2cce49 No.15040652
Looking for good disc burners for CD games, specifically Dreamcast and Playstation with CD audio
>Just emulate, nigger
Emulation is inaccurate, and when going to a social gathering, it's easier to convince people to play a real console.
What's the best CD burner and software setup, /v/. I've tried a few things but I still get buggy audio tracks on both PS1 and Dreamcast.
1bfada No.15040657
1c9d2a No.15040662
>>15040657
Steamniggers please leave
8ea9ef No.15040668
Just use anything that isn't Window's standard disc burner and stick to the lowest write speeds you can get. Outside of a certain cutscene hickup in the second Ratchet and Clank game everything played perfectly.
863532 No.15040675
>>15040662
You can own a digital copy of any game without using DRM, Faggot.
19541f No.15040684
>Emulation is inaccurate
>I get buggy audio tracks on PS1 and Dreamcast
Just say you're a hipster faggot and get it over with string bean. There's software that'll to proper write vectoring for PS1 games which will fixed warped audio It has existed since literally fucking 1998
b45326 No.15040688
>it's easier to convince people to play a real console
<Hey friend, wanna play classic vidya?
>Sure sounds cool – wait a sec, is that controller hooked up to your PC?
<Yeah, I'm emulating it
>Fuck you, asshole. We aren't friends anymore.
What? Do you only have friends who are the extreme useful-idiot "pirates are ruining the industry" type? There is literally no difference from a usability perspective unless you forgot to make sure the game you want to play emulates well.
b775af No.15040697
Don't buy cheap by the lot discs, try to get the ones that look thicker, are made in Taiwan or Japan and not in China, i remember i used to be able to buy discs that were full black like some original Playstation discs, and for some reason they were extremely reliable, they could get super scratched but they would work as if nothing happened.
And slowburn your games but not too slow, 4x is about fine, though out of the hundreds or maybe thusand of discs i burned through the 90's and early 2000's the failure rate was high, around 5 to 10%, sometimes human error, power outages, computer crashing, faulty media, etc. Once you get a good copy treasure it.
2cce49 No.15040711
>>15040668
DVD really isn't a problem, every burner I've used for DVD has turned out just fine, though the old ass Laptop I have burns best thanks to having the lowest write speed.
>>15040675
>DRM
Nigger, my consoles are all modded.
>>15040684
Care to share what software you're talking about? I've tried a variety of software, and it all comes back with skips
>>15040688
>"lets play a different game"
>"hang on let me just fuck with settings, and oh man your contoller needs to be remapped"
versus
>"let me just change the disc"
19541f No.15040721
>>15040711
>hang on let me just fuck with settings, and oh man your contoller needs to be remapped
Retard, just make one Dump of the controller config for xinput and DirectInput.
b775af No.15040724
>>15040711
don't waste your time arguing with emuniggers, they think they have the best because emulation is all they ever knew or could afford
b09539 No.15040777
>>15040652
Look up the redump wiki, they list drives capable of dumping those, and probably also those capable of burning those too.
For CDs CDmage is the thing I've seen recommended in many place because it has a few functions for audio dumpers.*
Though I can concur that for DC real console is better burning CDs means CDI dumps thus it's automatically garbage, so you're stuck with shitty solutions unless you' shell out for an ODE.
For PS1 I don't see any real reason to use the real thing though but whatever it's your decison.
4b2922 No.15040790
LG blu-ray / M-disc burner for $20 4tw
7c81a8 No.15040849
>>15040724
Fuck off, (((collector))). Nobody will give you money.
5bf16e No.15040857
>>15040652
Disc brand is much more important.
890909 No.15040889
For my PS2 discs I always used a bog standard LG H10N (iirc). Even a laptop drive worked okay, BUT what mattered in my case was the program.
I have no idea why but my PS2 is picky as fuck. Games burnt with Alcohol 120% work right out. Anything else (imgburn, k3b, brasero) tends to give the red screen.
For PS1 CDs on the PS2, the program doesn't matter but the type of disc does. Cheap ones don't cut it. Some of the most effective were old TDKs and standard Maxell CDs. At one point I thought it could be due to the weight distribution. Some cheap CDs that have a 'flowery' non-symmetrical pattern cut out in the top fail to work properly, but flat discs with symmetrical look work well - and putting a small sticker on a flat disc makes it fail again. So it could be something about that.
I also burn PS1 discs with A120% since it can pick and store subchannel data in MDF/MDS files.
As for DC I have no idea. I got a model 1 with busted disc drive so I'm hoping to stick an ODE someday.
