CDI burn issue (did 2 days of searching here)

[limeywarts]

Hello, DC newbie here. I searched through this forum for 2 days and still didn't find the exact info I need.

I bought a dc a few days ago and my friend gave me 3 backups to 'test' on my dreamcast... I managed to come home one day and I found someone had uploaded 2 new DC CDI's to my computer... those crazy hackers what will they do next.

Anyways my question is this.. I used diskjuggler to burn the images (one is self booting the other isn't) and neither work in my dreamcast with "cd image to cd drive". I tried both with the boot disk too. Is it that some backup games take quite a while to load, or perhaps did these sneaky software pirates upload a bad ISO to me?.... oh yea.. how do I execute an .sfv file to ##### the integrity of an ISO?

Please don't flame me, I was a burn victim already in a nasty automobile accident.

[Wayne]

First of all, your likely to get flamed by someone for your double-posting... Only one message is required, don't post multiple times.

As to your problem, place one of those discs you burned into your computer's CD drive and look at it to see if you find any files on it. If you don't see something other than a blank disc with approx 648mb of usable space, you burned a coaster.

If you see files when viewing it on your computer, it may be OK... Now ##### the date on the bottom of your Dreamcast game console. It's on the label... If it is dated October 2000 or later, you may not be able to use copied games unless you or someone else reformats them in a specific way. Even this isn't a 100% certainty though. Some people aren't convinced that a newer "Anti-p!rate" type Dreamcast will work with copies of any sort.