Saturn and Dreamcast cd-r questions...

[minfingr]

Hi there... Im REALLY new to burning movies or games to dvd or cd-r. I won't ask where to find the games/bios/and files... I just need to know how to burn them!! a link to an faq or tutorial would be great.. I have a couple of questions, any help would be greatly appreciated...

1. When burning a saturn or dreamcast game to cd, do i JUST burn the iso/bin/mdf and ONLY the image file to the cd, or do i need some sort of player. Im just talking with games, not emu's or anything like that.

2. are there any mods i need to do to the saturn or dreamcast to be able to play a cd-r on it??

3. and I know this doesn't belong here but i thought i might as well ask while im on the topic.. MOVIES!! can i burn an .avi to a dvd like a data disc and have it play on a regular dvd player?? yes or no.

4. if no, what should i burn, image file? JUST image file? iso/bin???


I know this is a lot to ask in one post and i might be testing some patience with asking about movies, but i just have so many questions and so little time... Any help is REALLY appreciated... thank you...

[Alexander_13]

you need something called daemon tools search google for that and you can burn games and movies

[-=VampyR=-]

1.Burn the image
2.Yes.Dreamcast needs a boot disk (unless you have selfboot discs),dunno about Saturn though.
3.You can burn .avi files as long as your DVD player reads DivX/Xvid.
If not only DVD movies play.
4.What .iso ? DVD ? ...Yes.

[alcoatjez]

2.Yes.Dreamcast needs a boot disk,dunno about Saturn though.

My Dreamcast doesn't need a bootdisk to play CD-R's, as long as they're self-boots
And 9almost all Dreamcasts can play backups without modification.

[-=VampyR=-]

My Dreamcast doesn't need a bootdisk to play CD-R's, as long as they're self-boots
And almost all Dreamcasts can play backups without modification.

Corrected.
I was tired.

[alcoatjez]

Corrected.
I was tired.

No problem, VampyR

[Styrofoam]

And almost all Dreamcasts can play backups without modification.

True, only DC manufactired in the last 3 months of it's lifetime, has had the 'loophole' removed.
Are we allowed to post a selfboot tutorial here ?

[alcoatjez]

Are we allowed to post a selfboot tutorial here ?

AFAIK yes
I am happy to see one for myself, since everytime I can download something either homebrew or emulation related, I don't do it when I have to make it self-booting myself...
Yep, I'm a lazy bastard

[-=VampyR=-]

True, only DC manufactired in the last 3 months of it's lifetime, has had the 'loophole' removed.
Are we allowed to post a selfboot tutorial here ?

There are self-boot tutorials everywhere on the net.
Just Google "how to make a Dreamcast selfboot disk".

[hagbard]

I think some self-boot tutorials were post here before, but feel free to do it anyway