Am I remembering it wrong? I was huge on DCEmulation back in the early 2000s. Also I’m too lazy to read that link. I recall having to burn a weird music track… partition? To have my CD read. But I was able to play NEA/GB/SNES (with frameskip, unfortunately) and the only way my young broke butt could play Ikaruga was to pirate it and burn it to a CD.
DC copy protection was bypassed within months of the Western launch IIRC, so for most people who weren't really early adopters there might as well have been no copy protection. I'm not sure if this was the first ever copy protected console where you didn't need a physical mod to play CD-Rs, but it seems likely.
Am I remembering it wrong? I was huge on DCEmulation back in the early 2000s. Also I’m too lazy to read that link. I recall having to burn a weird music track… partition? To have my CD read. But I was able to play NEA/GB/SNES (with frameskip, unfortunately) and the only way my young broke butt could play Ikaruga was to pirate it and burn it to a CD.
DC copy protection was bypassed within months of the Western launch IIRC, so for most people who weren't really early adopters there might as well have been no copy protection. I'm not sure if this was the first ever copy protected console where you didn't need a physical mod to play CD-Rs, but it seems likely.