Mag Posted October 17, 2002 Posted October 17, 2002 Mee the qualification before burning an ISO- 1. Burning options may be different varies its nero version..so the update version might work..I use nero ver Nero 5.5.8.0.2. ISO should work according to the model: DC manufactured BEFORE november 2000. The following program you need is " WinRAR (extraction program) and the burning software "Nero Burning". ' Most ISO you download will mainly on ".rar format" (but if ISO is on ".cdi" format then i will give you a converter) First of all, unpack the ISO using WinRAR, once its extracted, you will get a bigger file with the format ".nrg "(aka image file). Once you did that !! Click the image(.nrg), it should direct you to the burning process option or you could just open nero..File..."burn image". Now after your on the Burning option menu.. A option screen comes up with 3 tabs: -The first tab shows the tracks (usually 2 tracks, 1 mb audio track and an iso9660 Mode2/XA track). -The second tab (Misc), nothing display whem i view it. -The third tab (Burn) shows a couple of actions (leave them all checked). Go to " tap " 3 and you should see the option " Write Speed ", now you can set the amount of speed you like, but i recommend " 4" for safety (most ISO can be burned at a maximum amount of speed but not oftenly accurate). Once you done that.. The option Write method must "Disc-At-Once" (other options may or may not..but is best if you follow what i told !! ).. Now you can chose the amount of copies you would like to burn;) (small suggestion..burn extra for a friend or secondary backup but its unneccessary ) Then click " BURN ":D once Once the burning is complete " WHA LA !! " instint DC games:D and.............................enjoy ~
DreamCastLover Posted October 17, 2002 Posted October 17, 2002 Great stuff Magnis. I was going to post this but you saved me the job To add to that, sometimes your images will come in the.cdi format, which are to be used with Discjuggler. You can get it at www.padus.com Open DiscJuggler, click file, then new. Select Burn CD and DVD images. Where it says source, select the.cdi file you want to burn and load it up. Click the advanced tab and set the following options: Mode: Mode 1/DVD Block: 2352 Offset: 0 bytes TOC: CD-DA Everything else should be left as it is. After that, simply select the burning speed (slow is better because there is much less chance of error) and burn!. Personally I prefer using Nero like Magnis posted. If you want to convert your discjuggler.cdi images to Nero.nrg images, then use a great little program called Cdi2nero which you can get at http://cdirip.freeyellow.com/down_cdi.html. Then you should just follow the rest of Magnis' tutorial above.
XXLEnigma Posted October 18, 2002 Posted October 18, 2002 WOW thanks man, this is freakin some useful info.
HappyFishYams Posted October 19, 2002 Posted October 19, 2002 Score, I was wondering exactly how to do it. Do you need a boot disk to run the burnt games? Or what, what are my options . Also if you guys know any links for dc isos i'd like some of them too (lookin for any capcom vs game) TY!
Mag Posted October 19, 2002 Author Posted October 19, 2002 Score, I was wondering exactly how to do it. Do you need a boot disk to run the burnt games? Or what, what are my options . Also if you guys know any links for dc isos i'd like some of them too (lookin for any capcom vs game) TY!Well all the US games that are converted to ISO does not require a bootdisc thus they are bootable after its burned !! IF you were to burn import ISO such as " GodZilla Generation " then you needed it !! btw: if you need the bootdisc(the same way you burn done to an ISO > Disc ), just PM me and I send it via Messenger or email perhaps:happy:
HappyFishYams Posted October 19, 2002 Posted October 19, 2002 can i get your messenger name anyway? ; always good to make new friends.
Mag Posted October 20, 2002 Author Posted October 20, 2002 can i get your messenger name anyway? ; always good to make new friends.Well..You already got your things from me... if anyone else want it, just drop off a PM via AIM:happy:
SWAMP_THING Posted June 23, 2003 Posted June 23, 2003 Quote: "ISO should work according to the model: DC manufactured BEFORE november 2000." how do u know your DC manufacture date?i am about to buy a DC i would like to know!
