To Use Or Not To Use This Is The ?

[UrrBodyH8sMe]

yes i heard that retik is best for makeing ps2 backups but i got my hands on a princo light bottom dvd-r and i used it to back up breath of fire dragoon quters and so far it loads and works as good and the ritek has no porblems loading or any thing so im thinking of buying these kind and trying them cause there so much cheaper then ritek

[mud ver.2]

Mute your TV.

Shut your windows.

Turn off winamp.

And listen to your PS2. Is it noisy while playing the Princo's ?

I have a 50pak of those sh*t disks. Yeah, they work, but I'd never use them in my PS2. Too noisy; they're working the laser to hard.

I use them for movies only.

[UrrBodyH8sMe]

it was no more noiser then my other games on ritek

Vice City Nosie as HATES (Ritek)
The Thing cdrom VERY nosie (Imation) 80 min
Breath of fire not that nosiey (Princo)

[dust2dust]

princo and ritek both make many grades of disk

best check is to try them in old v1,v2,v3,v4 even then u find out the good disks

riteks that use the traxdata dye boot in everything here v3 v4 v5 v7

[ottoman]

my version 5 and version 7 have had sucess with light bottom dvd-r but there is specific dvd laser intense games that are good bench-marks for testing just how good a dvd-r is:

time splitters 2
The Getaway
GTA Vice City
Max Payne

The easiest way, specificially with time splitters 2 and max payne is to make a copy on light bottom dvd-r and then time the loading time compared to the original.

I found that Bulk Paq gen 4 ( CRAP!!! ) would handle most PS2 dvd-r back ups but for intense loading games like the ones above the loading times doubled or tripled and then u would get crashes or freezes in mid game.

Some games were fine though so it was difficult to tell.

I have now ditched light bottomed DVD-r in favour of dark bottom for the simple reason that u never can tell what games r gonna be problematic on light bottom ones.

Any Ritek dark bottom ones seem to work perfect but my favourite are DVDMaster 2X dvd-r which are 100% perfect with version 5 to 7.

DVD Movie back-ups seem to work fine on any dvd-r though with PS2 although DVD Video doesn't work your laser very hard!!

Luv and Dark Bottoms to all!!!

[UrrBodyH8sMe]

my vice city is on ritek dark and it makes nosie all through the game play its loud to i think its cause it plays music from the raido in the game so i think i will give the light bottoms a try if they get to were they wont make good back ups i will use them on dvd movies i got max payne and vc aldry burned on ritek most games i got r only like 2 or 3 gigs big and that wasted half a dvd like war of monster only 1.6 gig game i think maybe less

[ottoman]

I got vice city on dark purple dvd master and it works as the original. I previously had it on verbatim and it crashed before I got to the game. Have also had it on cheap light bottom and it got a bit into the game and freezed but what ever works for you man!!!

Regards!!