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Burning discs at 4x or slower speeds

One thing I was planning to do what's to burn Sega Saturn discs using CD-Rs


A particular device for my Saturn the pseudo Saturn Kai requires the disks be burned at 4X or slower because these are data discs and you can't use approximation like you can in music because the information is pure digital code.


I tried burning a disc on the Apple OS default disc burner and it only has a minimum speed of 10x which is way too fast for this app.


Does anyone know why I could burn discs at 4X or slower.


I noticed I could on a program called toast DVD however Toast DVD would not accept my .bin files because I think Toast DVD only handles movies.


I remember there were two other parts of the toast suite which could be bought separately. One was Toast CD for music and the other one was Yoast something else for data.


Which of the two portions do I need and why can't I find either on the App Store anymore, but I can find Toast DVD which I already bought already in the store.


I need some help getting access to one of the other two parts of toast but that's only a store bought feature but the store is sold out.



Mac mini, macOS 14.3

Posted on Feb 13, 2024 6:25 PM

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Feb 14, 2024 5:13 PM in response to tripletopper

There's no way to force a CD/DVD burner to burn slower than it's minimum speed, because the supported speeds are programmed in its firmware. The disk burning software reads the burner's profile info and along with the detected supported speed of the media inserted in the drive, offers a selection of available recording speeds. I think you'll have to find another, external CD/DVD burner, preferably an older/used model that burns at slower speeds like 2x and 4x, to use for your project. In the past, I bought the retail/boxed versions of Toast Titanium, which had a complete suite of programs to do a number of tasks. Version 9 was the last one I bought, because about that time, flash drives were quickly replacing burned media for backup purposes. You'll be burning a data disk. Toast Titanium Version 20 is the most-recent release, so you may wish to contact Roxio's customer support to inquire about suitability with older/slower burners before purchasing the product. The quality of the blank media can also affect their readability in different computers/optical drives.

Burning discs at 4x or slower speeds

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