[Mods, excuse me if this seems to belong in the "burning" section. But this topic involves modifying the Sega CD to read CDRWs]
I have a version 1 Genesis with a top-loading version 2 Sega CD.
My CD burner is a TDK Velocd 24X using Nero.
I was happy when my very first burned CDR game, "OOW2/Heart of the Alien," worked perfectly. This disc was a 700MB Memorex burned at 24X and using DAO/Disc-At-Once.
I recently bought 30 cheap CDRs, "Starlogic" brand, for $10US. They also work great but make an odd high pitched sound when played. Very odd. I suspect it is the SCD laser gun and not the actual disk.
It seems every disk I try works great, except a "circuit city" brand 700MB CDR. The SCD seems to take a long time to find audio tracks among other oddities. These CDR have been used before as audio CDs, boot CDs, data, mp3, and even VCDs. They perform well but seem slow in the Sega CD.
Ok, one day I was running low on CDRs and thought I would try a CDRW. The SegaCD didn't even spin, it was like a disc wasn't in the drive.
I decided to do quick surgery on my SCD :smash and see if I could modify it to read the CDRW. I had my doubts since this drive was released in '93, the same year PCs seen there first CD-ROM drives.
To my surprise it worked. :cheers but later I found a problem when it tried to play the audio tracks to the game. The game loaded fine, but the audio would sometimes be out of sync or not play at all.
After a bit more surgery :smash I found the source of the problem and corrected it. Yahoo!
It works great and I now test my burned games on CDRW before I burn to CDR. I do this because a few games, EarthWorm Jim for Ex., seem to not work or are from another country and "locked" out.
Better yet, it now reads the "circuit city" CDRs better than ever.
Has anyone else done this?
I want to work on a tutorial to help anyone else that wishes to do this, but I don't want to waste my time if no one is interested ... or if a guide of this kind already exisit.
I have only been able to test 4X CDRWs burned at 4X from 3 brands; TDK, HP, and DigitalMedia. All of these are 650MB. Has anyone been able to successfully use the higher speed CDRW, in particular the 10X or higher?
Can anyone help me here?
..
PS. LONG LIVE ZELDA!!
edit:spelling
I have a version 1 Genesis with a top-loading version 2 Sega CD.
My CD burner is a TDK Velocd 24X using Nero.
I was happy when my very first burned CDR game, "OOW2/Heart of the Alien," worked perfectly. This disc was a 700MB Memorex burned at 24X and using DAO/Disc-At-Once.
I recently bought 30 cheap CDRs, "Starlogic" brand, for $10US. They also work great but make an odd high pitched sound when played. Very odd. I suspect it is the SCD laser gun and not the actual disk.
It seems every disk I try works great, except a "circuit city" brand 700MB CDR. The SCD seems to take a long time to find audio tracks among other oddities. These CDR have been used before as audio CDs, boot CDs, data, mp3, and even VCDs. They perform well but seem slow in the Sega CD.
Ok, one day I was running low on CDRs and thought I would try a CDRW. The SegaCD didn't even spin, it was like a disc wasn't in the drive.
I decided to do quick surgery on my SCD :smash and see if I could modify it to read the CDRW. I had my doubts since this drive was released in '93, the same year PCs seen there first CD-ROM drives.
To my surprise it worked. :cheers but later I found a problem when it tried to play the audio tracks to the game. The game loaded fine, but the audio would sometimes be out of sync or not play at all.
After a bit more surgery :smash I found the source of the problem and corrected it. Yahoo!
It works great and I now test my burned games on CDRW before I burn to CDR. I do this because a few games, EarthWorm Jim for Ex., seem to not work or are from another country and "locked" out.
Better yet, it now reads the "circuit city" CDRs better than ever.
Has anyone else done this?
I want to work on a tutorial to help anyone else that wishes to do this, but I don't want to waste my time if no one is interested ... or if a guide of this kind already exisit.
I have only been able to test 4X CDRWs burned at 4X from 3 brands; TDK, HP, and DigitalMedia. All of these are 650MB. Has anyone been able to successfully use the higher speed CDRW, in particular the 10X or higher?
Can anyone help me here?
..
PS. LONG LIVE ZELDA!!
edit:spelling
The camara goes in a few days. :-(
