Dreamcast Isos Help

[Ganepark32]

Before anyone thinks im gonna ask where to get them you don't need to worry.
All i want to say is that now that ive got the dreamcast isos there in .cdi files and they don't work when i try to use them on my dreamcast. Is there anyway i can extract the files for the .cdi file cause that way it would work. If you use an application to extract them can you plz give me a link to it.
Thanx in advance.

 

[PinkSpider]

.cdi files are image files. Burn them with Alcohol 120%. If its not a selfbooter grab utopia boot disk off the net.

 

[MIK]

Some CD writer doesn't support sessions which are smaller than 600 kb.

You need to convert the files into the Nero format. Download the tool:
CDI2NRG

 

[Ganepark32]

Once their in the nero format do they work properly then?

 

[Max]

Actually, do you mean commercial games or homebrewn software? For the last one, many of those already offer downloads as .cdi, .nrg and binary files.

 

[khephren]

Some dreamcasts don't accept copied disks. It's worth checking DCemulation to see if yours is one of them.

 

[Shirohagen]

Anybody got any tips for burning Dreamcast CDs on a Mac? I usually use Toast for my burning etc, anyone done this?

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[davey g]

Try both Track At Once and Disk At Once burning and always burn at the slowest speed. Use dummy files if the file size is really small. And almost all Dreamcasts read cd-rs, the only ones that don't are the limited edition ones or ones manufactured after a certain date which were only for sale outside Europe. Just keep trying.

 

[Ganepark32]

i tried burning it with a .nrg file but the dreamcast can't recognise it even with the boot disc. Is there anyway of extracting the files from the .cdi file that way it should work. Yeah and my dreamcast does play copies cause my friend gave me a copy of ikaruga, ecco, and soul calibur.

 

[Ganepark32]

i tried burning it with a .nrg file but the dreamcast can't recognise it even with the boot disc. Is there anyway of extracting the files from the .cdi file that way it should work. Yeah and my dreamcast does play copies cause my friend gave me a copy of ikaruga, ecco, and soul calibur.

 

[Max]

Yeah and my dreamcast does play copies cause my friend gave me a copy of ikaruga, ecco, and soul calibur.

Your friend should stop playing Dreamcast and get back to the PC where he can copy whatever he wants all day until he drives crazy.

About the extracting: There are programs like WinISO out there which help you to extract those images, but it won't help you out cause then you have absolutly no selfbootable image but the plain files. And if they won't load even with boot discs, then you've done something wrong with the burning of those CDs.

 

[Ganepark32]

wats the best program to burn the files on to cd-roms

 

[Max]

K3b in my opinion.

 

[diablo2]

you can extract images with ultraiso i think
its a really useful tool

 

[Ganepark32]

Can you just download k3b then? and where do you get it?

 

[diablo2]

first thing on google
http://www.k3b.org/

 

[Phil]

thanks MIK for the link, i had a bad cdi image and that fixed it!

 

[Ganepark32]

Thanx all hopefully my games will now work when i try them on my dreamcast