The Correct Way to Burn a Roms CD.

ZacMc · Post by **ZacMc** » Fri Apr 19, 2002 3:50 pm

After you have burned a DreamSNES emulator cd you are ready to burn a roms cd..

Put all your unzipped roms into a folder called roms.

Get the folder called sound (which should have an .mp3 file in it) from the DreamSNES boot disc if you've burnt it already or you can get it from the plain files version of DreamSNES which can be found at the DreamSNES site or here. You can add your own .mp3(s) to sound folder.

Download the ROM.LST creator from the DCFactory Utils page or from DC Emu's Needed Tools page. Unzip it & start it up, then find & select the roms folder that you have your SNES ROMS in, check truncate filenames at 31chars, cilck make roms list.

Start up Nero, select new & choose CD-ROM (ISO). You should have these options selected under the ISO setting:

- ISO 9660
- Mode 1
- JOILET
- Allow pathdepth of more then 8 directories
- Allow more then 255 charcters in path.
- Use Multisession if you want to add more roms later

Burn the CD, the sound and roms folders both must be on the cd!

Thanks to Dr.Z for writing this tutorial

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crazyrom · Post by **crazyrom** » Sat Apr 20, 2002 1:17 am

hey thanks for your help on this

cluh · Post by **cluh** » Sat Apr 20, 2002 1:41 am

does the roms.lst go in the roms directory?

ZacMc · Post by **ZacMc** » Sat Apr 20, 2002 12:54 pm

SilverSuperSonic · Post by **SilverSuperSonic** » Sun Apr 21, 2002 1:45 am

thanks, I did it and the rom list worked fine

cluh · Post by **cluh** » Sun Apr 21, 2002 4:14 am

So that was my problem. Thanks.

malkav · Post by **malkav** » Fri Apr 26, 2002 8:52 am

I did exactlly as you said i think when i burned the roms but i cant get the roms to load in dreamsnes. What have ? done wrong?

ZacMc · Post by **ZacMc** » Fri Apr 26, 2002 12:41 pm

malkav wrote:I did exactlly as you said i think when i burned the roms but i cant get the roms to load in dreamsnes. What have ? done wrong?

If you did exactly what i said it would work.
did you unzip your roms?
Are your roms in the roms folder?

Neo559 · Post by **Neo559** » Sun May 12, 2002 9:51 pm

I boot up with the DreamSNES disc, then I switch to the disc with roms and SOUND burned to it. I click A to get the game list, and all my games show up. I pick one and press A again. The whole screen goes black except for a small picture of a SNES in the top right hand corner. After about 30 seconds of that, the screen goes completely black.

The disc I burned has a folder called "roms" with the rom list and 9 unzipped SNES roms. The SOUND folder has the one mp3 from the dreamsnes cd, and 2 music mp3s i put in it.

What did I do wrong?

ZacMc · Post by **ZacMc** » Mon May 13, 2002 12:41 am

Neo559 wrote:I boot up with the DreamSNES disc, then I switch to the disc with roms and SOUND burned to it. I click A to get the game list, and all my games show up. I pick one and press A again. The whole screen goes black except for a small picture of a SNES in the top right hand corner. After about 30 seconds of that, the screen goes completely black.

The disc I burned has a folder called "roms" with the rom list and 9 unzipped SNES roms. The SOUND folder has the one mp3 from the dreamsnes cd, and 2 music mp3s i put in it.

What did I do wrong?

What game were you trying to play? There are a few games (megamanx2+3) that don't work.

DarkStalker · Post by **DarkStalker** » Mon May 13, 2002 5:40 pm

Actually, things have changed a little bit. You no longer have to have an mp3 on a ROMs disc anymore. Seems that just 0.9.6 required it. The reason why I know is because I've had some SNES ROM CDs from about 3 years ago and were closed (no more data allowed to be written to the disc). These discs worked in every version but 0.9.6 which would only show a few games on the list. Now, in v0.9.7, my discs work just fine. All games (about 600 on each disc) is stored unzipped in the root directory of the CD. That's it... no mp3s, no roms.lst, no sound or ROM directories. Seems like they fixed the problems that 0.9.6 had and no one noticed.

donnonotin · Post by **donnonotin** » Sat May 18, 2002 6:10 am

thanx

renegadellf · Post by **renegadellf** » Wed Jun 12, 2002 2:13 pm

Nero has released version 5.5 of their software, or Nero Express, as it calls itself, and it does not have the settings for Cd Mode or Joilet options available.

I was hesitant to waste another CD-R while trying to create my disk, but I am not sure what else to do. I followed the tutorial, but all I am doing is taking the basic standalone files for DreamSnes (no boot Image or any of the sort) and burning them, along with the roms in the appropriate folder, to a CD. Will it work on my Dreamcast that way, or do I need to get an older version of Nero that has better options.

I do not wish to downgrade my software, but I have no other choice, unless the information here is updated.
I appreciate any assistance you can give.
EDIT:

Sadly, a simple Burn or the software does not work on my Dreamcast. I desperately need assistance.

reaper2k2 · Post by **reaper2k2** » Tue Jun 18, 2002 9:23 am

works better with a blank mp3 and a romslist i load 321 roms in under 30 sec what does yours do ???

renegadellf · Post by **renegadellf** » Tue Jun 18, 2002 9:35 am

AH,So you use the "MP3 DISK" format to burn the DC boot disk?

Well, I'll be gosh-darned IT WORKED! THANKS!

PuniPuniSakura · Post by **PuniPuniSakura** » Tue Jun 18, 2002 1:40 pm

ZacMC: you should add that MP3s have a limit of kbps, can't remember what it is though

200 i think

ZacMc · Post by **ZacMc** » Tue Jun 18, 2002 1:58 pm

reaper2k2 wrote:works better with a blank mp3 and a romslist i load 321 roms in under 30 sec what does yours do ???

Mine loads ~400 roms in ~3 seconds and thats with mp3s on the disc..

ZacMC: you should add that MP3s have a limit of kbps, can't remember what it is though

200 i think

I'll add that as soon as someone can confirm the max bitrate.
Do mp3s have to be at 44HZ? I think I remember 22HZ ones playing too fast..

Nero has released version 5.5 of their software, or Nero Express, as it calls itself, and it does not have the settings for Cd Mode or Joilet options available.

I'm going to DL the newest NERO tonight and see if I can figure out your problem..

GrossREICH3 · Post by **GrossREICH3** » Thu Jun 20, 2002 12:30 pm

I did the sound, romlist, and then went to nero to burn my cd. After I burn the dsnes.nrg file on a cdr, in iso, with all the settings described at the top on, I put the disc in my dc, and it doesnt work. It goes to the dc default menu,and just sits there, and says no disc found.

What am I doing wrong?

ZacMc · Post by **ZacMc** » Thu Jun 20, 2002 1:15 pm

GrossREICH3 wrote:I did the sound, romlist, and then went to nero to burn my cd. After I burn the dsnes.nrg file on a cdr, in iso, with all the settings described at the top on, I put the disc in my dc, and it doesnt work. It goes to the dc default menu,and just sits there, and says no disc found.

What am I doing wrong?

Sounds like you didn't burn the emulator cd correctly..
Open NERO -> File -> Burn Image -> Dsnes.nrg -> Burn

GrossREICH3 · Post by **GrossREICH3** » Thu Jun 20, 2002 1:54 pm

ok i got the burn done, but now when i load up the disc, it gets to the pike technology screen,and then starts booting up again, and keeps doing that and doesnt go into the roms or anything.

What am I doing wrong?(again)

The Correct Way to Burn a Roms CD.

The Correct Way to Burn a Roms CD.

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