What happens when a cd is not patched?

look at the scph code.
it should be on the cd or in its contents or something.
i know if it says SLUS then its a us ntsc game. there are other codes for other countries but i dont know them off the top of my head..

prolly not..
in order to do so, epsxe would need to now how to instruct the cd drive to read from the "intentional" bad clusters at the beginning of the cd, which i dont believe that most cd drives are capable of.