PC Engine CD backups

[brockmoreno]

Ok I just bought a PC Engine Duo and want to test and verify the CD drive works. I currently do not own any PCE CDs so I tried buring a ISO and I keep getting errors. Anyone every experience this? I am using IMGburn software and Verbatim discs.

[brockmoreno]

Managed to burn a few games to test but the duo does not want to read them. I get a load error.

[Keith Courage]

You are burning an ISO? Most games do not come as just an ISO. Normally there is a .cue file or something along those lines that is needed to make a correct burn.

You can test that the CD drive works correctly using a regular audio CD as well.

[Killjoyy027]

I find that Verbatim CD-Rs do not read very well in PCE cd systems. I use Sony CD-Rs as they are the best quality left on the mass market(Target carries them) that may help you.


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[Necromancer]

Yeah, you might just need different media.  I use Taiyo Yudens, but there's no guaranteed brand that every system likes (gotta test 'em) or that you'll ever find one that it can use reliably.

[vestcoat]

Test it with a music CD

[NightWolve]

Test it with a music CD

Vestcoat lives!?!?!?!?

[Necromancer]

Vesty!

[esteban]

Test it with a music CD

What the f*ck?!?!?

[esteban]

Test it with a music CD

Vestcoat lives!?!?!?!?

SRSLY.

[esteban]

Vesty!

I
NO,
RITE?

[SignOfZeta]

Test it with a music CD

I agree. You can’t diagnose a system based on what it does with media it was never meant to play. Try something legit on it and move from there.

[spenoza]

Test it with a music CD

I agree. You can’t diagnose a system based on what it does with media it was never meant to play. Try something legit on it and move from there.

CD-Rs were actually designed with the CD standard as the target. They were meant to work in as many CD drives as possible and follow the Red Book standard for technical specifications. Over time drives have improved their sensitivity and media has gotten cheaper (and more cheaply made), and modern CD-Rs tend to exceed the 74-minute Orange Book standard, but well-made 74-minute CD-Rs should be almost perfectly compatible with a Duo's CD mechanism. The real problem is finding affordable 74-minute media that doesn't suck.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD-R

[crazydean]

I don't have experience with any PCE CD drives except the Duo that I own, but I've never had a problem using standard 80 min CD-Rs.

I've found that with mine, the most important things are matching the burner with the proper drive speed. You have to use a speed that is optimized for your burner instead of "lowest possible". My burner is about ten years old and on it's last leg. It will burn at 2x, but works best at 8x.

Ultimately, try different things and see what works!

[DragonmasterDan]

Voultar commented a bit on general use of CDRs on old consoles.