I just wanted to update that after all my issues back when, I ended up finding a suggestion online to flip my machine upside-down to see if burned games played better. They did. From there I ended up buying a for-parts PSOne machine with the better disc drive and swapping it into my SCPH-1001. Now ...

Well I'll be darned. I recently built myself a Windows 98 SE machine, which has an older CD-RW in it. So, I burned a copy of Metal Gear Solid with ImgBurn at 8x speed and... I got all the way through the first cutscene, no skipping, nothing. I'm now going to go back and burn these other things and ...

Turns out I was wrong! Your new version detected my V2 Gameshark and it turns out it has 256k, so it automatically installed with Caetla support as well. Which doesn't seem to help me with anything, but still, nice to know. So Jumping Flash works basically perfect, like I said, but MGS hangs during ...

I upgraded my UniROM to 8.0.bB, and now (backup copy of) Jumping Flash works ALMOST perfectly. Just the tiniest bit of music skipping and VERY occasional lag, but it's nearly 100% perfect now. So thanks for that! However, a burned copy of Gamera 2000 won't load at all. Also, the fan translated ...

Okay. No luck with these either. I've tried multiple rips, different speeds, 2 different computers, etc. I'm trying to get Jumping Flash to work. On the Memorex CD-Rs, everything skipped horribly all the time. On these new CD-Rs, FMVs start playing fine but then slowly start to skip, and in game the ...

Oh it's fine, I'm just stupid and believe everything I read. No worries! Like I say, I have it working now. I just ordered some Verbatim CD-Rs because the Memorex ones I have suck.

Well I tried the new release but I'm still getting the PRESS PLAY ON TAPE and nothing happens. What am I doing wrong?

aaaand I just realized I'm incapable of burning at 1x speed no matter what I tell ImgBurn. Is this my problem? I mean, the disc loads up fine and everything. Also, if that is my ...

So I have just received a Gameshark 2.3 today, I burned the latest Unirom from yesterday, and I've done the swap trick. Disc boots no problem. Reads eeprom no problem. I go to flash the standalone from the CD and the screen just says

LOAD "\UNIROM S.ROM",8
PRESS PLAY ON TAPE

and nothing ever ...