DC "demo scene" using CDR is a possibility now (Score 3)

About a week ago, a demo disc for Dreamcast Gameshark CDX was bundled with a magazine in the UK, and it turned out that you can bypass the region-check using this disc - thereby enabling you to play import games (JP games on US DC, and US games on JP DC). What's even more interesting is that the disc is an ordinary 2-track CD-ROM that can be burned onto a CDR - and the CDR can still be booted on a DC. The ability to bypass region-check *and* to boot CDR... now that opens up new opportunities for spawning an amateur "demo scene" for the DC, using a MIPS target GCC and a CDR burner. Sure remote debugging isn't possible unless you modify the hardware like these guys, but at least it is possible now to create home-made software for the DC! We could even get that NetBSD port for DC going now... if someone will disassemble the content of the gameshark demo disc and figure out the proper bootloader setup.

I have a mirror of the demo disc image up at my homepage under the "downloads" link - it's a disc image for the NTI CD-Copy software.