PlayStation CD-R burn issues

[LumGraphix]

Hi, so I've recently been trying to burn some PS1 games on a Verbatim CD-R so I can play them on my chipped PS1 (SCPH-7502), the chip I'm using is a PSnee. However, the PS1 REALLY doesn't seem to like the burned discs. I tried Castlevania SoTN and it would get up to the black PS1 screen and then just stay there completely, now the disc is unable to be read after I tried resetting it a couple of times, tried the good old disc swap technique and strangely that failed completely. I tried burning Dino Crisis as well and burning another copy of SoTN, it's the same story. I have five guesses as to why it's not working. 

a) Discs are just bad
b) CD/DVD burner is total crap (I bought a no-name one from Amazon)
c) Didn't set up ImgBurn right
d) The laser and it's just on its last legs
e) The files are shit (Dino Crisis from CD Romance and SoTN from psxdatacenter)

The laser is suspect as well, but it reads actual PS1 games flawlessly. One thing to note is that when it tries to read the burned discs it makes an awful whining noise but with genuine discs it's silent. The gears and spindle show some wear but none of the teeth are destroyed or dislodged, I greased it up a bit and didn't fix it. Gravity was also not in my favour in fact making it even worse.

When burning I set it to AWS and let ImgBurn use all my 32GB of RAM, the burner does 24x max but when it was writing the speed it was going at was 9-16x. Also when burning all games I've noticed getting Total Errors in Sector: 24 which I'm not sure is a big deal or not.

I'm tempted to try burning at 1-4x speed because the burner I have frankly isn't the best quality so in theory the myth that burning low speeds is better could possibly apply. Overall I'd like some input on this, thanks.

 

 

Edited 16 hours ago by LumGraphix
Forgot to finish a sentence like a dunce

[dbminter]

The giveaway for me is what you said about your PS1 grinding and making noise attempting to read the CD-R's.  That indicates to me you're probably using Life Series CD-R from Verbatim, which are their junk CMC discs you find in brick and mortar stores.  So, I would blame the CD-R's you're using.

 

First thing I would try is using the DataLife Plus series CD-R's, NOT the Life Series, which are different but just confusingly similar enough to try and trick people into buying them.  You will only find the DataLife Plus discs, generally, in online stores like Amazon.com.

 

ImgBurn settings generally are unimportant in cases of burning image files.  About the only real setting that matters is changing the write speed so you don't burn at the maximum and a slower speed might improve results.

 

I would say Total Errors in Sector for ALL burns IS a big deal.  That would be either down to errors in the image file itself, the burner you're using, the CD-R's you're using, or a combination of those factors.