help with burning ps2 with a mac
 

i'm having trouble backing up ps2 games with my mac, what's the easiest way to go about, i'm using the lastest version of toast

I don’t mean to sound like an ass, but go buy a real computer.

dont waste my time champ, i own both a mac and a pc p4, a educated answer would of been nice though

ive only backed up 1 game on my mac, and i used Toast-Titanuim 5.xx (on my Titanium PowerBook :D ) and it worked fine...but like i said, ive only done it once, all my other backups have been done on my PC.

and...
shutup.

Send ElkayPS2 a e-mail.... He is one of the Mac GURU's on this forum. He should be able to help you out...

Sorry, but since I don't have a MAC, thats the only answer I can give you....:(

hope u aren't telling me to shutup, hope it was directed at the dude who started the quote. Hey all i want is some help not smart asses, there is enough of them in the world. besides copping it on the net, anyway thanks foryour input, does the media u use make a different i'm trying laser brand

Media can play a BIG part in deciding if your PS2 will boot the game or not......

is it worth testing with dvd-rw?? what brand do u use

That's what I would do.... At least if it doesn't work you can just ERASE the disc..... Although unless you have a newer PS2, such as a V5 or higher, it may not read the DVD-RW.....
(My V5 will read them no problem)

I use Princo White Label DVD-R's.... And will be switching to Datasafe DVD-R as soon as a "friend of mine" sends them to me....

Traxdata works great (datasafe uses the same dye).... But are hard to get them in the US...... I have to have a friend of mine get them and then send them to me.....

You can always use the "BIG" brand names such as Verbatim, but they are very expensive....

any idea when elkayps2 comes on line

Not really.... Just e-mail him through his profile... He will get back with you....

one last question dude, i used tdk brand dvd-rw heard anything bad about using them for testing, or laser dvd-r's

TDK's don't seem to be too bad.... Although I do know someone who got a bad batch of them, but for the most part they are fine... As far a "laser brand dvd-r's" I've never heard of them...

Good luck with everything....

Sorry willow, I just hate seeing ppl use a thing that shouldn’t even be called a computer.

I’m going to take a guess here… I would see if your burning software will let you make an image is the PS2 game. If so make an image and save it one you hard drive for safe keeping. Then open the image with the software and burning it to a DVD-R.

knotsville said he burned a game with ‘Toast-Titanium 5.xx’ I would hop on your fav. P2P and download it and see if that works for you.

If you can get your hands on a DVD-RW for your PC, get one, I have a Philips and it works great for copying.

Don’t tell me to shupup, my PC will do laps around any Mac. And I can do a hell of a lot more with my PC, maybe I can’t do high end video and image editing like the Mac can, but I know my PC will out perform it in almost every way.

Great, enjoy your PC. Some people prefer Macs so let them enjoy their Macs. No need for bashing them.

Heres some thing else you can try, but I don’t know enough about Mac’s burning software to know if this will work. You will need to have your PC and Mac, networked together, and have a DVD player on your PC.

Download a programmed call Prassi PrimoDVD, and make an images of the game with it. Then send it to your Mac and burn it to a DVD-R.

May or may not work… Just an idea.

i can try that, but not sure how i'm going to burn it on mac

does that software create an image.

Ya it does make a image, its what I use to make them.
Click on the link and see how its done with Primo DVD. Factoids: Primo DVD Tutorial (By Charlie_PS2)

Cant you open images with Toast? Look and see if you can open .gi files.

Your PC will out perform my Mac in almost everyway except for the things Mac's are designed to do. My Mac is my work computer and my PC is for all my other crap, so when it comes down to it, it really depends on what your using it for. Different strokes for different folks...thats the last im going to say about this, so dont even get me started again.

As for networking them, its fairly simple and could quite possibly work, give it a go.

I cant backup dvd:dvd, coz my dvd burner is a dvd-ram :confused: spewin'

could anyone help me we burning ps2 on a mac, should i try os 9.

Or is there other tools besides toast

is it possible to network the dvd burner which is on the mac so the pc can use it to burn directly from one of its pc programs. I know networking a pc device to another pc device is easy, but mac is setup different. ????

If anybody knows its elkayps2. He is the Mac PS2 guru. Try to get a hold of him.

Sounds like a lot of mac bashing going on and as long as you can make back ups who cares what you use. I would use an old TRS 80 if it did the job. At my post in this forum I give detailed step by step. But you need to use Toast Titanium 5.1.4 the earlier versions will not work.

RLT528