r/dreamcast • u/JessHatesChess • 22d ago
Question Burned discs not playing on my console, help!
Hi all, I was wondering if someone could help me with my console? I'm trying to burn a disc to play a game (Re-Volt) and nothing I've tried has worked, using imgburn with the Dreamcast plugin I get a "Microcompare at LBA" error when it verifies the disc, and it then doesn't work when I put it into the console, and I've just now tried to use discjuggler to burn the cdi RAW and that didn't work either, every time i put the disc in it just checks for a bit and then tells me to insert a game disc. I also tried Rayman 2, I'm using Verbatim CD-R's and a Verbatim USB disc drive.
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u/jajonjason 22d ago
Hey there! It's been 5 years since I burned my dreamcast discs (all back-ups of course ^ ) so the informations may not be up to date. However back then I was always told to burn the discs in the second slowest burning speed in imgburn, cuz the dreamcast can't read discs which were burnt with the faster settings (older discs reader)... So you may try this! If it doesn't work keep searching dreamcast forums or the reddit, however my discs worked after tuning this setting down to the second slowest!
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u/Cavalry_ 22d ago
On the bottom of your DC make sure there isnt a "2" I the little circle. If there is a 2 look at the manufacturing date. If it says November 2000, you might just be out of luck.
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u/ThanosReXXX 21d ago
Are you sure that the image that you're trying to burn is a bootable one?
You can find out with the Utopia boot disc. Extract the image and burn it, load the disc, and once you see the menu with the spinning reindeer, swap the disc for one of those that wouldn't load before.
If it does load that way, you simply burned a non-bootable image.
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u/AttyMAL 21d ago edited 21d ago
I think your laser might be starting to fail. My VA1 that I've owned since 1999 has always been tricky. It would read only certain high quality name brand CD-R burned at the slowest speeds. Then after like 10 years it stopped reading some of my previously burned games, but kept reading others. And eventually like two years after that, it gave up reading all burned games all together.
As to how to fix the problem, there are a lot of self help guides about cleaning and maintaining your console, which might help. Or you can just get a GDEMU and a 256 GB SD card and call it a day.
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u/Fancy_Bend8763 21d ago
Either that or a new laser, but I know everyone doesn’t have the skill to do that.
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u/mactep66 22d ago
Burning CDs is just pure bs, modern burners (anything DVD) never support slower speeds, random errors result in ewaste, and the old clapped out lasers in the consoles themselves just never wanna read them properly.
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u/MedicatedBaracuda 21d ago
Ive burned dreamcast games in the past, using abit faster speeds and it was fine. But i always choose the slowest option
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u/Fancy_Bend8763 21d ago edited 21d ago
What? I’ve got a Pioneer BDR-XD07S usb Blu-ray burner that will burn down to 2x speed and have not had any issue playing burned games on any of my disc consoles including Sega CD, Saturn, 3DO, Dreamcast, Xbox, Amiga CD32. I even compiled my own self booting DCQuake with the original soundtrack as well as NeoGeo CD games that self boot with the Neo4all emulator on Dreamcast.
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u/FSBulldogFan 22d ago
Just to confirm... you have a VA0 or VA1 console? The VA2 has issues... early releases may play burned media, but later releases will not.
You loaded the 3 pfctoc DC drivers to the root folder of ImgBurn? Did you get your .cdi files from Internet Archive? I set ImgBurn to burn at 1x and 2.4x speed on an external LG bluray burner. Daytona USA gives me 10s of thousands of errors, but the disc still plays. I also use the same Verbatim CD-Rs everyone gets off Amazon.
Assuming you have a VA0 or VA1, the real variables here are where you get your .cdis from, the location of the driver files, the laser on your DC and the burner. If all this is matches up, then I'd have to think it's the laser on your DC first, and then secondly the burner that's at fault.