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I'd probably blame the drive. It's highly unlikely you'd have a mixture of good and bad discs in the same batch, and definitely not in 2 orders. How long have you had this USB drive? If it's been used for a while, it may have simply reached the end of its life. Since it's a USB drive, I'd try replacing the drive. It would be easy to just swap in a new drive since it's a USB. Other things to try if you keep getting errors after replacing the drive, make sure you're using the cable it came with and not using the old cable in case it's a cable issue. Try plugging the USB cable into a different USB port in case it's a bad port problem.

I was going to suggest try using AnyDVD HD to make an ISO of one of these discs. AnyDVD works for Panasonic DVD recorder discs, even though it detects false positive structural protection on them. If the Panasonic BD recorder does add any protection to its recordings, AnyDVD HD should remove them for proper playing of the copies.

Yeah, I should have said it's also dependent on your hardware. Meaning, some drives may work for reading these discs in ImgBurn and some may not. So, changing your drive might result in a working read. Or it might not.

Could be 52%. At one time, Alcohol 120% was a paid software. But, I think they might have released a free version? I don't know. It's been so long since I used Alcohol for anything. I haven't even played a PS2 game since 2006, let alone a PS1 game.

Unfortunately, I never used a BD recorder so I don't know how Panasonic makes those. I just figured if their DVD recorders created multitrack DVD's, their BD recorders would create multitrack BD's. I'm surprised copying the contents over to a new BD didn't work.

From experience, I can tell you when ImgBurn wouldn't read in my Mega Man 8, Alcohol would.

Don't know if AZO is still any good or not. When CMC bought Verbatim, everything changed. Although, thus far, the only difference I've seen is in the manufacture of DataLife Plus DVD-R. They no longer work with the LG WH16NS60. Really, unfortunately, it's a matter of finding what works with your burner and what doesn't. We can offer generic suggestions like Verbatim DataLife Plus (Although not recommended in some cases, as I said.) or AZO or Taiyo Yuden. I've yet to try CMC Pro because I didn't know if they were quality TY media or not.

I wouldn't be surprised if Sega CD games can be copied with ImgBurn. I said SOME PS1 games couldn't. And, they do exactly what you said they did in your case. They get stuck at analyzing the audio track portion of the discs.

How long did you wait when it appeared to hang? It can take a significant amount of time, but I'd wait no more than 10 minutes. Don't know about non Playstation systems, but I do know that some PS1 CD's simply can't be copied with ImgBurn. They sometimes, but not always, display similar symptoms, where the application simply appears to hang there. For those kinds of discs in my collection, like Mega Man 8, I had to use Alcohol to read them.

I've had many Panasonic DVD video recorders and they all also recorded discs with multiple tracks. The only way to copy them with ImgBurn was with the Build mode option mentioned. Unless you used something like AnyDVD or DVDShrink. And even AnyDVD doesn't "process" them "properly." While the resulting images are fine, AnyDVD detects structural protection on discs made in 2002, before structural protection existed.

Actually, what you said helps explains a lot. When you say they were Maxwell DVD+R, I think you mean Maxell. Maxell used to make a quality DVD disc last time I tried them over 10 years ago. I would be surprised if Maxell used CMC on those discs you had that worked before. So, I'm more inclined to believe your problem is related to the Wii being unable to read the disc you burned. And cheaper quality media could go some ways to explaining that. Also, more than half the problems we see on this forum are caused by CMC media and other cheaper brands. Most, but not all, of course, of these problems disappear when people switch to the better quality media. I can't guarantee it will work in this case, of course, but it is what I'd try first.

