PsTwo freeze on DVD-R that has label on the disc

[kogetsu]

Hi,

My silm PS2 is so wired. It will freeze on all the DVD-R that has a label on top of the disc. If the DVD-R has no label on it, it will work prefect. Anyone know why is that and how to solve it?

Ken

[gamecubesuxs]

If you put labels on your backups it can unbalance the disc while its spinning and cause it not to load or freeze or while in gameplay it will freeze because all the heat gets trapped on the disc label. Have u noticed when u take the disc out that it is a little warm.

[kermit007]

Well it's not really the heat so much as the unbalanced disk you have once you have a label on it. Because face it...you can't possibly hope to get a label on a disk exact to where the disk would be stable. If you really are admiant about lableing games your best to buy disks that can be printed on directly and a printer to go with them. That kinda thing was fine for CDRs, but DVDs don't handle that well plus even if it does work it's a great way to burn your laser out quicker.

[kogetsu]

I am now using Ridata DVD-R. Will it help if I use other brand? or simply just don't put the label on ?

[LordBacon]

I have 2 slim ps2's and a fat ps2. my Slims (v12 v14) work perfect with labels on the discs and my v7 works perfect with labels on the disc. Maybe your labels are to thick? I got mine from Staples and using Sony DVD+R 8x

[kermit007]

Ridata are ok, but they've been falling behind. The disks are good till you reach somewhere around the 4gig area and then things have a tendancy to goto hell. If only they'd stuck with the good G04 media instead of this shit G05 crap on the market now. As soon as I run out of my batch of 300 I picked up for $20 I'll be buying Taiyo Yuden TYG02.

As for the lables they work for some, but in the long run it's worth saveing your laser and just useing a sharpie. Besides that...anyone useing lables is generaly just trieing to just pirate games so use them labels!!!

[kogetsu]

Thanks for the info everyone. I will try use other brand after I use all my Ridata disc.

[FIRED]

Yup, in addition there are numerous reports of people having working Ritek/Ridata discs fail within a year. Not something I would trust ANY of my backups to. I agree about labels screwing up the disc. Either buy the inkjet printables and get a good printer or stick to a sharpie. I mean honestly, how long do you spend looking at the label on your disc?

[G-Dog]

How are you applying the label? Maybe try using a stomper or something to place them better.

But Sharpie is the best way to go!

[jenko]

i got a epson r220 recently and i think its disk printing feture is awsome i use it on all my backups (verbatim dvd-r printables)