Other discs than mkm001 or 3?

[realrat]

I was just wondering, why do we NEED to burn it to the verbatim discs? Isn't it possible other discs work too? I still have a bunch of them laying around from before xgd3.. How can i test if a burn is good with these discs?

I just burned an xgd3 game on one of them, using the settings of the mkm003 disc.. but imgburn gave an error at 49% verify and i had to cancel..

is there another way to check it?

 

[AMIT]

Use Verbatim MKM001/3 ,They are really cheap !

 

[Martin C]

I was just wondering, why do we NEED to burn it to the verbatim discs? Isn't it possible other discs work too? I still have a bunch of them laying around from before xgd3.. How can i test if a burn is good with these discs?

I just burned an xgd3 game on one of them, using the settings of the mkm003 disc.. but imgburn gave an error at 49% verify and i had to cancel..

is there another way to check it?

I don't understand the question. IMGBurn verified the disc against the image and at 49%, spat it out. You can't use cheap discs as XGD3 games burn a lot closer to the rim of the disk. Use Proper DVD+R DLs (Verbatim) and you'll get the results you want.

 

[Vinneh]

If you take the time to search you will know why. Also the quality of other discs are not as good as verbatims. Use Kprobe to check quality.

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A rip of an XGD2 game is 7,838,695,424 Bytes (7.8 GB); A rip of an XGD3 game is 8,738,846,720 Bytes (8.7 GB).

The difference is about 191 MB that gets cut off at the end if you do not use the Burner Max firmware. Keeping this chunk of data intact on the backup is what the iXtreme Burner Max was created for. If you compare the 2 backups, notice how much area the additional 709 MB requires (difference between XDG2 and XGD3 images).

Cheaper, lower-grade discs have greater areas of inconsistent dye at the outer tracks than higher-grade discs, such as Verbatim do. This isn't an opinion; it's not debatable; it's a fact so live with it. This is why c4eva has reported that only Verbatim discs have been burning consistently error-free. The statement, "But, my cheaper discs have always worked fine," is irrelevant as you will be burning them with a capacity they were never designed for. Don't be a cheap ass and use 6x-8x Verbatims (These will be MKM003's though you will be burning at 4x)

For those of you who wonder why bother with a Burner Max drive for XGD3 games when they have been working fine so far: let's hold a contest to see who can guess the exact number of new security checks that fit inside the 191 MB getting truncated by not using one. The winner gets a freshly-banned console as well as discs that no longer boot; the runner-up gets a profile that's suspended until 12/31/9999 and a pile of coasters.

DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME OR OUR TIME ASKING HOW TO BURN CHEAP MEDIA ! WE SUPPORT SINGAPORE VERBATIMS ONLY - THAT IS IT. PERIOD. FULL STOP.

 

[talby71]

use your old discs on games that aren't XGD3...simple...
seems that that many of the new games aren't xgd3 anyway

people have posted why not to use them on XGD3 games