cdirip by Lawrence Williams has been around for 20 years (as well as graphical front-ends for Mac) and can be built to run on Mac or Linux so unfortunately those users have to take that route.

It is a lot more complicated to distribute multiple tracks/sessions zipped up and have to explain to your user how those tracks are laid out into sessions and how to burn them so the game functions properly.

The vast majority of users are Windows users or have access to a Windows machine with a CD burner, and for those people, opening DiscJuggler, opening the CDI file, and clicking 'burn' is the easiest and most foolproof way to do things. NRG files were common and later on Alcohol 120% MDF/MDS images became common). DiscJuggler's CDI format became the preferred format of the early 00s and has stuck as the predominant format of choice (although in the 00s Nero. Unfortunately, all of the disc image formats that support multisession are proprietary formats.

ZIP?īecause Dreamcast discs are multisession, they have to be stored in a multisession disc image format. CDI needs to be unpacked by special software before being burned to disc? Why not just distribute the files in a standard. Sat 2:10 pmOn a side note - what's the point of extracting and distributing DC games to.

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