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I normally buy the console day-one so that I have a version that supports the inevitable hardware security weaknesses... but the price makes me knees weak instead.
I'm a RETVRN guy for attack vectors on consoles being hardware based like for the PS1 era. Like I'm sure it is insanely harder than finding some sort of software bug in the bloat but also you can't security patch "guy with a soldering iron"
PS2 slim straw and piece of tissue paper in the disc drive to swap out DVDs for burned discs was my first hardware hack lol.
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Drilling a hole in the back of my dreamcast to tie a string to the lid sensor so that I could do the swap trick to play Japanese games is a very fond memory of mine.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy: