Hello:
If you already took out the screws of your DC just to know how it looks from the inside, you would notice that near the middle of the controller ports stands a circular littium battery. That saves the time and date of the internal ROM chip of the console. When that battery runs out of energy, the DC will ask you almost every time you turn on the machine to configure the time and date. Also it will redirect you to the DC's control panel, so you can check your VMU, change settings and play the discs.
If your burned game doesn't load after you hit the A button on the play option, basically means one of these: The image file is corrupt or the burner isn't working properly. If you have a CD burner and a DVD burner, try to burn the image on the DVD burner and see how it works. If you still have problems, try the CD burner with other burning programs. I use Alcohol 120, Nero or DiscJuggler to burn the images.
If the above statement doesn't work, the Image file is corrupt. In that case you have to find a new image to test with.
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