[charlie_ps2]

Calm down man.

Arakon is an expert. He knows this stuff inside out and was telling you, who was asking exactly what's what.

PS2 original games contain proprietary information in the pre-pit zone that Sony's pressing equipment can access. The ECMA 279 standard for DVD-R precludes the design of any access to this zone by common DVD devices; there is a parallel situation with CD-R device.

Therefore PS2s use proprietary firmware or software to extract and compare info from the pre-pit area (that cannot be read by noprmal CD/DVD readers and thus cannot be burned by the burners) so that the boot go ecision can be taken by the PS2.

Arakon acknowldeged the possibility that a firware rewrite that stepped outside international standards (which is what Sony have done) could get round this question.

So he isn't a bigmouth and doesn't deserve your outburst. Perhap you might apologise to him.