Well, yes and no. It was what I expected but it doesn't explain something. These Wii games you got working before. You used the same discs and the same burner? If you did, it doesn't explain why those worked but this one didn't. This was exactly what I was expecting: I 15:31:45 Destination Media Type: DVD-R (Disc ID: CMC MAG. AM3) I was relatively sure you were using CMC Magnetics media. CMC makes the worst junk out there. A disc eject error, at least on the PS2 that I'm familiar with, means the system could not read the disc. Cheap media would help explain this. Just because a burn completes doesn't mean it completed successfully or well. Verbatim DVD-R you find in brick and mortar stores is the Life Series, which is CMC's junk. Now, what might explain, but then again might not, is sometimes with CMC media, you'll get 50% in a package that are good and the rest are bad. That's the nature of cheap media. It's unreliability. Though it may not help in this case, the first thing I'd try is switching to quality media. If you're going to use Verbatim, then use the Verbatim DataLife Plus (NOT Life Series.) or the AZO discs you only find online. However, guess who bought Verbatim recently? Yep, CMC and their DataLife Plus DVD-R manufacturing process has changed so their DataLife Plus series DVD-R is no longer compatible with the LG WH16NS60 I use. So, I've switched to Taiyo Yuden DVD-R. I find both Verbatim DataLife Plus DVD-R and Taiyo Yuden DVD-R on Amazon.com, but they're shipping by ass now when it comes to tech. Again, can't guarantee that will solve this particular problem, but it is what I'd try first to troubleshoot.

I have an idea, but I'd need to see a log of the burn of this disc. In ImgBurn, choose Help and near the bottom of that menu you'll find the log option. I forget what it's called. The folder opens with the log in it. Open the .LOG file and find the burn of the Mario Super Sluggers disc. Copy and paste the entire log, both the write and verify stages, of this disc into a post here. Though I have no experience with Wii's, given the eject error is probably a read error and since you said you've gotten this to work before, I am guessing the problem lies with the quality of the disc used for burning. The log will tell the type of disc used.

Open the link in your post. Scroll down to the bottom of the page to Padus .CDI File Mounter v1.0.0.12. Download the ZIP file. Extract the contents of that downloaded ZIP file to C:\Program Files (x86)\ImgBurn\ . Burn a copy of the CDI image to a CD-R after you do that. See if that helps. I've never had a Dreamcast before so I'm entirely unfamiliar with the process. Just going by the log you posted. Don't know if it actually works or not.

Also, the posted log was to a DVD-RW but you indicate you got a burn working on a DVD-R. Burning to both kinds is different and involves different discs, so the DVD-R may have worked for a variety reasons unrelated to why the DVD-RW failed. Now, if you used this same DVD-RW that failed before for small files and worked later for small files after updating the firmware, then the firmware issue might have been the cause.

Wow, I completely missed that! Yeah, even if you updated the firmware, you can't burn that image to a DVD-RW. Must have been a different image you got working that was small enough to fit on a DVD-RW. Overburning rarely works in my experience. Even if it's just a tiny amount.

Yeah, that's the problem with user edited content repositories like Wikipedia and IMDB. I remember trying for 10 years to get a TV project that never existed off of IMDB. It finally got pulled, no thanks to me, though. They would completely ignore me and yet listen to someone else telling them the same thing.

Wow, Wikipedia, wrong? That would be a first!

Interesting. It's not what I expected, but I think it's related. My guess is this: I 18:30:49 Destination Device: [0:0:0] HL-DT-ST BD-RE BH10LS30 1.00 (E:) (SATA) I 18:30:49 Destination Media Type: DVD-RW (Disc ID: TDK502sakuM3) What is probably the problem is your drive doesn't like that particular manufacture of DVD-RW brand. You might be able to fix this if there's a firmware update for your drive. In Write mode, right click on the target drive and choose the check for firmware update option, which should be at the bottom, I think. Update the firmware if there is one. These problems are caused by write strategy incompatibilities in the firmware of a drive and the kind of media being written to. Another thing to try is using a different rewritable disc. Try the Verbatim DataLife Plus brand you only find online. NOT the Life Series you find in brick and mortar stores. I've never used a TDK DVD-RW disc before. I do know they used to make a good DVD-R and their DVD+R DL were relatively error free from my experience. I use DVD+RW and haven't used any of my DVD-RW in a long time. The last thing to try is using a different burner. A different burner might have better luck with those discs than the one you currently have, the BH10LS30. I'm guessing from the HL-DT-ST part of the drive string name your BD burner is an LG.

