I know it's odd but the original game came on 4 gdis that were 1.2 gb each, way too big for cd-rs. Someone found a way to turn 1 gdi into two cd-rs (thus 8 cd-rs overall) but you had to swap at certain points that weren't so in the original game. I was able to swap to the second disc from the first fine, but after playing awhile on disc 2 I got to a boss and right after I beat the boss it crashes.

I've been googling about it and some say you can buy 99 min 870 mb cd-rs (normal ones are 80 min 700 mb) that would allow you to burn just the 4 discs, but Ebay doesn't have any and I don't know where to buy them. I also have no idea if my dvd burner can even burn them. So I'm not sure what to do.

 

While it is possible to read Dreamcast GDs with some PC drives and tricks involving a CD-R with a dummy TOC stating 99:59 minutes, I don’t think you can actually burn a full GD image to a CD-R.

These 99 or 100 minutes CD-Rs have low compatibility and are expensive and completely non-standard. To make the problem worse, 100 minutes of audio (CDDA) are 1GB – but this is recording the disc in mode 2 with less error correction which is good enough for fault tolerant audio (CDDA) and video(VCD) but not for data – especially an executable file like a game. In mode 1 you only have about 870MB (if your recorder is able to overburn to such a capacity) Because any CD-R only reports to have about 700MB (80 minutes) overburn is a must.

If I remember correctly, images of GDs with more than 700MB were often manipulated (converting cutscenes to lower quality or removing them) to fit on a CD-R (in addition to converting them to Mil-CD so early Dreamcasts will boot them without modchip).

 

Hello.

I´ve searched my Dreamcast Backups and found an 4 CD Box on 99 min. CD-R´s.
After an couple of reading tries and one precious hour of my life i remember why it´s archived:

IT DID NOT WORKED.
And then comes memories to the surface about 2 years ago.....
No, i never played it through,it ends for me on Disc 1.

Maybe give a try with nullDC Emulator....

Sorry.


P.S. buyed D1 from GOG for PC for 1,39 Euro last week.

 

That could be challenging.

The reason why i choose the 4 disc version is even the disc swap thing.I don´t have luck with CD-Rs at that time.Only a No-Name product is available and that was my problem.Not the version of the game.

I don´t find ANY clues about your 8 disc version for swap points sadly.

Sorry.

 

Unfortunately I burned these discs about 5 years ago so I don't have that info anymore. I don't even think they can be downloaded anymore or I couldn't find them. I first decided to start playing the game this past November and I googled it and I found where someone said where to swap and I had the site that told me bookmarked, but unfortunately my laptop crashed and I lost the bookmark. If I have to I'll just let the game crash on me then I'll know that's a swap point I guess.

 

It does sound like he had the same problem as me I pm'd him.

 

This game should have been more popular. It's scary as sh*t.

The maker of the game died in 2013. (he also made D and Enemy Zero) Kenji Eno.

 

I made it past disc 1a/1b and was able to start disc 2 proper! So this is a good rip it looks like.

 

Well I get to the boss on disc 2a and there's cutscene that just keeps repeating itself over and over I can't get past it lol. I"m having to play it on NullDC from the beginning.