How the Dreamcast Copy Protection Was Defeated

Re:How the Dreamcast Copy Protection Was Defeated by DownGoat on Tuesday December 11, 2018 @09:41AM (#18655539)

There was actually a trick for the PlayStation that allowed you to play pirated games without any hardware mods. It involved starting a game with the CD case open, and using your finger to stop the CD from spinning at certain points. I was quite young at the time and never mastered the method, and we got a hardware mod for the console at a later point.

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Re:How the Dreamcast Copy Protection Was Defeated by turtlebits on Tuesday December 11, 2018 @11:50AM (#18656615)

Wow, that brings back memories. IIRC, you actually had to (while booting/disc spinning) pull out the a retail disc at a certain point, put in your burned disc, and do that exchange once more.

It wasn't hard, just getting the timing down.

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Re:How the Dreamcast Copy Protection Was Defeated by jandrese on Tuesday December 11, 2018 @01:22PM (#18657422)

I remember a hardware mod that was just a spring you put in the door latch sensor to prevent it from knowing that you had opened the lid. There was a special loader disk you put in first that got it started, then stopped the disk so you could swap in your burned copy.

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