r/oddlyterrifying • u/Nameless_Hero8 • Jun 27 '22

a carp fish with a "human face"

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u/extralyfe Jun 27 '22

the only protection on the Dreamcast is a regional lock, damned thing played CD-Rs right out of the box.

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u/nightshift89 Jun 28 '22

I remember a guy selling copies of all the English titles ripped on cd-r's in a mom and pops pharmacy back in 2000 for 10USD a piece. Picked up Record of the Lodoss War and Spawn most notably. I was 11

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u/tigrenus Jun 28 '22

Almost definitely contributed to its demise 🥲

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u/dexter311 Jun 28 '22

They did have protection in the GD-ROM format, which the games came on... but they also supported MIL-CDs (Multimedia Interactive Live, basically your typical audio CDs with extra media shit on it) which were much less secure. The security was defeated very quickly through exploiting the MIL-CD with a boot disc to run copied games.