I bought a nice Plextor burner and CMC Ty CD-Rs to make sure that I could rule the drive and media out for reasons why discs were having a hard time playing on my consoles.
I have a NA Model 1 Saturn that I want to play on, and its laser is brand new, but it has the most trouble reading my burned discs. I burned 7-8 different copies and my model 1 would boot maybe 1-2 of the discs I burned and then it would have such a hard time reading that it would crash or hang.
So I put the same discs in my NA Model 2 Saturn and it boots them no problem like they were stamped official from the Sega factory. The model 1 and 2 have different drives so I figure it must be that the model 2 drive handles poor burns / non standard burns better.
This is pretty frustrating because I really want to play this particular game on my Model 1 so I downloaded Opti Drive Control and some other stuff to try and check the quality of my burns. My Plextor only burns at a minimum speed of 10x even if I set it to 2x so I went to see if I could force that lower somehow. From what I read it turns out burning at a lower speed isn't necessarily better, and drives like my Plextor actually sometimes burn with less error at their mid range burn speeds.
So I burned a disc at 16x instead of 10x and my Model 1 booted it up easy. We'll see if this trend continues but all this is to say try burning your discs at a higher speed than 10 and see if that makes a difference, or swap to a Model 2 if you can. This is just my experience but I hope it helps!
I have a NA Model 1 Saturn that I want to play on, and its laser is brand new, but it has the most trouble reading my burned discs. I burned 7-8 different copies and my model 1 would boot maybe 1-2 of the discs I burned and then it would have such a hard time reading that it would crash or hang.
So I put the same discs in my NA Model 2 Saturn and it boots them no problem like they were stamped official from the Sega factory. The model 1 and 2 have different drives so I figure it must be that the model 2 drive handles poor burns / non standard burns better.
This is pretty frustrating because I really want to play this particular game on my Model 1 so I downloaded Opti Drive Control and some other stuff to try and check the quality of my burns. My Plextor only burns at a minimum speed of 10x even if I set it to 2x so I went to see if I could force that lower somehow. From what I read it turns out burning at a lower speed isn't necessarily better, and drives like my Plextor actually sometimes burn with less error at their mid range burn speeds.
So I burned a disc at 16x instead of 10x and my Model 1 booted it up easy. We'll see if this trend continues but all this is to say try burning your discs at a higher speed than 10 and see if that makes a difference, or swap to a Model 2 if you can. This is just my experience but I hope it helps!
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