I have a possible idea, and it's a good one, but we need the entire failure log. Go into Help in the ImgBurn application and you'll see some option about the Log near the bottom of the Help menu. The folder containing the log opens so you can open the .LOG file. Copy and paste the entire section of the failed write/verify or both sections from the log into a post here. Or, you can attach the entire .LOG file to a post and I can just weed through it and see what I find. In the meantime, is this your first time using ImgBurn or have you successfully used it before to burn discs? I am guessing by your post count you're relatively new to the application, although that could just mean you've used it for a while and only just recently have had issues. If you're relatively unfamiliar with burning discs, this could go a ways to explaining what I think the problem is.

Redfox probably just hosts Virtual CloneDrive because of how it often goes hand in glove with its products. How sometimes you need virtual drives to mount DVD images for testing/viewing. Also, I believe Redfox hosts CloneCD, CloneDVD, and CloneBD, but those are Elby products.

The Verify errors I would lay at the feet of using CMC DVD media. Verify errors generally go away when you don't use the cheap media. As for how to use the files/folders mode, I think I only ever used it once or twice to troubleshoot a different area on the forum. I don't use that mode myself, preferring the Build mode, so I know next to nothing about it. Your Panasonic DVD recorder might not have any problems writing to CMC DVD's but your DVD burner in your PC might.

Oh, wait. I overlooked something. I did find a failed burn, although the general cause does not really indicate a failed burn. Here's that log: //****************************************\\ ; ImgBurn Version 2.5.8.0 - Log ; Friday, 24 April 2020, 19:50:08 ; \\****************************************// ; ; I 19:45:28 ImgBurn Version 2.5.8.0 started! I 19:45:28 Microsoft Windows 8 Core x64 Edition (6.2, Build 9200) I 19:45:28 Total Physical Memory: 12,472,836 KiB - Available: 6,647,152 KiB W 19:45:28 Drive F:\ (FAT32) does not support single files > 4 GiB in size. I 19:45:28 Initialising SPTI... I 19:45:28 Searching for SCSI / ATAPI devices... I 19:45:29 -> Drive 1 - Info: hp PLDS DVDRW DU8AESH 6HSM (E:) (SATA) I 19:45:29 Found 1 DVD±RW! I 19:48:51 Operation Started! I 19:48:51 Building Image Tree... I 19:49:22 Checking Directory Depth... I 19:49:22 Calculating Totals... I 19:49:22 Preparing Image... I 19:49:24 Checking Path Length... I 19:49:24 Contents: 7 Files, 2 Folders I 19:49:24 Content Type: DVD Video I 19:49:24 Data Type: MODE1/2048 I 19:49:24 File System(s): ISO9660, UDF (1.02) I 19:49:24 Volume Label: DVD_VIDEO_RECORDER I 19:49:24 IFO/BUP 32K Padding: Enabled I 19:49:24 Region Code: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 I 19:49:24 TV System: NTSC I 19:49:24 Size: 1,709,625,344 bytes I 19:49:24 Sectors: 834,778 I 19:49:24 Image Size: 1,710,227,456 bytes I 19:49:24 Image Sectors: 835,072 I 19:49:34 Operation Successfully Completed! - Duration: 00:00:42 I 19:49:34 Operation Started! I 19:49:34 Image Contents: 7 Files, 2 Folders I 19:49:34 Image Sectors: 835,072 (MODE1/2048) I 19:49:34 Image Size: 1,710,227,456 bytes I 19:49:34 Image Single Layer Profile: DVD-R/RW (Media Capacity: 2,297,888) I 19:49:34 Image Volume Identifier: DVD_VIDEO_RECORDER I 19:49:34 Image Volume Set Identifier: 50989E19000CBDEF I 19:49:34 Image Application Identifier: IMGBURN V2.5.8.0 - THE ULTIMATE IMAGE BURNER! I 19:49:34 Image Implementation Identifier: ImgBurn I 19:49:34 Image File System(s): ISO9660, UDF (1.02) I 19:49:34 Destination File: C:\Users\Garbe\Documents\DVD_VIDEO_RECORDER.ISO I 19:49:34 Destination Free Space: 889,713,250,304 Bytes (868,860,596.00 KiB) (848,496.68 MiB) (828.61 GiB) I 19:49:34 Destination File System: NTFS I 19:49:34 File Splitting: Auto I 19:49:34 Writing Image... W 19:49:51 Failed to read from file: 'E:\VIDEO_TS\VTS_01_1.VOB' W 19:49:51 Reason: The device is not ready. E 19:50:03 Failed to read from file: 'E:\VIDEO_TS\VTS_01_1.VOB' E 19:50:03 Reason: The device is not ready. E 19:50:04 Operation Failed! - Duration: 00:00:29 E 19:50:04 Average Write Rate: 17 KiB/s (0.0x) - Maximum Write Rate: 17 KiB/s (0.0x) I 19:50:08 Close Request Acknowledged I 19:50:08 Closing Down... I 19:50:08 Shutting down SPTI... I 19:50:08 ImgBurn closed! It appears you were trying to create an image from one of these Panasonic discs and it failed to read a VOB file from the DVD. I can't say why, for sure, this would have happened. It could have been that the disc wasn't inserted at the time the image file creation was started. In the Write files/folders to disc mode, you must leave in the source DVD in the drive in this case after you've added the files to the job. So, you can't remove the disc until the image file creation is done. That might explain it. Another more insidious explanation is the disc you're trying to read from is damaged/unreadable. This could be simply because of the age of the disc, though I doubt it in this case, or your DVD PC drive is having trouble reading it. Which if you used CMC DVD media for creating this disc in the Panasonic recorder, while it may have finished creating, it may not be properly readable. My first exposure to CMC media was when Optodisc changed from making their own discs to CMC, causing my Panasonic recordings to fail half the time and those that did succeed had playback problems. In the future, though it's not always the case, look for the line Operation Failed! in the log for failures.

