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VGS and burning PSX Cds
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Hi. I am NOT talking about illegal copies. I had gran turismo, but it broke. If I had made a copy, I would still be able to play it. How do you do this? I did download some PSX copier program, but a message comes up saying "cannot find apple CD drive, you're ****ed!"
It literally says that too. How do I do this, step by step?
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Join Date: Apr 2000
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Well as long as it is not for illegal purposes...
To back mine up, I use Astarte CD-Copy with the "Ignore Read Errors" option set to true, to make an image. Then I burn the image with Toast. This always works for me, I don't know about any other software.
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Ditto that.
Make sure that if CD Copy asks, do not tell it to "adjust track gaps" or whatever.
This works on the actual console, dunno about VGS...
Cipher13
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Join Date: May 2000
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Also, someone told me once that you have to use gold CDR media. I don't know if this affects VGS, but I heard the PSX would only take gold discs. Maybe it has something to do with the black coating. Dunno. And did you know that PSX games were burned not pressed.
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I doubt that. It would take too long and be too expensive (not to mention the rate of error would be higher) when burning as opposed to pressing.
But... you never know. Take a look at one and you can tell, I just can't be bothered getting up to check one...
Cipher13
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Join Date: Apr 2000
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I have to agree with using gold discs. i experimented with lots of brands and the only cd's i found that always work and always play video back smooth were kodak golds. playstations have weak lasers (or so I've heard) and gold cd's have a good reflectivity.
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You don't HAVE to though... a lot of my friends use burned discs, and they play fine, even if they are blue on the bottom.
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I use blue discs.
The skipping video is due to the CD's being a different size.
Turn your playstation upside down, and the movies will play fluidly.
Seriously, that isn't a joke.
Cipher13
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"I use blue discs.
The skipping video is due to the CD's being a different size.
Turn your playstation upside down, and the movies will play fluidly.
Seriously, that isn't a joke."
Skipping is due to weak laser / cheap CDR's.
Flipping the playstation works because it brings the laser closer to the disc. You don't have to do this with gold cds.
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Yeah, I know why it does it... the PSX has a piss weak laser, pathetic really.
Gold CD-R's don't eh? Cool... I haven't seen any 'gold' disks around though that aren't really 'real light green' ones... 
Cipher13
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Join Date: Nov 2000
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I've got a PSX at home, and CVGS at my office, so I backup my PSX games to bring them to work. (I work in tech support, I can play FF8 while I tell someone how to use some feature in PageMaker, really!  )
The combination of Astarte CD Copy, and using Toast to burn a backup of a PSX game works with CVGS just fine, but you've got to find a "modchip" patch that patches CVGS to allow non PSX CDs to be loaded.
I've found that almost any color of media works, even CD-RW discs, however some games are larger than a standard 650 meg CD, so I've got to use a 700 meg.
-THX
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Just because Windows users vastly outnumber Mac users, numbers alone do not denote a higher form of life. Cøckroaches outnumber humans many times over, and no one says a cøckroach is better than a human.
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Doesn't Toast have a CD Copy option? Can't Toast exactly duplicate CDs as Easy CD Creator can?
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The larger sizes are due to formatting. I have had games as large as 780 megs, after ripping, but they all go onto 74 minute CD's fine.
No need for larger CD's.
Its all in the formatting - I haven't encountered a single game that required an 80 minute CD.
Cipher13
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Hmm...I never even thought of trying a 74minute CD. I just assumed since it was a larger file size it would require a larger disc, but I guess the format that PSX CDs are in seems to bloat when it's on my hard disk.
Thanks Cipher.
-THX
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Just because Windows users vastly outnumber Mac users, numbers alone do not denote a higher form of life. Cøckroaches outnumber humans many times over, and no one says a cøckroach is better than a human.
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