will my cdz play cdrs I want to preserve my originals

the only reason I ask is I don't want anything to happen to my rare games like breakers, iron clad, and my metal slugs. thanks


SNK4EVER-forever in our hearts

yes

Why don't you burn one and tell us?

I would'nt use CDR's if I were you. The CDZ is very tempermental when it comes to using them and my understanding is that this will lead to system malfunction down the road.
-BB

true true. u will hav lotsa I/O errors.

Don't CDZ units typically have problems anyway though?

BIG BEAR:
I would'nt use CDR's if I were you. The CDZ is very tempermental when it comes to using them and my understanding is that this will lead to system malfunction down the road.
-BB

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Put it on the fridge.

I'm serious. tickled

RiotoftheBlood:
Don't CDZ units typically have problems anyway though?

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I have reason to believe that "tag" was due to the heavy usage of CDR's before the birth of Neo Geo emulation.CD system fans complained about the price and availabilty of titles back then which led to the CDR abuse.This is not the case nowadays and you rarely see broken CDZ systems up for sale or complaints about it.
I would'nt even recommend the CDR's for your single speed system because if something goes wrong,the replacement parts will be difficult to find.
-BB

BIG BEAR:

RiotoftheBlood:
Don't CDZ units typically have problems anyway though?

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I have reason to believe that "tag" was due to the heavy usage of CDR's before the birth of Neo Geo emulation.CD system fans complained about the price and availabilty of titles back then which led to the CDR abuse.This is not the case nowadays and you rarely see broken CDZ systems up for sale or complaints about it.
I would'nt even recommend the CDR's for your single speed system because if something goes wrong,the replacement parts will be difficult to find.
-BB

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Wow, I can see why this would happen. The disks, if not burned right, would not be optimized and data would be spread all over the place. This would cause the drive to spin like mad to load fragmented data, also cause loading times to be worse. Over time this would kill the drive mechanism and add stress to the laser assembly and motor. Since there is no way to optimize a disk for Neo Geo CD (they must have used some program before mastering), unless it is a complete binary copy with data in the same block level, impossible using 80min CDs and CD-Rs in general since CD-Rs have security sectors that would shift data. I guess you could pad all data to the outside of the disk where it would spin the fastest and access more without overstressing the drive//

Interesting topic

-Nick

So I guess this comes down to one thing, what has a higher value to you... your Neo Geo CD or your games. I would say the games... but then again, you could always just play your original games (or CD-R copies) on a computer emulator and get better load time as well (that is how I play my Neo CD games... I no longer have the Neo CD... it sleeps with my SegaCD in FL). I mean, the games are what count, the hardware is going to die eventually anyway. I would rather keep my Ironclad mint then worry about my Neo CD dying... since there are only two types of CD-Drives, ones that have failed and ones that will fail.

-Nick

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nruva:
So I guess this comes down to one thing, what has a higher value to you... your Neo Geo CD or your games. I would say the games... but then again, you could always just play your original games (or CD-R copies) on a computer emulator and get better load time as well (that is how I play my Neo CD games... I no longer have the Neo CD... it sleeps with my SegaCD in FL). I mean, the games are what count, the hardware is going to die eventually anyway. I would rather keep my Ironclad mint then worry about my Neo CD dying... since there are only two types of CD-Drives, ones that have failed and ones that will fail.

-Nick

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Same here.