Pseudo saturn discs not spinning, what going on?

[marley]

Hey all. hope all is well.

So I recently got a AR 3in1 cart and flashed Pseudo Saturn kai lite on it, Ive made two copies of Guardian heroes and two of burning rangers, basically the only one that spins is the earliest burn of burning rangers and then that freezes after the sega trademark screen. One of the guardian heroes did play the intro and got to the main menu but after that froze on black screen, now it doesn't spin at all. All official games still work its just the backups that still refuse to work.

Ive done everything the Racket boy tutorial has said to do which I shall list now 

-mounted them to virtual drive with daemon tools (that works)
-checked that theyre patched using the region patcher software (PAL uk specifically)
-Tested in yabause emulator (I notice that when running in pal mode on emulator it runs a little faster and the audio skips but using the frame skipper solves this, should it run normally without framskipper?)
-Using imgburn at 8x speed (even verifying them the last couple of burns)

The problem could be a couple of things, 1. the position of the cartridge in the slot as all the way in doesn't activate pseudo saturn, 2. bad images, I downloaded pal ones and checking with the region patcher they are confirmed pal versions but run flawlessly using NTSC mode in yabause or 3. quality of CD-R's, as the ones I'd originally bought made by AONE were completely incompatible with my saturn. luckily my bro had some memorex discs which I had seen someone say in a thread somewhere that they sweared by them.

If there is anything ive missed out in the process or any tips to get the games to yaknow actually play would be much appreciated 

Cheers.

[jdollatari]

Looking to do this soon myself. For my dreamcast I have burned at 16x or slower using imgburn and generally use memorex tdk or verbatim. I hear really good things about taiyo yuden discs (they came out with them afterall) but they are expensive and difficult to find. 

[marley]

Selfless bump of thread,

I'm still having no luck with this and would like someone who uses pseudo saturn to tell me their experiences with it and their process of..

-Getting their iso's (I know its a dark area to discuss)
-How you test your iso's (other saturn emulators, maybe yabause isn't the best?)
-is pseudo saturn kai unreliable compared to the original pseudo saturn?

Thanks. 

[macchinmi]

Hi

I only started using it last week. So far I've had a couple of minor hiccups but nothing serious, and everything I've burnt has booted without issue so far. So to attempt to answer your queries from my experiences:

- I'm new and not 100% sure about the rules here so I'll simply say that using Google and the words 'Sega Saturn' along with another three letter word will give you several sites where you can acquire games. I'm impatient and probably grabbed something from all of them, but you should be able to tell the more reliable sites, they tend to provide info about the game itself;

- I bought 100 Maxell cds, and used free program ANYBURN to burn almost all games, at 16x. The few that Anyburn didn't like I used IMGBURN. Haven't been region patching. I've just been trying each game in the Saturn itself and playing for a bit;

- no idea, I've only been using Kai. Seems ok so far, I even patched Discworld 2 as that isn't compatible without the pseudo patch and it booted fine.

I should point out that I've been using a JP Saturn and that I had some hiccups with the EU one, but I think they were related to that machine being on its last legs really. The issues I had with the EU Saturn seemed to be related to the laser / cd  at first, when I cleaned that it started loading stuff though it was still a bit flaky (now I properly need to repair it however). Maybe your issue is related to the drive in the console itself? 

Hope this helps.