spike.
One of my first jobs as a young teenager was working at an "anime store" I spent pretty much the entire day installing mod chips and mod switches on Playstations. It was a good gig, first pick of alot of Japanese games that came through too!
FTFY MVG: "While I was involved in the homebrew scene, I cannot confirm or deny my involvement in defeating anti-tamper systems for the purpose of just doing it for fun."
The Wii is my favorite console when it comes to modding.. The Wii U is a close second.. The Wii did things it wasn't intended to do.. Endless amount of emulators, it played DVDs *"Wiis before 2009 had a DVD drive in them while the 2009 and up models had different drives that didn't play DVDs but the alternative to that is buy an external DVD drive that use USB connection"* , a few music apps that let you stream music online or play backup music that you own, LET YOU BACKUP YOUR GAMES THAT YOU OWN and USB loader is just perfection.. The only thing I hated about the Wii was that it wasn't HD..
Fantastic video! I've been modding my consoles since I paid the guy who ran my local video game rental store to instal a Magic 3 mod chip on my phat PS2., it was so sick, no swap and capable of playing any burned games discs. You could rent PS2 games and use any old burner to make a direct copy and it just booted right up it was incredible. I went from paying $50 a game and only able to play a few games, to being able to rent games for $2, and burn the game onto a DVD. I had every single PS2 game out there. It was "magical" lol. I've since modded a gamecube, wii, switch, saturn (saroo), and wiiu. But it was the PS2 that was the coolest by far.
I would like to see a "Mistakes Were Made" video on the Nintendo Switch. There is a rather large hardware exploit in the launch model thanks to the Tegra RCM functionality being left enabled.
Hi! I'd like to inform you that there is an italian channel called "DallaTV" that is bringing the same format as yours about how consoles were hacked in the first place, and it is using parts of your videos. I don't believe that you authorized him, and I don't believe that this could be called fair use. Just tought you might find it useful
It's definitely a result of the fact that the hackers basically have infinity fuckups as they can always try again vs the security developers who get 1.
This series is by far my favourite of yours. Hopefully putting them together in a single video nets you some more views on these great deep dives. I still think the Wii Tweezers was my absolute favourite.
The bit about an ARM processor in the Wii highlights a sort of dark age of computers: in most modern computer systems, the main CPU doesn't control the system. It's a microcontroller somewhere else that decides when you can power on, when you can boot, and when you can use it. On the flipside, if you can control said microcontroller, you basically own the system. So it's just kicking the can down the road.
Nice. It would be great to see videos on the Dreamcast, Nintendo Wii-U and the Nintendo Switch. This really brought back memories on everything from hot swapping the xbox hard drive. To swapping memory sticks in the PSP and having to have to folders with the same name and the 2nd having a percent sign. I remember when I hacked my PS3 I installed a custom firmware on my ipod and used that to trick the PS3 so I could jail break it. Good stuff!
Its relaxing to watch this video menawhile with all the controversies and cancelling going on in the background on youtube. No troubles, just a movie about pirated games and consoles and hacking attempts! Perfect to watch when i am bored or have a long Travel
I still love the Vita in 2024!!! Definitely one of my favorite Handheld/Game Consoles of All Time!! Got one in 2013-2014 originally and I have loved my time with it!! I now have 3 of em, and would have a few more if I were not so BROKE these days..... Great Video MVG!!
MVG, please keep using the music at 14:08 in perpetuity in your videos. For me not only its the coolest track that goes perfectly with your content and brings back the nostalgia of my childhood, but also a great standard signature trade mark of your channel
wow... I realize some people here have comments about it being boring but seriously?? This is such an in-depth video it's crazy. Must have taken you forever to put it together. I'm sure the modders were geeking out the whole time. Totally amazing!! This is definitely TV worthy material. Like a commenter had mentioned you should definitely make a DVD of it.🔥
Over an hour in. Man, this is some great stuff. I never got into the mod scene, but I appreciate those modders that have uncharted new territory and given us some great emulators, in turn.
This entire series is perfect to watch. It’s interesting to see how much money these big gaming companies put into there security yet they still get cracked. Fantastic series mate, cheers !
ive seen all these as individual episodes... but I needed some long form stuff to listen to while doing file operations on a server today, and im all the way to the Saturn! MVG never change brother, never change.
