The next time you load up a PS1 game on your phone and the startup sound chimes perfectly, take a moment to thank the faceless archivists in the Redump forums. They are the ones who sat through hours of drive tests, compared ring codes under magnifying glasses, and argued about subchannel analysis so that you could play Spyro without a crash.
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