I need some good straight-forward answers on the easiest way to burning my DC games

[FD]

OK, I tried instructions on dccopyworld.com, and they were just weird. Any easy, straight-forward instructions? Also, any tips for the burning? And another thing, which is the best program for burning?

[Wayne]

Gee, you say they were just "weird", but I understood them well enough to get started, over six months ago...

[FD]

well, what do you do if all the files you got had the same file in each? You see, I just got 001-007 files. THey each had the same file, a CDI file. Do I unarchive them ALL or just ONE?

[Wayne]

You obviously have no concept of what a RAR file is.

If you have files that are all the same name, but the extensions are either:

.001, .002, .003, .004, .006

or:

.rar, .r00, .r01, .r02, .r03

...these files are RAR'ed. So long as the last file in the list is somewhat smaller than the others, and all the other files are *EXACTLY* the same size, you've probably go the complete package. Just load the first file (.RAR or .001) into WinRAR and extract the contents.

Then you may have a .CDI or .BIN/.CUE combination.

[FD]

yeah, I know. I opened up every single .00x file, and the same file was in each: The .CDI. The .CDI was the same size in each file, had the same name, everything.

[Jes|er]

What are you using to extract them? They should all be the same size, well all but the last one. Anyway try winrar. www.winrar.com ...

[BOT]

There just has to be one every day!
FD is today's lost cause.

[FD]

I'm using WinACE, and just tried WinRAR too. Same results. And the last file is 875 KB, unlike the other 19.07 MB files. In the last file, it has the same file, the same size, the same name all that crap. I'm just confused.

[BOT]

Just what part of this sentence from Wayne's reply don't you understand? -
"Just load the first file (.RAR or .001) into WinRAR and extract the contents."

[FD]

I already did that, and I was just wondering why there would be multiple RAR files if they all had the same thing in them.

[Wayne]

They all don't have the same file. They all have *FRAGMENTS* of the same file. It takes all of files you have downloaded to complete one .CDI file. If you took the time to watch WinRAR (or WinACE, perhaps) while it uncompresses the file(s), you'd notice it starts with the first one (.001) and then it goes to .002, .003, .004, etc...

It's not that each file has the same data, but rather that each file has a little piece of the whole file. It takes them all to recreate the file, but you only have to start WinRAR with the first one. It's smart enough (unlike some here) to figure out that it should go to the next file, and so on, until all the file is extracted.

If you've already extracted the file once, this is a moot point, as you've already got a usable .CDI.

[FD]

"If you've already extracted the file once, this is a moot point, as you've already got a usable .CDI"

So I'm good then? I know GD-ROMs can hold up to 1.2 GBs, and if I have 7 694 MB CDI files, that doesn't exactly fit.

[y0]

extract from winrar. burn the cdi file with discjuggler even if the files too big. it'll work.

[Wayne]

The point is, you don't have 7 - 694mb files there. Each segment of the RAR file is going to report the TOTAL uncompressed filesize, but it will also indicates that there are other segments that make up the total file. I can't recall exactly, but if you're on the first file, you get some indication to the right of the filename, if you're on a middle file when you're viewing, you'll get an indicator on both sides of the name, and if you're at the last file, you get only the indicator before the filename. I would give you a more detailed and accurate description, but I haven't re-installed WinRAR since I formatted my hard drive and installed XP.