Argentine here. These types of games are literally iconic. They are not just a simple curiosity as it might seem from other countries, they are an inseparable part of the GTA and Playstation 2 phenomenon in Latin America. But it is also worth noting that it does not necessarily have to do with not being able to buy the original game. In fact they could be quite easy to get if you chipped your console and found it in a second-hand store/fair (sometimes even "official" or "serious" stores also sold second-hand games). It had more to do with the fact that those same games coexisted with their modified variations of Spiderman, Sonic or Dragon Ball. And since your console could run them and they were cheap; Why not buy them too? Why, as a 10-12 year old, wouldn't you buy a game that has Sonic and Niko Bellic on the same cover?
Brazilian here. Let's say if something exists, there's a Grand Theft Auto San Andreas bootleg version for chipped PS2 of that thing here in Brazil. Also, the Batmobile at 4:28 became canon on GTA franchise, when Rockstar brought the Vigilante in GTA Online
The Spider-Man bootleg video is actually a small movie made to follow along with the game, you can find it in the wayback machine, i remember having this as a kid and being very confused I'm not sure the movie was made to be promoted by the game or something like that, it's very crazy either way
Homie gave me a copy of GTA SA for my birthday that had a Hummer H3, Lamborghini Diablo, Honda Civic, etc. no logos, just said it when you got into the car on the left hand side. As an adult I realize there was never name brand vehicles and that he hooked it up with some weird low-key brand name texture mod.
@@B1ngu5 Woah bud, if you stacked a billion upright, the stack would be approximately 67.9 miles high, but if you stack a million upright the stack would be roughly 43 feet tall. Definitely not a billion dollar company
as a guy from iraq i used to buy these games for 0.7$ a game but it was shitty cause no game was complete i had to buy original games discs delivered to me from usa
6:12 this screenshots comes from a bootleg movie called "Spider-Man Reloaded" it's preserved fully in wayback machine with it's sequel called "spider-man vs scream pânico" i think don't remember all that well
Lived in Romania during the 2000s and can tell you these are as iconic to eastern europe as they are to latam players lol. Had a kid whose brother lent us GTA games at random, some bootlegs, some actual copies. I only managed to install a copy of GTA 3 with an "irl mod", some skins for Claude, and a messed up radio that only played a handful of shitty songs on the MP3 player. Still one of the best games I played lol
the brazilian budokai mods are wild too, it’s kind of hard to get find videos of just because of algorithms and shit but they are very worth checking out
Hey I have a copy of a GTA san andreas: sonic! It even came with the hot coffe mod installed, which I’ve always found pretty funny to include in a sonic mod
I bought some of these. It was just $4. I tried GTA sonic (yes you can turn into golden sonic and be invisible if you press and hold L3 and R3) And batman of course (you could summon batmobile)
That bootleg Batman city says "DVD game" on it. that's one of there ways of saying it's a PS2 bootleg game. There's also "game station" means for PS1,and "game station 2" means for PS2. Game box, or x game means for original xbox. There's a few more too
Amazing video Mawkington!! I loved the sound bites and little edits you did like at 25:34 my favorite boot legs were GTA 5 legacy and Tyracraft I can’t believe how good they were for being on the PS2, actually quite insane! Keep up the amazing work Mawk absolutely loved the video! P.S absolutely loved Mawk Tower 💪🏻
Dude, the Playstation Graveyard in Iraq is hella sick! To think there are lost bootlegs just sitting there 🔥 and Tyracraft seems like a fever dream 💯✨ So cool Keep up the great work brother! My G6 💜🙏🏻✨
I had the Sonic version of San Andreas when I was a kid and when I had some friends at home they wanted to show me the dating missions in the game, and to my misfortune the Hot Coffee mod was enabled so I had the displeasure of seeing my hero Sonic having explicit sex with a realistic woman😐 My friends laughed the hell up but I was so shocked I turned off the TV as soon as I realized what was happening, and I was so afraid my mom would see it I turned off the console too and I think I never touched the game again after that😂
The GTA bootleg here in Indonesia it was more popular than it should be lol. I remember playing countless version of it. because people here like to just explore aimlessly for hours instead of doing the mission
As a Brazilian, im impressed with how much depth u put into our ps2 games history, i really was not expecting to hear a English voice saying things like "bomba patch" and the geomatrix group in general
Holy upin ipin gta san andreas is one of the most popular gta sa bootlegs ever. What a surprise to see it being talked by someone outside both of the country.
