ImportBoy wrote:Is your Mac Power-PC or Intel based? If it is Intel based you should really considering tossing XP on there using Boot Camp or Parallels.
His mac is a PPC. My mac is Intel and I have been using parallels to boot XP and burn using alcohol and nero and they both created duds. I don't know whether it's something to do with the virtualisation or my media because every game i've burnt hasn't had any errors as far as Alcohol/Nero was concerned, but my saturn just won't play them properly, they either crash straight away or just go blank after the sega copyright screen.
I'm beginning to think it's the media because I have some backups on BenQ media that work perfectly and these backups have been burnt using RiDisc which is pretty cheap media...
ImportBoy wrote:Is your Mac Power-PC or Intel based? If it is Intel based you should really considering tossing XP on there using Boot Camp or Parallels.
His mac is a PPC. My mac is Intel and I have been using parallels to boot XP and burn using alcohol and nero and they both created duds. I don't know whether it's something to do with the virtualisation or my media because every game i've burnt hasn't had any errors as far as Alcohol/Nero was concerned, but my saturn just won't play them properly, they either crash straight away or just go blank after the sega copyright screen.
I'm beginning to think it's the media because I have some backups on BenQ media that work perfectly and these backups have been burnt using RiDisc which is pretty cheap media...
i heard parallels still has quite a few problems, i think boot camp is a much more stable choice. I've used several macs with xp on a seperate partition with boot camp and had none of those problems. It runs just like crappy 'ol windows. that's just my experience
GSZX1337 wrote:Step 1: Put Linux on your Mac
Step 2: Download K3B
Step 3: Enjoy Linux
Step 4: Remove Mac OSX
haha. well that's not going to happen. I was thinking of using boot camp with Damn Small Linux or Ubuntu. Mostly because they don't take up a bunch of hard drive space. Anyone have experience with those? Will they be able to run Alcohol or another program that will work?
when you download a game, it comes with a ISO, CUE & Audio Files in MP3 format, I got a tutorial to burn a CDROM XA cd on mac - this is how I used to do it I think under toast 5,
You are supposed to convert the audio to aiff, then burn a audio cd as a SESSION, then burn the ISO part to the same disk and append the audio tracks session to the data session, I burnt a saturn game like this years ago - but it was a copy from an existing CD - not from an ISO + Cue + Mp3 pack - what the hell is a cue sheet any way ? I though that you just needed the data and the audio files to burn a CD, is this like a windows thing ?
ott0bot wrote:
Will they be able to run Alcohol or another program that will work?
I already run a server with Linux on. How easy is it to burn backups for saturn on Linux?
I haven't used it for Saturn backups yet, but I have used it for burning a Linux distro onto a disc. Easy to use and has some good features, one of them being an MD5 Sum comparison you compare the MD5 to the original and it will see if they're the same. Just in case you miss a digit.
I forked out the cash for Toast 8, but I could never get never get it to burn backups in the form of mp3/iso/cue. Of course I could never find a set of instructions for how to do it on Toast 8. I tried following older sets of instructions to no avail. Just burned a butload of coasters. It got so bad that I had to buy a Windows machine, since my laptop is old and not Intel-based. Now I've got Nero on my PC and it's SO much better than Toast it's ridiculous. Still, I'd love to have this capability on my Mac, so if anyone knows the secrets to Toast 8, please share...
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timewarpgamer wrote:I forked out the cash for Toast 8, but I could never get never get it to burn backups in the form of mp3/iso/cue. Of course I could never find a set of instructions for how to do it on Toast 8. I tried following older sets of instructions to no avail. Just burned a butload of coasters. It got so bad that I had to buy a Windows machine, since my laptop is old and not Intel-based. Now I've got Nero on my PC and it's SO much better than Toast it's ridiculous. Still, I'd love to have this capability on my Mac, so if anyone knows the secrets to Toast 8, please share...
