Burning Dreamcast Images

[Peter]

Burning Dreamcast disks can be a bit of a pain on occasion - not as straight forward as Saturn disks for example. I was having a problem with one particular Dreamcast image I found and had burnt quite a number of "Coasters" if you know what I mean. Generally I find IMGburn (including the CDI files) very reliable however Disk Juggler successfully burnt the image I found this time using this setting...

In Options enable overburn disc in DiscJuggler (Do this for all DC games) In DiscJuggler/Advanced, Set Burn settings to Raw Write Mode 2 2352 CD-DA or Mode 1 2048 Raw Write and burn at 4x Speed.

An unregistered version of DJ will only burn at a low speed anyway.

This helped me so I thought I would share the info...

 

[morcar]

yeah DJ is a very good prog for DC games. I find that its the only programs to use unless the image is in another format but most are in the .GI format

 

[Gouldin]

Sage advice indeed, most of the DC rips were made with discjuggler in mind. Though I use cdi2iso for all my DC images nowadays and never had a problem with any of them

 

[slk486]

Have always used DJ for Dreamcast backups. Too many coasters with others, but it's been a while so things may be different today.

 

[Bad_Ad84]

Imgburn uses the DJ dll and has no issues that I have seen since it was added.

 

[slk486]

That sounds cool. Will defo give that a try next time.


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[AmiNeo]

Trouble is that Dreamcast games are not on CDs, theyre GD-ROM discs.

This means that when copying one, it is often necessary to leave some information out in order to fit the game onto a standard CD-R.

 

[Bad_Ad84]

Unless you have 99 minute cdrs. Most games were small enough to fit on a normal cd though. There were a few that we're large and had music or other files compressed or removed. The rip of Seaman for example had all the speech files recompressed to make it fit a cdr.

Shenmue had a 99 minute image knocking around

 

[sb1987]

i have been tryin to burn resident evil 2 pal ntsc jap all 3 and i cant get past the sega screen i burn res 3 sweet and few other games just that 1 dam game lool i use dj to burn my games any 1 else get res 2 to work ??

 

[Peter]

I don't think it is unique to experience problems with quite a few images that are on-line, also I think the burner you use plays a big part. I am now having a problem with another image...

Guess I just got used to how easy it was to create Saturn disks... it does seem that I'm wasting quite a few disks here with the Dreamcast rogue images.

I have 20 working disks from various sites but the images that you find around can be a bit hit and miss on occasion to say the least - just checking the Dreamcast forums states this so it's not just me.

 

[sb1987]

i got 1 of the ihas 1s lite o burned what i flashed to burn new 360 games i think it may be the cdrs (tesco1s) and my burner will only let burn cd-rs at 16x min i got a folder with my dream with about 120 games they all work sweet so i dont no if the images i got etc but the games that come with dreamcast backs ups are on blue bottomed disc and have a max speed of 12x and cdrs now days are all green bottomed

 

[ChrisUnionNJ]

Hey guys remember if it's not about home brew software we really can't
discuss burning copy righted software..

 

[cosmicfrog]

never had a problem, helps get right image to start with of course
also Imgburn is free and works a treat

 

[morcar]

Trouble is that Dreamcast games are not on CDs, theyre GD-ROM discs.

This means that when copying one, it is often necessary to leave some information out in order to fit the game onto a standard CD-R.

yip hit the nail on the head there thats why its ok to use a copy but once i get my DC back up and running I will be trying to get the original games for it.

 

[Akira]

This means that when copying one, it is often necessary to leave some information out in order to fit the game onto a standard CD-R.

i really don't think it's often!! Only in a few cases in my opinion.

The best thing for DC discs is Alcohol 120%. I have prpblems with any other.
I still fail at making my own emu CDs too. I'm not doing something right :/

 

[Peter]

i have been tryin to burn resident evil 2 pal ntsc jap all 3 and i cant get past the sega screen i burn res 3 sweet and few other games just that 1 dam game lool i use dj to burn my games any 1 else get res 2 to work ??

Looks like there are are few probs with Res 2 from what I read.

I have now developed a runtime problem with DJ but I am having excellent results with Alcohol - I just needed to find the right... version - I guess as cosmicfrog states though - you need the right images for the best results - seems as though there are quite a few "only 99% working" images around.

 

[User1301]

As Chris said - we can't disuss burning copyrighted material - closing thread.

John