Psychic Detective: first protected Playstation's game

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 · 24 Nov 2019

Psychic Detective Playstation NTSC US cover.

Psychic Detective is probably the first Playstation's game protected against piracy. Most probably it checks the saved TOC after the game's disc is changed, in order to prevent the swap disk, a common method used in 1996 to play pirated game on the Playstation before the modchip era.

Here is an article from 1996, distributed thought BBS:

 
First attack from Sony against PSX Copies: 

DEAD END ALERT: U R N0T 3L!T3 3NUF 2 P13RAT D!Z CD 
PSYCHIC BURN OUT: FEEDDEAD C0EDBABE 

This Messie looks like the Guru Alert from the Amiga 
so check it out it was from the Game: Psychic Detective 
PAL Version over 3 CDs from EA after Booting .......... 

written by John Sinclair - Drive By Shootin BBS - PSX FREAKS