405d40 No.15040917
I remember speaking with an ex hardware engineer guy in his 60s a year or two ago. I think he said discs with gold alloy in them last pretty much forever, but modern cheap ones are shitty and degrade naturally. The difference is $2 per disc, instead of $20 for a stack of 100.
Additionally, copy protection is defeated by having a pivoted laser that can read/write between the grooves that normal data is placed on.
d3b2b2 No.15041024
>tfw trying to burn some ps2 game only to shit itself when running it.
No other choice but alcohol i guess. Imgburn and nero have failed me hard.
fb1ba3 No.15041051
>>15040711
>let me just drag a file into the emulator
versus
>okay let me just take the disk out
>open open the box
>put the new diesk in
>hold on, I'm getting a disk error
>maybe the disk is scratched
>did I put it in upside-down?
>now it won't come out
890909 No.15041057
>>15041051
>Inserting the disc upside down
At that point I don't think your eyes would be good enough for playing vidya.
7ffe3a No.15041190
>>15040711
>oh man your controller needs to be remapped
You know you can configure controllers once, save the button mapping, and load it when needed, right?
>hang on let me just fuck with settings
You know you can configure settings once, even on a per-game basis, and load them later, right?
8d56a6 No.15041585
>>15041051
>he handles his discs in a way that they could ever be scratched
Confirmed child
b07655 No.15041949
I've had poor luck with internal PC CD/DVD-RWs, even after upgrading, flashing older firmware, etc. The results are a mess. However using an old Thinkpad T42's DVD/CD-RW I've had very good success. My PC's drive is a Lite-On, a good brand but apparently even they make garbage hardware these days. I've heard good things about external drives but I haven't seen anyone do much exploration of good drives. I think it would be a good idea to try an external one. For older systems you may have better luck burning at a slower speed, so don't necessarily target a drive with the highest speed. Maybe a 24x one or slower (12-16x?)
>>15041051
>putting the disk in upside down
are emuniggers all underage retards or something?
a4c46f No.15041957
>>15041051
>open open
>diesk
>scratching disks
>putting them in upside down
Holy fucking shit, I think you just need glasses friend.
fb1ba3 No.15042264
>be retarded
>everyone assumes I'm blind
t-thanks
c2db32 No.15042290
>>15040777
>For PS1 I don't see any real reason to use the real thing though
It's called System Link, you might have heard of it if you weren't underage.
c071e2 No.15042301
>>15041051
>>15041957
>>15041585
Lets not kid ourselves, the disk drive is one place where console manufacturers have been regularly known to cut corners on. Nowadays the disk drive is just a DRM device that is used once for installation. The game is installed before running anyways.
b09539 No.15042311
>>15042290
You'd need friends for that, friends that enjoy the 5 or so games that aren't just available on better systems / worth playing via link.
Not to mention Link emulation exists.
4b2922 No.15042718
>>15041051
how much do weigh, exactly, cetaceanon?
4b2922 No.15042724
>>15040849
>Fuck off, (((collector))). Nobody will give you money.
>muh speculator-kike
sudoku
fc8fa3 No.15043009
>>15041051
>diesk
>scratched
>did I put it in upside-down
>now it won't come out
How does your care taker put up with you anon?
1b9e38 No.15043653
>>15043200
I wonder how many triggered newfags will reply this time around.
bc75fa No.15045191
>>15040652
For your Dreamcast just get a GDemu. For your Playstation, if it's an original then get the PSIO. Then you'll never have to worry about burning discs ever again.
bc75fa No.15045199
>>15045191
>>15040652
Oh, and if you insist on sticking with burning discs (or like me have a PSone without an IO port or you burn games for Sega CD) I tend to get good results from a program called ImgBurn at the lowest speed. Maybe check that out, couldn't tell you a specific drive though I've had good results with Samsung and Asus drives.
b1c3ce No.15045476
I usually burn my discs at full speed on a hp disk drive. Dreamcast and other cd consoles work very well.
0c0a73 No.15045502
I am pretty sure that both DC and PS2 can be hacked to run games from HDD.
b09539 No.15045548
>>15045502
They do but unless something has changed the support is imperfect on PS2, and it only applies to PS2 games, PS1 is just loaded in a crappy emulator instead of using the proper backcompatibility which is also partially emulated actually
DC uses the same method as the SD to serial adapter for HDDs which used to be pretty shit but that has likely changed since 3 years ago, there's also that $250-300 adapter that's a souped up GDemu with HDD support but why would you spend that much over a GDemu.