Sat through this in one sitting. Anyone, or everyone who is a part of the modding community, curious about it, or interested in hacking hardware for right to use as the owner wills, will definitely enjoy this. I am a bigger fan of the Wii U modding because it sets nicely in-between and with modded ability to play my old GC games, Wii games, of course Wii U, and emulate nicely about ever console before it. I stick to what I legally own on it of course. I do try to be an honest person. I have looked into a few Home-brew as well. To me it will always be the system that didn't get the love it deserved.
Watched this over a time period of not quite 24 hours in segments, well worth the watch, thank you. Kind of upset that the Switch was not covered, but it's all good, this is an excellent look back at console hard and soft modding for homebrew and rips. Thank you!
what i love about how you make your vids and info boss-man is that their timeless, like it your info will never go old. Thank you for many years of learning from one of the best there is!
Holy shit, this gonna be good. One mystery I've always wondered about the buffer overflow exploit for PsP is why would it work sometimes but not always? Kernel cookies? Memory being in just the right arrangement? Always fascinated me. Thank you for posting this.
Would think by now there would be a law that modern consoles, which are actually dedicated computers, can't be locked down forever by the manufacturer, that causes stupid levels of E-waste which is simply unsustainable.
In the states they have a law that companies can't lock their phones down forever.. They must unlock them at a certain time frame.. I think it's time for a law for consoles and home PCs to do the same..
The one thing that has always amazed me about MOD chips is that there are a zillion solder points on a system's motherboard and how it was figured out which ones needed to be connected to the MOD chip.
These same people approach anything with the same curiosity. "How does it work?". They then proceed to either removing components from the circuits or tapping into the data flow. Older gen stuff was LOT easier to bypass clearly, but in the end they want to know what makes it tick.
MVG should absolutely make a video about how 3DS security was defeated in general. He made a video on Cubic Ninja but somehow not a comprehensive review of other interesting developments.
I really hope consoles will continue to get pwned as I love the "mistakes were made" content so much 🙏🤞 thank you MVG. Maybe a future idea could be covering the history of early iOS jailbreaking? That was a great time period and I used to write guides for tethered and untethered jailbreaks on a now defuct blog site.
Loving the video/movie/feature length documentary! One thing though, and I'm not 100%, but the voiceover in parts sounds like an MVG AI voice. Especially in contrast to the live parts. I guess it makes sense with the amount of content here.
Nice. I always used to come back to these videos. One thing tho: You should have included the Star Force and SecuRom videos in here, for sure. As a "Honorable Mentionş" at the end of the marathon. You could have also included all the "sketchy" security measures on the Amiga and C64 etc..... But I guess that is up for another marathon video.
Oh man... Saw Tmbinc pop up while on the GameCube topic... Talk about unlocking a forgotten memory. Was really big into modding since the OG Xbox , PSP, and Xbox 360. Good to see X-S is still online too
31:48 - Swap Magic sounds very similar to the GameShark swap trick before the Messiah chip came out. The only catch was that the game had to be on a CD-R, so many DVD games were modified to fit on a CD. Those were fun times!
Is this so supposed to be sleep content? If so, thank you! Love your videos and very informative. I love learning about the industry from an insider. You’re the best!
This was epic! Thank you. I love how now you can buy cheap Chinese handhelds that play all these old games too! For £55 I bought a PSP clone that will run everything up to and including ps1. These days like Movies I feel it's just run for maximum profit and the games are not what they once were, originality has gone and so many sequels!
As videos of Liverpool goes this was pretty comprehensive but as you already guessed there is far too much to experience in a single day. For reference, at 43 square miles, Liverpool is the same size as Disney World resort, so use that as a guide for how much there is just to walk around let alone spend any time at. And that is just the city, there is a crazy amount of attractions in the surrounding areas too. If you are ever this side of the water I would love to show you some of the sights. The video was great for naming so many places but it really did not give almost any detail about any of them, but I suppose that would make it 7 hours long if they did. I did get a real kick out of your reaction to Central Library. I was lucky enough to be part of the team involved in its rebuild a few years ago and I get that awestruck look every time I see it, and it's always fun to see other people get the same.
Both rev. 1.6 Xboxes I own have LPC buses, so the statement about them being removed in this revision appears to be incorrect. Also, the Xbox flash memory in the rev. 1.6 Xboxes is located inside the Xyclops chip near the aforementioned LPC bus, and not the Xcalibur video encoder. Aside from those nit-picks, another excellent and informative video.
