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How it felt to watch this awesome console fail back in the day (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 months ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world to c/retrogaming@lemmy.world

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[-] RudeOnTuesdays@lemmy.world 41 points 3 months 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.

[-] JeromeVancouver@lemmy.ca 17 points 3 months 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

[-] UKFilmNerd@feddit.uk 6 points 3 months 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.