MIL-CD or Music Interactive Live CD is a

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format created by the

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company Sega in 1998. The main purpose of MIL-CD was to add

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functions to music CDs, for use in Sega's

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. For example, MIL-CD music releases were to feature enhanced navigational menus, internet capabilities, and full-screen video. It was similar to tests done with Audio CD/CD-ROM combo discs on PCs, DVD-Video/DVD-ROM combo discs on PCs, game systems and DVD Players, as well as game/video combo discs for systems like the

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. MIL-CD was not a widely adopted format for what Sega had intended due to lack of official third-party support; very few official MIL-CD releases were made, notably the soundtrack to '' D2''; all of them were only available in Japan. Meanwhile, Dreamcast's support for the MIL-CD format allowed hackers to bypass the Dreamcast security, allowing the creation of such utilities as the Bleemcast PlayStation emulator, the creation of

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titles for the machine, and ability to run bootleg games and games from other regions via Code Breaker or older apps like Utopia bootdisk. Very late versions of the Dreamcast dropped support for MIL-CD format to reduce piracy.

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Dreamcast Digital audio Video game music file formats Computer-related introductions in 1999 {{sega-stub

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