OK, I'm at a loss as to what to do next. I have followed the
instructions for coping PSX games on a Mac and I'm still having no luck. This is
what I'm doing:

I place the game CD in my drive and two icons appear on the desktop.
One seems to be the game and the 2ed the music for the game. I then open
Astarte, highlight the contents of both folders from the PSX disk and
convert them. I then close Astarte and open Toast. I have Adaptec Toast
4.1.2. I drag the converted files onto the Toast window and make the CD
at the slowest speed. Once this is done I try out the game and it does not
work.

I really don't know what to do next. Any help would be greatly
appreciated.

You have a MOD chip?

Need a little more info..........
1.) what game did u try to copy?
2.) if u do have a mod chip - which one? (stealth3 or 4 & is it for jap or ntsc or pal games)
3.) what cd-r media r u using?

1. Tried to copy Army Men World War

2. I really don't know what chip I have. It was installed for me about 2 years ago. It has played every backup I've tried except Spyro Year of the Dragon.

3. I'm using a spool of disks I bought at Best Buy a while back that is deep blue on the recordable side. Not sure what brand.

I'm guessing u have a stealth 3 chip cuz of not being able to play a copy of spyro 3. That game has a mod chip dection protection in it. You would have to up grade to a stealth 4 chip - if possible- to get around that.
Any way - your problem could be w/ your cd-r media. My 750x PSX does not like the really blue bottom ones. It may play one out of 20! but some other peeps PSX will play them w/ no problems. Mine likes the lt. blue or the gold bottom ones. I would try different cd-rs first.

If your still having problems & think it may be the way your burning the disc - do u have anyone elses psx that u could try the disc in? If not -& if u want to - send me one of your "bad" copies & I will try it in one of my PSX. ( I have access to about 6 differnt consoles)

What cd-r media do you reccomend? Any particular brand?

I have used many brands that all have worked well.
I am presently using:
TDK data cd-r (bottom color- silverish)
IMATION (botom color- silverish)
COMPUSA (bottom color- lt. blue)
PRIME PERIPHIALS ( bottom color -silverish blue)

OK, I'll pick some up this weekend and give it a try. If they still don't work I'll send you one and see if it will work for you.

there a post that seems to make out that toast 5 does an easier job f burning - perhaps this may help?

THIS IS THE WAY I BACKUP MY PSX GAMES.(IF THEY ARE ORIGINALS THEN IT IS LIKELY THAT THEY NEED PATCHING)

OPEN ASTARTE CD COPY AND INSERT THE DISC(IT SHOULD SCAN THE TRACKS)
THEN GOTO THE FILE MENU AND SELECT ALL
NOW GOTO THE SAVE AS OR SAVE AS DISC IMAGE
YOU WILL HAVE ONE IMAGE
DRAG IT TO TOAST AND IT SHOULD SAY IT IS A DISC IMAGE
THEN BURN

THIS IS THE WAY I BACKUP MY PSX GAMES.(IF THEY ARE ORIGINALS THEN IT IS LIKELY THAT THEY NEED PATCHING)

OPEN ASTARTE CD COPY AND INSERT THE DISC(IT SHOULD SCAN THE TRACKS)
THEN GOTO THE FILE MENU AND SELECT ALL
NOW GOTO THE SAVE AS OR SAVE AS DISC IMAGE
YOU WILL HAVE ONE IMAGE
DRAG IT TO TOAST AND IT SHOULD SAY IT IS A DISC IMAGE
THEN BURN

The easiest way to do it IMHO....
use DVDextractor (yup even on a CD)

Goto >file> Save as Image

select the save location and the copy source.

when done drop it in toast of any flavor from 3.5 to 5.x

You're done.

Originally posted by sengimage
The easiest way to do it IMHO....
use DVDextractor (yup even on a CD)

Goto >file> Save as Image

select the save location and the copy source.

when done drop it in toast of any flavor from 3.5 to 5.x

You're done.

Hey senimage wassup :p

Quick question, can you use a ppf image on a dvd extractor file

Catch you later

Good question. I believe DVDextractor is limited to reading just the actual media not an image. Unless of course the image is mounted on the desktop. Then it may treat it as media. I'd need to confirm first, but it's an easy enough test for you PS2daddy.

Originally posted by sengimage
Good question. I believe DVDextractor is limited to reading just the actual media not an image. Unless of course the image is mounted on the desktop. Then it may treat it as media. I'd need to confirm first, but it's an easy enough test for you PS2daddy.

Thanks
I can give it a shot
I just didnt know if you have tried it or not yet.

I can give it a go and let you know in a few days

C ya later