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I had a similar little side business in high school putting chips into 1st gen playstations and selling pirated games, then someone i knew who did the same but at a much higher volume got busted and I immediately stopped. The only thing that ever happened to him though was he got his computers seized.

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Hah yeah me too, I had games shipped from Asia in 1997 or so, that was so exotic back then that people came over to my house to see what packages from the other side of the world looked like (hint: exactly like the local ones, except maybe with a few more stickers). Then in the later versions of the PS1 the solder points became so small that I needed to solder the chips in with a magnifying glass and a very thin needle-like soldering gun tip, which I accidentally got right a few times and then botched a customer's Playstation with. Whoops. Stopped doing it after that - it was getting repetitive anyway, and profits had always been very low, even before factoring in my time.

How did you go from perfect English in your first sentence to ridiculous abbreviations in your second? ("tht ... tho")?

How do you go from friendly to total dick in so few characters?

Is there any possible outcome to your question that would serve any purpose other than to rile the parent poster?

I'm not the best typist on the iPad, I have corrected my mistakes.

Sorry.

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