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Recommendations for a new BURNER that OVERBURNS
« on: November 02, 2008, 05:33:18 AM »
Really would like to not have to go SCSI, etc.  Anyone have any recommendations.  I need the ability to Overburn - Plextor, Yamaha and Teac is what I can find in Google but mostly they're SCSI...  I used to use SCSI on my Macs years ago - Firewire now but this is going in my "Dreamcast Burning PC"  - older 1.2 ghz. Sony Pentablet running XP Pro with basically a Sony IDE in it right now...  I downloaded a bunch of games that don't fit on 80 min CD's and require overburning I take it.
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Re: Recommendations for a new BURNER that OVERBURNS
« Reply #1 on: November 02, 2008, 06:35:38 AM »
They will fit on a standard 80 min cd. 99% of them will anyway. The cdi file might show as being 750meg, but when you load it into alcohol, it will show as under 80mins.


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Re: Recommendations for a new BURNER that OVERBURNS
« Reply #2 on: November 02, 2008, 07:25:27 AM »
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Re: Recommendations for a new BURNER that OVERBURNS
« Reply #3 on: November 02, 2008, 06:40:02 PM »
I've never came across a Dreamcast game that needed overburning.

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Re: Recommendations for a new BURNER that OVERBURNS
« Reply #4 on: November 02, 2008, 08:46:59 PM »
It must be my setup - might have to reformat, etc.  I only have 7 gigs free (might need more with Windows and it's swap file, etc) and usually it'll go to almost the end then fizzle...  Only with the larger games I noticed.  Been using Alcohol 120 but just got BOOTDREAMS and am testing that out now...  ALSO not to HIJACK my own thread but does anyone have a link to Virtual Tennis - Not on a GMAIL Server - as I'm on a Mac downloading and there's really no Mac Gmail client I can find.  I transfer them by CD to my PC setup in the bedroom for burning but the PC isn't hooked to the net right now.  Found a few torrents for it but they're old and no seeders.
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Re: Recommendations for a new BURNER that OVERBURNS
« Reply #5 on: November 03, 2008, 01:59:10 AM »
I've never came across a Dreamcast game that needed overburning.
One of the rips of cool cool toon won't fit on an 80 min cd, but thats the only one i've come across

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Re: Recommendations for a new BURNER that OVERBURNS
« Reply #6 on: November 03, 2008, 02:12:41 AM »
gonna keep trying then.  I bought 80 min. MAXELL CD's - might have to transfer my Firewire enclosure with my Pioneer DVD burner (I use on my Mac) into the bedroom - maybe the old Sony Burner in the PC is flaky - also might wipe the PC's HD clean and free up more room on the drive.  The Sony Pentablet I'm using does have firewire ports on it but the drive is a standard IDE so if need be I could always pop it out of the enclosure and hook it up internally to IDE.  I love problem solving so this won't be too hard except I haven't used PC's in a long long time - I'm Mac all the way.  We do have a DC burning app now called LIQUIDCD that burns CDI just great but it doesn't recognize 80 min CD's (apparently) so only the smaller size CDI's seem to burn OK - the others tell me "not enough room".  But I have done about 5 or 6 successfully in OS X on my G5 and they work great.
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Re: Recommendations for a new BURNER that OVERBURNS
« Reply #7 on: November 03, 2008, 10:04:29 PM »
Good to hear the there's a burner for Mac that supports CDI, thanks for the heads up!

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Re: Recommendations for a new BURNER that OVERBURNS
« Reply #8 on: November 04, 2008, 12:54:51 AM »
The LIQUIDCD guys tell me that the next release will support 80 min CD's...

http://www.maconnect.ch/index.php?page=liquidcd&lang=en


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