How the Dreamcast Copy Protection Was Defeated
There are two points to note.<p>The first is piracy probably didn’t lead to the failure of the Dreamcast. They didn’t sell many of the consoles... if it was a piracy issue then you’d expect they’d sell many consoles, but few games (the line up of games was really good).<p>The article mentions Ikaruga a lot. It worth noting that Ikaruga for the Dreamcast was released a year after the Dreamcast was cancelled. They probably weren’t hugely concerned about piracy at this point.<p>From memory it was an easy port for them, because the arcade board that Ikaruga ran on is also the same as the Dreamcast.