As you may know I have the SCPH 15000 modified as per yours but with the 1.01 Utility Disk. I wouldn't go so far as adjusting the lens unless CD-R backups fail to play. You could end up in a mess.

I've got JAP GT3 Original and will find the time to do a DVD Rip during 3rd week October. I tried over the last weekend to mess around with a combination of the GT3PALEASY rip method and my JAP GT3 original. It didn't work. SO I'll need to go back to first principles and that will be time consuming.

The most usual cause of failure in ripped DVD games is that all DVD checks need to be stripped away. Were you in control of this process?

In the meantime, in case I might be able to help you further I'd like to ask you a couple of questions:

1 Are the ripped DVDs that work from PAL or NTSC (Jap or US?) originals?

2 Did you have to patch the CDs produced from the ripping process?

3 What, if anything, do you have to patch with Universal Patcher?

Cheers