DreamCastLover Posted June 23, 2003 Posted June 23, 2003 Quote: "ISO should work according to the model: DC manufactured BEFORE november 2000." how do u know your DC manufacture date?i am about to buy a DC i would like to know! If you buy a PAL DC then it doesn't matter when it was manufactured as ISOs homebrew etc will all work. But if you still want to know the manufactured date then it's on a sticker on the bottom of the DC.
zouzou_rocket Posted November 27, 2003 Posted November 27, 2003 I have a very bad and annoying problem and really it's a releaf to meet here poeple who knows a lot about the subject. Well, i have nero6 and everytime ehen i try to burn a nrg image (tried on different game images) iget the error message "unable to write on the right position using this recorder", the recorder i'm using is good and does support all what in need and more, besides, i don't have any problem with burning CDI images using the same recorder. Can anyone help me with that? Thanks.
zouzou_rocket Posted November 27, 2003 Posted November 27, 2003 another problem maybe it will be very important alia for the first question. When i open the nrg image (clicking on it) i get a dialog box and the bar the bottum of nero6 indicates a file less than 1 MB while the file has more than 700MB.
amgine Posted December 1, 2003 Posted December 1, 2003 i'm having the same problem he stated, nero gives the same error messages.. also, when i get alcohol 120 to burn anything the DC *might* recognize, i have to burn at 4x, and raw DAO. and all the DC does is spin the cd, acting like it's about to load it... my DC was made in 99, so it should load everything, but loads nothing.
brthctrlblues Posted December 3, 2003 Posted December 3, 2003 does anyone know where to download the iso's? i cant find them anywhere. thanks
Shibathedog Posted December 3, 2003 Posted December 3, 2003 ok i just have to get this out its driving me crazy you will never find a working DC game in ISO format, if you do its either fake or a VERY rare instance ISO isnt detailed and complex enough to get all the data you will find them mostly in... CDINRGBINBIN/CUEand sometimes CCD Alchohol 120% burns all of those and more so use that for your DC game burning.... some games ARE SUPPOSED to be over 700MB but they burn anyway using a method called Overburning where it squezzes the data in the end of the CD but ignoring the set tracks in the CD and burning the data closer together, this would normally cause the disk to be unreadable, like with a PSX game it wouldnt work in a PSX, but since the Dreamcast can read GD roms which are a higher density (the tracks are closer together, just like overburning) then it can read overburned discs (GD-ROMS ARE NOT OVERBURNED DISCS, they where pressed at the factory closer together in ALL areas, its like a DVD but less memory, also just in case you are wondering what that inner circle on all your GD-ROMS is, its the low density track, just like a normal CD, that why when you put it in a CD player it reads that and plays the "Warning, This disc is for use only in Sega Dreamcast" message, the low density area holds 20MB the high density area holds 1GB, the low density area WAS modified for some games that wanted to use regular CD format audio in the game, but this was very rare. as for images Check Romster Hub in DC... romsterhub.ath.cx and classic Sega Hubclassicsega.homeunix.com Also you can find many UNNOFICIAL games and apps and emulators here.... homebrew.dcemulation.com and here... http://www.dcemulation.com/ If your game will not boot try resetting the internal memory (check gamesages.com for the code, go to the Dreamcast section and look for Dreamcast Console and its in there) Also its not neccesarily the year its the model number, all DC games should be able to boot CD-R Games unless it is one certain model The only one that doesnt work says HKT-3030 on the bottom and there is a note on the bottom about it being recertified back to factory standards by Sega, these where apparently repaird or something right before the dreamcast died *sniffle* and Sega decided to update the Firmware on them so no one could boot the CD-R games, also things like Gameshark would not work in these (in very rare cases they did) and even certain games wouldnt, one that i have experianced first hand when hooking my friends up with Dreamcasts is Grandia 2. AVOID GETTING THAT MODEL DREAMCAST AT ALL COSTS, i cant beleive im saying this but that is an evil dreamcast!!! Sell it at gamestop and come back later (so its a different guy working the shift hehe) and buy a new one, making sure to check the model number, if its the same one, just say...uhh oops changed my mind... anyway i dought any of you even read all that but read it!!! we must learn everything about teh dreamcast, i have only skimmed my knowledge of the Dreamcast barely right there and i didnt feel like annoying you all by telling you more interesting yet irrelevent facts. anyway im out i hope i helped in some way or another!
igbeserk Posted December 6, 2003 Posted December 6, 2003 can i image games and then burn them and they should work right? if i image a cd using clone cd or nero or soemthing and then burn it using the methods you gave it should work? my dreamcast is april 2000 hkt 3020 model
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