i'm only a begginner at this so i can only try and help... some ea games and others need to be patched... you can find patches at such sites as
http://www.psxcopyworld.com/ you can also find tutorials at how to burn your games different ways... so give that a go and hopefully it helps... sorry if it doesn't
to patch games use ppfomatic... its a program, i haven't used it yet so not too sure how it works.