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Don't Use Memorex DVD+R's! for burning PS2 Games!
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tigerjhun
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19. June 2006 @ 00:22 |
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I'm pretty sure everyone here knows that memorex DVD+R's 8x are horrible for burning games, ps2 games, and, well, pretty much every everything. I'm just giving my two cents on my awful experience with this crap media after seeing that 30 of the 40 PS2 games and 40 of the 70 Movies I've copied don't seem to work anymore! Even more, there is this awful red colored stain on the top of each DVD in which i'm guessing it's the deteroriation of the cheap-quality dye that memorex uses for their media. Well, just wanted to vent a bit and see what the next DVD+ or -R's i should be getting. Verbatim DVD-r 8x sounds appealinga t the moment. Anyways, tell me your experiences with Memorex DVD+R's! :).
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AfterDawn Addict
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19. June 2006 @ 00:34 |
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19. June 2006 @ 02:20 |
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Anyways, tell me your experiences with Memorex DVD+R's! :).
I will never need to buy another Coaster in my life, seeing how i have about 30 or so LOL
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19. June 2006 @ 02:22 |
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Lol, that's not as many as me - but the coasters I have are CDs (back when I first started using these things), haven't made a Coaster for ages ^^
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19. June 2006 @ 03:35 |
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Well i had a friend give me three of them about two years ago.
I tried one for games, i tried one for movies and the third i decided would just make a better frisbee.
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19. June 2006 @ 11:24 |
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A frisbee, brilliant!!! Never considered that b4 haha
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19. June 2006 @ 12:59 |
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you can use them as Chinese death discs on all your neibors :)
Beer Coasters, draw hipnotic symbols and spin them on a pencil to mezmorize people, use them as spy mirrors to see around corners,
skip them over water, use them to make a decorative flower box.
anything but copy any sort of data to them :)
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19. June 2006 @ 14:26 |
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you can use them as Chinese death discs on all your neibors :)
Beer Coasters, draw hipnotic symbols and spin them on a pencil to mezmorize people, use them as spy mirrors to see around corners,
skip them over water, use them to make a decorative flower box.
anything but copy any sort of data to them :)
An ode to coasters by Steimy LMAO!
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s2god
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19. June 2006 @ 14:34 |
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i dont kno why everyone says memorex is bad. i have like 350 movies on memorex's and they all work fine. and i jus started burning ps2 games and so far the 8 i ahve burned have been fine,a nd they are all +R 8x. i prefer -R, but i had +'s lyuing around the house. also i told my dad to buy ritek's or maxell's and he comes home with office depots. wtf is that. but ya memorex work for me.
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19. June 2006 @ 14:37 |
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The laser in DVD players are better than those in a PS2, so they'll play fine even though the media isn't the best. As for your PS2 games, they may work now, but they won't be good on your laser and in the long term you'll see the effect of that
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19. June 2006 @ 14:39 |
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And also, in 6 months time try to boot all ur memorex backup games and see how reliable they are
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janrocks
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19. June 2006 @ 15:15 |
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@ Steimy.. You missed the ultimate use.. Free clay pigeons!! (no need to remove them from the thomson xbox drive first) lol
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19. June 2006 @ 15:31 |
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Lol. I once tried to build a pyramid out of those... something like:
only with discs. Well, it didn't quite work... but was fun trying to two discs to stand up :P
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19. June 2006 @ 15:32 |
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I know memorex are bad, but they aren´t that bad, i can still play my budokai3 which was burned in a memorex 4x DVD-R and it is over 1 year old. it still works fine, but verbatim pwns. I also like TDK
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19. June 2006 @ 15:37 |
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Im sure you cant still play it, but at the same time your ps2's laser is dying a painful death. There are some very good threads/sticky's on aD written by extremely intelligent ppl, check them out.
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19. June 2006 @ 15:39 |
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Agree with above - at the end of the day it's your PS2 laser you are risking. The link for what media to use is given above :)
Having said that, I reckon HDD is the way to go, it's fast, it doesn't use your laser, and the compatibility isn't actually too bad :)
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CoastLife
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19. June 2006 @ 17:16 |
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Not all memorex are bad i usually buy sony DVD+R 8x but when i see memorex on sale i buy the 25 packs DVD+R 16x and they work great here's the Disc ID: RICOHJPN-R03-04 and from what i see they are second class media which is pretty good so just remember that not all memorex are bad.
PS: i use them mostly for PS2 games
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19. June 2006 @ 17:24 |
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Like u said, not all are bad, but the majority are. Its not my laser, so do what you please:)
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tigerjhun
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19. June 2006 @ 22:21 |
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just like everyone said. your experience with memorex might be considered "great" if you haven't used this media for at least 6 months. I thought memorex was pretty reliable until most of them crapped out on me. True that some discs might be flawless, but as someone else here mentioned, I do notice that my PS2 laser is slowly losing its focus to read some of my other non-Memorex PS2 backups. lol, I guess i have 60+coasters to use for my next superbowl party, or as steimy put it, Chinese Death Discs to attack my neighbors. :). have fun with those coasters in about 6 months memorex users.
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tigerjhun
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19. June 2006 @ 22:38 |
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i dont kno why everyone says memorex is bad. i have like 350 movies on memorex's and they all work fine. and i jus started burning ps2 games and so far the 8 i ahve burned have been fine,a nd they are all +R 8x.
oh no s2god! if those burns were pretty recent, you better start planning what you are going to be doing with your 250+ coasters after six months-1 year. better yet, save the frustration ahead of time, and start uploading all your movies on different media now so you won't be so irate like i was. :).
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19. June 2006 @ 23:29 |
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Morel o the sotry, stick with Taiyo Yuden and Verbatim:)
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20. June 2006 @ 03:50 |
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janrocks,
yeah i forgot that one. Not much of a hunter myself so it did't come to the front of the brain that day.
Although i am no gardener either and somehow the flower box did?
damn that Martha Stewart :)
As for the Memorex, i have known people who have had some success with them. But there are 100 people who have had bad success to every 1 person who has had good success.
and i would really worry more about the laser with those.
It may take 3-5 years for it to happen, it may take 3-5 months there is just no telling. But get some good disc and re-copy those games onto better media.
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sciascia
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20. June 2006 @ 08:59 |
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I burnt about 30+ games over the span of a year to two years on Memorex DVD+R X8's and Im yet to see any problem whatsoever. Infact while reading this I tried to boot up some of the older games I burnt on them to see if they would fail or make an error and nothing. So I guess Im a lucky one. However after I ran out I got a pack of Maxell +R X8's and yesterday bought a new pack of sony +R X8's but I've yet to use one of those.
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20. June 2006 @ 11:19 |
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Playin with fire guys. You fan find 50 packs of Taiyo Yuden for $25, and not have to worry about it.
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20. June 2006 @ 12:02 |
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which one is better? Taiyo Yuden or Verbatim?
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