William wrote regarding 'Re: [EE] Mini-DVD disks as video game backups' on Tue, Dec 27 at 17:45:
> On Dec 27, 2005, at 3:03 PM, Danny Sauer wrote:
> 
> > I've insisted on a tray for burners.  The reason?  If I want to
> > burn the mini DVDs for "video game archival"
> 
> Can you actually backup (say) Gamecube disks to the mini-DVD media
> that is now available?  The way the kids treat their game disks, that
> could be really useful!  The few notes I found on google said it wasn't
> possible due to the 'special size" of the disks, but that seems like
> a thing of the past?

I thought the problem was just that the burnable mini DVD media didn't
exist when Gamecube was released.  I also thought that there was a
modchip that allowed GameCube games on a regular or mini DVD.  Then, I
don't have a Gamecube - the last console I bought was a Sega Genesis
(well, I bought Bleem! to emulate a Playstation, but that's not really
buying a console) - so I can't say for sure.  I could swear that one
of the guys I worked with previously had backed up a bunch of Game
Cube games for Blockbuster, though.  He said it was in case their
store burned down or something, he could help them out. :)  Either
way, I never asked him for details.

--Danny
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