hmm interesting, I went and said I didn't use mine a whole lot earlier and now that I found out my recent dreamcast pickup can run mil CDs I am burning more.

interesting thing is I was able to get the first one to burn correctly on an ancient CD-R from staples that I had from highschool.
the next one wont work though and I have gone through a few discs, these other ones are Philips. I set the burn speed to 16x on both, the staples one might have been slower but I don't know because there no indication of max write speed on the disc.
one of the Philips burns (16x) doesent work period, the second I did AWS (max possible basically) and it gets the second sega screen after the dreamcast logo but then it sounds like some ones having mini laser battles in the system. seriously sounds like little PEW PEW PEWs as its going back and forth. I'm trying to write the next one at 2.4x, it defaulted to the slowest my burner will support which is 4x so we will see.

I bought a puck of verbatims at work incase its a Philips brand problem.

also using ImgBurn for the process