I need help!!!

[Hiro]

So, I live in farm country and don't have some of services available as some of you do. Does anyone know of a good way to repair a game disc that has a lot of minor scratches? My Legend of Legaia disc is scratched up and I can only play a few parts of the game. I wouldn't be able to get past the first mist generator if I didn't have my old saved games.

[K73SK]

Did you clean it right? Some people try to clean disks by rotating cleaning cloths in circles, but that damages them more. Make sure you clean from the center and hen out to the edge of the disk. Hope that makes sense. Other than that, the best solution is scratch repair kits. Believe it or not, the work half the time. If that don't work, you might not be able to repair it.

Also, moved this to the LoL help section .

[1991vall]

Take it in to a place where they fix discs, they should have a specialized machine. My legaia disc has thousands of scratches but i went in, got it fixed and even tho it still has alot of the scratches it works fine.

Dont listen to anyone online that says use sand paper, or tooth paste it will just mess up your game even more, I actually tried the tooth paste method, and it made my game worse lol

[K73SK]

Take it in to a place where they fix discs, they should have a specialized machine. My legaia disc has thousands of scratches but i went in, got it fixed and even tho it still has alot of the scratches it works fine.

Dont listen to anyone online that says use sand paper, or tooth paste it will just mess up your game even more, I actually tried the tooth paste method, and it made my game worse lol

LOL sand paper and tooth paste? That's definitely absurd...Especially sand paper. That's obviously some kind of trick someone decided to put online to mess with someone.

Anyway, I didn't know there were special machines that fixed disks...Technology is ridiculous. I still don't understand how a regular "cream" you buy at the store restores scratches on disks. After all, the disk is nothing but bumps and holes signifying 1's and 0's...To repair a bump that's been scratched over still mind boggles me.

[Redhollowlives999]

Take it in to a place where they fix discs, they should have a specialized machine. My legaia disc has thousands of scratches but i went in, got it fixed and even tho it still has alot of the scratches it works fine.

Dont listen to anyone online that says use sand paper, or tooth paste it will just mess up your game even more, I actually tried the tooth paste method, and it made my game worse lol

actually, i did it and it barely worked i couldnt leave conkram and abs. fortress w/o my game freezing w/ my winds thing so i flushed it down the toliet....fail....didnt wanna waste peanut butter.....and didnt have a banana, so used toothpaste and it worked miciriales
did you use a non-flavored paste? the mint flavor for example, it cuts up the platic protector

[meth962]

Anyway, I didn't know there were special machines that fixed disks...Technology is ridiculous. I still don't understand how a regular "cream" you buy at the store restores scratches on disks. After all, the disk is nothing but bumps and holes signifying 1's and 0's...To repair a bump that's been scratched over still mind boggles me.

Basically the fixing to game discs is just filling in/smoothing out scratches on the clear surface of the disc. Not the actual data layer which is well below all the plastic. The side the laser reads is mostly plastic, then the data layer. That's why typically it's hard to get a scratch that is so deep that it actually affects the data layer.

Of course it is still hard to fill/smooth scratches so well that it doesn't have an effect on the laser.

[K73SK]

Anyway, I didn't know there were special machines that fixed disks...Technology is ridiculous. I still don't understand how a regular "cream" you buy at the store restores scratches on disks. After all, the disk is nothing but bumps and holes signifying 1's and 0's...To repair a bump that's been scratched over still mind boggles me.

Basically the fixing to game discs is just filling in/smoothing out scratches on the clear surface of the disc. Not the actual data layer which is well below all the plastic. The side the laser reads is mostly plastic, then the data layer. That's why typically it's hard to get a scratch that is so deep that it actually affects the data layer.

Of course it is still hard to fill/smooth scratches so well that it doesn't have an effect on the laser.

Now that makes sense... Not only in the fact on how it's repaired, but how dust particles don't ruin the disk like they would a hard drive platter, lol.

[Nightshade]

Well, to be fair, it's rather necessary that there be some protection for a CD compared to a hard disk - a hard disk can be sealed in a computer without ever needing to be out in the open while a CD is going to be removed from the computer/console and stored externally.

[K73SK]

The protection the platters on a hard drive have are sealed in an airtight space... That way no dust can get into it whatsoever. One dust particle can throw the platter off balance and ruin the drive.

[Redhollowlives999]

so i assume that did fixed your game?

tooth paste is just a replacement cd cream incase you cant find the cd repair cream...

apparently the idea of flavoring tooth paste is adding in flavor flakes is why CD's dont always get better when you put paste on them.... so you're suppost to put "flavorless" tooth paste, so it can clean and cover the scratches on the CD...


another thing is your pupose to wipe it the way k said when your cleaning it..