[Skelaratus]

I just backed up NBA Street Vol. 3. The game was 4.698 GB. That is a pretty huge game and it burned all the way to the edge of the disc. Like Dust said, some media gets bad quality towards the edge, and I have tried 4 top rated brands...(TDK, Ritek, Verbatim and Taiyo Yuden). In all of those experiments Taiyo Yuden outperformed the others with the larger sized games.

Now as a point of refernce I will make a comment about Ritek and Taiyo Yuden when not using a mod chip. My cousin uses the Swap Magic discs for his backup method (yes he is converting to a chip soon). What we found is that no matter how good the media is, how good the burn is, it seems that with the larger games (the ones with also a large TOC as well), do not have good backup qualith. So in his case, even backing up his games with superior media will not yield positive results as long as the backup is the same size or larger than the TOC on the Swap Disc.