Saturn devollopers CD-R

My guess would be either:

1) to force you to buy the writer from them.
2) the off the shelf writer had bugs.
3) the off the shelf writer didn't support something required ( like raw writing ).

It's unlikely that sega did anything to the drives, they would have gotten yamaha to do it for them.

Modern drives don't need anything special to burn the images. I remember even with the dreamcast there were some drives that had trouble burning bootable mil cd's using some software.

Sony had the right idea. Not only did you get a console that could boot anything easily, but it was much easier to prevent someone stealing it at the time. The only thing that goes wrong with them is the lasers and they can be replaced. Those boot discs are more easily stolen and damaged.

 

aha, just noticed your system disc says JVC.
All other ones I saw said Columbia and I remember people thinking Columbia was meant as the region. Now it seems it was nothing else than which record label / cd company produced the disc? Still wonder why they put that on there though.. can anyone enlighten me?

 

There were two makes of boot CD. Same thing, though. The red one is 1st party (i.e. Sega), black is 3rd party.

The CDE100 was a standard drive. A bog standard CDE100 works with the dev kit. Why do people keep saying there's a special BIOS??