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I'm using FMCB and esr to play FFXII:ZJS patched to English, and I had it working earlier today. Everything fine, played for a good hour or so with no problems. But I just tried playing it and it just black screens after running the esr elf file. The laser isn't damaged as far as I know cause the PS2 can read my real FFXII disc. It's just weird cause it was working, and all of a sudden it wont. Sorry if this has been asked before, but I don't know what to do. Any ideas?
Do other ESR backups still work? it could simply be that the disc got scratched or it's warped slightly since you burnt it, remember when you burnt the disc it was still hot, running in through ps2 laser makes it hotter again when the disc is warmed it exspands when it cools down it condences this coupled with bad media, burner or disc burn can lead to the disc being unreadble at a later stage.
It's also advisable to burn no lower than 8x for DVD's.
I think the problem is fixed for now. It reads, but it can take a pretty long time, anywhere from 30 seconds to 2-3 minutes. I suppose it's okay for now. Thanks anyways.
sounds like you used a cheap disk. long read times means the laser is working hard to read the disk and will wear out sooner...
I assumed the discs were fine when I first burned it because the PS2 read it faster than instantly the first few times. I don't know how this stuff works, but is it just like a fluke that it read so fast?
It is not uncommon for cheap discs to show rapid aging, so that they verify well directly after the burn and also work fine for initial gameplay, but then the readability of the disc gradually fades away.Quote:
Originally Posted by dkamm65
This is perhaps easier to understand if you consider the fact that CD or DVD burning is in fact a photochemical process, by which I mean that it is a chemical process internal to the disc material but triggered by the focused laser beam. And like any chemical process it neither starts nor stops instantaneously. The process can continue for quite some time, especially when the disc is in constant use and thus kept warm (heat is energy, and can thus affect the chemical changes).
The stabilization of these chemical processes is one of the big differencies between cheap and high quality media.
Best regards: dlanor
I wish I would have bothered to read up on disc quality. Oh well, live and learn. I found a thing that said Verbatim is the best. Would these be good?
Verbatim Store > DVD+R 4.7GB 16X Branded 25pk Spindle
Those look like the +R version of the -R discs I always use myself.Quote:
Originally Posted by dkamm65
They should be very good indeed, though I prefer using DVD-R rather than DVD+R.
Best regards: dlanor