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| MoonKnight - Aug 20, 2002 |
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MoonKnight | Aug 20, 2002 | ||
yeah i know i can play with iso/mp3 but i have only 36GB hard drive man so i like to play off of the cds
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Link Hylia | Aug 20, 2002 | ||
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burn at 4x if you can, to insure it is a good burn. 20 minutes for 1 Cd and, as a bonus, you can play on a Real Sega CD!  | ||||
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MasterAkumaMatata | Aug 20, 2002 | |||
You have a 36 GB hard drive and Shining Force ISO+MP3 is like what, 52 MB? Why not give your CD-ROM a rest and play off the ISO+MP3 on your hard drive instead (hard drive usually means faster access)? Also, if you want to burn, I suggest you not use EZCD Creator 5, but rather use EZCD Pro instead, but make sure you're not running NT, 2K, or XP though. You basically create a mixed mode from image burn and drag and drop the tracks (ISO and WAV) in numerical order. | |||||
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Curtis | Aug 20, 2002 | ||
| Or if you want to play from CD, just burn the files as data and load them from the CD. Saves you the hassle of trying to get Gens to recognise your CD drive too. | ||||
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King M | Aug 21, 2002 | ||
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if you want to have the game data as an iso-mp3 set, stored on cd, i assume adaptec's software should be fine, but note gens plays mp3's, not wav files. check out gens.txt for the naming schemes. if you want to create an actual Sega CD disc, you need some decent burning software; adaptec won't cut it. go to www.segacd.org... and find the guide "restoring from iso-mp3". you can make a cd that gens will recognize as a Sega CD disc and that will work in an actual Sega CD unit. also, avoid ezcd pro. | ||||
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Link Hylia | Aug 31, 2002 | ||
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like I said, ".. to insure a good burn" that's the key phrase. sure, if 24x (or even 40x) works for you, go ahead and use it. if you ever have trouble, slow it down, to 4x is a good middle ground, the sweet spot, as 2x would take 40 minutes, and 1x will take over an hour. me, I am not personally fond of making 2 minute coasters, and then have to redo it. | ||||
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ExCyber | Aug 31, 2002 | |||
Digital information cannot be read/written without going through an analog translation of some kind. Even though the data is defined in terms of discrete states, the physical representation of those states is effectively analog and can have virtually any problem that any comparable analog medium can have. In the case of CD-R, combining sub-par equipment or media with high read/write speeds can result in a "blurry" data channel that cannot be consistently read. Of course, some burners and media have no serious problems with high speeds, but unless you know that you have a high-quality burner and media it's usually better to play it safe and burn at a slower speed - unless you really can't wait an extra 10-15 minutes for that disc... | |||||
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archiver | Aug 31, 2002 | ||
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Me, I'd rather wait those extra 10-15 minutes that ExCyber mentions than keep spending money trying to find a drive that can consistably burn reliably at high speeds, as well as the right media to do so. Few things are worse than finalizing a burn, then coming back to the archive several months later to find you can't read the data from the disc.... | ||||
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kx4 | Aug 31, 2002 | ||
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the burn at Also if you buy crap media you'll find problems later when you try and make a copy or use that disc, because crap media usually appears to burn fine but has bad spots. | ||||
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archiver | Aug 31, 2002 | ||
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>>the burn at Bullshit. It *did* and still does apply, otherwise it wouldn't have still be recommended so much to people who are have making coasters with "decent" burners. >>If I gave you a stack of cd's burned at 1x and a stack of the same burned at 40x on a decent burner you wouldn't be able to tell the diffrence. By looking at them, well duh, no. If there's problems with getting data from the the disc (either data or audio), most people could tell you who the initial suspect is going to be. >>Quality comes from the burner you use, not the speed it writes at. New(er) burners burn better at faster speeds, but that doesn't guarantee perfection in every case. There's other just-as-significant factors like as well... like software.. >Also if you buy crap media you'll find problems later when you try and make a copy or use that disc, because crap media usually appears to burn fine but has bad spots. The advice of buying reliable media has been around just as long as the advice of burning at slower speeds, that's nothing new. I like my Lite-On over my other drives, but I still burn slow to play it safe, it's certainly worth it to me. As for those spots, I suppose if you write on them with a green magic marker, it helps....  /sarcasm | ||||
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ExCyber | Aug 31, 2002 | |||
This is a myth! What you really need to do is invest in a good demagnetizing disc and some stabilizer rings... :  : | |||||
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blackbrolly | Sep 25, 2002 | |||
How cAN THIS bE DONE? | |||||
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Curtis | Sep 25, 2002 | ||
| Take the ISO/MP3 files, use your favourite CD burning app to create a data disc and simply burn said ISO/MP3 files. It will mean that you can't use the disc in a real SCD, but it'll save you some HDD space and you'll be able to have multiple games on the one disc. | ||||