My PS2 still won't read CD-R backups...

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Just a note. I recently mooded a guys PS2. When it weas shipped to me he had a copy of Thrill Kill in it. This is a PSX game but the problem I had with it is similar. When his copy was booted as a PSX game it booted as an audio cd. So for the hell of it I tried it as a PS2 ga,e . Same thing as your copy happened. It acknowledge it as a disc in the browser screen but when you select the disc it brings you right back to browser. I question him and he said it was borrowed from a friend, and it worked in his PS1. So I attempted to make a copy of his copy and see what happened. I did a brief check to see that the game was the same size as the Thrill Kill that I own, and it appeared to be OK. However, when I went to make the copy in CloneCD I noticed that it was about 1k larger. So my guess is that you just have a corrupt backup. It could be your fault for doing a bad burn or it could be a bad rip. Why don't you just back it up at original size?