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Even if they hadn’t, the PS2 is one of the greatest consoles of all time. It would have been a difficult competitor to go against.
by shhehebehdh 7y ago
Even if they hadn’t, the PS2 is one of the greatest consoles of all time. It would have been a difficult competitor to go against.
- rocky1138 7y agoIt could have held it's own technologically, except that SEGA were complete dumbshits and their console supported burned CDRs out of the box. That was a coup de grace.
- orionblastar 7y agoI had a friend with a Dreamcast he had to mod it to play CDRs as the Dreamcast had a different CD format to hold more info. They had to reduce the CD to fit in a 700M CDR. Most games didn't use the full CD. Google mod chips some time they had them for the Playstation and XBox to use CDRs.
- ac2u 7y agoYou didn't have to physically mod the Dreamcast console. An exploit was found due to the console support for CD's with multimedia support, called MIL CDs. Initially a bootdisc was needed which you swapped with a CD-R, later all dumps of games were done in such a way that the exploit was bundled. You are correct though in that some games used the full 1GB+ capacity of the GD-ROM format and assets had to be removed/compressed in some cases.
- rwallace 7y agoIt may not have helped, but let's not call people complete dumbshits for leaving a loophole in their DRM. That was a mistake that could happen to anyone, and the outcome was decided by then anyway. Now botching the Saturn launch because of political infighting between the Japanese and American branches of the company? If you're going to call them complete dumbshits for anything, that's what I would pick.
- pavel_lishin 7y agoDo you have a link where I could read about that?
- rwallace 7y agohttps://www.amazon.com/Console-Wars-Nintendo-Defined-Generation/dp/0062276700 https://www.amazon.com/Console-Wars-Nintendo-Defined-Generat...
- pavel_lishin 7y agoThanks!