• @RudeOnTuesdays
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    411 month ago

    I had an entire binder of pirated Dreamcast games back when this came out. I can’t remember if I actually owned a genuine copy of a game (it was too easy to run pirated game discs).

    I have good memories of the console though.

    • @[email protected]
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      171 month ago

      Haha I also had a giant binder full of pirated games. The other thing I remember about it was how loud it was reading the discs

      • @[email protected]
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        291 month ago

        We all had binders of pirated Dreamcast games…

        I think I’m starting to see why it died.

      • UKFilmNerd
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        61 month ago

        Didn’t the pirates find out that they could copy the games onto regular CDs using some backdoor from the format of Karaoke CDs? You just need that famous loader CD to swap discs.

        I’ve heard the pirates soon optimised the layout of the data on their versions so that there was less strain of the drive.

        • @[email protected]
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          21 month ago

          That was a thing is PS1 I believe. The Dreamcast out of the box just worked with pirated CDs.