Dreamcast Not Playing Burnt Games

[nlzx]

My old Dreamcast wasn't working well so I went out and bought a new one at babbages.
The made date was December 2000, What is the date where they started making the
Dreamcasts that couldn't play burnt games? I'd really like to play my games...
If anyone can help me with this problem please e-mail me at [email protected] with any
input it would be much appreciated.
Thanks

[GamerXtreme]

you need a Utopia Boot cd in order to play the games. Your can get it from KaZaA the P2P file sharing program and then burn the image with disk juggler

[Megalexxx]

It has nothing to see with a boot disc.
It's a matter of how your CD is burnt : some new DCs can't play games when the 1st session is CDDA. It's the case on most of selfboot games released. Xeal Bin2Boot tool can help you : it places data track first.

Read section 6.1. : "Newer Non-CDR DCs and workaround" here :
http://www.megagames.com/dc/dc_backup_faq.shtml

[Aleios]

the dreamcat which can't play burnt cd has never been released in europe...
in USA too (but i'm not sure )
it has only been released in japon

[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?).