Thread: ESR Difficulties

Are you patching the ISOs before you burn them? Try burning a 4x, if it still doesn't work try using DVD-R.

I am patching the isos.
I went and bought Verbatim 16x DVD-R from my local bestbuy, and I burnt Ape Escape 2 on it, and my ESR still spends a lot of time detecting the disk so I went ahead and started without it detecting. Still a blank black screen. Could it be something wrong with the mem card? It doesn't run FMCB automatically, I have to hold R1 down when booting up to get into it if that's an issue.

I've never heard of having to hold R1 to run FMCB, normally holding it at start up will run uLaunchELF. Try formatting and reinstalling FMCB on your memory card. You also might try running ESR from a USB stick. It also might be a problem with your laser, you should try cleaning it.

Originally Posted by bl000

I've never heard of having to hold R1 to run FMCB, normally holding it at start up will run uLaunchELF. Try formatting and reinstalling FMCB on your memory card. You also might try running ESR from a USB stick. It also might be a problem with your laser, you should try cleaning it.

I have fixed my FMCB issue, and my ESR now detects that I am using a PS2DVD when burnt at 16x on verbatim DVD-R media. However, upon selecting to run the media my screen flashes three seperate colors twice in a pattern, then goes black and the disc stops spinning. I'm burning at different speeds as I write, but if that doesn't work then I'm stuck.

Probably a problem with your PS2's laser, or maybe your computer's laser.

Can it be a laser issue if it reads official media perfectly? And everything else my computer burns (its brand new) runs perfect? (DVDs, CDs, etc)

Well it's probably not the computer, but the PS2 laser can have a lot of problems reading backups even though it can still read originals fine if it's dirty or out of alignment or starting to die. Have you tried cleaning it? You also might try using ESRv9b.

Code:

http://sksapps.com/exploit/freevast/ESR/ESR%20beta%20r9b.rar