Jack Recider

The way the CDs were written is that they would trick the Dreamcast that it was a playable disc by a clever use of reversing the randomization method on the Dreamcast. And this opened the door up to pirating Dreamcast games I remember when this happened too.

The way the CDs were written is that they would trick the Dreamcast that it was a playable disc by a clever use of reversing the randomization method on the Dreamcast. And this opened the door up to pirating Dreamcast games I remember when this happened too.

My friend told me, dude, you can download any pirated games you want for the Dreamcast now and just write them to a regular CD and they'll play. I was like, no way, man. Those games are like on GD-ROMs. They're not CDs. This will never work. But he demonstrated it to me and I was blown away. Well, this didn't last long.

My friend told me, dude, you can download any pirated games you want for the Dreamcast now and just write them to a regular CD and they'll play. I was like, no way, man. Those games are like on GD-ROMs. They're not CDs. This will never work. But he demonstrated it to me and I was blown away. Well, this didn't last long.

Soon after the pirating community announced that you could pirate games on the Dreamcast, Sega announced that they were discontinuing the Dreamcast and were leaving the video game console business altogether. And this was only a few months after launching it. So yeah, some say piracy wrecked the Dreamcast. But did it really? Two months after the Dreamcast was released, the PlayStation 2 came out.

Soon after the pirating community announced that you could pirate games on the Dreamcast, Sega announced that they were discontinuing the Dreamcast and were leaving the video game console business altogether. And this was only a few months after launching it. So yeah, some say piracy wrecked the Dreamcast. But did it really? Two months after the Dreamcast was released, the PlayStation 2 came out.

which blew away the Dreamcast in every way performance-wise. And the killer feature on the PS2 is that it would play DVDs, which at the time was fairly rare for people to have in their home. So why buy a DVD player when you could just buy a PS2 which has a DVD player built into it? People were buying it for that feature alone. So in my opinion, the thing that killed the Dreamcast wasn't piracy,

which blew away the Dreamcast in every way performance-wise. And the killer feature on the PS2 is that it would play DVDs, which at the time was fairly rare for people to have in their home. So why buy a DVD player when you could just buy a PS2 which has a DVD player built into it? People were buying it for that feature alone. So in my opinion, the thing that killed the Dreamcast wasn't piracy,

But the fact that two months after its release, the PlayStation 2 destroyed them in sales. So that brings us to the PlayStation 2 world. Remember the Messiah chip back then?

But the fact that two months after its release, the PlayStation 2 destroyed them in sales. So that brings us to the PlayStation 2 world. Remember the Messiah chip back then?

Yeah, tell me your experience with either of these chips.

Yeah, tell me your experience with either of these chips.

So the Messiah was a mod chip that you could solder onto a PlayStation 2, and it was created by Paul Owen. I believe it bypassed the anti-copy protections and that you play copied games. And then when the Xbox came out, Paul also made a mod chip for it called Enigma.

So the Messiah was a mod chip that you could solder onto a PlayStation 2, and it was created by Paul Owen. I believe it bypassed the anti-copy protections and that you play copied games. And then when the Xbox came out, Paul also made a mod chip for it called Enigma.

Did anybody ever get mad at you for that? Video game makers or anything? Like, hey, cease and desist that you're modding our stuff. We don't want you to.

Did anybody ever get mad at you for that? Video game makers or anything? Like, hey, cease and desist that you're modding our stuff. We don't want you to.

Yeah, the game makers were absolutely watching the video game modding forums, and they wanted to know what cheats and mods were out there for their systems and games. And when Paul Owen made these two chips, that's when Sony came in and threatened him with legal action.

Yeah, the game makers were absolutely watching the video game modding forums, and they wanted to know what cheats and mods were out there for their systems and games. And when Paul Owen made these two chips, that's when Sony came in and threatened him with legal action.

This forced Paul to stop importing Messiah chips for the PS2, but it didn't stop people from buying them directly from Taiwan, and it didn't stop Paul Owen from making more chips for the Xbox.

This forced Paul to stop importing Messiah chips for the PS2, but it didn't stop people from buying them directly from Taiwan, and it didn't stop Paul Owen from making more chips for the Xbox.