Burn XGD3 on RITEK-S04-66

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This is how I burn on RITEK-S04-66 and have more success than with verbatim MKM-003.

NOTE 1: Everyone agrees that MKM-003 are the best discs but I still get occasional fails with them and its rare for this method to fail with RITEK-S04-66. Although these discs are less than half the price of verbatim I am writing this for people who cant get Verbatim not just as a cheapskates guide to burning.

In Europe these are usually branded as Traxdata

In USA probably Memorex or TDK

NOTE 2: I am using an IHAS 524-B - If you use something else such as payload capable drives that is up to you, adjust accordingly but dont moan at me if you do something dumb like truncate.

Lets begin…

Setting Burnermax to work with RITEK-S04-66

Step 1. Get the latest Burnermax

Step 2. Get Media code speed edit

Step 3. Open the burner max firmware that corresponds to your drive in Media code speed edit
Double click on RITEK-S04-66 then on RITEK-D01-001 Click ok twice then save.

Step 4. Flash this modified firmware to your drive and restart your pc.

You can now burn RITEK-S04-66 at 2.4x

Burn setup

Step 1. Get imgburn

Step 2. Get advanced systemcare

DO the below steps before every burn (even between 2 disc game burns)

Step 3. run advanced systemcare with every box ticked and fix automatically ticked (dont tick shutdown pc)

Step 4. when systemcare is done open Imgburn and go to “write image file to disc”
There will be 3 icons in the bottom left corner, choose the bottom left one.
Go to liteon tab … set smartburn and force hypertuning on but set the other 2 off and clear OPC
The settings should save but you MUST clear OPC before every burn like this.

Step 5. Turn off pc and disconnect any unnecessary usb devices such as wifi adapters
Turn on and boot windows to safe mode (usually by hitting F8 a few times.

Step 6. Open imgburn and go to “write image file to disc”
Go to tools>settings>write
perform OPC before write should be ticked
calculate optimal should be ticked
Burn proof should not be ticked

Go to tools>settings>write>I/O>Page 2
set Buffer size to 512
Enable Buffer recovery should be ticked.

Step7. Click ok - choose the .dvd file and click burn
Dont use the pc at all till it finishes the burn.

TIPS:

1; I highly suggest using a SSD drive instead of a standard HDD as it vastly improves the performance of your pcs file transferring. When your pc can transfer data smoother the only other things of importance in writing the disc is the dvd drive working well and the disc itself being good.

Since installing a 120GB Kingston SSD to my Burning pc I have had 0 fails.

2; I suggest turning off any overclocking, this caused very sketchy (even if successful) burns for me.
My cpu in my burn pc is a 3ghz quad core AMD cpu and I had it at 3.7 for csgo fps increase.

  1. Try a higher Buffer rate than 512 if you burn fine but xbox doesnt recognise the disc, you may have milliseconds of latency on the laser due to maxxing your buffer at moments, so make the buffer bigger.
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I’ve been using Memorex DL’s for years now since they are about half the price of V’s at my local Staples store. My average bad burn rate is about 1 or 2 per 50 spindle. I have tried other cheapies from Amazon & Ebay and will never again use anything other that V’s(when I can find em for a good price) or Memorex.

Your guide is great and the 1 main thing I have learned is very important if you don’t want a bad burn is:

Step7. Click ok - choose the .dvd file and click burn
Dont use the pc at all till it finishes the burn.

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Find the memorex specific burnermax firmware that burns at 2.4 and I haven’t had a bad disc yet

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Nice, I will look. Although I think it’s just the drive I use to burn has burned more cd’s/dvd’s/games & data discs then it should have ever been good for.

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If you are using something else besides memorex or verbatim,

  1. open Media Code Speed Edit (MCSE)

  2. from MCSE, open the firmware corresponding to your drive inside the “Original firmware” folder that you unzipped.

  3. Once it is open search through the list of “DVD9” entries until you find the disk type that you are trying to burn. You’ll notice that the burn options to the side will say “4x, 8x,” and sometimes “16x”. We will change this to 2.4X.
    (If you don’t know your DVD type, imgburn will show you on the right-hand side of the screen when you pop in a blank disk.)

  4. Double click the disk format that you want to replace. When prompted, choose “RICOHJPN” that has a write-speed of 2.4X.

  5. Save your modified firmware somewhere. You’ll need it soon.

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I use memorex as well, the only issue is when i flashed my drive using c4evas firmware it only gave me 4x option. So i got Media Code Speed Edit and got it to 2.4. Every burn ive done has been successful. Although ive only burnt around 15 games. The only thing in this tutorial i dont do is use the system care. Other than that this tut is great! Its nice that youve taken the time to put this together for others. Also i have my buffer set to 71. I dont boot into safe mode either. lol

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Systemcare is only important if the HDD is near full or has been under intense use…you guys see my download speed …lol… I need it
Also…the less background **** the smoother the burn…so safe mode=better
max buffer is really just good with my machine…others may want to try something lower if their pc has less than 8GB of RAM.

P.S… If you guys think your I-HAS is worn out you can replace the laser.

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others may want to try something lower if their pc has less than 8GB of RAM.

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Hi old thread I know but… some people say 2.4x speed could make your disc impossible to use. The best way is to write with 4x speed.

I got an old Asus 1814BLT, it seems to be this media code speed abailable for older ver of BIOS, I got 1.14 and they reported as 1.10, is it safe to patch my newer ver of BIOS?

I mean I cant write any of DL, it writes very nice, but there is a read error, only one on the disc I suppose while changing a layer or I dont know. Maybe I have to write to disc with UDF system?
So maybe it is better to write with 4x speed?

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Firstly read

Now, the reason we dont burn some media such as the 4x verbatim at 2.4x is that their physical material is affected by a laser differently.

the RITEK-S04-66 are essentially a more exspensive 2.4x disc recoded to be RITEK-S04-66 so that the company can have a budget line, much like how amd make quad core cpu,s but lock some to 3 cores to sell them cheaper to compete with cheaper intel cpu,s.

Some are meant for 2.4 some 4… i believe RITEK-S04-66 are the cheapest xgd3 compatible media to genuinely have an optimal burn speed of 2.4x

As for your bios, i always update everything, if theres an update it usually means there was an issue that needs fixing, so do so.
I dont believe speededit has any issues per burner, its more the media that matters.

Is that burner payload capable though?
listed as not working on here

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ok so im pretty sure I posted on this thread but someone deleted it “FOR NO REASON” cause all it said was “xk3y if the future my friends”

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Hey bro, can u pls tell me what layerbreak should I put to burn a game into a RITEK-S04-66. I just cant find it anywhere.

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For the RITEK-S04-66 disc, the typical layer break for burning dual-layer games is 1913760 sectors. However it can vary depending on the specific game. Make sure to check the .dvd file associated with your game ISO for the correct layer break setting.