It's Getting Hot in Here...or is it?

Ok, I have a Cyclowiz installed that works perfectly. Well, most of the time.

I have Cyclowiz V2 on a D2B Chipset w/ on/off switch.

All games I have tried thus far boot and work like a champ (Zelda/Super Monkey/Sports/Sonic/Ant BullyRed Steal/Splinter Cell). However, last night I was playing Zelda for about 2 hours straight when I got an error that it couldn't read the disk. I turned the power off and back on and it happened again within 2 minutes of playing. This was at a different part of the game mind you.

This is the 2nd time this has happened. The first time I was playing the backup for an extended time when it failed. I put in the original disk and it went for awhile but also failed. Luckily that taught me to save often!

Anyways, I have my Cyclowiz soldered right onto the board with electrical tape over the "processor" part of the chip per the instructions.

Any chance this thing is heating up and failing?

I'm going to do some more testing tonight. Any similar experiences?

Sure. I had a batch of PS1 PICs that had bad code on them and they over heated after just a few minutes. You would have to wait a half an hour to boot another game. It was never really a problem, just a hassel.

FWIW, the reply from Cyclowiz...

There could be different reasons for that, but the drive heating and then
having more problems reading the disc is a possibility.

Read quality has improved in upgrade 3.0, so if you wish to upgrade to 3.0
once the D2B compatible version is released, it might solve the problem.

Otherwise I'd try to use different media/burner and see if it helps.

Best Regards,
Team Cyclops - Tech Support