Burning cd games at faster speeds, bad or fine?

[Drakon]

My burner has a slowest possible speed of 16x, I burned a game at 48x on a 700 mb cdr and it runs fine.  Should I worry about burning stuff at high speed?  Sorry if this has been asked before I did a search but found it a bit difficult to find answers to this question.

[wilykat]

mileage always vary.  Some works fine, some refuses to work if you burned too fast.

It's still best to burn as slow as possible. Look around thrift shops and garage sales for older CD burners to get the really slow burn rate.

I also have IDE-SATA adapter since my computer don't have any older 40 pins IDE at all.

[Nando]

been having issues with the higher capacity cd's. gonna try  aniin different software suite. So far i've tried imgburn and win 7 built in burner. gonna try ashampoo next.

8x is my lowest burning speed.

[NightWolve]

The burn marks or the reflectivity on the disc is actually different in appearance when burned very fast versus slow. I noticed more skipping at 16x than 8x and more uniform appearance in the burned area when examined under light at the right angle. This is not at all a problem with a PC's modern CD/DVD drive (the disc will always work unless it was just plain bad), but fast burn speeds *can* be a problem with early CD/DVD players/systems that were in principle designed to deal just with pressed discs. I stick with 8x for the most part. If you're not in a hurry and can be doing something else while the burn is taking place, I say slower is better!

[Drakon]

Okay I'll do as slow as it lets me (16x) I'm certainly in no hurry.  I burned the first game at 48x because the games I bought havn't showed up and I wanted to test my cd unit.

[DragonmasterDan]

More time is taken to burn the individual pits the slower your burn speed. Depending on the burner this doesn't necessarily mean more defined pits. But in a lot of cases it causes that, this is why burning at a slow speed usually leads to better results, with that said your burner and media has a lot to do with the results as well.

[meka]

I burn at 4x, if you burn it at higher speeds their is a higher risk of getting errors.

[Necromancer]

Burn as slow as possible (what your drive will allow), but make sure the media is rated for that slow of speed as well.

[esadajr]

It depends also on how well the burner can handle error correction.

[esadajr]

All of a sudden, my DuoR is having issues reading Taiyos burnt at 10x. If the game loads, the CD audio track plays for a bit then no CD Audio is heard until the next track is played. I'll have to try burning with the Win98 clunker.

[Tatsujin]

I burn at 4x, if you burn it at higher speeds their is a higher risk of getting errors...

..and damaging your system as well.

[esadajr]

All of a sudden, my DuoR is having issues reading Taiyos burnt at 10x. If the game loads, the CD audio track plays for a bit then no CD Audio is heard until the next track is played. I'll have to try burning with the Win98 clunker.

Burning at 8x (lowest possible) using the clunker also didn't work. Tried Taikos and Verbatims (cmc magnetics).

Something I noticed while playing one of my original discs is the appearance of granulated bars on the screen (barely noticeable). These bars don't appear when playing hucards. Could it be a power issue?

[SignOfZeta]

Something I noticed while playing one of my original discs is the appearance of granulated bars on the screen (barely noticeable). These bars don't appear when playing hucards. Could it be a power issue?

Whatever you're talking about here it has nothing to do with CDRs.

I'd say the laser is just getting old in your Duo or its settings are drifting. Since CDRs didn't exist back in 1988 the lasers in these units were never designed to read them. Many people have problems, many people have no problems. You get lucky sometimes but you can't expect them to work at all, honestly.

I've owned 3 PCE systems, currently 2, and they all read CDR with no issues, but its not that often that I actually use them since I prefer originals.

[BigusSchmuck]

Quite honestly, I wouldn't recommend putting in CDRs into your system at all. Unless you are a fan of replacing parts, best bet would be to play them on a emulator on a pc or something on the lines of that. Meteor Blaster killed one of my Duos badly enough that I had to send it off to Keith Courage to fix it.

[esadajr]

Quite honestly, I wouldn't recommend putting in CDRs into your system at all. Unless you are a fan of replacing parts, best bet would be to play them on a emulator on a pc or something on the lines of that. Meteor Blaster killed one of my Duos badly enough that I had to send it off to Keith Courage to fix it.

Agreed. I'm not messing with CDRs anymore.

After getting the hang of wiimednafen, I'll stick to that for testing.