Dreamcast Cheats

The Dreamcast was released in 1999 long before other similar consoles were and enjoyed brisk sales its first season. It was one of Sega's more successful hardware units and was an attempt to break into the console market with a next generation system designed to supersede Sony's PlayStation and Nintendo's N64, but mainly because of doubt (some Sega add-ons and consoles have been less than successful, such as the 32X and Sega CD) and anticipation of the Nintendo GameCube, Sony PlayStation 2, and Microsoft Xbox, it lost a lot of steam and Sega began to lose money once again. In January 2001, Sega announced that the Dreamcast was to be discontinued by the end of the year but that new games would still be made. This was the final blow that took Sega out of the home console business.

Dreamcast used a proprietary format called GD-ROM for storing games in order to foil software pirates, a strategy that ultimately backfired when the first run of discs had a high rate of defects, and pirates managed to pirate the games anyway (in some cases the pirated games were released before the legitimate versions!). Sega largely had themselves to blame for the high levels of Dreamcast piracy - their use of the GD-ROM format was completely undermined by the console's support for the Mil-CD format, which allowed the console to boot from a standard CD-R. Mil-CD support was removed from the final Dreamcast revisions toward the end of the console's life.