Dreamcast problem

[Chevy787]

I'm having trouble with my dreamcast, it will not play any new games I burn onto a cd-r. It plays other cd-r's I burned, but all the sudden it just plays it does'nt want to play any new ones.

 

1. I'm sure it's not the Sony cd-r's I've been using because, I was using them for dreamcast prior to this and they worked fine.

 

2. My dreamcast was manufactured in 1999 (no new bios)

 

3. The cd's that I burned work fine on chankast and one even has echelon sb intro.

 

4. It's not the format of the discs either... I tried nero, alcohol and others.

 

5. It's not my cd burner, I tried with both my computers and still same problem.

 

6. I tried cleaning my laser with a Q-tip, I even tried Shibathedog's GD-ROM Alignment Guide.

 

So if anyone can help me I would appreciate it

Edited July 13, 2006 by Chevy787

[Shibathedog]

So your saying that you had some burned games, that used to work, and no longer work? and any new games that you burn wont work either?

[Chevy787]

Thanks for the help... but it seems the 5 games that I burnt were all currupt.

Pretty bad luck though .

[Shibathedog]

O_o where the heck are you getting games that so many where currupt?

 

(BTW dont post a site link or anything like that its against forum rules...which makes this hard to answer i know)

[Chevy787]

Well I just tried reburning 18 wheeler(.nrg) and it worked this time (I tried burning the image with nero and alcohol, but neither worked, so I tried mounting in deameon tools and copying the virtual disk with alcohol and it worked)...but I also tried reburning some others that way and they did'nt work.

 

For alcohol I put the write method to: "RAW DAO" and it seems to be alot more reliable now

 

I've found out that .nrg don't work well and just stick with .mds or .cdi

[Shibathedog]

yeah, always burn in RAW/DAO mode, nrg should work fine

 

if i ever had an NRG that didnt work, the way i fixed it was by using an app that converted it to CDI (i think) and then burning it with alcohol

[Chevy787]

Well if you have link to the program I would appreciate it .

[Shibathedog]

google it, the website that i got it from has other things on it that would make it against the rules for me to post the link