Help burning ISO's

[zero_chance]

Trying to burn off a bunch of my games to free up some HD space, but I've come across a few speed bumps. A bunch of my games don't seem to burn properly. They'll write properly up until about 93%, and then the whole process suddenly stops with an "unrecoverable read error" or something to that extent (message varies slightly depending on what CD burning utility I use).

However, the games run fine under ePSXe, so they aren't necessarily corrupt or anything.

Any suggestions?

[MegaVolt]

If ISO is corrupted that doesn't mean it couldn't run with ePSXe. (look FFVIICD Keystone mision problem).........

Maybe try checking your ISO's with CDMage........or other software that is avaliable to recover ISO errors....

[zero_chance]

If ISO is corrupted that doesn't mean it couldn't run with ePSXe. (look FFVIICD Keystone mision problem).........

Maybe try checking your ISO's with CDMage........or other software that is avaliable to recover ISO errors....

I actually tried that with my Tales of Destiny ISO. I ended up with a "CD image is not the supposed type" or something or other error. I tried all of the options that it would let me pick, but it was all the same. Wouldn't let me open the ISO to repair it or anything else.

[MegaVolt]

What kind of image is it? bin,iso,img,nrg,mdf........

Maybe try usin IsoBuster........

[nawtirice]

u should use a virtual drive tool like daemon or alcohol120 to load the game up first and try to run it with epsxe if the game actually works at all.

[MegaVolt]

However, the games run fine under ePSXe, so they aren't necessarily corrupt or anything.

Any suggestions?

Heh.......He did this already.........

[polobunny]

What media are you using?
A cheap price for your cd's and your stuck with bad quality copies.
Try using another brand of cdr's, and if possible another cd burner. Yours might be buggy for X reason.
As usual, burn at low speed, and don't use your processor while burning. Yes, no games and no archiving.

Is there alot of images that do that on you?
Have you tried to convert the images to another type? (img to bin or something like that..)

Even though the image plays fine in ePSXe, it may still be buggy somewhere near the end, on files not needed when you start playing the game.

Regards, me. XD

[nawtirice]

blah haha! i cant believe i missed that..im friggin blind. hehe anywho...good luck dude.

[almighty bob]

u can also try eccregen to see where the errors are. it might even be able to fix it

i also came across some cdrs that will work perfectly for everything iv tried except psx games. kinda strange.

[MegaVolt]

u can also try eccregen to see where the errors are. it might even be able to fix it

i also came across some cdrs that will work perfectly for everything iv tried except psx games. kinda strange.

Personally I don't think the CDR is the case, rather the program you're using to burn the CD's.
PSX games have some of the first sectors marked as unreadable to prevent them for beeing copied (but it won't work anymore ).
Also some of the programs don't have the option to leave unreadable data as is without trying to correct them (Nero have this option), so when you burn your CD you get only black screen instead of game.......

[zero_chance]

u can also try eccregen to see where the errors are. it might even be able to fix it

i also came across some cdrs that will work perfectly for everything iv tried except psx games. kinda strange.

I have no clue how to use eccregen. I mean, I'll load up an iso and scan, but it doesn't tell me anything afterwards.

And it has nothing to do with the CD's I'm using. I've burned a good 30 disks or so with this batch of CD's, all work fine. And the games were downloaded, not ripped, so it's not that I had originally burned them onto faulty disks in the first place.

I've got 4 games that have done this to me: Megaman 8, Megaman Legends, Breath of Fire 3, and Tales of Destiny.

[zero_chance]

I really hate to do this, but I still kinda have a question that hasn't been answered fully... err...*bump*

[Kraros]

I have an nrg file, how do i convert this to img or bin?

[Mikey_]

Personally I don't think the CDR is the case, rather the program you're using to burn the CD's.
PSX games have some of the first sectors marked as unreadable to prevent them for beeing copied (but it won't work anymore ).
Also some of the programs don't have the option to leave unreadable data as is without trying to correct them (Nero have this option), so when you burn your CD you get only black screen instead of game.......

funny u should mention something like that. my psx isn't modded and i've tried so many times with the swap disc trick and i burned a psx game using alcohol 120% with the Playstation setting and i believe Raw/Dao setting also. i don't know if the settings should have been that way but when i tried the swap trick it wouldn't work. yet when i try using the swap trick with a disc thats actually the original disc of the copy i made it works

[GundamGuy]

I have an nrg file, how do i convert this to img or bin?

Load it in to a virtual drive and dump the CD from the vitrual drive with whatever progaram you would use to make ISO's from Real CD's.

Nice Bump by the way... you can make your own thread's so that people are not so ticked at you.