384c12 No.15045552
>>15041051
This is perhaps the best post in favor of OG hardware fags I've ever seen
2cce49 No.15050308
>>15041949
Slower burn speeds are better for old consoles. Gives the laser more time focused on the dye layer, resulting in an easier-to-read burn.
85c4b9 No.15053345
HookTube embed. Click on thumbnail to play.
>>15040724
But have you experienced the next level of emulation tho?
b07655 No.15053431
>>15053345
just use the real thing and it'll be much more "immersive" I guarantee it
85c4b9 No.15053452
>>15053431
How much more time to the old consoles realistically have, though? Their internals will probably all have failed/rotted away in another 10 years.
2cce49 No.15053687
>>15053345
>pushing a button on an old UHF/VHF set
>not pulling a knob
Gross.
>VR
$500 can get you either a damn good PVM or a scaler box. Why would I bother with that dying meme?
1fb7fd No.15054762
>>15040652
For Dreamcast and PSX games any old CD burner will do, differences in performance between models is negligible.
If you were a Nintendo autist wanting to rip/burn discs for Wii or Gamecube though, you'd want to keep an eye out for certain models, though I don't know which ones specifically.
4cde00 No.15054785
>>15053452
50-70 years, learn to take care of em
>>15053687
you can probably buy the monitor and the rgb/compo board I have for 500 bucks and have one of the best looking pro monitors around at a great size too.
19541f No.15055351
>>15053452
Do you throw water onto your electronics every day and hit them?
fb1ba3 No.15055881
>>15055351
A lot of these older consoles used regular glue instead of silicon glue, so the rapid expansion and despansion caused by heating eventually causes them to just pop open. That's happened to a few of my N64 carts.
000000 No.15056049
Are you looking for an external USB one or an internal like in your OP? I suggest the pioneer blu-ray burner external.
68b574 No.15056085
>>15040711
If my friend needed to remap controls at a gathering, I'd sit tight, help myself to food and have a catch up talk with the rest of my friends meanwhile.
Are you and your friends autistically incapable of interacting like normal human beings.
Your point should've been it's inconvenient for you, not that it'd bug people at a social gathering. There's more to do at a social gathering and it's good to take regular breaks from playing vidya anyway.
You make it sound like a you're dealing with collection of children who'd screech whenever there's a pause in playing their vidya, so you must hurriedly change the game to appease their ADHD.
282a45 No.15056546
>>15055989
I don't find it easier to use than other emulators and I hate its shitty phone tier interface. I get the point that it's probably the best PSX emulator from a technical standpoint but I don't get the argument about convenience or ease of use.
187016 No.15056572
What an unnecessary thread. These things are as cheap and as good as they going to get. We've hit peak DVD burner tech. They don't cost more than 15 bucks nowadays, and work amazingly. You can pick one at random from any store that sells them, and you'll be fine.
97499a No.15056626
actually mednafen is more accurate than the original console.
bc75fa No.15056691
>>15055881
>he doesn't keep his games in an air conditioned room at a cool temperature.
64e275 No.15057953
>>15040652
Just use good media and burn as slowly as possible
685d3a No.15058919
What's a good BD burner? I want to back up my PC games but don't want to end up with a bunch of coasters.
d7a31d No.15059651
>>15058919
Just back them up on an external HDD.
>>15040652
All DVD burners are pretty much the same now and the only ones who make them now are like LG or Pioneer. Just get Alcohol 120% like this Anon here says >>15040889
There is no better software for games. As always, burn at the slowest speed possible.
9741dc No.15059778
>>15053345
>Playing resident evil in the day
>Not playing it in the silence in the dark, with nothing but the visible screen
Shitty emulator
d877f9 No.15060760
>>15060754
Lolis look as close to real children as >>15043200 does to toddlers.
d877f9 No.15060824
>>15060788
>b-but nuances
Like I said, gymnastics. It's all the same shit. Either it's not pedo, or it is.
04328f No.15060963
>>15059651
<There is no better software for games.
>what is dd
OP install a linux or *BSD distro and run from the command line
>dd if=/dev/sr0 of=/home/disk-name-here.iso
Where if= is the disk drive and of= is where you want the disk image. Don't use anything else as literally anything else is fucking botnet.
8ebc97 No.15062346
>>15053345
The tube shouldn't turn on instantly, it has to warm up. Also there's no RF/composite signal blur, looks like it's an emu's image superimposed on a fake tv…. oh wait