How the Dreamcast Copy Protection Was Defeated
There are two points to note.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).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.From memory it was an easy port for them, because the arcade board that Ikaruga ran on is also the same as the Dreamcast.