discdoctors....

[Kitsunexus]

Which is better, manual crank or powered?

[SignOfZeta]

They are both shit. Take your disc to a record/game store with a real resurfacing machine.

[MissaFX]

Which is better, manual crank or powered?

I use Eucerin skin cream, rub it into the disc with my fingers, then I wipe it off on a really soft shirt which is heading to the wash anyways.  This makes a lot of bad Netflix discs work.

Personally from using a couple I would suggest you only get a powered one if you spend a good amount of money on it.  Otherwise a manual one will probably have less a chace of messing something else up worse.

[Kitsunexus]

Personally from using a couple I would suggest you only get a powered one if you spend a good amount of money on it.

You spend a good amount of money on EVERYTHING at Gamestop.

[nat]

The copy I just got of Strider 2 for the PS1 over eBay is too scratched to work. Won't even boot, just crashes the system. Funny because the auction says "all items tested and working." The scratch is a perfectly straight line all the way across the disc. It doesn't look particularly deep.

Either way, it's probably more trouble than it's worth to return it. I can probably get it to work if I resurface it.

Has anyone had any good experiences with the home kits?

If I was to take it some where, who has a resurfacing machine? Any major chains?

[Kitsunexus]

Joe said Blockbuster, but they're mean.

[Michael Helgeson]

The copy I just got of Strider 2 for the PS1 over eBay is too scratched to work. Won't even boot, just crashes the system. Funny because the auction says "all items tested and working." The scratch is a perfectly straight line all the way across the disc. It doesn't look particularly deep.

Either way, it's probably more trouble than it's worth to return it. I can probably get it to work if I resurface it.

Has anyone had any good experiences with the home kits?

If I was to take it some where, who has a resurfacing machine? Any major chains?

If you want to mail it to me I can get it resurfaced for 3 bucks. We have a few game stores here that do it in NLR and Conway. It will depend on how scratched up it is though. Anyway you can take a pic?

[nat]

It's scratched all over, but not that bad. Nothing that should cause it not to work anyway.

Look at the scratch that looks like a vertical dotted line on the right side of the disc. I am 98% sure this is what is causing it not to work. I took 2 pics, one with flash and one without. This is about as good as a pic is gonna get.

[nat]

BTW, I cleaned the disc thoroughly with my usual routine and it didn't help.

[MissaFX]

Have you tried using some kind of lotion on it like I described?

[Michael Helgeson]

That could be the problem,but sometimes on games too they place the actual game data closer to the center,not farther out.Either way,its not so bad that it couldn't be buffed out by a industrial cd buffer. The NLR stores use lite to medium ones,but ones like the GXC in Conway have heavy duty ones that use water and work worlds better.

Let me know if you need me to get it done for you.

[Michael Helgeson]

Have you tried using some kind of lotion on it like I described?

While that will help fill in some scratches,your leaving chemicals on the disc that could alter from heat created by the system. This could cause undesirable affects. The 100 percent best way is to just have the disc resurfaced and polished.

[nat]

Let me know if you need me to get it done for you.

thanks for the offer, I will take you up on that if I can't find a local source.

Have you tried using some kind of lotion on it like I described?

Not yet, I'll try it tomorrow. We actually have Eucerin around here somewhere so I'll use that.

[MissaFX]

Not yet, I'll try it tomorrow. We actually have Eucerin around here somewhere so I'll use that.

Eucerin lacks perfumes and colors many lotions have which is why I personally use it.

[Michael Helgeson]

Not yet, I'll try it tomorrow. We actually have Eucerin around here somewhere so I'll use that.

Eucerin lacks perfumes and colors many lotions have which is why I personally use it.

Yes,true,but it could contain other chemicals that can increase oxidizations in certain plastics. Whats good for the skin isn't always good for plastics. Same goes for plastics,whats good for them isn't always so great for our skin.Different chemical needs.