A Dreamcast disc is broken up into multiple partitions. There's a PC partition, a CDDA partition, and then the high density GD partition, which can also contain CDDA, but only readable by the Dreamcast. 1st session - 35 meg PC partition - This is the section a PC can read. These 35 megs often have either extra "goodies" (Omake folders) or copyright text files. This is what your PC is reading. Notice how the disc is only "a few megs?" It really isn't, your PC just can't read the 3rd session. (see below) 2nd session - CDDA - Audio warning track. "Do not play this disc in a CD player... damage your speakers, etc." 3rd session - 1 gig GD high density area - This is the area that can only be read by a Dreamcast laser. 1 gig for game data. CDDA can also be stored here (audio *tracks* such as Quake 3 uses) but the CDDA here cannot be read by a normal CD player. (any developer worth his salt would use ADX files [a streaming codec] for music though and save the rest of the disc space for more game data though)

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