i am new to this forum, and i dont want to offend anyone...
Quall999
there is a big difference, even if u put dummy files with the burn...
as to using good media, i always backup my games with either Riteks ,but mostly with Verbatim , which is known to be 1 of the best medias for X-BOX/ PS2...
as for the clicking noise's, it is very worrying listening to it...
i have 2 box's :
v1 with X-Bit , maxtor 120gig HD
v1.5 with Executer 2.2 lite, maxtor 120gig HD
both tested the same...
really it does'nt take that much longer to make an ISO image.
Craxtion makes a perfect ISO and patches the game at same time, although with my modchips and bios's i have ,it makes no difference to me whether i need to patch. but the program patches them automatically anyway.
the only difference i can see it make is when u want to make another backup of the disk u already have.
u can do a straight copy off the fly with data burn's.
but with ISO's ,u need to extract it to your pc first , then burn the ISO.