need help bad newbie

[csimmon1]

First, do you have to have a gameshark to run backup discs for ps2.
Second,do you have to use certain types of cd-r's,or does it matter what color and brand.
Please help,
Im having trouble burning ive used clonecd and burned in RAW.ps2 didnt recognize.but I'll get to that later Please help,
Ty