Problem with ESR Purple Screen on my PS2 Slim

thrashboi

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Hello guys, I recently installed FMCB on my pal scph 90004 using FreeDVDBoot so i can play backups because the ps2 games market (at least in my country) is basically dead.
So I installed FreeMcBoot Noobie Package 1.8v. I patched (with ESR disc patcher) and burnt a couple of games at 6x speed (lowest possible) on HP DVD-Rs (4.7GB 16x). At first all of the games worked without a problem and i played them (without any errors and such). But here comes the strange part - 2 days later i burnt Tony Hawk's Underground 2 (i patched it and burnt it on the slowest speed possible just like all of the previous games - i'm sure i did it the right way), i inserted the disc in the ps2 and the game worked just fine but after 5 minutes it crashed. I tried rebooting the console but when tryng to load the game, ESR gets stuck at Purple Screen. I tried putting another game (that worked just fine hours ago) and it gets stuck on loading screen. I tried all of my previously working games and all of them get stuck at Purple Screen. Some games even get a black screen as well. I read that it could be the version of FMCB, so i uninstalled 1.8 and installed v1.966 on my original 8mb sony memory card. I put American Wasteland and it loaded but got stuck at loading screen againand the rest of the games get Purple Screen as well. Somebody please help me, i don't understand why this happens. Before THUG2 all of the games worked flawlessly. I don't think it's my laser because all of my original games and CDs work fine. I tried the ESR GUi beta and the r9 version but i get the same error every time. Could someone tell me what to do or what i did wrong? I'm seriously worried abot this. Thanks in advance.
 
It can happen with poor quality DVDs. It also matter how/where you store them (the temperature shouldn't be too hot).

It happened to me some times. I still have a backup of DMC that works but FMVs are a stutter fest and very long loading times. It worked perfectly at first.

I agree with @jolek, Best DVDs in my experience are Verbatim DVD-R 16x. The lowest (and best speed for burning games) they support is 4x. I always get perfect burnings even using the old laptop.

They have a very good price/quality ratio. I bought them in the 50 pieces stock pile and the enclosures separately (I bought the ones Ps2 style. 50 pieces but you can store 2 discs on each one, so 100 discs).

Btw, it's also a possibility that something on your optical drive is dying. First thing is usually to have problems with backups (that are more difficult to read than original discs). You can't play backups on a Ps2 slim for a very long time...
 

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