Revive-DC games not working? Crash on Sega logo

[Sketcz]

Hello all. I received a Dreamcast today. Getting back into the scene having owned one at launch, then selling the collection in 2011.

The one I got on eBay came with South Park Rally. That's all I own currently. I was playing it and the system runs fine. No crashing, no difficulty loading. It functions great. But the game sucks. And my USB-GD isn't set to arrive until the end of the month.

So I thought... I'll break out my Taiyo Yuden CDRs which I've never used, and burn some games.

I download and burn Elemental Gimmick Gear. From the DC Revive Project - a self-booting CDI image (filename: [CDI] Elemental Gimmick Gear (US)[RDC].7z). I used ImgBurn to burn it at 8x.

The game boots to the Sega screen, showing the Revive logo, then crashes to the menu screen. I then burned a Utopia Disc, thinking this would fix it, but it refuses even to recognise the disc inside as being a Dreamcast game!

What am I doing wrong here?

* Is because the DC battery is dead and I need to keep resetting the time?

* Is it the Taiyo Yuden CDRs? Are they bad? They were from the manufacturer before they stopped making them (slight blue surface, white on top), circa 2015.

* Is it because E.G.G. is an American game and my DC is PAL?

* Could it be a bad burn - is ImgBurn bad?

* Are the CDIs of DC Revive Project known to do this?

I don't feel like wasting a bunch of TY discs trying to figure it out. This isn't 2003 when good quality CDRs were commonplace.

[fraggle200]

As I mentioned in the other post you put up about this, you may need to rule out a bad download.
to answer your points:
*shound't matter about battery being dead as far as I'm aware.
*Could be the cdr's... or even that particular cdr.
*burned games cross regions no issue. it won't be that. I had plenty of Jap/USA/Pal games on my Pal and Jpn systems and they worked fine.
*could be a bad burn.
*RDC rips aren't known for failing due to their own quality standards. they'd never knowingly put out a bad rip.

You might not feel like wasting some discs.. but I think you're going to have to roll the dice on this to see what the issue is.

It could be a bad download, bad extraction, bad burn, bad disc, too fast a burn.

Try d/l it again see if it happens.
try another game see if it happens.
try another disc see if it happens.

You'll never solve this without burning more discs unfortunately. Good luck.

[deluxux]

Might be able to load the game up in an emulator before you burn might rule out a bad download or a bad unzip

[mistamontiel]

95% of my Dreamcast 'junk' are Padus' Discjuggler's doing

Both of my casts demand burn ala DJ and even @ 24x write speed

Every time I've ImgBurnt for Dreamcast has been a crapshoot, jus me