6:14 I knew about the PlayStation Hack, but not this one! However, I remember a documentation with the Scrambler/De-Scrambler source code for the PlayStation 2, the author only managed to make a dump, but not to reproduce in burning, but this documentation was very informative. For the Playstation 2 and the Boot of a KELF, all this started with the release of the Memor32, I still remember this teasing with this small 36cm cathode ray screen and an original memory card "with a modification containing a tablecloth". I remain convinced that they had known about this possibility for several years, but they preferred to wait until the end of the console's life. jimmikaelkael being French, I still remember the hours of exchanges on MSN and first test on carrying out an encryption/decryption of a KELF, I could even complement this superb video of how they managed to do it !
Thanks man MVG for collecting the curious stories of how they hacked the consoles if it took them a while to do it or it was very fast like the first XBOX
I am 50+ years old so my beginnings was on consoles (the Philips Videopac G7000 / Magnavox Odyssey 2) and I even imported games from Japan to play even if I could not read them. I was a collector and then started hording games with piracy in parallel because it wasn't always easy to even get your hands on an orginal and it all started when i got my first Super Wild card for SNES from a friend. Even if i was using (but not owning) PC when i was young I was hearing all the time that you need to update your PC continuesly if you wanted to play the newest games (what wasn't really true) so i never really bothered to play on PC especially because i was happy with my consoles. The advent of CD/DVD started putting a damper on my gaming experience because of the loading times (you can not imagine how i hate the doors in Resident Evil games as example) but still the games was fun and diverse. I then started play on PC and actually never really stopped even if now a day, i really don't know what to play. I stopped buying consoles some years back and i think i will never go back to it. All the installation times, the patches and F stupid programming are putting me of. What i mean with F stupid programming?? I think it was with the last of us 2 on PS4. You have an installation disc and a gaming disc. I put the installation disc in and need to wait 20 minutes to install that. I get the message to put the game disc in, i do so and i see that it is in the wrong language so i change it. What the game tells me?? To insert the install disc and wait 10 minutes more. Then when i want to play, it wants to update. 45 Minutes have passed before i could start play. So for what exactly do i need console?? The best of a console was that you was ready to play a game within 5 minutes including installing the system. Apart that, remember PAL games for SNES or PS1 where one of the first things you see is flags to choose your language?? Why did we lose those starting from PS2? Why is there not an option (to my knowledge) where you choose your prefered language in the menu of the console if it is so advanced? Why did the installation disc of the last of us 2 didn't ask me for that language i want?? Is that too much to ask?? If my memory isn't wrong, when i tried to say not to the update, it didn't let me start the game so why ask me at all?? Nintendo was done with me with the Switch, it is to small (power) for home and to big (size) to be portable so how i travel. It is not about software, it is about hardware. At the moment i have no plans to buy PS5, bought PS4 only for Horizon and Microsoft isn't in my home since Xbox360. Do i mean that those consoles are bad? No, but i don't see any motive to buy a console anymore. You want to tell me about emulation of consoles in other consoles?? I don't know, I think that every console i have apart the PS4 are modded and even if i have the parts to update some consoles or mod the view that are not (saying example i have a PS2 with HDD and modchip already but have the things to mod another with FMB and SDD), i can not really find a motivation to do it. When as example Dark Alex was active, i was on top of the game, i new what would work with that, had the battery in my hands and knew what the newest HEN was, what firnware was possible to use etc.. Now i would need to start over and probably spend a time checking my systems, batteries and study the newest ways to to mod the PSP. Last but not least, maybe a smaller problem but still a problem is game formats and what is the correct one. What i mean is that some emulators want the game in this format but the other emulator what it in the other format. Or example you download a game, check it with a rom organizer or checker like AGBx (the one for x360) and it tells you that it is a bad dump but 1) it works anyway on an emulator or the console 2) it was example from a "good reputation" collection. I think it is just to much time/work for for what you get and even if it would be interesting to see the homebrew games, it is probably even less worth my time. I think that gaming is loosing a lot of "attractiveness" in the past years and especially the consoles. I am tired of my "console" being the center of my home, i don't need my console to have a browser, i have a pc, i don't need my console to be playing DVD/BD, i have a DVD/BD player. Software is not really better, i don't need every game to be open world, i don't need every survival game to be the same, i don't need my game to be 100 hours long for a story you could have told me in 5 minutes. Last but not least, i would like devs to release games without bugs and be ashamed if they need to update the game because it means they didn't do their job right especially in console! Because of all of this, i think that piracy is slowing down as well.
Really awesome video, i love Marathon video as i can watch them throughout the day even if they were watched already. Did you plan to do marathon video based on gaming system ?
modding my playstation3 was the best and worst thing i've done for the console. the best part about modding it was getting to play LittleBigPlanet online again. modding and homebrew is awesome dude.
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Mistakes Were Made: The Movie
LMAO
The Mr. Beast doc?
Now featuring Starforce drm for your viewing pleasure.
ConsoleSins
Most untecipated movie ever
The laws of TH-cam dictate that you have to rename this video "Console Security Fails To Fall Asleep To"
See you in eight hours zzZZzzz
Ewww conformity
Bro that's super rude 😢
@@overlordalfredo nah its cliche and unoriginal
I love DYKG videos because of that lol
It's crazy to me how people even figure these things out. I love hardware and coding but the ingenuity and understanding of these systems is crazy impressive.
You should release this on physical media.
Mistakes Were Made VHS edition would be dope!!
and copy-protect it, too
@@MicahtheDrumCorpsPseudoboomer Is there even an open-source version of Macrovision's APS? I doubt they sell licenses still lol
@@MicahtheDrumCorpsPseudoboomer that would be another Mistake being made about how the MWM VHS tape was copied illegally.
@@MicahtheDrumCorpsPseudoboomer lol
I think it can be summed up as: DRM, even the original paper-based copy protection, did nothing but punish the people who bought a legitimate copy of a game.
in many ways the old versions were far worse because if the got the code wrong then bad luck or if you unfortunately lost the manual you were basically stuffed.
@@poil8351 Yeah, like those damned code wheels.
I liked the approach with Spyro 3: it was basically transparent to legitimate owners and the developers understood that they just needed something to delay cracking long enough for sales to fall off the initial spike.
Indeed
see 13:20
One of my first jobs as a young teenager was working at an "anime store" I spent pretty much the entire day installing mod chips and mod switches on Playstations. It was a good gig, first pick of alot of Japanese games that came through too!
FTFY MVG:
"While I was involved in the homebrew scene, I cannot confirm or deny my involvement in defeating anti-tamper systems for the purpose of just doing it for fun."
Never thought MVG will release a movie
Sleep content hype train
like bro just uploaded a short vid a week ago now a 2 hour vid 😭😭
respect 4 the grind
Merge together existing videos, easy content to make
Lol this comment popped up as I clicked on the video to see how long it was 😂
@@jaz093My thoughts exactly.
i actually think i'll binge all these again now that a compilation exists this is still the BEST series on TH-cam!!
The Wii Homebrew scene is just my favourite modding scene
Mine is the PSP.
@@dlte239 mine is psp vita and 3ds
Mines the ps2 and psp since these are the only 2 consoles i owned as kid and i still have them until now
The Wii is my favorite console when it comes to modding.. The Wii U is a close second..
The Wii did things it wasn't intended to do.. Endless amount of emulators, it played DVDs *"Wiis before 2009 had a DVD drive in them while the 2009 and up models had different drives that didn't play DVDs but the alternative to that is buy an external DVD drive that use USB connection"* , a few music apps that let you stream music online or play backup music that you own, LET YOU BACKUP YOUR GAMES THAT YOU OWN and USB loader is just perfection.. The only thing I hated about the Wii was that it wasn't HD..
it was so much fun, i got the wiikey as soon as it was released. I sadly sold that wii but softmodded my next one and the wiiU of of course too
To honour this episode, I will use a downloader to get an offline copy of it and then share it vía the eDonkey network as a DVD-R iso
Fantastic video! I've been modding my consoles since I paid the guy who ran my local video game rental store to instal a Magic 3 mod chip on my phat PS2., it was so sick, no swap and capable of playing any burned games discs. You could rent PS2 games and use any old burner to make a direct copy and it just booted right up it was incredible. I went from paying $50 a game and only able to play a few games, to being able to rent games for $2, and burn the game onto a DVD. I had every single PS2 game out there. It was "magical" lol. I've since modded a gamecube, wii, switch, saturn (saroo), and wiiu. But it was the PS2 that was the coolest by far.
Have watched all of these multiple times. Still watching again. Such a great series.
I would like to see a "Mistakes Were Made" video on the Nintendo Switch. There is a rather large hardware exploit in the launch model thanks to the Tegra RCM functionality being left enabled.
