100% no. You just needed an original game, the swap trick was even easier to pull of than on PS1.
Also, it was easier with an early model due to the disc access light (left out in later round button models). There are lots of videos out there showing how to do it.
Afaik it doesn’t work with multi-disc-games, unless…

Isn’t this basically the same as Liftoff! from Task Force Games / Fritz Bronner?
The same guy who later made the computer version, also known as Buzz Aldrins Race Into Space (a great game btw).

A few years ago, Fritz Bronner still sold copies of Liftoff! directly, don’t know if he still has some.

Sturmwind and Geist Force are missing. Thought the latter one sadly only got a fan release, it feels like a modern Panzer Dragoon though.

nah, you didn’t need a bootdisc or a modchip to copy games on PS1 and Saturn (google “swap trick”). And the Ps1 thrived especially because of the copies - as you still needed the console, Sony could boast that it sold millions of them, so any developer would develop for a huge audience and probably high sales numbers.
T…

No mention of Master of Orion II ?
Seriously, that series had a good start, then got an excellent, almost perfect sequel (with the balance patch for faction cost points it got a lot better), before it all went to hell with the third part and its hyper-micro-management - which was on standard setting automated, so that…

Regarding that we had positive cases after some bright people insisted on an on-site-meeting where everybody tested negative just the day prior, I’d say: Get tested before AND after any event you attend at the moment!

Sorry, but no. The rain physics in GT7 are rubbish.
The video above from the AC mod more realistically depicts a fast drive in rain conditions. You HAVE to know the track, you HAVE to anticipate corners, you are really mostly driving blind - that’s why professional racing rarely takes place in this kind of weather.

Just…

where in the world are cars without basic coverage still allowed on the road? The insurance is normally tied to the vehicle, not the driver. The insurance company has to pay out to the victim first, but if p.ex. somebody was driving who was not allowed to do so under the clauses of the contract, they can get the money…

why did your insurance pay? That’s just plain wrong. HER insurance should have had to pay everything, yours shouldn’t have had to pay a cent.

More than that, under the laws in my country, the insurance of the rental company HAS to pay me for the damages my car sustained during that stunt. THEN they can go after the f***wits who did it, and get their money back from them. But without this basic insurance that covers the damage done to OTHER cars/persons, no…

what upgrade?
The Fiesta XR2i 16V hat an 1.8 litre engine with 130hp as stock - I assumed it was quite a similar engine?

With its 950kg it went from 0-60 in 8 seconds flat, faster than the first Focus ST (which had 170hp iirc). And it went to 200km/h - if not for the gear ratio and limiter, it could’ve gone much faster.

The Cossies were no Escorts though. Yes, I know, Escort RS Cosworth it says on the badge. But the engine is bolted in longitudinally, because what you have is a Ford Sierra with a shortened wheelbase, on which coachbuilder Karmann had planted an Escort shell.
Drove one once, it is one of the best cars I ever had the…

The thing is: We do NOT want reality here.
This is a Game. Gran Turismo was always famous because we COULD race those exotics WHENEVER WE WANTED. Alongside with more mundane cars nobody in their right mind would want to take on a track.
That is what made the Gran Turismo series great. That is what is missing from this…

I think he still holds a grudge from when he tried to buy engines off of them and they told him: “njet”.
That was one of the reasons why SpaceX (had to) developed all of their stuff on their own. And now it is one of their greatest assets.

Sorry, but no. The Volvo 850 was a very, very spacious car for its day. A 2m tall person could drive in it for hours on end and get out relaxed thanks to the comfortable seats.
But it was rejected as a police car in the US in part because it was too cramped. Excuse me?
How much room do you need? What kind of gear do you…

Seeing things like this I always have to think back to the old Mercedes S-class test on Top Gear where Clarkson demonstrated their night vision in the dashboard. Something like this could help in these conditions I assume? Or would the cold winds dim it down to be useless?

Saga prices were already nuts 15 years ago, even though the game never was THAT rare. The Euro version (with the case always falling to pieces) was already going for hundreds of Euros when I got a japanese sealed box with spinecard for 49€. Granted... there is a slight language barrier in reading the text...

The Witcher 3 also did not run too well on Xbox 360/PS3 back then. Granted, better than GTA V, but still not exactly stellar, and with worse graphics than the Switch version.
What was bad back then was that even the PC version at its best hat noticeably worse graphics than the trailers were showing, and CDPR was…

Yeah, nobody now remembers the Witcher1 - it was so bad, that they basically revamped the whole game and put it out as a free “special edition” update, clocking in at several GB (back then unheard of).
I still have the original, unaltered version around here somewhere and hoo boy, it feels rough, almost unplayable at…

The main problem does imho not lie with critical role, but with articles like these who fail to grasp the basics of pen&paper roleplay.
It is a form of escapism, I’d compare it to improvised theater without a stage to play on. Instead of a script you have a gamemaster and a loose set of rules to guide the participants…