Whats the best method to rip sega saturn games?

[rossdaboss]

Whats the best method to rip sega saturn games?

[MIK]

Download iso's as I'm sure people have already done the hard work and it's just a case of letting your burning software do the honors for you?

Not that I have done or looked in to it personally as for me originals rule.

[smithyz]

Got to second MIK's advice of downloading the iso's - especially now that we're in the high speed broadband age and the downloads are so quick compared to the old days where it could take days and days to get even one iso torrented to completion.

Any ripping I ever did was with the almost pre-historic CDRWIN program - not sure which modern program would equate to it.

[rossdaboss]

I knew someone would say that lol
I only want to rip games so I can make sure the discs ain't damaged, ripping them is the quickest way I can verify that they are ok.

[rossdaboss]

Feb 8, 2013 19:52:23 GMT smithyz said:

Any ripping I ever did was with the almost pre-historic CDRWIN program - not sure which modern program would equate to it.

I also remember using this back in the early days. I think there's better methods now but I just need someone to point me in the right direction.

[metalhead]

If you must rip your own discs then you shouldn't use the ISO format. Most Saturn discs contain CD audio data as a second session which the ISO format can't support.

Your best bet is to use the BIN/CUE format which is supported by most burning software. If you are a Nero fan then the proprietary NRG format also works.

[buzzmx]

I use Imgburn, Works great ;D

Download: www.imgburn.com/?act=download

I backup my originals; avoids dud copies.

[Yart]

One thing I must note: Nobody knows how to make a friggin' CUE/BIN rip. Everytime you download a game you gotta manually edit the CUE file yourself because everyone are a buncha idiots. Let's also compress the redbook audio to MP3 to save room!!! (And make it sound worse than the original)

Don't be an idiot. Please. Double check your CUE file and make sure the filenames are actually correct, and keep the music in WAVs.

[buzzmx]

I agree; you spend so much time investigating and working on the disc image and in the end the sound quality is lower.
If you just get the original and spent 7min to rip it and 14min to burn it and you have 100% copy.

Also I have an old Sony CD burner that burns at 1x speed and after a bit of hunting found some Sony CDRs that will burn at 1x; so the copies I make are rock solid

[zyrobs]

CDRWin 4 bin/cue is still the best, now 15 years down the road.

CloneCD is also cool though.