[jezfromfuture]

Not sure how he managed to miss that the protection was actually broken due to the Dreamcast allowing a special type of cd which skipped the protection to run music video player discs.

Additionally we just used a Special DVD Drive with some special firmware to extract the data from the discs on a PC...

But hey I guess who cares about accuracy when your trying to blog.

http://forum.redump.org/topic/2620/dreamcastnaomi-gdrom-dump...

[SlashmanX]

> The "foot in the door" came from a seemingly obscure capability of the Dreamcast to boot not from a GD-ROM but from a CD-ROM. Originally intended to add multimedia functions to music CDs, the functionality called "MIL-CD" was never used much, accounting for a mere seven karaoke applications.

Isn't the first sentence of the "SECOND PROTECTION LEVEL" section exactly what you described?

[kencausey]

Maybe I'm confused (regarding your first paragraph), isn't the section "Second protection level: Scrambler" about just that?

[paraboul]

Did you actually read the blog post?

Also, i'm pretty sure that such "special dvd drive" you're mentioning didn't exist back in 1999 as I remember using my Dreamcast as a reading device connected to my PC.

Seems 100% accurate to me.

[glaberficken]

down-voted for not reading the article and still thinking you are entitled to snark