Hmmm damnit, new CD drive, help please

Sombie · Post by **Sombie** » Wed May 28, 2003 8:30 pm

Ok, so I have been working with my DC since I got it (like 4 years ago) I ahve since owned 3 dreamcast (two broke) all my uh homebrew games have worked fine. Now I got a new CD burner Khypermedia 48X 24X 48X

it burns CDs fine, but nothing will run on my dreamcast.

I am burning in nero, disc at once format, all the modes and stuff are set up right. As far as I can remember i am not doing anything diffrent.

oh and its not the Dreamcast, its one that will play burnt games.

can anyone help?

Tangent · Post by **Tangent** » Wed May 28, 2003 8:36 pm

Have you tried burning at lower speeds?

EDIT:
What kind of media are you using? CD-R or CD-RW? I remember CD-RW having trouble.

Sombie · Post by **Sombie** » Wed May 28, 2003 8:39 pm

Ive tried burning at 40X and 4x (4x being my old speed) i am using CD-R

OneThirty8 · Post by **OneThirty8** » Wed May 28, 2003 9:14 pm

I can think of 2 things that could be the problem.

1) Your new burner might not be able to burn Nero dao images. Try converting a discjuggler image with cdi2tao. I'm not sure where to get it by itself, but it is in the "tools" folder of selfboot inducer. Then, when you burn in nero, set it to "track-at-once" instead of "disc-at-once".

2) Some burners just won't make selfbooting Dreamcast discs. I don't know if yours is one of them, but it's possible.

saber07 · Post by **saber07** » Wed May 28, 2003 9:17 pm

Try downloading a DJ image and burning it, you can get a trial copy that will burn at 1x, or you can register it for full speed. Im guessing its your drive, I dont know too much about those Kypermedia drives though, thats y i got a Verbatim 52x24x52 for $20, and its a rebadged liteon. So i got a really good deal on it.

Sombie · Post by **Sombie** » Wed May 28, 2003 9:48 pm

My computer has never liked disc juggler. It just never worked.

Nyarlathotep · Post by **Nyarlathotep** » Thu May 29, 2003 6:59 am

Sombie wrote:My computer has never liked disc juggler. It just never worked.

Give alcohol 120% a try; its DJ compatible and imo one of the best burning apps out there - the trial version also has no limits on burning speed.

Sombie · Post by **Sombie** » Fri May 30, 2003 6:59 pm

I figured out the problem, well not really, I burn the image to a CD and then move it to my other computer and there I burn it to a disk to play.