Burn Dreamcast games perfectly on DiscJuggler every time!

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· 2 Mar 2021

This is how I burned the DC Backups using Padus DiscJuggler. You can download this program via torrent files. The torrent sire btjunkie.org is

Open up DiscJuggler v3.5
In the options menu and in the Defaults tab, DISABLE TAO Write (DC Backups copy in Disc-At-Once), on RAW/Read Write , on Overburn CD and if you have an old burner like me disable Burnproof . Keep the CHECK on Add-Post Gap 3rd Party....
Go to New and select CD Player to Image .
Depending if you CD-ROM is on the list of supported drives (It's in the Help file somewhere...the List of supported CD-ROM drives) then you can use your CD-ROM as the source drive. But, I presume most of you guys here have fast CD-R drives that read CD's at high speed, so use your CD-R drive as the source to make a image file.
Put the DC Backup in your CD-R Drive or in your CD-ROM drive.... Read step 4
Don't change ANYTHING in the Advance tab. NO need for Raw read!
Make sure you have enough hard drive space and then make the image.
Once the image is complete, close this task and go to File , New and select CD Image to CD Recorder .
Open the image file wherever you saved it and put a blank CD in your CD-R drive. By the way, I using Kodak Ultima 80 min Gold + Silver Disc (High Quality).... I suggest using Kodak's or Verbatims, don't use sh!tty Generic CD-R brands.
In the Advanced tab.....

Boot games (Games that have 1 track and 1 session on the disc). Use these settings:

Mode 1
Offset 0
Block...2048
TOC....CD-ROM

For games that are self-boot (Games that have 2 or 3 sessions on a disc), use these settings:

Mode 2
Offset 0
Block....2336
TOC......CD-XA

In the Advanced tab, there is NO NEED to enable Raw Writes or Overburn CD . But DO enable Add-post 3rd...
Start burning. Once it is done you should have a working backup copy.

I've been using these settings for all the backups that I have made and everything works! But most of these images have been in .cdi format.

Here's some others tips...
Boot games can be copied in Easy CD Creator CD-Copier program. And if you have CD-R copy of the Utopia Boot Disc, you can copy that in Easy CD Creator CD-Copier too. I tried it and works perfectly!