brand does not make the media good or bad it's more where they are made

I use verbatim myself though and work just fine off the bat both for games and the flasher CD

Boot your system with the CD-R inserted, once the AR is fully loaded you can change to your retail CD after hitting start game from the AR menu you need to do your final CD change (as you have a model 2 you need to listen as to when the change takes place)