Iirc the Katana devkit could be used to play commercial games so I wouldn't be surprised if some developers were part of the groups and if so writing a dumper w

Iirc the Katana devkit could be used to play commercial games so I wouldn't be surprised if some developers were part of the groups and if so writing a dumper was probably not hard. There was even a preview version of the game I worked on that got leaked so either someone in our office was part of the cracking scene or someone at Sega/QA (they were our publisher) since AFAIK no-one else had any copies.