Fixing Damaged Vidya Thread

Download and burn again.

Send them to a disc resurfacing place.

My job has a $2000 disk cleaner I am free to use that fills in the plastic removed from scratches, safely buffs the disk, and works about 95% of the time. that 5% it doesn't work, the disk was never going to work again anyway.

I try not to rely on disks for my games, but if I have to, it's as a back up solution. I think it's incredibly important to have back up loading devices for your consoles, flash drives, HDD loading, etc. This is the best way to maintain an accurate experience on the original hardware and not be an emucuck.

wha'?

I make fresh copies every 3-8 years as necessary.
I've dumped the roms of all my cartridge games.

That only makes sense if you have some super rare cart that was not already dumped.

Try going to a DVD rental company. They have a machine for cleaning disks. Ask them if you can get a DVD cleaned if you pay. It's not expensive, arround $2.
I saved one disk using that.

This fucking crap never works. Don't even get me started on the alleged peanut butter method.

I'll try taking it to get resurfaced at my local game store, but if that doesn't do the trick it's fucked, time to burn the game or get a new copy.

I swear only underage say this and not nigger

It works if you do it correctly. I've fixed numerous discs using toothpaste, you just have to be extremely careful with it.

I don't know about using peanut butter to fix scratches, but I do know peanut butter is phenomenal for getting sticky residue off things (like the glue from the back of jar labels, it does what fucking hours of soaking in hot soapy water doesn't).

Anything pre-DRM revolution works fine, only need to worry about the damn cd key. Until disk rot sets in

This, when someone moved my 360 one time it did that thing where it scratches the disk, I took it to a dvd rental place and they fixed it with their machine.

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Take better care of your shit.

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I think they mean discs.
They're obviously not old enough to know that disk is short for diskette.
Shit, now I feel old

nigger pls go

Disk can be a short for any memory device.

Not when you're referring to a CD/DVD/BD

BUT THAT IS STEALING!

My library has a machine that fixes them, not sure if it's open to the public though. I know the librarian and she does it all the time for her own movies and games

Why not?

Maybe it's just for library use for DVDs they rent out.
Though these days I think most specialist stores have have those machines and will fix your discs for you for a couple of £/$.
If you're in the UK go to GOYME, they have one in every store sat behind the counter.

You don't. You make digital backups and burn them as needed.

cause i keep my shit undamaged and they mainly use it for dvd discs patrons sign out, but I know she fixes ones from friends and family. They might do it for anyone as I'm sure it isn't asked too much.

is she a sexy librarian

I can vouch this and add it to your dvd-drive too, it'l be lovely.

digital download