There is one
A compilation episode? Hell yeah! I need to get some popcorn.
Hi! I'd like to inform you that there is an italian channel called "DallaTV" that is bringing the same format as yours about how consoles were hacked in the first place, and it is using parts of your videos. I don't believe that you authorized him, and I don't believe that this could be called fair use. Just tought you might find it useful
Finally embracing those of us who wanna sleep with Modern Vintage Gamer
EDIT: As in "fall asleep to"!
👀 sounds fun
lol
nah, as in sleep with.
@@Lou-yf1jo He's not my type but I can respect it.
Sure that's what ya meant buddy, sure.
Its always interesting to see how big companies security which millions were invested in is defeated by hobbyists
Clearly either secure enough to be found out or sheer incompetence
It's definitely a result of the fact that the hackers basically have infinity fuckups as they can always try again vs the security developers who get 1.
Meanwhile the xbox one is still unhacked somehow???? I'm still so confused about thw XBOX being the o ly unhacked console so far
@@ToxicMothBoi Microsoft knows A LOT about security.
It's very hard to protect against an attack if the attacker have full physical access to the system.
This series is by far my favourite of yours. Hopefully putting them together in a single video nets you some more views on these great deep dives. I still think the Wii Tweezers was my absolute favourite.
It had me wiizing
The bit about an ARM processor in the Wii highlights a sort of dark age of computers: in most modern computer systems, the main CPU doesn't control the system. It's a microcontroller somewhere else that decides when you can power on, when you can boot, and when you can use it.
On the flipside, if you can control said microcontroller, you basically own the system. So it's just kicking the can down the road.
And... You can! At least w/ certain AMD-based core/libre-boot flashed systems!
Stuff like this is part of why I'm majoring in cybersecurity.
Pirating games back in the day was far more fun than playing them
It still is in my opinion! :D
Nice. It would be great to see videos on the Dreamcast, Nintendo Wii-U and the Nintendo Switch. This really brought back memories on everything from hot swapping the xbox hard drive. To swapping memory sticks in the PSP and having to have to folders with the same name and the 2nd having a percent sign. I remember when I hacked my PS3 I installed a custom firmware on my ipod and used that to trick the PS3 so I could jail break it. Good stuff!
Its relaxing to watch this video menawhile with all the controversies and cancelling going on in the background on youtube. No troubles, just a movie about pirated games and consoles and hacking attempts! Perfect to watch when i am bored or have a long Travel
I still love the Vita in 2024!!!
Definitely one of my favorite Handheld/Game Consoles of All Time!! Got one in 2013-2014 originally and I have loved my time with it!! I now have 3 of em, and would have a few more if I were not so BROKE these days.....
Great Video MVG!!
MVG, please keep using the music at 14:08 in perpetuity in your videos. For me not only its the coolest track that goes perfectly with your content and brings back the nostalgia of my childhood, but also a great standard signature trade mark of your channel
LANTUS! I've been following you since the O.G. Xbox. Thanks for all your contributions to the Xbox and gaming community! Long Live Xbox!
wow... I realize some people here have comments about it being boring but seriously?? This is such an in-depth video it's crazy. Must have taken you forever to put it together. I'm sure the modders were geeking out the whole time. Totally amazing!! This is definitely TV worthy material. Like a commenter had mentioned you should definitely make a DVD of it.🔥
Over an hour in. Man, this is some great stuff. I never got into the mod scene, but I appreciate those modders that have uncharted new territory and given us some great emulators, in turn.
Man, i always loved the mistakes were made videos. Thanks for this movie.
This entire series is perfect to watch. It’s interesting to see how much money these big gaming companies put into there security yet they still get cracked. Fantastic series mate, cheers !
This video is a treasure of video game history, thank you Lantus.
Everybody going with the new youtube meta of long compilation videos after Spiffing Brit's findings 😂
Good! (autistic me likes long form videos, thanks Spiffing Brit!)
@@komidanohitouko Same here also as an autistic with adhd! :D
ive seen all these as individual episodes... but I needed some long form stuff to listen to while doing file operations on a server today, and im all the way to the Saturn! MVG never change brother, never change.
Now this is what I needed today since it is "main room + server cable management" day!
