Question about self-boot vs boot-disc

[freak2000]

I just got my new DC last week. It was made in Jun 2000. The problem is that it won't recognized self-boot games. It was just go on to the Menu Screen and says "Please insert game disc". I am sure the disc is a self-boot disc because it has 2 sessions and burned with DiscJuggler v3.50.800 to get a cdi image. I am also sure that it has no error because it has all the files after the burn. I went and got a Utopia Boot CD v1.1 and Silent Scope as a boot-disc game (using the exact burn method) and it works fine. I tried every method in order to get my self-boot games to play with no luck. I have 2 questions:

1. Is it possible that my DC can recognized the Utopia boot disc but not able to run self-boot games (both are cd-r) ?

2. How can I convert these self-boot games to run on my DC ? (As now a days, boot-disc games are much harder to find)

Thanks

[Wayne]

Do these "Self-Boot" Discs work on someone else's Dreamcast. Have you actually witnessed them working?

Can you put the disc into your CDROM drive and pull up a data directory on the disc (in your computer, of course)??

If the answers to these questions is "NO", your discs are corrupted. A DC dated June-2000 should have no trouble reading **ANY** self-boot backup, regardless of whether it's OLD or NEW format (Audio/Data or Data/Data).

I'd make sure the discs actually work before I went assuming the DC won't read backups. If not, you'll need to get new copies of them (from a different source, perhaps, that you know work).

[bear]

well New DC's cannot play any copied games no matter what.

[Wayne]

bear, if you'd just read the discussion above, you'll discover that we are talking about a JUNE-2000 Dreamcast.

[freak2000]

Wayne, I was able to convert these Discjuggler images into Nero images using cdi2nero and now they are all working fine. I guess the problem is that DJ is not compatible with my burner but Nero does. Anyway, thanks for all your help.