I've had this problem with Compusa Brand DVD-R media, and also cdrecordable.com brand disks. When I first burn a DVDR game (straight from store bought ps2 game), it plays fine on my ps2 (i've tested this on neo 2, neo 4, and magic chip 2). For example i would play the first few levels of the game with no problems. Then a week or two from that date, I would try to play it again, and it would struggle to load or even freeze altogether, when there was no such problems before. Anyone ever have this problem with any media? I am now using Verbatim DVD-R discs as i hear they work great on ps2, and so far have no complaints. Any ideas/comments?