This is soo cool, I can't belive I'm actually a TonyHAX (the PSX/PS1 softmod exploit) contributor.
It's been just two days since the last release, but this one comes with very fancy and juicy improvements! Changelog Added automatic patching against anti-mochip. Fixes #37, #74 and #76, plus prob...
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- Added an option to launch tonyhax as a boot CD, so you can benefit from the automatic game patching if your console does not have a stealth modchip. Thanks @alex-free!
The background to why I did this is different then the stated reason above. Here's a copy paste from a different forum post:
I had this Eureka moment last night. I own an October 1995 USA Playstation. So why not burn TonyHax's loader .exe to it's own CD?
These early consoles are susceptible to the METHOD ONE: The Audio Menu [Safe and very easy] swap trick. For the past 24 years this had one issue, the original TOC of the legit game disc would be used. This mostly worked but you'd get issues with some games not booting or messed up audio, and you'd have to hot swap trick again if it was a multi-disc game at some point (many people incorrectly said playing multi-disc PSX games with just the swap method was not possible!). But by using TonyHAX, you can swap the TonyHax boot cd using this method with any legit game and then once the TonyHax Boot CD is booted you can swap your backup/homebrew! Finally, this is how you pull it off:
Turn on the Playstation 1 with No CD/game inserted and select the CD Player in the main menu.
Open the CD drive. Place any legit game disc that the console can read normally into the drive.
Now you need to block the lid sensor which is a circle to the right of the CD drive so that the Playstation thinks the lid is closed. In my opinion, the easist thing to do is to take a hunk of aluminum foil and mold it to the right size to the length from the pointy bit which normally would press down this sensor to the sensor button in the fully depressed state. You just need the PSX to think the lid is closed. Once you do this, the legit game disc will spin for a second, and then suddenly stop and display at least one track in the CD Player menu.
Okay, so right now your Playstation should have a legit game disc which is not moving and stopped in the CD drive, and something blocking the sensor so the console thinks the CD drive is still closed. Now, remove that legit game disc and replace it with your burned TonyHax Boot CD. Use the controller to then exit the CD Player menu, and wait. The PSX will show the black license screen and proceed to boot the TonyHAX Boot CD.
Now you can remove whatever you jammed into that lid sensor, wait for the burned TonyHax Boot CD to stop spinning, remove it, and put in the burned backup game or homebrew CD you actually want to play! Then close the Playstation's lid, and play like normal.