"Southern America" Sir, that is South America.... Also, the reason why Minecraft lags the sound when you change a setting is because the IO that is uses for the HDD/saves is the same IO that it uses to process the sound/music. So when you write data to the save game, it lags and is unable to stream new data for the music, so it loops the last few bites of sound data until it can stream more sound data. Essentially filling the buffer then being unable to empty the buffer. You can do the same thing with games such as Nascar Thunder 2004, 2008, Prappa da Rapper, or NFS Most Wanted. It will buffer a track, then loop the end until it reads more data. The "daft punk" sound you get is it interpreting essentially a null bite data sector as sound and channeling satan.
Hey mattski. Everything ok with you dude? I have to check in 😃 I loved the video as per so Just keep being positive man. I’ll see you on the next 👍👍 stay safe.
I can see why a channel with such good editing was advertised in the text chat of orange box on the xbox360. But that is old topic. These are also common in Pakistan but from what I've seen it's a bit more modest or like, no "GTA HUGE JACKMAN WOLVERINE EDITION" type thing happening. I mean, I have a copy of Ace combat zero that looks pretty well made. I do know that these discs are pirated, my father told me that it was.
I remember having discs of GTA San andreas with playable kratos and Sonic, and they were just character replacements, GTA is not the only game that had this type of bootleg stuff, If I remember, I had a copy of Twisted Metal : Head on that replaced the background music with arabic music.
3:04 HAHAHHAAHAHAHH. I remember this used to be sold literally in every single corner in Syria back then. It is based on the Syrian TV show called Bab Al Hara.
15:35 This looks more like Silent hill. Imagine the gta SA map without cars or pedestrians with fog everywhere and the occasional zombie that would be so cool
there's another version of PS2 minecraft called MINECRAFT PS2 REVIVAL PROJECT but i think it was abandoned and this one is much better,hope they add survival
I'm from Vancouver, it barely snows out here. In 2010 we had brought in fake snow for the tourists and told all the homeless to fuck off and gave them bus tickets to Maple Ridge. I guess the city had that much money invested in the games back then, it was a pretty big deal for a lot of us here back then.
I remember when I was a kid I'd get my uncle in Pakistan to send over bootlegs that were literally £1 each to play on my modchipped PS2. The bootlegs were just illegal copies of the actual games though, I never came across these weird hacked games before.
watching a PS2 video while playing NFS HPR, a remaster of the original Hot Pursuit from 2010 feels weird. i wonder if there are any bootlegs for the PS3
i don't know if its been brought up already but i'm guessing that those minecraft dvds might've probably had this other homebrew called "m-ps2-craft". i've seen a couple of those discs couple times (online, not irl sadly) and i'm pretty sure this was before tyracraft started development M-PS2 was another port that was in development along with other games (i think?) by a team of ppl called "PS2 Revival Project". it was worked on for like a couple months and then the entire "project" just died 💯💯💯 they never said a word since you might be able to find a download since it was decently popular, although the game itself didnt really have much on it from what i remember also ngl i'm realizing "mps2craft" is kind of a wack name why did they keep that M there
Great video, thoroughly enjoyed watching the crazy bootleg stuff, but couldn't help notice that all the PS2 footage is captured in 4:3 aspect ratio even when some of the games are clearly 16:9 meaning everything looks tall and thin. In your video editor you can resize the footage I'm sure, well worth doing so no more black bars on the sides.
la Playstation 2 nunca llego legalmente a Sudamérica, y si llegaba era con chip de leer copias de juegos de PS2. al comprar la PS2 te daban 20 juegos que uno pudiera elegir. GTA san Andrea ( brasil )( Dragon ball) (spiderman) etc etc... al final uno pensaba que eran diferente juego pero era el mismo Jajajajajajajajaja
You should find Dhaka vice city / vice city extreme it’s even more funnier version of gta vice city 😂. It was a must have for all Bangladeshi pc gamers.
Argentine here. These types of games are literally iconic. They are not just a simple curiosity as it might seem from other countries, they are an inseparable part of the GTA and Playstation 2 phenomenon in Latin America.
But it is also worth noting that it does not necessarily have to do with not being able to buy the original game. In fact they could be quite easy to get if you chipped your console and found it in a second-hand store/fair (sometimes even "official" or "serious" stores also sold second-hand games). It had more to do with the fact that those same games coexisted with their modified variations of Spiderman, Sonic or Dragon Ball. And since your console could run them and they were cheap; Why not buy them too? Why, as a 10-12 year old, wouldn't you buy a game that has Sonic and Niko Bellic on the same cover?
