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Backed-up
Posted: Sat Sep 19, 2009 6:15 pm
by 3DO Experience
Wow I just finished backing up every 3DO disc I have. That's
over 360 discs! But at least I now have a full catalog of everything... I hope.
I just ordered some games from pits so I'll be adding Princess Maker 2 to the list soon and I can replace some missing artwork. YAY a complete copy of Takeru !!!
well minus the OBI
So now it's a matter of getting all those tall boxes replaced, anyone wanna make a donation?
Posted: Sat Sep 19, 2009 9:03 pm
by Devin
Now that's dedication!
I intend to digitise my CD-i collection so it's easily plugged into CD-i Emulator for testing. Especially those awkward CD-i Ready discs, what a pain in the ass to ISO they are!
Did you save them to a hard drive or do the physical CD copy type of backup? If it's the former definitely use 7 zip to condense them, saves a lot of space.
Posted: Sun Sep 20, 2009 7:44 pm
by 3DO Experience
I put them on a portable drive dedicated to video game related data. The files are uncompressed in iso format. Organized by country of release. I know there are groups out there that add stuff like year and company to roms but I figured this is just my own collection, if I want to do that I might do it later.
When you mention CD-i ready discs you made me think, I have this one title called "You Sing Christmas Favorites" it's a music CD and when you put it in the CD-i there are options like lyrics and photos. Is this what you mean? It says CD i music on it... PCEC No: PP0205 GA, Cat No: 310690205-2.
Posted: Sun Sep 20, 2009 8:04 pm
by Devin
You can identify a CD-i Ready disc simply by the fact you can select to play audio tracks instead of the CD-i software itself.
This can be problematic because some CD-ROM drives will not recognise the CD-i data and simply see an Audio CD.
As always ICDIA explains it better...
What is CD-i Ready?
CD-i Ready is a special kind of CD-i disc. Following the rules from the Green Book, a CD-i disc may contain CD-Audio tracks. These should be placed after the CD-i track which is always track 1. However, on some older CD-Audio players, this CD-i track would be played back resulting in possible damage to equipment or speakers. To prevent this, the CD-i Ready format was defined. On a CD-i Ready disc, the CD-i program data (including all of its audio and video information) is stored in the pause sectors preceeding track 1. Usually, pause sectors preceeding track 1 are skipped by most CD-Audio players, but they can be read fine on a CD-i player. This allowed for a greater compatibility of CD-Audio discs which contained extra information when played on a CD-i player. In essence, a CD-i Ready disc is not a true CD-i disc, since it does not follow the rules of the Green Book for placing CD-Audio data, but they can be read correctly by all CD-i players ever produced.
CD-i Ready discs are usually music CDs (you can recognize these CDs by the indication CD-i Ready or CD-i Music in the upper left corner of the disc packaging), but they may also be other kinds of discs. For example, some games (most notably the games produced by SPC Group/The Vision Factory) are known to be in the CD-i Ready format. CD-i players equiped with the second generation player shell may optionally play the audio-tracks of a CD-i Ready disc using the standard CD-Audio screen.
Thus ends todays lesson!