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 (3 children)

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

[–] null@slrpnk.net 29 points 3 months ago

We all had binders of pirated Dreamcast games...

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

[–] SteveFromMySpace@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Louder on pirated games than official ones IIRC. The laser worked harder to read them.

[–] UKFilmNerd@feddit.uk 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] JeromeVancouver@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 months ago

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

[–] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 9 points 3 months ago

So did many! It was so easy!