Sat through this in one sitting. Anyone, or everyone who is a part of the modding community, curious about it, or interested in hacking hardware for right to use as the owner wills, will definitely enjoy this. I am a bigger fan of the Wii U modding because it sets nicely in-between and with modded ability to play my old GC games, Wii games, of course Wii U, and emulate nicely about ever console before it. I stick to what I legally own on it of course. I do try to be an honest person. I have looked into a few Home-brew as well. To me it will always be the system that didn't get the love it deserved.
That library day rental fee paid itself back so fast in high school :D
I'm saying!!!. That L card blew my margins wide open from the blockbuster days. Plus they had a bigger back catalog
Watched this over a time period of not quite 24 hours in segments, well worth the watch, thank you. Kind of upset that the Switch was not covered, but it's all good, this is an excellent look back at console hard and soft modding for homebrew and rips. Thank you!
what i love about how you make your vids and info boss-man is that their timeless, like it your info will never go old. Thank you for many years of learning from one of the best there is!
Holy shit, this gonna be good. One mystery I've always wondered about the buffer overflow exploit for PsP is why would it work sometimes but not always? Kernel cookies? Memory being in just the right arrangement? Always fascinated me.
Thank you for posting this.
The more secure something is, the more likely someone will try and break in.
Would think by now there would be a law that modern consoles, which are actually dedicated computers, can't be locked down forever by the manufacturer, that causes stupid levels of E-waste which is simply unsustainable.
In the states they have a law that companies can't lock their phones down forever.. They must unlock them at a certain time frame.. I think it's time for a law for consoles and home PCs to do the same..
*"MISTAKES WERE MADE."*
My Dad to Me.
"Mistakes Were Made", AKA "Our security will stop reverse-engineering"- Every console manufacturer CEO
Most of these i got to watch as i was having my breakfast this will be really nice to listen through out my work shift
Love this. Seen more of them individually but all together in order is awesome.
Love it!
Please more of those long Videos.
Plainly Difficult does also this, where he puts his entire Videos made in a Year to one Video.
I had an original Xbox. I hard modded it it and reaped the benefits. Same with the PS1. Dreamcast was easy. Thank you Usenet.
The one thing that has always amazed me about MOD chips is that there are a zillion solder points on a system's motherboard and how it was figured out which ones needed to be connected to the MOD chip.
People do literally everything just so they can play their pirated/burned games. Crazy right?!
These same people approach anything with the same curiosity. "How does it work?". They then proceed to either removing components from the circuits or tapping into the data flow. Older gen stuff was LOT easier to bypass clearly, but in the end they want to know what makes it tick.
All you need is the chip documentation and then apply boolean algebra
I usually watch these back to back anyways, having it in one massive video is amazing!
3ds mod and homebrew scene is the absolute best.
MVG should absolutely make a video about how 3DS security was defeated in general. He made a video on Cubic Ninja but somehow not a comprehensive review of other interesting developments.
Time splitter was such a good game. Especially with that map maker. Icing on the cake.
A feature length video about console modding? Glorious
No mistakes were made here
until.....
There will be a new Mistakes were Made video
But this is not new, it's just compilation of old videos
Now we need Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S and PlayStation 5 (and maybe Dreamcast) to complete the list.
@@minhcuonghuynh2768I believe he already did a video about the Dreamcast and how homebrew/piracy was easy due to the MIL-CD oversight
@@minhcuonghuynh2768 The dreamcast will be very short: "oops mil-cd" is basically the whole story
@@minhcuonghuynh2768 and the Nintendo Switch videos to be included in this compilation. (f*ck Nintendo)
Visting your channel from time to time is truly one of the best experiences on the internet
Thank you SO much for making this. I love having long videos to listen to while I'm working.
Brilliant video!! Spent all day hammering an aweful bug. This got me through it!
Great stuff. Accessible to me, as someone with relatively little technical knowledge of console hardware.
I loved this compilation, i've had most of that consoles. ❤
Oh man! I remember doing the swap method, hahaha. I used a toothpick to hold that button down.
I really hope consoles will continue to get pwned as I love the "mistakes were made" content so much 🙏🤞 thank you MVG. Maybe a future idea could be covering the history of early iOS jailbreaking? That was a great time period and I used to write guides for tethered and untethered jailbreaks on a now defuct blog site.
MVG, this is one of the best videos of your channel, pretty insightful and interesting !
Loving the video/movie/feature length documentary! One thing though, and I'm not 100%, but the voiceover in parts sounds like an MVG AI voice. Especially in contrast to the live parts. I guess it makes sense with the amount of content here.
no? this is a compilation of videos he has made before. dude's narration is just monotone. quit accusing him of using AI
Mate, I literally fall asleep to these but the videos were too short. Thanks a bunch!
