Is there a rule how low u can take the gamecube pot down to mine will only read back ups at 150 there tdk mini dvds If my pot is 2 low what mini dvds should I try
I personally prefer/recommend phillips mini DVD-R's. They work really good and don't have degradation issues like the riteks. with 150, i wouldn't worry so much. it should be just fine. The pot for backups ranges from 150-230 ohms, so your at the minimum right now.
ok thank you for help have u ever changed the laser unit was thinking if i changed i could get the pot up more ohms
What DVD burner are you using? I've gotten Philips mini DVD-Rs and my backups will boot but they give me DREs all the time, no matter how much I adjust the pot, so I suspect the issue is my burner.
will i just been play re3 about 30 40 min in i got a dre so i think it my tdks i got a Samsung burner and lite on 1 that i use for 360 games but i read up to burn the games at 2x i have ordered some Maxwell 1s and if there no good will try Philips i wish u didnt have to wave the silly wii remote about on the menu to get gc games working are i would use that
I've never investigated this properly. Mine was reading Sony minis back in the day when anaconda got released, then stopped all of a sudden. Tried playing with the pot and Viper, had some success then nothing. Someone mentioned it might be a temperature change problem, because it works then stops. In the end I bought a new laser, replaced it but haven't had much luck. All I found is that the normal size Ritek DVDs work better than minis. Because the new laser didn't help I put the old one back in there and changed the pot to original settings. Now it reads discs but still get DREs. Also I think these DREs can depend on the modchip you have installed. For example my Pikmin 2 backup always freezes in the same spot in the intro on xenogc, but not on Viper (so long ago I need to double check this). Can't be bad media because I dumped the backup disc back to pc and the checksum matches the master. Sorry I'm not much of a help but I thought I share what happened to me
I have used the phillips mini and Taiyo Yuden (JVC), MAM-A Silver and Gold, never had any issues and on several system I did not have to adjust the pot. I burn all my Media with a Plextor drive and that's all I have been using. I have a dedicated Plextor CD writer and Plextor DVD writer. I stick with one brand of media and don't switch around. I have been using MAM-A Silver DVD-R for the last 2 years and no issues.
I use the external Pioneer BDR-XD04. Pot adjusting in some GC's can be sometimes unforgiving, you will need to adjust the pot in fragments of 5 ohms or less. Create a list of all the readings you've tested with starting from 230 ohms and have 5 different backups to test with. You also have to remember there can be bad rips that causes the DRE. Also the lens are very sensitive to scratches.
i have just tryed a full size jvc and it didnt boot just error in a read box does the pot need to be stronger to boot full size dvds then it does to boot tdk minis does tweaking the pot help dre are is it just s***** media ?
How fast are you burning the disc? What format is the image? What is the exact size of the image? Did you dump or download the image? How old is your DVD burner?
my burner is newsh 1 but im going to sort my old lg burner out of old pc only lets me burn at 4x min i got the game off the net and image is iso size is 1,425,760 kb
right now i have sorted my ps1 im going to try and sort it i got some maxwell mini dvds and come up as ritekg04 01 so well report back
will have just playing re1 burned on 1 of them maxwell discs and no dre the pot is at 190 that was set for tdk minis should i take the pot up see if ritek use less laser power are just leave as is i took it to 150 to if i could get rid of dre tdk but i took back up to 190 but same at 190
I chipped a cube yesterday and the pot Was at 475 brought it down to 350 and all games work perfect. I'm at 45% complete on sunshine and no DRE. It comes down to media you are using. Get some MAM-A DVD-Rs and Plextor Burner
From what I've read, laser performance varies hugely machine to machine. I know the history of my XenoGC chipped 'cube, it was owned from new by a dude who only ever bought and played 4 games on it, and those only briefly. It plays backup games perfectly with no pot modification at all. I read posts on other forums from people who can't get burned games to work reliably at all. FWIW I use full size Verbatim AZO DVD-R media, burned at 8x using IMGburn on the Superdrive in my 7 year old iMac.
Even if you got a box of new gamecubes, the drives were all over the place. Some of them would read recordables with no problem, most of them required adjustment and some of them just wouldn't work no matter what you did. Since this was HK, it normally wouldn't matter much, since you could get pressed pirate discs - but with the GC they were never easy to find (probably a combination of the 8CM disc size and the general lack of popularity of the GC here).
