How do you spot a Neo-Geo CD boot?

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How do I spot a Neo-Geo CD boot? I mean I can spot a burned CD, but what about a pressed one? Isn't it pretty easy to reproduce Neo-Geo CDs? Or am I totally wrong? (I was offered a Brikin'ger pretty cheap, so I just wanted to know if there are boots, too).
 
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Based on a few Neo CD pictures I have seen, they appear to have really simple text and stuff on them, so who knows really... I haven't heard anything of CD boots on these boards though.

Someone else would probably be of more help.
 
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They usually will not have any sound as the result of the audio tracks being left out
 
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mainman said:
They usually will not have any sound as the result of the audio tracks being left out
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Why should that be so?
 
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One-Up said:
Why should that be so?
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Good question but apparently the audio tracks can not be reproduce together with the data when you try to clone/burn a neo cd game.

I bought a neo cd about 7 years ago and it came with 17 boots all of which where missing their audio.
 
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I don't know why it would be "harder" or anything to copy the music with the data ... it's certainly possible to burn them complete and they're not a strange format or anything. The bootleggers were probably just lazy or sloppy.

There's a CD bootleg guide posted on Neogeocd.net. That will probably answer some questions for you.
 
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With old CD burning software it was not possible to burn a mixed media CD. The CD was either Music or Data, hence the missing music.

Newer programs such as Nero let you create a mixed media CD.


If anything just look at everything as a whole: Spine card, jewel case w/embossed logo(some official games dont have this but most do), insert, and CD.

If its just disc only then I wouldnt bother.
 
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Murray said:
I don't know why it would be "harder" or anything to copy the music with the data ... it's certainly possible to burn them complete and they're not a strange format or anything. The bootleggers were probably just lazy or sloppy.

There's a CD bootleg guide posted on Neogeocd.net. That will probably answer some questions for you.
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This guide helped me A LOT to recognize a few bootleg NGCD games I (accidentaly) bought this week.

I bought a lot/pack of 21 NGCD games and 3 of them were boots.

It's hard to say if the game is legit or not just by staring at its cover .Unfortunately, I can't buy a NGCD anymore before asking about the 'bar code' pressed in each original cd. That's a vital question.
 
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I recently bought a pack of ngcd games and from the 6 jpn games 2 were fake:

Magician Lord
Power Spikes II

I don´t know what kind of of boots you found but both here are mixed mode CDs, they don´t have the holographic bar code but have the NGCD code which means they were pressed not burned.
 
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I never expected anyone would have thought of bootleging NGCD games. They weren't as expensive as home games weren't they?
 
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Since it costs pennies to press a CD, the profit to cost ratio is better than boot carts.
 
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