I know that playing burned games will break your dreamcast, but if it's a homebrew that you burn on a cd, will it?
Also, what format are new indie dreamcast games made on? i know it's not GD roms since those don't exist anymore.
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stachlj958 wrote:I know that playing burned games will break your dreamcast, but if it's a homebrew that you burn on a cd, will it?
Also, what format are new indie dreamcast games made on? i know it's not GD roms since those don't exist anymore.
scaryred24 wrote:Burned discs are known to put more stress on the laser itself.
scaryred24 wrote:Now onto the subject of newer indie games in general, they are in a Mil-CD format which is pretty much a dead format Japan used for Karaoke discs (CD-G+). All of the professionally pressed indie game are legitimate Mil-CD formatted discs and will not put much of a strain on your disc drive.
Aleron Ives wrote:scaryred24 wrote:Burned discs are known to put more stress on the laser itself.
Lasers can't be "stressed". All they do is shine at a fixed intensity that decreases over time as the laser wears out. The laser doesn't have to "shine harder" when you use a CD-R or anything like that.
Aleron Ives wrote:scaryred24 wrote:Now onto the subject of newer indie games in general, they are in a Mil-CD format which is pretty much a dead format Japan used for Karaoke discs (CD-G+). All of the professionally pressed indie game are legitimate Mil-CD formatted discs and will not put much of a strain on your disc drive.
This is nonsensical. MIL-CD is MIL-CD, and homebrew games are not "legitimate" MIL-CDs. There were a few pressed discs made back in the day in Japan, but homebrew games are exploiting the DC BIOS in the same way that bootleg commercial games are.
krssn wrote:But they can be harder to read and may need to be re-read more, which makes the lens work longer for the same result. Thus putting extra strain on the lens.
krssn wrote:Genuine question, what exactly makes a disc MIL-CD? Is it a form of code, or is there actually a physical difference between MIL-CD and other compact disc formats?...
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