black cd-r's

[rayman]

A stupid question. Are black cdr's such as memorex good for ps2 cd based games ? Does black tell the ps2 that it is a cd based game? Does recording ps2 cd games on silver media hurt the lasers based on the" is it a cdr or dvdr" discussion?

[h90]

Hi,

black CD-r does not make to much sense. They may help on very old Playstations (SCPH-100x).
No Silver media does not hurt the laser, but keep in mind that the PS2 drive is not the highest quality and tend to problems, specially with DVD-movies. Also the Neo 2.0 (2) may make problems when you hear the laser working hard (if you don´t use the capacitor).
Hope it helps
Michael

[charlie_ps2]

The best reflectivity for CD-R/DVDR, and that is the issue for the laser, is with silver/gold bottomed media.

Pressed CDs (including black) have guaranteed optical qualities that are not assured on black CD-Rs. So my advice is to avoid them.

[adol_ivxx]

In my experience, which consists of a single purchase of a 5-pak of memorex BLACK-CDRs, black cdrs are perhaps the very WORST type of CD-r available on the market. For a second I thought I had a CDR drive problem, because it refused to burn when I first tried them... then I realized that, wow, the CDBurner is actually refusing to even acknowledge that a CD was in the drive, much less a WRITABLE one. After a few tries and a switch to another burner, I was finally able to burn something- so I tested it with my one buddy's DJmix session he has just recorded. Little did I know that while these pathetic excuses for CD media DID look kinda cool, they adamently refused to even play in a CAR CD PLAYER Head-unit... usually headunits will play damn near anything you put in em, and without skipping either. But noooo, not these... when I took the ****ing "vapor-media" out of the cd player, I realized that it was no wonder that absolutly no type of CD reader in existance seemed to be able to read them; their "pretty" little black bottoms look exactly the same whether they are burned or blank. No visible grooves, nothing to designate a blank from a used CD in a pinch. Though I suppose it really doesn't matter, since neither a burned nor a blank black CDR ever managed to be recognized as viable media. F*&K memorex and their "cash-in" black bottom crap. They do make a pretty good DVD-R, tho'

aDoL_iVxX

[xboxps2gba]

they r the same as other cdrs just better quality

[Elucifer]

came across some black cdr's the other day, but thought i'd do abit of reasearch on them first.

Thank god for the SEARCH button...
Elucifer