Sumando a esto: GTA Villa 1-11-14 el mejor de todos los mods jajjaja
Well, I mean Nintendo Playstation once upon a time was gonna be a thing
Batman running off the bridge just to fall and die was 10/10 gameplay
1:35 As a brazilian and conscious gamer, no way we would pay 69$ for a ubisoft game (and not even a free cracked version)
Brazilian here. Let's say if something exists, there's a Grand Theft Auto San Andreas bootleg version for chipped PS2 of that thing here in Brazil.
Also, the Batmobile at 4:28 became canon on GTA franchise, when Rockstar brought the Vigilante in GTA Online
The Spider-Man bootleg video is actually a small movie made to follow along with the game, you can find it in the wayback machine, i remember having this as a kid and being very confused
I'm not sure the movie was made to be promoted by the game or something like that, it's very crazy either way
Ironic that bootlegs ps2 are better than modern games bootlegs itself
Homie gave me a copy of GTA SA for my birthday that had a Hummer H3, Lamborghini Diablo, Honda Civic, etc. no logos, just said it when you got into the car on the left hand side. As an adult I realize there was never name brand vehicles and that he hooked it up with some weird low-key brand name texture mod.
Yeah we used to install these games with mods on our school computers lol😂
Gta 3 vice city , San Andreas 😂
It was fun 😅
The early copy of GTA 6 is leaked. It's called Vice City Next-Gen Edition.
Peak by the way
its a fan mod...
@@bricksquad1993 and still somehow better then a billion dollar corporation
"GTA 6 at home" ahh game. And it's amazing
@@B1ngu5 Woah bud, if you stacked a billion upright, the stack would be approximately 67.9 miles high, but if you stack a million upright the stack would be roughly 43 feet tall. Definitely not a billion dollar company
An excellent throwback into "ports" I've also tried back in the day. Thank you for the video mate! 10/10
Thanks for watching dude! I would have loved to play GTA Spidercity as a kid haha
The idea of some bootleg games existing only as gameplay in the form of vague 240p quality recordings from 2006 is fascinating.
One of the funniest PS2 game i have is 50 Cent game dubbed Arabic by amateurs, It so funny if you’re Arabic speaker of course
Bullet proof 😂😅
lol skinny as hell early game CJ with a batman skin is something I never thought I needed to see
as a guy from iraq i used to buy these games for 0.7$ a game but it was shitty cause no game was complete i had to buy original games discs delivered to me from usa
6:12 this screenshots comes from a bootleg movie called "Spider-Man Reloaded" it's preserved fully in wayback machine with it's sequel called "spider-man vs scream pânico" i think don't remember all that well
Lived in Romania during the 2000s and can tell you these are as iconic to eastern europe as they are to latam players lol. Had a kid whose brother lent us GTA games at random, some bootlegs, some actual copies. I only managed to install a copy of GTA 3 with an "irl mod", some skins for Claude, and a messed up radio that only played a handful of shitty songs on the MP3 player.
Still one of the best games I played lol
MAWK: The PS2 has 4000 games released.
Me: Jesus Christ! That's a lot of games for one console.
the brazilian budokai mods are wild too, it’s kind of hard to get find videos of just because of algorithms and shit but they are very worth checking out
Hey I have a copy of a GTA san andreas: sonic! It even came with the hot coffe mod installed, which I’ve always found pretty funny to include in a sonic mod
I bought some of these. It was just $4.
I tried GTA sonic (yes you can turn into golden sonic and be invisible if you press and hold L3 and R3)
And batman of course (you could summon batmobile)
That bootleg Batman city says "DVD game" on it. that's one of there ways of saying it's a PS2 bootleg game. There's also "game station" means for PS1,and "game station 2" means for PS2. Game box, or x game means for original xbox. There's a few more too
>Exploring Illegal Playstation 2 Games
whoops all GTA SA bootlegs
Love how it’s a CJ’s voice for all characters lol
Amazing video Mawkington!! I loved the sound bites and little edits you did like at 25:34 my favorite boot legs were GTA 5 legacy and Tyracraft I can’t believe how good they were for being on the PS2, actually quite insane! Keep up the amazing work Mawk absolutely loved the video! P.S absolutely loved Mawk Tower 💪🏻
Forgot you were going to release this video but it’s an awesome video
I had a ton of bootleg ps2 games back in 2008
Dude, the Playstation Graveyard in Iraq is hella sick! To think there are lost bootlegs just sitting there 🔥 and Tyracraft seems like a fever dream 💯✨ So cool
Keep up the great work brother! My G6 💜🙏🏻✨
Absolutely g! You gotta checkout Tyracraft bro 🎉 apreicate you dude !! 🙏
I had the Sonic version of San Andreas when I was a kid and when I had some friends at home they wanted to show me the dating missions in the game, and to my misfortune the Hot Coffee mod was enabled so I had the displeasure of seeing my hero Sonic having explicit sex with a realistic woman😐
My friends laughed the hell up but I was so shocked I turned off the TV as soon as I realized what was happening, and I was so afraid my mom would see it I turned off the console too and I think I never touched the game again after that😂
The GTA bootleg here in Indonesia it was more popular than it should be lol.
I remember playing countless version of it.
because people here like to just explore aimlessly for hours instead of doing the mission
As a Brazilian, im impressed with how much depth u put into our ps2 games history, i really was not expecting to hear a English voice saying things like "bomba patch" and the geomatrix group in general
Thank you for watching! I tried to find as much info as I could on this. Just so fascinating 😁
Holy upin ipin gta san andreas is one of the most popular gta sa bootlegs ever. What a surprise to see it being talked by someone outside both of the country.
great work bro. didnt know about the guitar hero ones lol.
Glad to share the knowledge 😄 Thanks for watching!
"Southern America" Sir, that is South America....
Also, the reason why Minecraft lags the sound when you change a setting is because the IO that is uses for the HDD/saves is the same IO that it uses to process the sound/music. So when you write data to the save game, it lags and is unable to stream new data for the music, so it loops the last few bites of sound data until it can stream more sound data. Essentially filling the buffer then being unable to empty the buffer. You can do the same thing with games such as Nascar Thunder 2004, 2008, Prappa da Rapper, or NFS Most Wanted. It will buffer a track, then loop the end until it reads more data. The "daft punk" sound you get is it interpreting essentially a null bite data sector as sound and channeling satan.
Been a while but we back
Apreicate the patience my friend! 🙏
GTA باب الحارة 😂😂😂
9:48 This is THE PEAK!!!😂🙏 absolute CINEMA!!!🔥💯
Bro has the best intros🔥🔥🔥
Im playing eFootball 2025 on ps2 at the moment its just PES with up to date teams and squads.
10:40 i was laughing my ass off at first but honestly impressive work
Grand Theft Auto when Inferior Gift Manual walks in
Man Great Video MAWK3 and Thanks for mentioning Joel Vinesauce and I love your Vidoes man and specially you ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Taliban san Andreas goes crazy
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I wonder if that Vice City zombie total conversion made it to a PS2 bootleg
This kind of reminds me of that pre-Steam / cloud gaming era where game torrent websites were widely accessible across the 2000s.
I owned a ton of those GTA games when I was a kid, 99% of them crashed immediately
Mawk dropped another banger!
Thank you homie !! 🙏
Hey mattski. Everything ok with you dude? I have to check in 😃 I loved the video as per so Just keep being positive man. I’ll see you on the next 👍👍 stay safe.
Hey Dave! Thanks for checking in buddy. All is good here, working on a PSP video as we speak 🙏 hope you doing good buddy!!
I can see why a channel with such good editing was advertised in the text chat of orange box on the xbox360.
But that is old topic.
These are also common in Pakistan but from what I've seen it's a bit more modest or like, no "GTA HUGE JACKMAN WOLVERINE EDITION" type thing happening. I mean, I have a copy of Ace combat zero that looks pretty well made. I do know that these discs are pirated, my father told me that it was.
I remember having discs of GTA San andreas with playable kratos and Sonic, and they were just character replacements, GTA is not the only game that had this type of bootleg stuff, If I remember, I had a copy of Twisted Metal : Head on that replaced the background music with arabic music.
They should port Gollum cause ps2 can handle it.
I wish I could have a shop selling those kind of copy cats,I know it'll be a real profit and enjoyable
it is known that in the original Universe Of Batman that he Hates guns and he'll never weild one against anyone
3:04 HAHAHHAAHAHAHH. I remember this used to be sold literally in every single corner in Syria back then. It is based on the Syrian TV show called Bab Al Hara.
15:35 This looks more like Silent hill. Imagine the gta SA map without cars or pedestrians with fog everywhere and the occasional zombie that would be so cool
Really wonderfull Video :D
Perfect video to have some Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream🍦
1:50 I see that 🫣
Great video man! This was a fun one 🤣🔥
Thanks homie!! Thought you might like that Mercs 2 reference 😅
i pay 50cent for bootleg GTA when i was young, not knowing it was pirate game.
