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Best CD-R brand?

venom - Dec 21, 2001

		venom	Dec 21, 2001
		I'm a bit new to Saturn (been burning PSX for years) but the cheap spindle cd-r's I'm using don't seem to work. I have Pine and Samsung digital. So what is the best type/brand of cd-r to use for burning Saturn games?

		MasterAkumaMatata	Dec 21, 2001
		Best IMO would be the Kodak Gold/Gold Ultima with InfoGuard, but they're a bit more expensive though. For all round, I'd use Imation.

		Curtis	Dec 22, 2001
		Verbatims are good too. Also don't burn your games too fast (no greater than about 8x is usually safe, the slower the better).

		IceDigger	Dec 22, 2001
		I use cheap-as-fuck see-through no-label blanks and they work perfectly fine for saturn, psx, dc, scd.

		venom	Dec 22, 2001
		Well, I looked further into the problem, some of the discs had black dots(holes) on them making the laser skip. Everything is going better now! I need to pick up more cd-r's tomorrow...

		ExCyber	Dec 22, 2001
		The only CD-R manufacturer I've had pretty much a completely good experience with is TDK, but I haven't tried discs from many manufacturers. Taiyo Yuden and Mitsui are also generally held in very high regard. Most CD-R brands are not sold by manufacturers, so quality can vary even without changing brands. As a result, there is a lot of conflicting information about which brands are good. Imation, for example, has sold media made by TDK, Taiyo Yuden, CMC Magnetics, Ricoh, and Kodak.

		mal	Dec 22, 2001
		Quote: from ExCyber on 10:50 pm on Dec. 22, 2001 The only CD-R manufacturer I've had pretty much a completely good experience with is TDK Me too. I've only used TDKs and have only had bad burns when running too much background stuff when burning.

		Gear	Dec 23, 2001
		The cdrw mod is useful to help saturns to read cdrs with less problems, too.

		venom	Dec 23, 2001
		Thanks for the help everyone. I may try that mod...

		megametalgreymon	Dec 23, 2001
		samsung discs used to give me problems on mine, and i did the cdrw mod theyve worked perfectly fine since, so if your willing to do the mod then you should be fine