So this is sort of a continuation of my previous topic but it's a different subject.
I had my Xbox 360 GTA V disc repaired today for $4, it was in one of those local hobby gamer stores.
Anyways after he resurfaced it, he came back and told me that there were still a couple of harder to remove scratches and he told me that re-surfacing it twice would not fix it.
I said "okay thanks" and I left but now that I think about it, the scratches aren't that big, and I've literally grinded rings into discs from the old days of tipping my Xbox and was still even able to repair it.
Did the guy BS me? He didn't seem particularly happy to be doing his job, and I suspected maybe he was only allowed to put it in the machine twice unless I pay more? I'm not sure. Someone give more info about disc repair.
Oh and there's no "top" scratches from what I can see.
Well the only limits I am aware of are Dreamcast games, GameCube games, and Blu-Rays risk breaking. I know they've made new ones that support both GameCube games and Blu-Rays, unsure for Dreamcast games.
IIRC disk "repair" is just taking off a bit of the CD to the point where the surface is nice and smooth again, so the laser reading the disk doesn't trip. You could lose information if you remove too much.
[QUOTE=FalconKrunch;46961027]IIRC disk "repair" is just taking off a bit of the CD to the point where the surface is nice and smooth again, so the laser reading the disk doesn't trip. You could lose information if you remove too much.[/QUOTE]
I don't know about that, the info is actually stored on the underside of the disc label, so the plastic part of a disc is really just for the laser to refract its light through.
As I understand it, too much repair or too shitty repair will make the disc either too thin to be usable or it'll vibrate too much to be readable.
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