Emulation still has a bad reputation in the gaming world because of the myth that the Dreamcast was killed by emulation and piracy.
All you needed to pirate Dreamcast games was a CD-Rom burner or so people said. That wasn't entirely true and by the time piracy became a problem for the DC it was already dead anyway.
But the story that the Dreamcast was killed by piracy still pops up often.
that was entirely true, dreamcast roms came w/ a boot header already loaded on and you literally just burned the disc and popped it in.. you didn't even need to mod the dreamcast. I have one of those large CD folders with nothing but DC games in it.. it was also cracked relatively early on, compared to other consoles.. I agree that it wasn't the reason it failed though, it failed because of you fucking AMERICANS AND YOUR SHIT TASTE IN VIDYA AND CUCKING TO MICROSLOTH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11111111111111
From what I remember in Yurop.
You had boot roms and such that were even sold in stores. I believe there was something called Bleemcast that would allow you to play PS1 games on your Dreamcast.
However, CD-Rom burners weren't as cheap as they are now. I remember my brother being one of the few guys in our neighborhood that had one and even if you could burn the disks you still needed to find copies of the games and/or download the roms.
Which weren't easy to find either because Dreamcast games were often bigger than 100MB and Download speeds back in 1999 weren't as good as they are today.
The urban myth was that everyone was downloading all their games for Dreamcast which meant that games didn't sell anymore and the system died.
In fact it was brought up as an argument back in the day why the GameCube used mini DVD's. To prevent the same thing would happen to the Cube as what happened to the Dreamcast.
In reality though the DC wasn't protected well against piracy but that would've meant much higher hardware sales (as games would've been cheap) but that didn't happen either.
So in the end it was just an urban myth.
