Why won Dreamcast bootlegs work with certain Dreamcasts?
There’s been a lot of confusion over this issue, which has been further fueled by several misstatements of fact from Sega executive Peter Moore when asked the same question. As far as I know and based on my own personal experience and examination of various iterations of the console, the problem lies with the type of GD-ROM drive used inside the Dreamcast. There have been different ones at different types made by different vendors (including Sony, of all people!), but the lot that seems most susceptible here in the U.S. was the lot produced prior to the official launch of the console in September of 1999. These are the ones at this time that seem the most suspect; every one I have personally examined will not and cannot be modified to read CD-Rs. There are reports of other such cases scattered though subsequent production lots, but the ORIGINAL production one (not later ones, Mr. Moore) seems to have the CD-R read problem. The one drive that always works is a Yamaha-produced GD-ROM dri