Well, here's the thing. There doesn't appear to be a single failed burn in that entire log. So, I can't say why your previous burn failed because there's no indication of any failed burns. A burn might have completed, but still not playback properly. Now, what I did notice was all the burns in this log were to cheaper media. One CMC, the worst manufacturer out there, and the rest were Ritek, which is also relatively cheaper media. Cheaper media tends to be the biggest problem causers on this board. I noticed the only DVD burn in that entire log was to a CMC media. That could be why your DVD isn't playing back properly. CMC are notorious for many things, one of which is playback problems in DVD players. So, the first thing I'd try is avoiding CMC DVD media for your DVD project. As to what you should get, look online at like Amazon.com for Verbatim DataLife Plus or AZO DVD. NOT the Verbatim Life Series, which you'll find in brick and mortar stores. Those will be CMC. As for labels you can write to, no pencil, as far as I know, will. They might write to inkjet printable surface discs, but I doubt it. A pen might, too, but you're better off finding CD markers, specifically designed to write to CD label surfaces. The upshot is, though they're not intended for that purpose, you can also write to inkjet printable surfaces with markers. CD markers will write to the surface of what are called "branded" discs. Branded discs are just discs that have a kind of shiny surface on them where the company has "branded" them with their logo. You can write to these shiny surfaces with CD markers. There also used to be a kind called silver shiny labels but I don't know if they make those anymore. You can use CD markers on their surfaces, too. I use either Verbatim DataLife Plus (NOT Life Series.) or AZO CD and DVD with inkjet printable labels. However, because of a running change when CMC (Yes, THAT CMC.) bought Verbatim, DataLife Plus DVD-R no longer write properly in my LG WH16NS60. So, I've switched to what are called Taiyo Yuden inkjet printable DVD-R. All of those I got from Amazon.com. But, depending on where you live, you won't necessarily get the same media in a different country. Sad, but true. And, unfortunately, it's really just a combination of trying out various media and finding out what works with your burner drive AND if your DVD player likes that kind of media/how your DVD burner wrote to it. So, yes, the sad news is it really is something a matter of trial and error to see what works for you. While we can offer basic advice, we can't guarantee any particular combination will work for you.

By ImgBurn, I mean the application itself. That window that opens when you click on the ImgBurn shortcut. At the top of that window, on the far right, it says Help. That's what you select. It's not an option on the ImgBurn.com web page.