How the Dreamcast Copy Protection Was Defeated
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How the Dreamcast Copy Protection Was Defeated
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Re: How the Dreamcast Copy Protection Was Defeated
#2Not sure how he managed to miss that the protection was actually broken due to the Dreamcast allowing a special type of cd which skipped the protection to run music video player discs.
Additionally we just used a Special DVD Drive with some special firmware to extract the data from the discs on a PC...
But hey I guess who cares about accuracy when your trying to blog.
http://forum.redump.org/topic/2620/dreamcastnaomi-gdrom-dump...
Re: How the Dreamcast Copy Protection Was Defeated
#3Not sure how he managed to miss that the protection was actually broken due to the Dreamcast allowing a special type of cd which skipped the protection to run music video player discs. Additionally we just used a Special DVD Drive with some special firmware to extract the data from the discs on a PC... But hey I guess who cares about accuracy when your trying to blog. http://forum.redump.org/topic/2620/dreamcastnaomi…
Maybe I'm confused (regarding your first paragraph), isn't the section "Second protection level: Scrambler" about just that?
Re: How the Dreamcast Copy Protection Was Defeated
#4Not sure how he managed to miss that the protection was actually broken due to the Dreamcast allowing a special type of cd which skipped the protection to run music video player discs. Additionally we just used a Special DVD Drive with some special firmware to extract the data from the discs on a PC... But hey I guess who cares about accuracy when your trying to blog. http://forum.redump.org/topic/2620/dreamcastnaomi…
> The "foot in the door" came from a seemingly obscure capability of the Dreamcast to boot not from a GD-ROM but from a CD-ROM. Originally intended to add multimedia functions to music CDs, the functionality called "MIL-CD" was never used much, accounting for a mere seven karaoke applications.
Isn't the first sentence of the "SECOND PROTECTION LEVEL" section exactly what you described?
Re: How the Dreamcast Copy Protection Was Defeated
#5Not sure how he managed to miss that the protection was actually broken due to the Dreamcast allowing a special type of cd which skipped the protection to run music video player discs. Additionally we just used a Special DVD Drive with some special firmware to extract the data from the discs on a PC... But hey I guess who cares about accuracy when your trying to blog. http://forum.redump.org/topic/2620/dreamcastnaomi…
Did you actually read the blog post?
Also, i'm pretty sure that such "special dvd drive" you're mentioning didn't exist back in 1999 as I remember using my Dreamcast as a reading device connected to my PC.
Seems 100% accurate to me.
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#6Related and _very_ inspiring; how the Sega Saturn CD was cracked after 20 years. Even my very non-technical girlfriend sat through this thing, being intrigued by the dedication.
Re: How the Dreamcast Copy Protection Was Defeated
#7Not sure how he managed to miss that the protection was actually broken due to the Dreamcast allowing a special type of cd which skipped the protection to run music video player discs. Additionally we just used a Special DVD Drive with some special firmware to extract the data from the discs on a PC... But hey I guess who cares about accuracy when your trying to blog. http://forum.redump.org/topic/2620/dreamcastnaomi…
down-voted for not reading the article and still thinking you are entitled to snark
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#8The fact this was broken by stealing a developer's SDK is disappointing. Real hackers would have disassembled the machine to reverse engineer it, rather than using black market/social engineering tricks.
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#9Did the breaking of the copy protection on the Dreamcast really play a big part in Sega's downfall?
If so, it would be one of the only cases I know of where IP piracy led to financial ruin of the content creator.
Re: How the Dreamcast Copy Protection Was Defeated
#10Did the breaking of the copy protection on the Dreamcast really play a big part in Sega's downfall? If so, it would be one of the only cases I know of where IP piracy led to financial ruin of the content creator.
Well the hack had a really low entry barrier. As in; no hardware modifications needed. You could just download an ISO from the net and you were good to go with your unmodified Dreamcast.
In contrast the other consoles in that era Xbox, PlayStation, etc. all needed hardware modifications in order to run copied content.