First time burner...

[graaf]

Hey! I downloaded game from one web site. After packin there were two different files crash4.bin and crash4.cue. I didn't first knew what files are these.. After reading psxcopyworlds guide I found out that this bin file is image file.
I have patched it with PPF-O-MATIC and opened crash4.cue file with CDRWIN. I can record this normally.. All seems to be right but after burning I found out that there is not files on the CD!! PSX can't open it!!
When I put this CD in my PC:s CDROM Drive it starts to play this CD. It seems like CDRWIN has made one music track from this image file?? How is this possible? What am I doing wrong? Pleace tell me!

[tif]

Unless you are doing something very strange, then it is because your CD writer is incompatible with CDRwin. Everything will appear fine, but you'll just get a CD with one unplayable CDA track on it. It's what happened to me before I changed CD writers anyway... everytime.

If that's not an option, here's what to do (if you have or can get Nero - it works with far more CD Writers)

1: Make your image as normal in CDRwin. Even if your writer doesn't work with CDRwin, chances are you can still read OK into CDRwin using it.

2: Use PPF-O-Matic to patch as normal.

3: You can safely delete the .cue file now, you won't be needing it anymore, it's just to tell CDRwin where everything has to go on the CD

4: Open Nero, and select File -> Burn Image

5: Select the .bin file that you made with CDRwin. Nero will tell you that is a foreign image file, just click OK.

6: When the data type box comes up, select the data type as mode2. The number of sectors should be set automatically. If it's not, then set it to 2352 sectors.

7: Set the writing speed to 2x, and click burn. Wait 30 - 45 mins, and you'll have a perfectly working backup, assuming the patch is OK..... :-)

Hope that helps!!!!