Always did want a Saturn, even back then; however, even early on, I ended up recognizing the significant barrier to entry, in that I would have needed some extra hardware just to be able to play all the different region games that we never got here in the States. Even with the 5-in-1 cartridge to put in the system, there was still the apparent need for a modchip for those games that came, for example, with their own game-specific ROM cart. Or so that you could use a native Backup Memory cart with an out-of-region game.
The workaround through the VCD slot like they talked about in the video there is absolutely out of left field... and I rather love it for the fact that the man did some clever thinking to get around the CD-ROM manager chip. If he is able to get these things mass produced, I would certainly not mind picking one up and a Saturn for it, so I could finally play those games that I've long been missing out.
Still, with as apparently over-engineered as the Saturn's AP protection was, it's amazing how quickly the Dreamcast was comparatively "defeated"/bypassed.