Hey everyone. I'm pretty new to this forum, but have been lurking around as a guest. It's quite amazing. I recently just got a PS2, modded, Matrix Infinity v.1.88 for quite cheap. It came with several burnt games. These games run perfectly and stuff. They're burnt on to hp invent dvd - r 8X 4.7gb discs, and there's one on some DVD+r disc. They all work fine. I, over the weekend, downloaded and burnt a bunch of games on to some DVD+R discs using IMGBURNER 2.56 or whatever (the newest one). I'm thinking it would all be fine. Guess not. The discs I burnt don't work properly. For example, my GTA San Andreas just doesn't load up. It doesn't even give me the 'PS2 blah blah blah' splash screen. Just a black screen. However, games like Katamari Damacy and Kingdom Hearts SOMEWHAT load. What happens with kingdom hearts is that after I select the difficulty and yadayadayada and am about to start actually playing it goes to a black screen... For Katamari, as soon as I start it, and the game is loading (shows this tiny thing in the bottom right corner spinning), it just freezes at this loading screen. I mean, I left it on loading for like 30 minutes, no dice. The thing in the corner was still spinning though. I really am upset. I'd like some help on what to do. Oh, just an addition. I also downloaded a .bin and .cue Marvel vs Capcom 2 and burnt that on to a memorex CD and that worked fine. Thanks again. Sorry for the wall of text. Please help~

Sincerely,
Kevin

(LET ME ADD that I have a PS2 Slim. IDK what model number, if someone could tell me where to find it, I can post)

I tried burning GTA at 4X and that gave me the same results (black screen). I think it is my discs that are crappy.

Originally posted by kngrs:

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I tried burning GTA at 4X and that gave me the same results (black screen). I think it is my discs that are crappy.

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Check your Macrovision is oFF or On from your chip menu .Usually itz off to run softwares like USB advance or whatver.try checking that might help...

Originally posted by scorpNZ:

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laser diodes emit a constant light it neither increases nor decreases in intensity,only thing that will kill so to speak is it's normal life expectancy

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Is it possible to tell how long do the lens of ps2 systems last??????