Question about self-boot vs boot-disc
 

I just got my new DC last week. It was made in Jun 2000. The problem is that it won't recognized self-boot games. It was just go on to the Menu Screen and says "Please insert game disc". I am sure the disc is a self-boot disc because it has 2 sessions and burned with DiscJuggler v3.50.800 to get a cdi image. I am also sure that it has no error because it has all the files after the burn. I went and got a Utopia Boot CD v1.1 and Silent Scope as a boot-disc game (using the exact burn method) and it works fine. I tried every method in order to get my self-boot games to play with no luck. I have 2 questions:

1. Is it possible that my DC can recognized the Utopia boot disc but not able to run self-boot games (both are cd-r) ?

2. How can I convert these self-boot games to run on my DC ? (As now a days, boot-disc games are much harder to find)

Thanks

Do these "Self-Boot" Discs work on someone else's Dreamcast. Have you actually witnessed them working?

Can you put the disc into your CDROM drive and pull up a data directory on the disc (in your computer, of course)??

If the answers to these questions is "NO", your discs are corrupted. A DC dated June-2000 should have no trouble reading **ANY** self-boot backup, regardless of whether it's OLD or NEW format (Audio/Data or Data/Data).

I'd make sure the discs actually work before I went assuming the DC won't read backups. If not, you'll need to get new copies of them (from a different source, perhaps, that you know work).

well New DC's cannot play any copied games no matter what.

bear, if you'd just read the discussion above, you'll discover that we are talking about a JUNE-2000 Dreamcast.

Wayne, I was able to convert these Discjuggler images into Nero images using cdi2nero and now they are all working fine. I guess the problem is that DJ is not compatible with my burner but Nero does. Anyway, thanks for all your help.