Originally posted by Taelon@Apr 28, 2003 @ 01:49 PM
2. Practically all software rips data tracks to ISO files with the gap after the data track included in the ISO. This can be bad since the ISO usually ends up being 150 sectors too long, pushing audio tracks down by 2 seconds on a burned CD. Depending on the particular game burned this may have no effect, the effect of garbled audio, or the effect of the game crashing... I could go into detail but I think I'll save that for a FAQ I've been thinking of writing up...
(As far as Sega CD discs are concerend) That is not necessarily true, it depends on how you rip the data track and how you load your files for burning.
In my opinion, CDRWin is probably the best program ripping Sega CD games. When you make a 1:1 image with CDRWin, it skips over the 150 unreadable sectors at the end of the data track and replaces it with a postgap 2:00 in the cue file. The rest of the disc is standard 2 second gap, audio track, 2 second gap, etc. If you use something like cdmage (also an excellent tool) to extract the iso, there will be nothing there to represent those last 150 sectors. Thus you need to add the 2 second postgap when you use the iso-mp3 set to make a new disc. To note, Alcohol 120% also skips the 150 sectors and uses a postgap in the cue, but it also fucks up the rest of the cue so DO NOT USE ALCOHOL 120% TO RIP SEGA CD GAMES.
You are right about most other software. Programs such as Blindwrite and CloneCD include the funky 150 sectors in the bin file, as garbage data, so there is no postgap line in the cue file. If you use cdmage on these images, the data track iso -will- have the 150 sectors, so you would not want to add the postgap when setting up a new disc layout. Nero and Discjuggler also belong in this group.
So, if you know the source of your iso, it is possible to layout a new disc from an iso-mp3 set that will have data in the near area of the original disc, if you don't worry about the difference due to mp3 > wav conversions.
But just to reiterate, DO NOT MAKE A BIN-CUE FROM AN ISO-MP3 SET AND PASS IT OFF AS A 1:1. If you are found out, you will likely be harmed. If you need to do it to suit your own purposes, that's fine, just keep it to yourself.
btw I have not worked with Saturn discs, so I can't comment on ripping those.