gundstaff wrote on 2021-12-17, 17:22:
Joakim wrote on 2021-12-17, 16:29:
gundstaff wrote on 2021-12-17, 11:53:
ok, but not every drive works correctly or is compatible with clonecd or writes in 4x, but if you consider everything the same... even so pay 1/3 the value of a used on ebay on a never used drive and have more than 200 available for sale I don't think it's common.
Actually I don't have a problem to read any CDs written on my modern external usb cd rom drive on any drives I have. Maybe if you have very early CDROM drives this is a bigger problem and you need disks written at low speed?
A lot of people lose a lot of cds trying to burn Dreamcast games. Mine is old and the games were on GD-Rom discs the recording had to be very good, with cd of prime material, it's not a simple recording to make for the layman, there are advanced settings so it can detect discs above 700mb and others. It's not something accessible for Linux, it's not a simple ISO burning. In my case I use cds with 870mb, which I can't find around the corner or in large quantities, the loss has to be minimal. There are different recorders, discs of different materials/sizes, it all depends on the quality you want to achieve and where else to use. These are old subjects, nothing new in what I said.
If anyone's interested or doesn't know, regarding Dreamcast games, I got one recently for the first time so I could see what I missed at the time, when I only had a PSX. After some research and luckily only a couple tries, this is what I found to work:
1. Get Dreamcast .CDI format games, not .GDI. .CDI is the adapted game version to fit in the 700mb. Many are over 700mb, but that's normal as it is done in "overburn", as you'll see.
2. You don't need high end CDs, what you need is older CDs. CDs are more cheaply made nowadays than in the 2000s due to cost cutting measures, even the high end ones, as most people nowadays buy CDs for data or music purposes, which don't require as much fidelity to read. The Dreamcast is actually not that picky reading games but the PSX for example really demands good media and burning process. Personally I look out in the wild for the same brand CDs that I bought at the time, from Memorex:
https://www.newegg.com/memorex-52x-700mb-cd-r … N82E16817131802
https://c8.alamy.com/comp/CFCAXT/single-sided … dvdr-CFCAXT.jpg (looks like this but in CD-R format)
3. For Dreamcast games get Disc Juggler, the free version is more than enough. Then apply the settings as exactly shown below, at a low speed like 8x. It never fails to successfully burn and read Dreamcast games. For PSX just get a good media like the Memorex above and burn and at a low speed with a program of your choice, and you should be good to go. I'm yet to test DiscJuggler for PSX or Sega Saturn as well.
Feel free to pass this information, hope this helps