Any Decent CD Burning Program for the Mac?

[alexkidd]

thanks for that site all hail, very useful info on there.

And for the Mac haters who always feel compelled to jump into these threads. I love working on macs, there are some things I like PC's for (emulation), but if I actually have to work (I am an illustrator) I'd rather work on an mac any day. Also for the one who said Apple is a monopoly, while they do control their own hardware, MacOS is the only mainstream competition keeping MS Windows from having a true monopoly.

You can keep microsoft and their genius engineers who come out with crap like the Zune 6 years after Apple already did it. MS Zune, 30% heavier 30% larger, less storage and more difficult to use and buy music for, that's the best the world's biggest company can do years after Apple already did all the difficult thinking for them? Can you say bloated company with zero imagination?

[Liam]

Under what type of settings were you burning the discs?

There's no issue of 'settings,' you just select Copy, point Burn to the .cue file and click burn, then select the slowest speed (8x for me).

It might help to check the .cue file for any unnecessary spaces and remove them. They're sometimes put there to make the file more readable. Also check the filenames in the .cue file so they match the .iso and .wav files in the directory.

How did you get a compiled Mednafen? It's not listed at Darwin Ports. There are sites that suggest compiling it, but, obviously that's not going to work as that kind of thing never does.

[All Hail The New Flesh]

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.

I am planning on getting a Sega CD, so I was wondering, does that Burn program work with Sega CD games?

[grittykitty]

oh, just a note: you SHOULD be able to burn dreamcast games using toast 7 (i previously thought you could only do it up until version 6). in the toast preferences, make sure you have enable "show legacy formats and settings" (why do they have this unchecked by default??). then you can go to the "copy" tab and select multi-track cd-rom xa.

and just to catch up: download cdirip for mac os x and open your .cdi file with this program. the result with be an audio track and a data track most likely. burn the audio track (or tracks) as a SESSION with toast (in toast 7, after you hit the big red burn button, click on the advanced tab and make sure "write session" is checked on the left). NOTE: if your first session is a data image, burn as multi-track cd-rom xa instead of audio. after the first session is done, clear your data (or just quit toast and re-open) and burn your second session by using the multi-track cd-rom xa option and use WRITE DISC, NOT session. your game should work! (if not, you might have laser issues with your console, like mine sometimes does).