But I am using verbatim as they are the easiest to find when going to grab some in person at Office Depot.įinal thoughts… I feel like the older drives were built really well in a time where that type of media was heavily utilized. So I’m not sure how much blank cd “quality” really matters (or how different they really are between different brands these days anyways). When I was younger I used the cheapest bulk discs I could find, usually didn’t have any issues, and generally as I remember, the main issue I might run into was a dud disc that wouldn’t be readable by the disc drive at all. Didn’t have this issue with IMGburn or Alcohol 120%. I tried using some other burning softwares, which wrote to disc and verified ok (using the burner that worked for me ultimately), but for some reason consistently produced discs that my ps-one wouldn’t read. Software: I really recommend IMGburn or Alcohol 120%. I think it’s worth noting, with respect to burning speed, the oldest CD burner had a much slower max speed than the newer ones I used (12x max vs 24x max), HOWEVER, I tried the newer burners at a range of faster and slower speeds and they always ended up showing errors during verification regardless. This was the only one that I used where it wouldn’t give me errors during the disc verification. The one that consistently worked without issue in the end was the oldest one, a circa 2007 higher-end cd-rw on an old Toshiba laptop running 32-bit Windows Vista. I tried a total of 3 different burners on several different computers. The physical CD burner used REALLY seems to matter. Long story short, I ended up spending DAYS testing different softwares, discs, CD burners, etc, until I finally found the right combination (it became personal for me because I had a history of doing this with little issue when I was a kid, so I needed to understand why it wasn’t working anymore). I have an external CD burner that I used to burn a few games and quickly ran into issues (glitching, freezing, skipping). I got a wild hair recently and decided to bust out my old ps-one and start playing some “backup” games (I’ve moved on to tonyhax these days, such a cool exploit!). It generally worked very well, I mean every once in a while I might have had a disc burn error, but 95%+ of the time the disc would burn and verify without issue. So I used to use a swap disc method to play import/copied psx games back around y2k. I know this thread is a year old, but I want to add my long-winded 10 cents here as someone who just started doing this again after many years.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |