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How to burn a CD with a capacity of 791MB?

mikeymikec

mikeymikec

Lifer
I have a pretty old game CD, and considering that my store-bought DVDs occasionally stop becoming readable after many years I decided to make a backup of the game CD. However I was a bit surprised when writing an image to disk ended up with a 791MB file.

I vaguely remember that Nero had an option called something like 'overburn' to get more content onto a disc than the official specs suggest but I didn't ever try it.

Does anyone have any experience on this topic?
 
Overburning (sometimes called oversizing) is the ability to write beyond the manufacturer’s declared capacity on a CD-R or CD-RW disc. This is accomplished by using the disc’s Lead-Out Area (reserved to indicate to a reading device that the end of the data has been reached) to store the additional user information. Although some recorders and premastering software packages have the ability to overburn a disc the practice is not permitted by Orange Book standards. Overburning might affect product warranties and result in lost data so it is not recommended.
 
For that size of image, 800MB discs would be needed and my preferred software is ImgBurn using DAO. Not all burners will support DAO/overburning but far more of them will than DVD+R burners doing more than 4483MB.
 
Skunk-Works said:
Why not just use a DVD? Waist of space, I know, but it will work.
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This is what I did to backup some games that have multiple CD's i ripped the ISO files and burned the iso files onto a DVD and then i would just mount the ISO files to use the discs.
 
@Skunk-Works
JimKiler said:
This is what I did to backup some games that have multiple CD's i ripped the ISO files and burned the iso files onto a DVD and then i would just mount the ISO files to use the discs.
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Some games have CD audio tracks though, surely that won't work with a DVD? Admittedly the game I want to back the disc up for doesn't have that problem, but others do.
 
mikeymikec said:
@Skunk-Works


Some games have CD audio tracks though, surely that won't work with a DVD? Admittedly the game I want to back the disc up for doesn't have that problem, but others do.
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If you have the ISO file on a DVD and mount the file you will have access to the audio tracks since it is a CD image. your computer will not see a difference between a mounted ISO file and the original CD.
 
I remember the days when CD burners were still expensive. I think you would spend ~ $150 for them in those days. And I also remember over time, the capacity of blanks changed. So I might have an older blank, put it into a newer burner, and it wouldn't even format or burn.
 
TemjinGold said:
Why not just rebuy them on Steam? CDs will always degrade and you'll need to do this exercise again in a few years.
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A review of the GOG version lists problems with the version they have on sale. I've seen issues with the Steam version of Kotor1/2 in some scenarios. If it was guaranteed to work at least as well as the original (and frankly I have to patch the originals to get 1080p support for example, so I'd expect that too), I'd consider it.

CDs may downgrade but CD image files don't 🙂
 
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