Big Papa, Got a challenging burning question for ya! (others feel free to try!)

[i2mental]

I don't think that you will ever be able to copy those back to a CD if you just copied the files to your hard disk. If it was non-bootable then that should be no problem. Or if you had ripped it off into an iso it may have worked. But the problem with just copying the files to your HD is that you loose the oder that the files were in and most importantly the blank spaces that are left in the CD for copy protection. If your DC doesn't read these blank CDs, then it's not going to play the game. This is just my opinion however. I'm assuming that when you put the cd in, it just comes up to the dreamcast logo and sits there. Is this the case? Also have you tried using a boot disk first (long shot but hey!).