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matias21

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1. August 2005 @ 10:18

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Hey..im thinking of buying a DVD burner since theyre pretty cheap and im sick of wasting 50 bucks on ps2 games but i really dont know nothing about computer stuff and i would really aprecciate some help.

I have an Emachines computer with a CD Burner and a DVD Rom and i want to install a DVD Burner....do i have to install it by screwing it in and all that stuff or
is it just plugging it in??Im hearing stuff about external and internal Burners but i dont really know what that means, and when i read about external burners i see something about needing 2.0 usb but im not really sure if i have that or not .I saw some Pioneer burners at good prices or would you recommend Sony or something else???

my computer info by the way..if it helps its Windows XP 448MB of RAM 2.17Ghz AMD Athlon XP 3000+ Home Edition 120GBfree space.

Also im not sure wich media to get im mostly interested in "backing up" my PS2 games so DVD-R should be the stuff that i should buy or are most games needed to be burned with Dual Layer discs??

Please Help..I would Appreciate it

Thanks!!

i keep seeing usb 2.0..............i have 5 usb ports but im not sure if theyre 2.0 or not?

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Rotary

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1. August 2005 @ 11:32

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hi

there is a ps2 forum for the adavanced stuff you need to know but burners your in the right place...

ok go for internal its less hassle! its consists of taking a spare plastic face out the front of your pc and sliding the drive in, you can connect 2 drives to one cable and there should be a spare 12volt 4pin plug inside ready for you!

so 2 cables to sort and 4 screws to put in to hold the drive! = easy!

now the bit that you need to get right is if you use 2 drives on one cable you need a master and slave setup

this is achieved by looking at the tiny jumpers on the back of the drive there is usually a picture saying where to slide the jumper on terminals for slave or master!

1 drive must be master and 1 drive slave!

thats basically it!

on buying a drive i would say PIONEER or LITE-ON !!!!

on media i have used RITEK GO5 (brand name is RITEK and dye info is ritek go5) on games but check outthe ps2 forums

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mybarras

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1. August 2005 @ 11:41

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u will find ur usb is usb 2 usb 1.1 is very old now as for dvd burners i myself prefer sony with sony DVD-R 8x internal is the way to go remove ur cd burner and replace with dvd burner straight forward to do one for one make sure jumper at the back of cd burner is set the same on ur dvd burner i hear pioneer 109 are a good burner
download DVD Shrink and DVD Decrypter 3.5.4.0 both free dvd shink will do ur films also so will dvd d which is a ripper which means rip the dvd from the disk to ur hard drive DVD Shrink shrinks the film original films are 7 to 8 gig and shrink makes it 4.35 to fit on a DVD5 normal blank dvd burning ps2 games use DVD Decrypter in iso mode read and then write to put it on a blank disc write at 2x for best results ur ps2 needs a modchip or swapmagic to play backup games hope this helps ps dont be fooled into buying cheap blank dvds its not worth the hassle get good branded media sony verbatim t.yuden all my choice

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mybarras

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1. August 2005 @ 11:41

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mybarras

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1. August 2005 @ 11:42

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beat me to it rotary glad we agree on burners

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mybarras

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1. August 2005 @ 11:43

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the ps2 forum will help u with the rest

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Rotary

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1. August 2005 @ 11:46

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hi

i just been in and out correcting spelling i suck at it lol

yeah i got a pioneer 106 and i am going to buy a lite-on as they booktype and dont hvae riplock in!

109 are good to go!

hows it going mybarras

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matias21

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1. August 2005 @ 12:33

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thanks for the help! I will ask my other questions on the ps2 forums now...

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matias21

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1. August 2005 @ 12:53

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i have one more question......does a DVD burner also burn music CD's??

if so the CD burner that i take out to replace it with the DVD burner i might as well sell it...how much can i sell my CD burner for??its a Lite-On LTR 48327s

thanks for the help!

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Rotary

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1. August 2005 @ 13:15

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hi

ys it will burn cds!

but new drives are very cheap now so it aint worth much i would keep both!!!!!!!!!

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mybarras

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1. August 2005 @ 13:56

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not bad rotary urself talking about burners i use a sony drx710ul external for my sony vaio pent.m740 1.73ghz 512mb 80gb lcd 15.4wxga x black tft nvidia 6200 graphics 128mb not bad spec for a laptop hey?the burner i only use sonydvd-r8x which will burn at 12x and not one coaster my pc spec is 1g ram 400 gb hdd maxtor nvidia 256mb graphics sony 700a burner8x 19"tft and enough proggys to choke a donkey

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