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by christoph 3631 days ago
Consumer CD writers and CD-R's don't have the ability to write anything similar to the disc.

Gamecube discs utilised a similar technology which you can easily see on the disc surface - http://www.gamesx.com/grafx/ngcdisc2.jpg & https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_optical_discs#Burst_c...

Years before, companies actually did a similar thing with floppy discs, albeit in a slightly different way.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_sector