Help with backups

XPCportables · Post by **XPCportables** » Sun Dec 31, 2006 4:51 pm

so how do I burn soul calibur? the previous posts really don't help me. I want to know how to burn a 765mb file onto a 700mb disc. also could somebody please email me a CDI of bootdreams I cant figure out how to make my own.

Turbo Tax 1.0 · Post by **Turbo Tax 1.0** » Sun Dec 31, 2006 4:53 pm

i used cdi2nero like sparkfist suggested, turned the overburn setting on, and burned soulcalibur at a slow speed and it worked

XPCportables · Post by **XPCportables** » Sun Dec 31, 2006 5:09 pm

did it self boot, because my CDI2nero soul calibur will not self boot. I can't use disc juggler because I only have the evaluation copy which only supports 700mb files. I can't get my boot discs to boot anything, they boot up just fine, but when I swap discs and try to continue, it always goes back to the dremcast menu where it tells me to insert a disc.

dudex77 · Post by **dudex77** » Mon Jan 01, 2007 8:13 am

someone needs to sticky thi because its quite useful for newbs like myself

Turbo Tax 1.0 · Post by **Turbo Tax 1.0** » Mon Jan 01, 2007 12:41 pm

XPCportables wrote:did it self boot, because my CDI2nero soul calibur will not self boot. I can't use disc juggler because I only have the evaluation copy which only supports 700mb files. I can't get my boot discs to boot anything, they boot up just fine, but when I swap discs and try to continue, it always goes back to the dremcast menu where it tells me to insert a disc.

yeah mine self boots

XPCportables · Post by **XPCportables** » Tue Jan 02, 2007 2:24 pm

Well I "obtained" the full version of DiscJuggler and I burned Soul Calibur with it. It boots just fine, but when I get to the part where I can select Arcade Multiplayer or mission mode, It goes black and never gets any further when I select a mode. I don't understand I used Jeep's settings and it burned fine but no dice for actually playing it.

dudex77 · Post by **dudex77** » Fri Jan 05, 2007 10:32 am

hey i have a copy of jet grind radio but its in 25 rar files how would i put that onto disc using nero? do i just burn an image with all of the files on it or what? i have the same issue with sonic adventure 2 which is in 43 parts

Post by **Sparkfist** » Fri Jan 05, 2007 12:36 pm

dudex77 wrote:hey i have a copy of jet grind radio but its in 25 rar files how would i put that onto disc using nero? do i just burn an image with all of the files on it or what? i have the same issue with sonic adventure 2 which is in 43 parts

I've found movies like this. Extract the one that is either 00 or 01. Once extracted it should be a CD image. From there you should be able to burn it with Nero or DiscJuggler.

dudex77 · Post by **dudex77** » Fri Jan 05, 2007 3:24 pm

ok ill try that but then what do i do with the other 24 or whatever files do they all turn into one?

dudex77 · Post by **dudex77** » Fri Jan 05, 2007 3:39 pm

ok that worked with jet grind radio but i was wrong with sa2 theyre 001file 002file 003file..... etc etc up to 43 then theyres a sfv file so what do i do? will this work? i tried extracting file001 but it didnt work. oh and is there a way to burn cdi. files with nero or do i have to use disc juggler?

dudex77 · Post by **dudex77** » Sat Jan 06, 2007 8:33 am

sorry for the tripple post but i downloaded rez and it was in to files one rar and the other is a video cd movie or something so i un compressed the rar and it revealed 2 more files one mdf which is huge and one mds which is 2 kb how do i burn this?

-=FamilyGuy=- · Post by **-=FamilyGuy=-** » Sun May 27, 2007 7:53 pm

Well, i'm quite experimented in cd/gd/riping/Dreamcast/self-boot technology, so I thought I might help you :

1) Size of images files: Some games images are bigger than 700mb because they are in RAW mode(2352 bytes/sectors) instead of normal mode1(2048 bytes/sectors), the actual data on the disc is really 700mb, the extra 30 or 60 mbs are error correction algorythms and subchannels.

2) Rar splited in parts: When you get scene release from usenet or whatever, (wich might be illegual, nasty boyz) they are often rared in many files to minimize the corruption while downloading, and to allow people to download big file in parts, to extract them, simply open the file named *.rar or *.001 or *.r01 with winrar and extract its content, if there's no > or < after filename in the archive, it mean you got the right file opened, in case or error message, look if you downloaded all of the parts.

3) File Formats: *.cdi is Diskjuggler or Alcohol; *.mds/*.mds is Alcohol; *.nrg is Nero; *.ccd is CLoneCd; *.cue/*.bin or *.iso can be burned with almost everything but will not be selfboot.

3*) File Formats; how to make a non-selfboot selfboot: 3 ways:

a. Download it again in selfboot format;

b. Take the files out of the image, burn a 705600bytes file in audio mode open session as session one(sao mode), then binhack the ip.bin and 1st_read.bin using binhack.exe(google is your friend) to 11702, then using mkisofs create a image of the files with fixed 1st_read.bin then using ipins.exe(google) to inject the ip.bin bootsector to the image created before, then burn it in mode 2 xa1 after th audio session (this is known as audio/data selfbooting, data/data is possible too, but way harder and only some consoles can't read audio/data anyway)

c. Use bin2boot(google)

4) *.par/*.sfv : *.par and *.sfv files are error correction files, they checks for corruption in the splitted images and corect them if they finds(and if it's not to big)

5) *.NFO/*.BIZ: *.Nfo/*.Biz files are text files containing infos on the release and can be opened with notepad with terminal font or nfoviewer(google) with enchanced fonts.

If this don't answer all your questions, feel free to ask more.

Thank you !

-=FamilyGuy=-

dudex77 · Post by **dudex77** » Mon May 28, 2007 8:50 am

horray for familyguy with his knowledge! No help to me now since ive sorta figured out what i needed to, but for others hurray. If anyone cant find selfbooting files let me know and ill give you an invite to underground-gamer