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> Also interesting that the backdoor needed to make pirate copies viable was built-in and known from the beginning

On assemblerforums, I remember reading a post from someone who claimed to be from Sega about the DC. He also said they knew from the beginning, but did it anyway. He said most people knew or had an idea that this would be Sega's last console, so they didn't put as much time into DRM and such as they would have.

Could never verify that it was a Sega person, but the way they spoke about stuff led me to believe it was legit.

Back in the early 2000's once it was canned, I always liked to think that it was put there by someone intentionally who knew the system was going to fail. This way piracy would keep the system alive longer than any manufacture would. That piracy part is at least true since some company released a new DC game in the past year or two.

/I want to believe