DC backups

[Madman]

i used DJ 3.5 as far as i can remember. It worked just fine with 90% of the games, and the rest i didnt bother about.

i guess you can find it on that donkey

[neozeed]

I could be wrong but I think the advice you got was to mount the image to a vr drive using Daemon and just do a disc copy using nero.So maybe you should just try to mount the image you have, dont use any tools on it and burn a copy.

[Shibathedog]

IJTF the newest version of Discjuggler seems to have alot of the bugs fixed, i like it

 

But still, for burning images get Alcohol, and for making your own discs get Nero, and thats all you really need

[nerdocalypse]

thanks for your advice, all

since i tried everything, i decided to just get a version 1 dreamcast (no. 1 n the circle on the bottom label). i know some people think that all dcs will work with backups, but i dont think so. the version 2's, like the one i was using, will not work. i'm sure the above techniques will work without a hitch on the ver1 DC.

[Shibathedog]

no seriously there is only ONE version of the DC that will not work, and its REALLY REALLY REALLY rare, i DOUBT you got one, it was in the last batch of DCs made, and it even has trouble burning certain commercial games (Grandia 2 for example)

 

I forget what it says at the bottom, probably a 2001 manufacture date late in the year though

[nerdocalypse]

but its true, the dcs from october 2000 onwards will not even play music cdrs. testing a music cdr with no success was the last straw for me. maybe some of those exceptionally complicated techniqques like the one i posted above (where you have to screw around with the image files through 5 different programs!) would work, but i can honestly say that i dont recommend even trying it, as i spent and wasted a lot of time. it would have been less costly had i decided right after seeing that circled 2 on the system to just buy an earlier console. now that i have, i can finally enjoy the vcd playing, emulating, backuping goodness of a DC.

[Shibathedog]

hmmm weird, you might have gotten one of those odd ones then, i have a couple version 2s that work fine with everything and lke 1 that does that, i dont really understand why, sega wanted ub3r piracy protection i guess

[nerdocalypse]

okay this is really weird... i guess i should have listened more closely to you guys! my first dreamcast (the one i said would not play any burned games) --- well, now it plays ALL the games that i burned for my 'replacement' DC... wtf? I don't get it, but for anyone's future reference, it seems that any ISO can be played on the model 2 dreamcasts if burned with a120% at up to 24X using RAW DAO. So don't make the mistake I made and waste money on a 2nd dreamcast (although having a DC in two rooms IS pretty cool...\) and just burn games properly!

I apologize if I misled anyone before, I swear that not a single game worked... still a mystery to me...

[Shibathedog]

yeah it depends on your burner

 

does yours have Buffer Underrun/Burn-Proof on it? i suspect people who dont have it have these problems because i do and i aways burn at max speed and it works