A lonely dreamer needs heeeelp!!!!!

[Expendable]

Last days I've heard a rumor about GD backups. Some people got the DC lens (maybe the PAL) damaged because of the use of game backups. Is that true or it's just a false rumor to avoid piratery????
Please answer me that doubt...I need to know...
Thanks.

[Mario Bros]

I want to know it too!!

[Mantus]

well of what i heard it was only the non selfbootable games that damage the lens... That is when it was burned whitout a Dummy file. But Selfbottable games shouldent be a problem. And not non selfbott games either if you use the dummy......

[Mario Bros]

and what about the utopia boot cd?
will it damage my dreamcast?

[ozzy]

how can it damage your lens ??
think about it

a laser does one thing and one thing alone
it sends out light to the cd and the reflected data gets read and thats that
now if your reader cannot read a cd properly because its a cdr or cdrw then itll retry reading that particular sector and after a few attempts it will just quit reading the cd.

now there are people damaging there lenses and stuff by modifying there dc's laser to a higher output to get it to read cdrw and thats propably what you heard about