@blackshadow That's one of the more creative ways around piracy, but in order to taunt people for using pirate copies the system it is running on has to have some way to determine whether the copy is a counterfeit or not.

and in theory, measures like this can be bypassed with emulation.
All the files of a PS1 disc can be copied as shown in the video,

what your CD drive in your PC cannot do anything about, though is the information that tells the PS1 console whether the copy is legitimate or not which is on a separate track that is not accessible by common CD burner drives used in PC's.

and a Playstation 1 with a mod chip or an emulator such as PSX can get around this problem.

@Clyde said in Fake RetroPIE Oficial facebook group:

...is said to have inspired its name. Another explanation originates from employees at Post...

Another possible origin involves its creator randomly combining the names of two items he saw from around the room.

@ballboff AFAIK, it depends of the licenses you acquired and the laws in your country. If either of them do allow copying the roms on the cartridges for private use, you should be on the safe side. If not, you're very likely violating those licenses and/or laws.

@buzz Didn't know it was a known problem. For what it's worth, whenever I will see some, I will report them.

@herb_fargus Changed the links to httpx. Yeah, don't want them to get any more clicks - thanks for the tip.

@itsnitro said in Another RetroPie Incident (Maybe?):

Alright, so Pierre isn't a bad guy and is just giving Unbox Therapy a review version.
But could this be an issue anyway? Should we go contact Unbox Therapy about it?

That French guy has an account here too, I forgot his forum handle but I remember him posting a prototype version of this unit on the forum longtime ago. You probably still can find it if you search for it.

@Corvin Let them enjoy their money... till a lawsuit hits them lol