[l008com]

I learned alot from my last post, let me try this again...
I have a 2X Philiips CD-R
128MBRAM
8.6
Dual 604e @200MHz each
2GBHD with 800MBFree
Toast 4
Asetnete CD-Copy 2.0.3
I restarted with only CD/DVD driver, Toast, and file sharing extensions active. I Used Aresten(whatever it's called)2.0.3 to make teh image of the PSX disk. Then i opened it in Toast and tried a simulation, with 32MB of cache, at 1X. After a whole lot of tries, the simulation finally worked just once, so then I imedeiatly repeated with a real CD, and ended up losing another CD-R. THat is what keeps happening, i will get as far as half way through at the most, then toast will just stop burning, i will have to restart using the keybord. Don't worry about playing my backup CD's, i have the device i need. And don't worry about making the PSX images, i know how to do that, i just can't get them to burn. Anyone know what's up??? Especially has anyone had this problem and solved it?????

[Misha]

Why don't you try this... instead of wasting so much time and money (on blank CDs) trying to dupe your PSX games, just be extra careful taking them out of the PSX and putting them back into their case when you're done with them. If you do this, they'll never get a scratch and you'll have no need for a backup copy.

[l008com]

$40 for a playstation game.
$0.89 to back it up.
That's why.

[This message has been edited by l008com (edited 01-23-2000).]

[Misha]

Yes, but given the fact that you're having so many problems doing so I'd just call it quits with your attempts to backup your PSX games and just be more careful with them.

I've scratched up some PSX games pretty badly and they've never had a problem. One got a really deep scratch on it after a chair was placed on top of it and while it didn't play right away, applying one of those $10 CD repair kits (which works for dozens of CDs) fixed it without a hitch.

Be a bit careful, spend $10 on a CD repair kit, and you're set, imo... remember, backups get scratched up even more easily, so what do you do when those get scratched up too?

[Zwilnik]

If you've already paid $40 for the game, why pay another $0.89 for a backup. By the time you've been clumsy enough to scratch your playstation disk to death, you would have got bored of the game anyway. Plus, as per the above posts, in the amount of time you've wasted trying to copy them, you could have been playing all these great games (or earning money to buy more of them !).

[l008com]

Yes that's all great, but teh reason i posted teh topic was not to have people tell me to give up. I bought that CD-R for one reason, and I won't stop until i succed, no matter how long it takes.

I also have a piece of junk Phillips cdrw. My first was horrible. I sent it in for repairs and they "fixed" it and sent it back. I must say this one works well but I'll never buy a Phillips product again due to horrible customer support. But more to your question... I had problems doing what you're atlkibg about at first as well. I've not had any trouble since doing it this way. I make sure the CDRW is the ONLY device connected to the scsi port. I don't have to turn off all the other extensions like you're trying. I only have 48 MB of RAM but I've not portioned any extra to Toast for the recording. i've only had to use the recommended amount that is set when Toast is installed. I'm using an internal scsi hard drive. Is yours a scsi? This next part is the MOST IMPORTANT part... I restart my computer everytime just before I try and record something (be it PSX games, audio cd's, or data discs). Don't run any other programs after you restart other than launching Toast. Good Luck!

[l008com]

I have an internal SCSI hard drive and an internal SCSI CD-R (not CD-RW). What do you mean no other scsi devices connected, you mean not the HD's??? I'll try restarting but i don't know if it will work, i even got it to work in simulation 1 time but then an immidiate real burn failed. I'll try one more time, hopfully i don't loose another CD-R

Sorry about that. Didn't realize you had an internal cdr drive. Mine is external. Yeah, I meant to disconnect all other scsi devices (thinking that yours was external). Other than what I already stated, I'm not sure what else to suggest. Good luck.

PSX is tricky.
You'll find two types psx.
Pure 9660 CD's
and mixed cd.

9660 should be easy.

But try simulation first, and you'll not waste a cd.
(Until for real)

Just reminding you that unless you OWN the copy of the PSX game, it is illegal to make a personal back-up copy of the game. You will also need a mod-chip attachment to your PSX console before any copied games can work.

Personal backup eh? hee hee hee, yeah right! Like anyone is going to spend $300 or $400 on the burner and disks for "personal backups" when it is easier and cheeper to just take care of the original disks. I have cd's that are 10 years old and work fine.
Pirate, Pirate, Pirate!!!

[This message has been edited by RockLord (edited 01-30-2000).]

[l008com]

Actually, i spent $127 on a CD recorder, not $400, and i use it for audio CD's too, so BACK OFF!

Hi! just curious, but if I also wanted to back up a playstation game ( I take care of my CD's unfortunatly my kids seem to have a problem from time to time ), Do I need this Mod Chip I keep hearing about? Is there software
I can use to emulate the process of burning cd that will work w/o the mod chip? It doesn't seem like it would be that hard to defeat... Well just curious like many others, Thanks