Burning/Playing Dreamcast Backups

[Rock Raiyu]

I'm having difficulty burning and playing Dreamcast backups. I'm using Disc Juggler and I'm burning games with CD-R discs. My console has a manufacturing date of March 2000, which means I should be able to play them just fine. But when I burn a game it doesn't boot up like it's suppose to.

I changed the Mode to Mode2, the TOC -> CD-DA/CD-XA, enabled the RAW write and Overburn options. I'm also burning at about 2-8x, which was recommended. But I can't get the game to boot up even though it is a self-boot game. I can't even get the Utopia disc to run. Can I get some help here?

 

[jefffisher]

whatever instructions you found must be ancient, just burn the file with imgburn.
and with instructions that old are you sure the game you downloaded is autoboot?

 

[Rydian]

When discjuggler offers to fix the filesystem, do NOT let it.

 

[Rock Raiyu]

whatever instructions you found must be ancient, just burn the file with imgburn.
and with instructions that old are you sure the game you downloaded is autoboot?
I read burning with imgburn may give me some problems. But I'll give it a try.

Edit: Forgot, that's not going to work. The games are in .cdi format, not .iso format.

QUOTE(Rydian @ May 30 2011, 12:23 AM) When discjuggler offers to fix the filesystem, do NOT let it.

I don't, but it either doesn't burn or the game doesn't boot up at all.

 

[mrgone]

my recent dreamcast burns (which were last year) were made by mounting the discjuggler image with deamontools and then using imgburn - copy disc

 

[updowners]

ImgBurn can burn .cdi files by having the pfctoc.dll file in the same directory as Imgburn.exe

eg. C:\Program Files\ImgBurn\pfctoc.dll

 

[Fudge]

Use Mode 1, CD-ROM/DVD, RAW write, and Overburn CD. Works for me nearly every time.
EDIT: I just burned a game with those settings and it works fine.

 

[Rock Raiyu]

Use Mode 1, CD-ROM/DVD, RAW write, and Overburn CD. Works for me nearly every time.
EDIT: I just burned a game with those settings and it works fine.

I don't know what's going on, this doesn't work for me either.

 

[Fudge]

What format is the game? (cdi, mdf/mds) Have you tried using Alcohol 120%? If all else fails, try using this method: http://dreamlover.tecbox.com/#6.1. That method is used for post-late 2000 DCs, but it might be worth a shot.

 

[Rock Raiyu]

What format is the game? (cdi, mdf/mds) Have you tried using Alcohol 120%? If all else fails, try using this method: http://dreamlover.tecbox.com/#6.1. That method is used for post-late 2000 DCs, but it might be worth a shot.

I found out for some reason that my images were not burning onto the CD-R at all. I put them into my PC and they come up as blank discs, a majority of them came up that way, with only 2-3 of them having something on them but they are read as Audio CDs.

I then went to use Alcohol 120% like suggested. I burned Sonic Adventure onto the CD-R and it works fine now. So I guess that DiscJuggler doesn't work with my drive.