The GTA V de-make is actually really fucking cool.
I once saw the PS2 version of the game Metal Gear Solid 5 Ground Zeroes I still wonder what's on that disk
i ain't gonna lie, that GTA anime legend is kinda 🔥🔥🔥 😂
i'm going to look for it now 🤣
there's another version of PS2 minecraft called MINECRAFT PS2 REVIVAL PROJECT but i think it was abandoned and this one is much better,hope they add survival
I wish i saved so many GTA SA Bootlegs I had been given as a kid I so so sooooooo regret throwing them
I'm from Vancouver, it barely snows out here. In 2010 we had brought in fake snow for the tourists and told all the homeless to fuck off and gave them bus tickets to Maple Ridge. I guess the city had that much money invested in the games back then, it was a pretty big deal for a lot of us here back then.
I remember when I was a kid I'd get my uncle in Pakistan to send over bootlegs that were literally £1 each to play on my modchipped PS2. The bootlegs were just illegal copies of the actual games though, I never came across these weird hacked games before.
what video is your intro from? love seeing my two hobbiesin one video
8:22 upin ipin mentioned!
Finally some 'H'....igh-quality Content!
😎👌
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Bro cooked
You should do psp homebrews next they’re awesome!!!
Damn if 8 yr old me only knew about the gta SA bootleg editions I would of been playing them instead of the original😂😂
Not the Spider-Man sticker mod video game 😂😂😂😂😂
Bully background music makes me wanna go play lol
3:52 I’m from Saudi Arabia and i remember when I came back from school in 2008/09 my father bought this version of gta for me
“I AM BOOTMAN”
9:51 Where did you get it? It was removed from RUclips...
So much gta, so little time
Planning on doing a sequal for this one! Wanted to get the GTA's out of the way first 😅
Let's just say that the "se fodeu" text when you lose, means "you got fucked" lol.
Also, I like playing guitar hero with a dualshock 2!
We got GTA VI before the real GTA VI
damn GTA 5 legacy is super impressive, shouts out to daniel
Absolutely man! So impressive
watching a PS2 video while playing NFS HPR, a remaster of the original Hot Pursuit from 2010 feels weird.
i wonder if there are any bootlegs for the PS3
That’s amazing gta v legacy edition. I’m gonna see if I can get it working on my ps3 using ps2gui
i don't know if its been brought up already but i'm guessing that those minecraft dvds might've probably had this other homebrew called "m-ps2-craft". i've seen a couple of those discs couple times (online, not irl sadly) and i'm pretty sure this was before tyracraft started development
M-PS2 was another port that was in development along with other games (i think?) by a team of ppl called "PS2 Revival Project". it was worked on for like a couple months and then the entire "project" just died 💯💯💯 they never said a word since
you might be able to find a download since it was decently popular, although the game itself didnt really have much on it from what i remember
also ngl i'm realizing "mps2craft" is kind of a wack name why did they keep that M there
Great video, thoroughly enjoyed watching the crazy bootleg stuff, but couldn't help notice that all the PS2 footage is captured in 4:3 aspect ratio even when some of the games are clearly 16:9 meaning everything looks tall and thin. In your video editor you can resize the footage I'm sure, well worth doing so no more black bars on the sides.
2:15 that got me😂😂
Just wanna say at 1:19 I love the video and the PS2 is the best console ever.
la Playstation 2 nunca llego legalmente a Sudamérica, y si llegaba era con chip de leer copias de juegos de PS2. al comprar la PS2 te daban 20 juegos que uno pudiera elegir. GTA san Andrea ( brasil )( Dragon ball) (spiderman) etc etc... al final uno pensaba que eran diferente juego pero era el mismo Jajajajajajajajaja
1:06 I grew up in Iraq and bootlegs were more common than the originals
Good day Mr MAWK3.
My friend could shred on Guitar Hero using a controller, even on expert.
omg this video is 16:10 i love it here so much thats my screens aspect ratio
I remember when I was a child i had a Mario game on my ps2 😂
You should find Dhaka vice city / vice city extreme it’s even more funnier version of gta vice city 😂. It was a must have for all Bangladeshi pc gamers.
Could you do Illegal (bootleg) PS3 and Xbox 360 games next?
How did they do that ? Porting it to PS2 ?
11:21 WTF CJ 😂
W video ❤
Nobody tell him about gta sa Egypt 👀
I saw these versions are still being sold in Davao Philippines 😂😂😂
Thank you
we have ratlobber at home