Easy Burning Question -
 

Okay - I'm learning here...

I have X.nrg and I want to burn it. but the size is 701mb, that's more than a regular CD-R.

do I (A) burn it onto a CD-R by doing something special? or (B) burn it onto a DVD (DCs cant read DVD media, can they?)

I have the same dilemma with a .cdi of another game, that .cdi file is about 720mb, so Do I burn to a DVD or is there some truncating method?

This seems like a basic question that the masters can shed some light on rather easily - muchos thanks.

why not just use nero and see what´s happen?
or dj, try it, you´ll see that you didn´t get an error
message. the image will fit. try it.

an image hold some additional data, which isn´t
burnt to the cd.

I think 80 min CD-R's can hold up easily 703 mb...
Anyways, the size of the file (nrg or cdi) is sometimes bigger than the amount of data in it (at least when I make an iso it's bigger...)

700MB/80min CDs are actually only sold as having a 700MB capacity. Their true capacity, including ECC data (for error correction checksums), is almost exactly 803MB. With overburning, you can easily fit 810MB or 815MB of raw data on a "700MB" CD. Often, CD image files are such raw images, so they appear larger but will still fit, often with room to spare.

The 700MB specification is based on each sector on the CD holding 2048 bytes of user data, but in addition there are 304 bytes of ECC data, so each sector really holds 2352 bytes.

700MB / 2048 * 2352 = ~803MB

Thanks for the help on this one!