Amazing work! Thanks.
Nice. I always used to come back to these videos.
One thing tho: You should have included the Star Force and SecuRom videos in here, for sure. As a "Honorable Mentionş" at the end of the marathon.
You could have also included all the "sketchy" security measures on the Amiga and C64 etc.....
But I guess that is up for another marathon video.
Nah, I have a playlist just like this, and you've made it into a full video. You legend.
Love these deep dives, specially for a fellow 80s born dev that also lived through the scene!
Oh man... Saw Tmbinc pop up while on the GameCube topic... Talk about unlocking a forgotten memory. Was really big into modding since the OG Xbox , PSP, and Xbox 360. Good to see X-S is still online too
fairly certain I've watched all of these parts on their separate. love this kind of content!
I open it in TV and watching like a movie. Thanks MVG for great memories
31:48 - Swap Magic sounds very similar to the GameShark swap trick before the Messiah chip came out. The only catch was that the game had to be on a CD-R, so many DVD games were modified to fit on a CD. Those were fun times!
Awesome video as always! Thank for all the work you put into this! It nice all this history is being preserved in your videos.
One of the absolutely best Channels. Thank you for your content. You have a great talent
Is this so supposed to be sleep content? If so, thank you! Love your videos and very informative. I love learning about the industry from an insider. You’re the best!
This was epic! Thank you. I love how now you can buy cheap Chinese handhelds that play all these old games too! For £55 I bought a PSP clone that will run everything up to and including ps1. These days like Movies I feel it's just run for maximum profit and the games are not what they once were, originality has gone and so many sequels!
As videos of Liverpool goes this was pretty comprehensive but as you already guessed there is far too much to experience in a single day.
For reference, at 43 square miles, Liverpool is the same size as Disney World resort, so use that as a guide for how much there is just to walk around let alone spend any time at. And that is just the city, there is a crazy amount of attractions in the surrounding areas too.
If you are ever this side of the water I would love to show you some of the sights. The video was great for naming so many places but it really did not give almost any detail about any of them, but I suppose that would make it 7 hours long if they did.
I did get a real kick out of your reaction to Central Library. I was lucky enough to be part of the team involved in its rebuild a few years ago and I get that awestruck look every time I see it, and it's always fun to see other people get the same.
Wrong video...
Both rev. 1.6 Xboxes I own have LPC buses, so the statement about them being removed in this revision appears to be incorrect. Also, the Xbox flash memory in the rev. 1.6 Xboxes is located inside the Xyclops chip near the aforementioned LPC bus, and not the Xcalibur video encoder. Aside from those nit-picks, another excellent and informative video.
Ah Yes time to rewatch videos ive wateched 1000 times that have now been put in a compilation i can watch 1000 times. THANK YOU
Excellent video man💪
words cannot describe how long ive been waiting for this video, thanks mvg
Already watched all of these individuals but imma watch this entire thing anyway because he makes great content so gotta support with the watch time.
Uploaded 5min ago. Don't usually catch these so early.
Kool video my dood..reminded me of the good ole days when i bought the swap magic kit for PS2 to play backups/burned games😂😂
6:14 I knew about the PlayStation Hack, but not this one!
However, I remember a documentation with the Scrambler/De-Scrambler source code for the PlayStation 2, the author only managed to make a dump, but not to reproduce in burning, but this documentation was very informative.
For the Playstation 2 and the Boot of a KELF, all this started with the release of the Memor32, I still remember this teasing with this small 36cm cathode ray screen and an original memory card "with a modification containing a tablecloth".
I remain convinced that they had known about this possibility for several years, but they preferred to wait until the end of the console's life.
jimmikaelkael being French, I still remember the hours of exchanges on MSN and first test on carrying out an encryption/decryption of a KELF, I could even complement this superb video of how they managed to do it !
FINALLY, replacing the MVG playlist in random order I made to sleep to with this MVG curated masterpiece.
Thank you good sir!
this is amazing, yet i crave MORE lol
Thank you for your amazing work man!
This video should be archived ❤
Thanks man MVG for collecting the curious stories of how they hacked the consoles if it took them a while to do it or it was very fast like the first XBOX
This is amazing. Thank you so much. More mega mixes please 🥺
i love this mvg, do you think you'd be able to make a marathon of anti piracy?
