It can't be true. can it?

SEGA to combat piracy head on
21-Jan 19:51

SEGA are making a serious move to counter the increasing amount of piracy that is plaguing the poor Dreamcast console. An updated console is being sold, that patches up a glitch in the BIOS of the original system, which allowed punters to play their home-brewed copies. Known as 'back-ups', by the dealers to save their own asses, the pirated games fit on a conventional CD-ROM by means of compression and by excluding FMV footage, or even soundtracks in some cases. All the existing Dreamcast models will be restocked with the 2nd-generation model as they are sold. Oh incase you're wondering, the new version will still be able to play Audio CDs. If you ask me, I bet the older systems will be in greater demand than the new stuff.. hmm.. wonder why...

[emulsoin]

No way... sega has stopped making consoles and will stop shipping as of april... they are charging less than it cost to make them and even if there was something new it would be cracked very quickly... the bios thing was just to Find out how to rip the games... the fix would just stop it from being rediscovered

[DreamcastKeV]

they actually announced they would can the mil cd format (audio cd that loads data) which just happens to be what were using to rape sega right now but since they stopped making dreamcasts its not gonna happen.

[GP02A]

but I did hear that the new dreamcast models are changed. They change something that your back up wont work anymore on the new dreamcast models.

[webber]

i just gave a bunch to a friend and on the new ones they boot immediately , it doesn;t go to the file, play, time, settings screen at all,

regards
webber