Dreamcast Not Playing Burnt Games

[Wayne]

Wrong! The copy-protected Dreamcast machine got *WIDE* release in the United States. Most of the "New" Dreamcast machines you are going to find on store shelves now are of the copy-protected variety and it's been rumored that not all of them will even play the newer style backups, although I can't confirm this rumor.

If the Dreamcast manufacture-date is October 2000 or later, chances are it won't play older style backups. The only way I've heard that works for these machines when using older CDDA type backups (audio-data) is to dump the files using CDMAGE and create a new ISO image, after which you convert it to a .CDI file using BIN2BOOT. Burn using Dreamcast and you should have a bootable disc. If it doesn't boot on the newer DC but it does boot on a friend's older machine, your machine is copy-protected beyond the scope of the "data-data" method and I haven't heard of anyone cracking that newer protect scheme (yet?).