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    Default Bad burn? or something else (DreamCast)

    Hello, I just picked me up a dreamcast that was made in march of 2000 and it has 1 with a circle around it.
    Where I can play me some DC, so I downloaded me Utopia just in case I needed it and I burned it and it loaded just fine.

    So I downloaded Sonic Adventure 2 and I've burned with Image-burn the same program I used to burn utopia...
    But the Dreamcast won't even attempt to read the disk I burned of SA2. Just sits there doing nothing, tried to use Utopia to load it but same thing happens nothing.

    And what media I'm using is Philips CD-R 80min... So can anyone maybe help me a bit or somthing?

    Edit; Trying some Memorex anand on another computer and there we go it seems all is working good now I think?
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    Sorry was asleep when you posted and edited

    Yeah I would of guessed at bad burn

    generally the guide line is burn at the slowest possible speed (that speed is different depending on the hardware used, but setting imgburn to 1x auto sets the burning speed to the slowest) on quality media

    You may of just had 1 dodgy CD-R, a spec of dust that prevented it to burn correctly or even scratched, it happens from time to time

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    Yeah that's what it was didn't see that the disk had a scratch on it before burning it caused the game to get burned badly.
    Anyways I've gotten some better CD-Rs at least. Found some Verbatim CD's at a local walmart that work perfect for the Dreamcast so far and they look pretty neat

    http://www.amazon.com/Verbatim-Digit.../dp/B00009WO51

    Those are the ones I found but I got a 25 pack for $5.

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