# CD-ROM Mastering Guide

This document tells you how to move a working title to a CD-ROM disc which can be played in stand-alone mode on a 3DO(tm) system. Using this information, you can create and test a CD-ROM image file and master an optimized CD-ROM for delivery to The 3DO Company for encryption.

Click on one of the topics below for more information:

- Hardware and Software Requirements discusses hardware and software requirements, including recommended CD pressing equipment and media.
- Preparing for the Mastering Process explains preparing your application to run in stand-alone mode, testing your application in the minimum memory configuration, and testing for low memory pointers.
- Creating and Testing the Image File steps you through the process of creating an optimized cdrom.image file and testing it on your Macintosh.
- Mastering and Testing the CD-ROM describes how to master a CD-ROM with the QuickTOPIX software, and how to test your master both using the 3DO Debugger and on a 3DO Testing Station.
- Delivery for Encryption briefly discusses delivery to 3DO Developer Services for encryption.
- Title Authorization and Royalty Collection provides information about necessary steps for authorization by the 3DO Company.
- CD-ROM Mastering Etiquette provides useful information about various issues to pay attention to as you prepare for mastering your CD-ROM.
- File Formats lists and describes all file formats that you can use in a title.

Note: A CD-ROM Mastering Checklist is included in the hardcopy version of this document.

# Audience

Most of the chapters in this document are for the programmer developing the title and for the person mastering the CD-ROM.

- Programmers must consider the effects of the mastering process while developing the title.

- The person who masters the CD-ROM can use the information in this document and work with the enclosed checklist.