I am 50+ years old so my beginnings was on consoles (the Philips Videopac G7000 / Magnavox Odyssey 2) and I even imported games from Japan to play even if I could not read them.
I was a collector and then started hording games with piracy in parallel because it wasn't always easy to even get your hands on an orginal and it all started when i got my first Super Wild card for SNES from a friend. Even if i was using (but not owning) PC when i was young I was hearing all the time that you need to update your PC continuesly if you wanted to play the newest games (what wasn't really true) so i never really bothered to play on PC especially because i was happy with my consoles. The advent of CD/DVD started putting a damper on my gaming experience because of the loading times (you can not imagine how i hate the doors in Resident Evil games as example) but still the games was fun and diverse. I then started play on PC and actually never really stopped even if now a day, i really don't know what to play. I stopped buying consoles some years back and i think i will never go back to it. All the installation times, the patches and F stupid programming are putting me of. What i mean with F stupid programming?? I think it was with the last of us 2 on PS4. You have an installation disc and a gaming disc. I put the installation disc in and need to wait 20 minutes to install that. I get the message to put the game disc in, i do so and i see that it is in the wrong language so i change it. What the game tells me?? To insert the install disc and wait 10 minutes more. Then when i want to play, it wants to update. 45 Minutes have passed before i could start play. So for what exactly do i need console?? The best of a console was that you was ready to play a game within 5 minutes including installing the system. Apart that, remember PAL games for SNES or PS1 where one of the first things you see is flags to choose your language?? Why did we lose those starting from PS2? Why is there not an option (to my knowledge) where you choose your prefered language in the menu of the console if it is so advanced? Why did the installation disc of the last of us 2 didn't ask me for that language i want?? Is that too much to ask?? If my memory isn't wrong, when i tried to say not to the update, it didn't let me start the game so why ask me at all??
Nintendo was done with me with the Switch, it is to small (power) for home and to big (size) to be portable so how i travel. It is not about software, it is about hardware.
At the moment i have no plans to buy PS5, bought PS4 only for Horizon and Microsoft isn't in my home since Xbox360.
Do i mean that those consoles are bad? No, but i don't see any motive to buy a console anymore.
You want to tell me about emulation of consoles in other consoles?? I don't know, I think that every console i have apart the PS4 are modded and even if i have the parts to update some consoles or mod the view that are not (saying example i have a PS2 with HDD and modchip already but have the things to mod another with FMB and SDD), i can not really find a motivation to do it.
When as example Dark Alex was active, i was on top of the game, i new what would work with that, had the battery in my hands and knew what the newest HEN was, what firnware was possible to use etc.. Now i would need to start over and probably spend a time checking my systems, batteries and study the newest ways to to mod the PSP.
Last but not least, maybe a smaller problem but still a problem is game formats and what is the correct one. What i mean is that some emulators want the game in this format but the other emulator what it in the other format. Or example you download a game, check it with a rom organizer or checker like AGBx (the one for x360) and it tells you that it is a bad dump but 1) it works anyway on an emulator or the console 2) it was example from a "good reputation" collection.
I think it is just to much time/work for for what you get and even if it would be interesting to see the homebrew games, it is probably even less worth my time.
I think that gaming is loosing a lot of "attractiveness" in the past years and especially the consoles. I am tired of my "console" being the center of my home, i don't need my console to have a browser, i have a pc, i don't need my console to be playing DVD/BD, i have a DVD/BD player. Software is not really better, i don't need every game to be open world, i don't need every survival game to be the same, i don't need my game to be 100 hours long for a story you could have told me in 5 minutes. Last but not least, i would like devs to release games without bugs and be ashamed if they need to update the game because it means they didn't do their job right especially in console!
Because of all of this, i think that piracy is slowing down as well.
i understand so very little of your videos but they are fascinating.
Sometimes, you just Prepare for Disappointment.
Really awesome video, i love Marathon video as i can watch them throughout the day even if they were watched already. Did you plan to do marathon video based on gaming system ?
already watched all of these, and loved all of them. i'm absolutely going to use this to fall asleep later
A most fascinating and enthralling watch.
modding my playstation3 was the best and worst thing i've done for the console. the best part about modding it was getting to play LittleBigPlanet online again. modding and homebrew is awesome dude.
Awesome video explaining everything brings back so many memories
Thanks now i can learn all this stuff i have already learned, what a blessing