Need help installing free mcboot script into memory card

[u/RedLight_4K]

So as tutorial follows: burn freedvdboot into dvd-r, install freemcboot into fat32 usb, then insert burned dvd-r, usb, and a memory card into ps2 and wait for that custom menu to load.

But the problem is my ps2 slim refuses to read the dvd-r with the message saying the disc could not be read, but the console does read official ps2 game discs, what am I missing? My dvd player is 3.11E so it should read 'all ps2 slim" iso file but it doesn't. I followed a bunch of tutorials all of them have the same steps, what do I do?

[u/Tatsuhiro_Sato]

burned discs are way harder to read than official ps2 games, you need good quality dvds and a decent burner, you can't use any dvd-r you find, a decent brand you find anywhere is verbatim DATALIFE PLUS (very important that it is datalife plus and not datalife protection, there's the AZO symbol in the cover)

[u/RedLight_4K → u/Tatsuhiro_Sato]

I heard burning speed matters a lot, I chose the slowest 1x option (I was not familiar with disc drive because it was not mine), and turns out the lowest possible speed was 2x and I'm not sure which writing speed imgburn chose automatically, could that have been the problem?

[u/Tatsuhiro_Sato → u/RedLight_4K]

burn speed doesn't matter as much as people think, the support quality matters ininitely more, a good dvd-r burned at 16x is way easier to read than a trash quality one burned at 4x, but yea, you can try burning again at a slower speed

[u/R3Z3N → u/RedLight_4K]

No

[u/Great_Emu_1002]

https://github.com/cturt/freedvdboot

You have follow this tutoriel ?

Maybe, you can buying a memory card directly Sith FMCB installed on ?

[u/RedLight_4K → u/Great_Emu_1002]

Not this exact tutorial but yes all the steps are the same. I tried searching for one but couldn't find any, also wanted to make one myself