News: Saturn system disc

February 16, 2007, 05:59 PM

by brandon, via sega -
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The Saturn (#5,980 in amazon's sales ranking, sadly) was notoriously tough to crack, and even harder to emulate. Far more difficult than the Dreamcast on both counts. Initially, it seems, each developer was to be given specific boot discs so that they could run their dev burns on retail systems. But that ultimately never happened - what did happen is the system disc, which a white hat hacker by the name of programming ace has checked into. In the end he winds up stumped, but it's an interesting piece of Saturn lore nonetheless.