Old CD-R dead

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Lolapop4
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Old CD-R dead

Post by Lolapop4 »

Hi,
I have just come back to dreamcast and its great games. Most of CD-r from 2000 have become unreadable by my DC. Is it still possible to find burnable roms in 2024 please ? There are n ow lot of gdi and the cdi I have found didn't work :/
Thank you

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Trigger Happy
rebel
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Re: Old CD-R dead

Post by Trigger Happy »

I'd say it's a fair chance the problem is a dying laser. There's plenty of working cdis to to try on this forum.

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deluxux
Super Sonic
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Re: Old CD-R dead

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Try a small utility 240 Suite, any burner and any Dreamcast should be able to burn this https://artemiourbina.itch.io/240p-test-suite

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Lew3030
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Re: Old CD-R dead

Post by Lew3030 »

In my experience, I've had to tune the potentiometer on the Dreamcast. I have a working gdrom drive again. Well on one gdrom drive I did that but then I replaced it with a gdemu on the other dreamcast. You should follow this guide on how to tune the potentiometer on your sega dreamcast. It's not too hard.
https://retro-hack.blogspot.com/2010/06 ... guide.html

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