Ghost in the shell: standalone complex (USA) ESR parched fails when loading on a softmoded PS2

Hi, i've been having an issue with my softmoded ps2 (m70012) i can run plenty of PS2 games but some of those were burn at 8x speed before i knew i should burn at 4x speed for esr patched games, but most of them worked (Re4 for example)
So since then i started burning at 4x but when i tried to esr patch and burn at 4x "Ghost in the shell: Standalone complex (usa) iso" my ps2 seemed to be stuck at the pink screen for a while and then made it to the gray screen but then it got like freezed and the game never started, i checked at the compatibility list here and apparently the game it's ESR compatible i'm using the Emuparadise one which can be found here and when i tried it before on a matrix modchip ps2 seemed to work so i know the game works, but with a ESR patched PS2 doesn't seem to work.
Any idea what could be the problem? i'm using the same DVD-R disks i use to burn my other games if it helps.
Thanks in advance. :top:

Hmm...

Never tried this game myself

Burn speed depends on your hardware for me the best speed was 2.4x $x was too fast and made more errors in the games (2.4 is the slowest for DVD's for me and DVD+R's produce the best results unless you have an older bulky PS2 that DVD+R did not work on with the older bulky versions just a few of the later bulky PS2's [If you are curious the reason was that DVD+R media came out after the Bulky PS2 so it did not have support for DVD+R, though there are way round this and still have higher success rates to DVD-R])

Anyway presuming it is not a media or burning issue, then it may be worth looking at the alt ESR loaders, default version comes with 2 or 3 elf's I forget exactly how many and there is a version that has options before you boot anything through it, to be honest though the OP that posted the results should have made a note on that if they used certains options in the gui version or an alt ESR elf to the default one

I default softmoded my ps2 with the 007 nightfire swapmagic method with FreeaMcBoot 1.8 tho, i haven't changed any configs on the esr loader i think is the GUI version but i always go default and press X, it works on most of the games since the only one that has giving me issues is GITS.