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by anonymfus 3629 days ago
He dumped ROM of Saturn's CD-ROM module's CPU, reverse engineered OS in it, discovered a developer mode which allows Saturn to read non-protected CDs but requires a special protected CD which nobody has, then he turned attention to the slot for Video CD decoder card, discovered that this card can send additional encrypted code to CD-ROM module's CPU, then created replacement for CD-ROM module as a card for Video CD decoder slot, which allows to load CD images from USB mass storage devices connected to it's USB port.
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Just say it: He's a wizard and he just hit level 20.