bear with me!

Do please get a Mod Chip or else all your efforts will be in vain.

The advice on these boards is to use CDR-WIN or CLONE CD. So start there (I use CDR-WIN). Then, read the CD-Writer compatibility notices associated with your software. Next read this board to get the settings for, say, CDR-WIN. The defaults worked for me. Many people stage the copy via the hard disk so that they can apply a PAL patch before burning the file back to CD. Again, this forum has full details. Do it by the book and it works all the time.