Or going into a Dreamcast IRC channel to download games and burn them to disk. I think I only ever actually bought like 2 Dreamcast games, Shenmue and Seaman, the rest were just burned to CD-Rs.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 3 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I was buying blank DVD's with printable surfaces, I had an epson inkjet with a tray that would print directly on the disk.

I would get a shipment of 4 DVD's from netflix, rip all 4, shrink them down below 4.7G, burn them, print a label on them and put them in a binder. and mail them back out for the next set of 4. The output looked shockingly good. I made it through a spindle or so before i moved on to tversity and stopped dealing with physical media.

[–] Slovene@feddit.nl 3 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

It was so awesome when I bought a LightScribe dvd burner and could put various decorations on the dvd along with the content label. The novelty wore off quickly though.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 1 points 8 hours ago

Yeah, I had an external HP light scribe at one point. I bought a single piece of media for it, It just took so long....

[–] whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works 2 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Wait we could do this? On playstation you were supposed to change something no?

[–] rozodru@lemmy.world 1 points 10 hours ago

For the DC? yeah, it would play burned CDs no problem.

For the playstation? not sure. I had mine modded so I could import games from Japan but I don't believe it could play burned CDs.

Xbox and the 360 were easy to mod though and you could play burned games on those also.

But yeah the Dreamcast just did it right out of the box. no mods required.