CD Media
 

i need to know what kind of media i need for burning ps2 games. if they are dvd do i need dvd-r media or can i use cd-r media. i have the magic 3 chip in my ps2. i was told they could boot all media. is the "memorex cd-r High Capacity 700Mb 80 min. 24x mulit speed. professional recoradable compact disk" good media for all games.

thanks for any help!

For playstation 1 games you use CD-R as all of the games are under 800 megs. For PS2 games however there are 2 types. CD-Rom based games and DVD-Rom games. The way to tell the difference is the CD type have a blue bottom and the DVD are either usually silver. It also says either DVD or CD on the back of the case. Any CD-based PS2 game can be burnt on CD-R (Because they are under 800 megs) and DVD games SHOULD be burnt on DVD-R's (They are under 4.7 gigs) There is a way that you can "rip" a DVD game to make it fit on a CD-R but it is not preferred. This is because you loose aspects of the game (like video and sound files) and ripping games can be a lengthy process. Do you have a DVD burner?
For the brand of media you want to buy media that is easily read by the Playstation 2 or has a high reflectivity. The brands that you almost can't go wrong with are verbatim, TDK, traxdata, & princo. DVD games are more picky than CD games. I've never burned on memorex. I've heard that they might be okay for CD games but for DVD I would go with one of the brands listed above. This is a long post but in depth hope it helps!!!! Other Mod Guru's help me if I am off track!

well answered mate :)
one thing to note is that the PS2 is not that fussy on CD-R, I backup onto the cheapest CD-R and it still boots up 1st time.

Memorex CD-R's work fine in my PS2..... (and they are cheap :D )

I use Comp USA brand DVD-R's and they work perfect also. I will be trying Princo DVD-R tonight, I will post later and let you know the result.

Copying direct to DVD-R
 

Yo orion731,
nice post and good detail.
I wonder if you can answer a quick quetion. I have a DVD game and need to backup onto another DVD-R media. I will soon get hold of the Pioneer DVR-105 model and get soem decent media. Is there any way to backup direct onto another DVD-R Media? Do i need to apply any crack to the backed game or is it a simple primo job to backup onto hard drive and burn onto another DVD-R media?
Please let me know.

thanks

You are copying from DVD-R to DVD-R? Or is it original to DVD-R? As far as I know it should work fine as long as the game you are burning from is legit. I have burned a copy of a copy with CD games and it worked fine, I don't know about DVD because I have never tried. You shouldn't have to patch the game because of the mod that you have. Hope this helps. More questions are welcome.

Re: Copying direct to DVD-R
 

Its easy to backup DVD to DVD-R, follow the tutorial for RecordNow Max in the sticky post on this board. No patching required.

Re: Re: Copying direct to DVD-R
 

ok, so it's to copy DVD based ps2 games? So that means that we don't any crack for it?
It's just straight forward as that?

Re: Re: Copying direct to DVD-R
 

sorry guys for the english.

i meant:

ok, so it's easy to copy DVD based ps2 games? So that means that we don't need any crack for it?
It's just straight forward as that?

Yep.... Straight foward..... No crack or anything needed....:cool: