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I'm sure this topic will do little more than highlight my ignorance, but I seriously don't get it.
Sometime after the retro age began, I started joining related sites en masse to try and get myself up to speed (and also to nab Mega Drive games for cheap).
One thing I noticed is that there was an industrial-scale witch hunt on those sites that had marketplaces, all because many people were trying to pass off clone consoles as the real thing (many times unknowingly).
I get it... You don't want to get ripped off. But, at the same time, the ONLY proof people were looking for when deciding whether a console was real or not was a splash screen that appeared upon booting up the system and said, "This product was manufactured under license by SEGA Ltd..."
But couldn't pirates just fake this screen? They could fake the whole console on both the hardware and software level (sometimes even improving upon both), so why not this? I never got it.
It was really annoying to see because it meant you were effectively walking on digital eggshells every time you felt like buying or selling something, and people got the hammer a ton for either trolling or getting out of hand with their accusatory paranoia.
Any idea if that screen could be faked as well? Because that would have been pretty damn funny to witness lol.
Sometime after the retro age began, I started joining related sites en masse to try and get myself up to speed (and also to nab Mega Drive games for cheap).
One thing I noticed is that there was an industrial-scale witch hunt on those sites that had marketplaces, all because many people were trying to pass off clone consoles as the real thing (many times unknowingly).
I get it... You don't want to get ripped off. But, at the same time, the ONLY proof people were looking for when deciding whether a console was real or not was a splash screen that appeared upon booting up the system and said, "This product was manufactured under license by SEGA Ltd..."
But couldn't pirates just fake this screen? They could fake the whole console on both the hardware and software level (sometimes even improving upon both), so why not this? I never got it.
It was really annoying to see because it meant you were effectively walking on digital eggshells every time you felt like buying or selling something, and people got the hammer a ton for either trolling or getting out of hand with their accusatory paranoia.
Any idea if that screen could be faked as well? Because that would have been pretty damn funny to witness lol.
