Any Decent CD Burning Program for the Mac?

Mon Nov 27, 2006 11:02 pm

Hello, I am one of five people in this state who owns a Mac, and I have a Jet Grind Radio ISO sitting on my computer for over a month, The reason why I have a JGR ISO sitting in my hard drive because I really want to replace the scratched copy. It is very sad for me because here isn't a decent CD burning program I could use for the Mac, also the instruction of actually burning it is way too freaken complicated, its like reading a manual of how to get the Titanic to start moving blindfolded. All those words and numbers I don't understand.

Anywho, is there any programs that I could use for the Mac, if so, thank you so much. You made me a very happy man

Post by **Zalphier** » Tue Nov 28, 2006 1:11 am

If you have a windows pc as well(really, you should) then just transfer the iso to that computer, and burn it in windows. Other than that, can't help you. There are reasons why nobody has macs (the main reason being monopoly)

Post by **lordofduct** » Tue Nov 28, 2006 3:18 am

my mom is in connecticut... she must be another one of the 5 of you up there.

Anyways... do you have Toast or any other burning software already? Most of them should support ISO and bin/cue now adays (unless you use an old version). When you burn though either utilize the cue file OR make 100% sure you do not burn as a data disk... bad idea. Go through the menus and find a tab for "image burning", that should do it for you. If it demands a sector size it is usually 2048 (cue files have the sector size written into it... so if you use those it shouldn't bother you for sector size).

Go here for a simple guide with images and stuff:

http://www.segacd.org/mac.html

this reminds me... Racket should update his guide links on his website. He does a link to this website for this same guide, but the guy must have moved it around some and now the link is dead.

Also... this is for Sega CD games true. But iso, bin, and all those are very similar. The format isn't interchangeable perse, but as directions go, they are interchangeable to a large enough degree that it will work for you just fine.

Post by **Vhaeos** » Tue Nov 28, 2006 4:09 am

Beware of MDF/MDS files when you're downloading though. Well, if you only have a mac, atleast. As far as I know, there isn't any program that supports it on the Mac. Good luck.

Sat Dec 02, 2006 8:02 pm

lordofduct wrote:my mom is in connecticut... she must be another one of the 5 of you up there.

Anyways... do you have Toast or any other burning software already? Most of them should support ISO and bin/cue now adays (unless you use an old version). When you burn though either utilize the cue file OR make 100% sure you do not burn as a data disk... bad idea. Go through the menus and find a tab for "image burning", that should do it for you. If it demands a sector size it is usually 2048 (cue files have the sector size written into it... so if you use those it shouldn't bother you for sector size).

Go here for a simple guide with images and stuff:

http://www.segacd.org/mac.html

this reminds me... Racket should update his guide links on his website. He does a link to this website for this same guide, but the guy must have moved it around some and now the link is dead.

Also... this is for Sega CD games true. But iso, bin, and all those are very similar. The format isn't interchangeable perse, but as directions go, they are interchangeable to a large enough degree that it will work for you just fine.

Ok I read the guide, and I have Toast, the version I have is "Toast 7 Titanium" and I have a Mac Mini with the Mac OS X. I do have one problem, and its kinda noob-ish but I could not find Other in my Toast program, but pretty much all I can do is save it as a Disk image for now.

EDIT
I can also try getting Virtual PC, its like a PC emulater for the macer's (thats what I call people who own macs) so Might try to get myself a pirate copy.

Post by **grittykitty** » Sun Dec 03, 2006 12:04 pm

use toast 6 for burning dreamcast games, you should use virtual pc for games with inject.exe (for the audio tracks) or if you want to do other stuff. you can use cdirip on a mac to burn most games, and isofix seems to guarantee that most games will work, assuming the image size is not too big. use toast 7 for burning anything else

Post by **Liam** » Mon Dec 04, 2006 11:25 am

I just tried to burn a Dracula X iso for PC Engine with Burn for Mac:

http://burn-osx.sourceforge.net/

Do I even need to tell you it didn't work? It failed the program's verification! If the program could verify it was wrong after it had made a coaster, why couldn't it do so before?

I used the cue file the iso came with but this 'Burn' program just made me an audio CD.

Sun Dec 10, 2006 4:49 pm

*Chest Opening song from Zelda*

http://dchelp.net/index.php?id=macuser#sec4

Post by **Liam** » Thu Dec 21, 2006 8:41 am

I take back what I said about Burn. It's free, open source, GNU GPL.

http://burn-osx.sourceforge.net/

I tried making my first Saturn game (Bubble Bobble feat. Rainbow Islands) from a .cue/.iso/.wav and it worked. I'm using a G4 iBook with CD-RW/DVD drive.

The Dracula X disc also seems to work with Magic Engine, even though Burn scanned the disc and found it didn't burn properly. Maybe there are mistakes somewhere on the disc.

Post by **Hiryu76** » Thu Dec 21, 2006 5:56 pm

I'm a mac user also, I am using Mednafen to run the PC engine images and I have run into some problems where the Bios is having load error when I try to boot up the image from the disk drive. I am only doing this because for some reason, the game wont load from the .cue as it should. Under what type of settings were you burning the discs? Also if anyone uses Mednafen, why is the .cue not loading properly in some of the images and fine for others?