XPost: alt.sega.genesis   
   From: belpowerslave@ev1.net   
      
   Rumba wrote:   
      
   > > You won't, for example, find any regulars in here saying that CDRs play   
   > > just as well as originals and don't harm the hardware.   
   >   
   > CDRs play just as well as originals and don't harm the hardware.   
   >   
   > Been playing cdrs on Saturn, PSX and DC for years. Played cdrs on TGDuo and   
   > SegaCD, granted not as much as those first three systems, but never had any   
   > problems.   
      
   Well, though you may not run into problems as quickly as Scott did, you *will*   
   run into them eventually. CDRs do *not* play as well as the originals, and they   
   do have the potential to harm the hardware, just because it hasn't happened to   
   you yet doesn't mean it's not true. I had a buddy who swore up and down that   
   the CDRs he played in his DC were fine....6 months later, dead DC. Just run a   
   quick search on the net for dead DCs and CDR usage sometime...   
      
   Now, like you, I have played some CDRs in both my DC(mostly homebrew stuff, or   
   unreleased games like Half-Life) and Sega CD, but I don't *only* use CDRs, so   
   though it is hurting the system when I do it, it's not going to kill it within   
   6 months like with that buddy of mine who did nothing but CDRs in his machine.   
      
   One thing you'll notice with CDRs is that the load times tend to be a bit   
   longer on some systems(and on others, like the Neo Geo CD, they're acutally   
   *quicker*), and in the DC it sounds like the GD-Rom is working especially hard   
   to load the data(you get that PSOv2-style grinding going on).   
      
   Bel   
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