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Dreamcast - CDI Images
« on: May 19, 2006, 03:02:15 pm »
Okay, not sure this belongs in this forum, but hopefully someone can help me out.

I've been downloading some homebrew games for the Dreamcast.  I really liked the Beat of Rage Collection 1 so I thought I'd try Beats of Rage Collection 2.  The site (can't remember it now) said the image is 700MB.  Cool, just just fit on my CDR.  Problem is Alcohol, and Windows XP for that matter, is reporting it as 774MB so I can't get it burned.   :hissy:  Is there a way to edit the CDI file to remove some information so that I can burn it??

I tried mounting the drive, but Windows XP claims it's an invalid format (or something like that).  So, I have no idea how to work with this.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.  :cheers:

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Re: Dreamcast - CDI Images
« Reply #1 on: May 19, 2006, 03:57:57 pm »
Alcohol 120% always manages to put oversized images on a standard sized CD for me. I just use the image burning wizard. I don't know how it does that, I assume it's witchcraft.

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Re: Dreamcast - CDI Images
« Reply #2 on: May 19, 2006, 04:45:38 pm »
Alcohol 120% always manages to put oversized images on a standard sized CD for me. I just use the image burning wizard. I don't know how it does that, I assume it's witchcraft.

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Re: Dreamcast - CDI Images
« Reply #3 on: May 20, 2006, 01:56:15 am »
It's done with overburning.  Higher quality CDRs are able to burn beyond the outer edge of the disc that signifies the 700mb mark.  If it's a proper .CDI image of a game, it WILL fit on a CD.
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Re: Dreamcast - CDI Images
« Reply #4 on: May 20, 2006, 03:17:11 am »
try burning with discjuggler. nero kinda sucks for dreamcast games..sometimes it doesnt work at all ???

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Re: Dreamcast - CDI Images
« Reply #5 on: May 20, 2006, 06:06:15 am »
I 2nd what SNAKE said, Discjuggler is the only way to go for .cdi images for the DC.

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Re: Dreamcast - CDI Images
« Reply #6 on: May 20, 2006, 12:46:56 pm »
Alcohol or Disc Juggler both do CDI very well.

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Re: Dreamcast - CDI Images
« Reply #7 on: May 21, 2006, 01:57:51 am »
I've always used cdi2nero to convert the cdi image to nero format.  Never had any problems.

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Re: Dreamcast - CDI Images
« Reply #8 on: May 22, 2006, 12:35:54 am »
ill put my vote with alcohol, i done a heap og dreamcast games with no worries from any of them.

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Re: Dreamcast - CDI Images
« Reply #9 on: May 22, 2006, 10:57:05 am »
I've always used cdi2nero to convert the cdi image to nero format.  Never had any problems.

I used that before I got Alcohol 120%, and I agree it usually does the job. You can skip that step if you use A120% though, and I'm all for skipping steps.

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Re: Dreamcast - CDI Images
« Reply #10 on: May 25, 2006, 11:41:06 am »
diskjuggler worked for me too 100%  :cheers:
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