Question about a 99min .cdi burnt onto an 80min CD-R

Hello! I love this site, with all of its wonderful information and helpful community. Thanks to ASSEMblergames, my Saturn is as good as new! I've been lurking for about a month now and finally decided to make an account so that I could have notifications on certain threads!

With that quick introduction out of the way, I must say I'm sorry to create a thread for something that is more than likely stupid, but I've spent the past three hours browsing Google for answers and have had no luck.

I recently downloaded the 99min Shenmue 1 Undub .cdi from ISO Zone. I have been thinking about ordering 99min CD-Rs but have been reluctant since I'm not sure if my CD drive would support burning them. I've also heard some people have a hard time getting their burning software to overburn. Before I ordered any 99min CD-Rs, I wanted to first see if I could even get ImgBurn to ask me if I wanted it to overburn something.

I attempted to burn the 99min Shenmue 1 onto an 80min CD-R, waiting to see if any messages would pop up during. It completed the burn and said it was successful. Curious, I placed the newly burnt CD into my Dreamcast and played a new game all the way to the first possible save. Everything seemed fine.

My question is, yes it seems playable, but what's the catch? There's no way all of the game's data was burnt onto an 80min CD-R. I was thinking about just playing through and finding out what would happen myself, but I'm not sure it the disc would cause any harm to my Dreamcast? I'll try to figure out overburning eventually, but I wanted to solve one thing at a time.

I thought I'd ask the experts! Thanks for your help!

 

No, it wouldn't cause any harm.

If the program requests any data that isn't on the disc your console could hang up, but that's about it, happy gaming

 

Hey, thanks a lot for the info! That's good to know. I've decided to order some 99min CD-Rs in the meantime. MediaRange brand.

Since ImgBurn didn't display any messages concerning the size of the disc and the larger size of the data being burned, is it possible it automatically overburned as much as it could onto the disc? What I mean to say is: does ImgBurn ask you or let you know about overburning or does it just do it?

 

Be very cautious with current batches of 99 min cds, especially Banana Digital, as they are all fucked batches that dx sell. I reported it over a year ago on Tiz and loads of others have have had the same issues.

I gave up with them all and bought the originals of the 99min versions. Going down the gdemu route now too as its less pissing about and no strain on the laser

 

You could always verify the data on the burnt disk against the image you burned. Most likely you'll find errors on the outermost parts of the disc. It's not impossible that it over burnt just fine though.