Around 2001, broadband started making its way into homes. You could have easily punched into an FTP (via search engine) and rip complete directories of Dreamcast games.

From there, warm up a program called "DiscJuggler" by Pradus to burn the game. Place into system and play.

This tore down the gaming walls. Japanese games were flooding hard drives and you'd be playing the newest games 2 weeks before the release date. This was the start and end of it all.

Besides the quality of the games available, it was the start of the true next gen graphics. This console held its own against the PS2 until it was discontinued. First and second year PS2 games had NOTHING on Soul Calibur.

Not directed at anyone in particular, but if you can't recognize the many levels of user end success (from hacking to high quality graphics), you really don't belong in the conversation.