Possible fix for "unable to read disc"

[FrischMrT]

I have tried the "3.11 only - all regions - English lang.iso" on my PS2 and it failed.
Then I noticed that I had burned the copy at max speed and made another copy with the lowest speed settings.
The second copy failed too.
To be safe I made another copy with the "hybrid 3.10 and 3.11 - all regions - English lang.iso" and it failed too.
I was sure that my drive was fine and tested it with a DVD movie.
The movie started and everything was fine.
It might be the first time that I have ever played a DVD movie on my PS2.

Now comes the interesting part.
Suddenly all three copies started to work!

Can anyone else confirm that using the DVD Player on the PS2 for the first time with a real DVD movie solves the "unable to read disc" problem?

Tested on:
SCPH-77004
DVD Player 3.11E
Burned on a DVD-R

[AKuHAK]

Hmm, maybe there is such a thing as DVD initialization. It can be possible because a similar thing happens for HDD exploits.

[uyjulian]

Sounds like a disc read error issue to me. Putting another disc may have caused the laser to recalibrate, so poorly written discs may become readable.

[FrischMrT]

@uyjulian you might be right.
I tried to somehow reproduce the error and noticed that, on startup and after closing the lid, my drive stopped making clicking noises.
The clicking noises never really worried me because PS2 Games always worked fine even if they were in bad shape, so I thought the drive is just old but still fully functional.

But I still don't understand why the burned discs only started to work right after I played a DVD movie and not after a PS2 game.

[yoyoAjay]

Which dvd movie was it? And it was dvd-rw? And blue ir golden back?

[FrischMrT]

@yoyoAjay it was "Fluch der Karibik" (Pirates of the Caribbean) and I'm not sure what kind of disk format DVD Video use.
Probably any DVD Video might work, just make sure it is a retail DVD movie with this logo:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/de/9/96/DVD_Video_Logo.svg

yoyoAjay did you set your system language to English?
This is important because on my PS2 the exploit only works if I set the system language to English.

What kind of DVD media did you use?
As far as I know only DVD-R works reliable.
I had many problems with DVD+R, DVD-RW and DVD+RW in the past on my PS2.

What is your DVD Player version?
Make sure that you use the right FreeDVDBoot image.

What settings did you used to burn the DVD?
Try to finalize the disc. I don't know if this step is necessary but its worth a try.

If the steps' didn't helped, try the "DVD movie method" and let me know if it works.
It would be very interesting to know if the DVD movie playback makes any difference.

[CTurt]

Cool, glad you got it working. Will add a link to this in the readme, as it could be helpful!

[yoyoAjay]

I followed this yt video https://youtu.be/M9b15v-4l6I

And disc is dvd+r but it recognises the disc but when i enter it says no data something..😟 and dvds are stuck at reading disc

[FrischMrT]

So I just made a copy on a DVD+R and it worked.
I also made a copy on a DVD+RW and i got the "Unable to read disc." error.
And as expected a copy on a CD-R ends up in the red screen saying:
"Please insert a Playstation or Playstation2 format disc"

@yoyoAjay are you sure that you use the right image of FreeDVDBoot?
Did you check your DVD Player version on the version information screen?

[yoyoAjay]

This and i made the hybrid copy 3.10 and 3.11

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On Thu, Jul 2, 2020, 5:30 PM FrischMrT ***@***.***> wrote: So I just made a copy on a DVD+R and it worked. I also made a copy on a DVD+RW and i got the "Unable to read disc." error. And as expected a copy on a CD-R ends up in the red screen saying: "Please insert a Playstation or Playstation2 format disc" @yoyoAjay <https://github.com/yoyoAjay> are you sure that you use the right image of FreeDVDBoot? Did you check your DVD Player version in the version information screen? — You are receiving this because you were mentioned. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#27 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AQETENO7ISOQQ3YK72UO4MDRZRZEVANCNFSM4ONWIEXQ> .

[FrischMrT]

@yoyoAjay I can see in your other issues that you use the right version.
Any luck yet?
Did you try to play a retail DVD movie on your PS2?
Was you drive able to read the retail DVD disc?

[yoyoAjay]

@yoyoAjay I can see in your other issues that you use the right version.
Any luck yet?
Did you try to play a retail DVD movie on your PS2?
Was you drive able to read the retail DVD disc?

No luck ps2 can't read dvd movies I don't know why its happeninggg to me😕..

[FadilCox]

I recently got the "unable to read disc error" while using imgburn on my phat ps2 39000 with a 2.12U dvd version. Fortunately I came across a suggestion to use another program called CDBurnerXP at a speed of 1x and tried it and IT WORKED! I suggest those having issues try that method. The cd I used was a maxwell dvd-r with 4.7 GB of space. Also make sure not to burn a disc two times as dvd-r can only be burned once and make sure your dvd laser is working by testing a movie on your ps2. Happy gaming.

[zninja101]

@FadilCox I followed what you said to do and it worked! Thank you for the info, my guy!

[darkloner93]

I tried the DVD video method, it is only reading and not doing anything. My console language is in English, i don't know why DVDboot is not working.