/v/ - Video Games

Why do you keep making garbage threads? Go back to cuckchan.

People still use discs?

try semen

Windex probably

Shitposting aside. It looks fucked. Luckily PS1 emulation is great. Better hope you're not trying to restore Monster Hunter though.

>>15535742

You don't, that's impossible. If it were a few then sure but all those marks have probably damaged it entirely, does it even work anymore?

>>15535759

>Go back to cuckchan.

>don't ask for a bit of advice instead kill yourself XDDDD :DDDDDD

why don't you?

>>15535742

neutral detergent and water

wash your dirty ass hands, rinse the scratched surface - you don't need to unleash the fucking nilo on it, a gentle stream is enough - and apply the detergent to the surface.

gently spread it using a circular motion through the entire surface a couple of times and rinse

those scratches are usually the work of dust settling on the micro fissures in the surface, this cleans most of it

if those are actually deep scratches then you're fucked, but i'd wager most of those can be removed

>>15535742

You can use a knife the scrape off any dirt. After that I recommend vinegar to get rid of any scum on the surface, remember to rub it good with an old shirt.

>>15537443

If cake kike wasn't such a nigger he'd sticky the qtddtot thread instead of letting it fester at the bottom of the catalog while newfags continue to kill decent threads with their one and done questions.

i used to have a machine of sorts back in the early and mid 2000s called something along the lines of a disk cleaner

basically it took some sort of special cleaning solution with a special cloth or something and it put it into a disk-shaped circle that'd be enclosed by another disk shape circle and then spun around slowly

that said, I dunno if that'd be good enough to clean that up

>>15535742

Reported. Kill yourself.

>>15535742

microwave it, it will be completely clean

>>15537596

that's a good point anon, except it's unlikely he'd get a reply. I know I didn't at least.

>>15537649

I had one of those too, was it a little tiny green thing that made a really loud annoying noise even though it's only spinning a little disk?

Some places still do disc repairs. This one can only be done with commercial tools, if at all, not the type of consumer garbage you'll find on amazon. Anyway it's just a PS1 CD, emulating would be far easier and cost effective.

>>15537596

Pastry Zionist is too busy autistically enforcing bullshit rules on those who hate nintendo for legitimate reasons, while massaging his man udders. He can't even be assed to make a cuckchan quarantine.

>>15537700

well, it wasn't tiny

it was maybe half as big as a small poodle

>>15537720

I can't vouch for the JFJ but have seen it recommended before. At my job I use an EcoPro optical disc cleaner which uses a filling paste and water to restore scratched discs in a 30 second buffing cycle with two rotating pads. It works well but it's pretty expensive. You can usually tell if a disc is just too far gone based on the type of scratches, as well as even the type of game. Something like a game which takes up 70MB on a PS1 CD can be cracked on the edges and have zero issues. Speaking from experience.

Sometimes it's best to prime discs by having paste pre-applied from the test functions.

>>15537785

I can vouch for it; if done right you can repair about 90% of scratches, including OP's. Cracks in the disc or scratches that almost penetrate the entire disc aren't cleanable, as you pointed out, but OP's looks like someone took some rough grain sandpaper and slapped it over the disc. It could buffer out easily with a JFJ. Anyways, you're right. How's the EcoPro for cleaning discs? I haven't used that one before. I've used a number of knock-off $40 brand cleaners that were ass, but after I got the JFJ I was set and had no complaints.

>>15537752

Different machine definitely then. mine fucking sucked

Use neutral dish soap and an extra fine toothbrush, carefully brush in triangles and gently rinse and IMMEDIATELY dry. And it has to be triangles when you brush the disk.

>>15537893

Damn, professional cleaning tools got way smaller since I last worked at a game shop. We had one of those huge ass disk that looked more like a Wheatstone than a disk cleaner and had to put some semen-like paste on the disk or risk ruining it permanently. Last I worked in a game shop was 2006

Grab some of those lens/screen cleaning wipes from Walmart, they work like a charm and can also be used to clean your display without worrying about leaving streaks

Use brasso and wipe from the inside out in straight lines. The brasso strips a thin top layer of plastic off and can completely remove scratches. However you can't keep doing this and you need to be careful when you do it.

>>15535742

Use any standard polishing technique. It relies on abrasion instead of any chemical process so it's fine for any hard-ish surface.

>>15538018

Dunno, ours looked like it came from the stone age and made an awful noise when it was in use. Hell, we kept it in the backroom the farthest away from customers possible in case they thought we were tearing it apart. Somehow only our boss managed to repair gamecube mini-cds on that thing. The owner would let no one else attempt this as he had to compensate customers a few times because the thing was not meant for them.

>>15535920

Yes.

>>15538168

I posted an example. >>15538018

It doesn't work miracles but it does help a lot of discs that would otherwise be useless. It's hard to gauge scratch severity through words but the one I buffed before was pretty rough.

>>15538204

Well shit I might grab one to buff out my old gamecube and PS2 games to rip

>>15535742

If the disc has a few scratches, use a bit of body lotion. Make sure to get rid of the lotion with a clean towel or tissue before you put the disc in the console.

I'll clean your fucking face with a belt sander.

>tfw the oldest CD I own has just recently fallen victim to disc rot

>>15538283

>tfw my disc with jsrf source code on it recently fell to disc rot

>>15540210

Does that really work?

stick to PC. discs are glorified keys on consoles.

>>15537893

>>15538018

Don't those machines peel off a small layer of the disc to clean it?

>>15537503

Tap water leaves stains.