cd-rw disks might save a $
 

After a ample supply of coasters are accumulated I'm wondering if a person should test burn to a cd-rw disk, check it out to see if you have a working copy, if so then burn to cd-r and erase the cd-rw. If this suggestion has been previously made ..... It came to me as a vision, while digging yet another hole to bury another load.

You can test with a CD-RW by trying to play it on your PC using a PSX emulator such as Connectix VGS. If it works then burn the game to a CD-R and it should work fine on your PSX.

Crap. Z82 had it right. Indeed, some (thankfully few) PC CD Readers won't read CD-RW.