First of all if the telnet thing is real, its probably an easter egg not back door. I'd try "Joshua" as the username and see if it brings up War-Games. If Sega/the developer of the game wanted info about you it would send proprietary "game statics" through the net to some address. Secondly, people are asking about converting a DC into a "PC", the Saturn could take a normal PC keyboard with an adapter, I would think there would be a simlar thing for the DC. Since the GD-ROM use red laser tech to burn their disc, it should be posible for most CD-R drives to burn a GD, though it may take low-level control of the burning laser.
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First of all if the telnet thing is real, its probably an easter egg not back door. I'd try "Joshua" as the username and see if it brings up War-Games. If Sega/the developer of the game wanted info about you it would send proprietary "game statics" through the net to some address. Secondly, people are asking about converting a DC into a "PC", the Saturn could take a normal PC keyboard with an adapter, I would think there would be a simlar thing for the DC. Since the GD-ROM use red laser tech to burn their disc, it should be posible for most CD-R drives to burn a GD, though it may take low-level control of the burning laser.