need help making dc backups.

i have disc juggler and i also have the boot cd but no copies i make are working please help me some1

[Areku]

Just to be sure....

Are you trying to copy an original DC GDROM or a backed up CDR DC game?

(guys, set your guns ready! )

im tryin to copy cd to cdr

[Areku]

Are you copying on the fly may be? Be sure to make an image of the disc on the HD first.

how do i do that ?

[Wayne]

bigmike, you CANNOT copy an original Dreamcast game disc (GDROM) using a standard CD-R or CDRW drive!!!

It just will not work. A GDROM disc is up to one GB in capacity and it is constructed differently than a standard CD-R disc. If you look at the recorded surface of the Dreamcast disc, you'll notice a gap in the data tracks, near the center of the disc. The only data your CD reader will ever see is the small band of data to the inside of that gap. All of the game data is on the outside of that gap. You'll likely only get a disc with 1-2 MB of data if you try to copy it using standard methods.


YOU CAN ONLY COPY AN ORIGINAL DREAMCAST GAME DISC USING A SERIAL CABLE AND SERIAL-SLAVE SOFTWARE (or network crossover cable and broadband adapter and appropriate software). YOU CANNOT COPY GDROM DISCS USING STANDARD CD-R COPYING PRACTICES !!

[Areku]

Didn't he say cd to cd-r? I thought he was doing onthefly copies of a CDR to another CDR.

[Wayne]

I read from this and other "bigmike" threads that he must be trying (ignorantly) to copy GDROMs with his CD Burner.