Brush your teeth... And Game discs

I do not have a disc Resurfacer nor anyone who can do such a thing for me. What I do have is a tube of Arm and Hammer Baking Soda Toothpaste a Sink and a soft paper towel.

My Saturn Street Fighter the Movie wasn't in terrible shape, in fact My Copy of F1 Challenge is in worse shape than SFTM, But I have some game play issues with it.

So I coated the disc with the magic tooth paste Rubbed it in with the paper towel and gently rinsed until it was gone and BAM shinier disc that now loads slightly faster.

Not sure if it fixed the fight Sawada go back to the disc player issue though.

Anybody else ever try it?

If not you're welcome just remember it has to be baking soda based

 

Pretty much any toothpaste works as its abrasive and takes the top surface off the disc.

 

I did this before on a handful of music discs that refused to play after being stored for a while, but I used a special polishing agent called Wenol. It's used in laboratories, so it's killer stuff.

Any word on removing scratches from phone screens? My new phone has a very small hairline scratch and despite it's size, I'm still going to be OCD about it. I would try it but I don't want it to buff my screen to a matte.

 

In a pinch, another trick is to use the oils on your forehead/nose. Wipe the disc on your face (assuming you aren't covered in dirt...) and then lightly buff the disc a little. The oils will fill the scratches just enough to keep the laser from refracting as much when it hits the scratch.

I'm not sure who did this first, but we used to use this technique in the darkroom (photography) for scratched negatives - it would greatly reduce the visibility of a scratch on the final print.

I used to do this all the time in my car when I had loads of burnt CDs strewn about everywhere which inevitably became quite scratched (I could always re-burn them if I really cared... I take good care of my official discs, of course!)

 

I may try that on my Virtua Fighter 3TB, it goes back to the bios menu after the screen showing VS Pai.

 

If you have a touchscreen phone then you shouldn't mess with any chemicals to try to polish away scratches. The reason being that it can ruin the digitizer (topmost layer of the display that senses touches). Abrasives shouldn't be used at all on screens -- touchscreen or not -- in my opinion. I know exactly how you feel with even a small scratch on your screen that isn't even visible except under a very specific angle under light when the display is off. But I would rather cope with that than mess up my display(s) more by trying to get a superficial scratch out! :nightmare:

 

No offense, but, eww.

I've been using a Skip Dr for a while, and it will usually fix a scratch, and I just buff them with a clean cloth otherwise.

 

I sometimes use Toothpaste like Bad mentioned, and vaseline.

 

A disc DR is pretty cheap I may as well invest in one since 99% of my game purchases now will be for older systems. I still have to do a full test on SFTM to see if my repairs worked.

 

NO home remedies are any good, especially those god awful cheap products like Disc Doctor. DO NOT USE THEM if you value your games.

Take the games to a professional - any decent game shop or DVD rental place should have them. If not, there are mail order places.

A low-use 'professional' machine (up to 15 discs a day) is £360.

 

Eww to disc doctor. Those things are literally sanding wheels. No thanks.

 

That saves me $15

 

I happen to use 3M Perfect-It III Rubbing Compound on my disks and it makes the worst disks ive ever seen read like new. I happen to also paint and restore cars so its easy to obtain but if you can get some its worth it.

 

I've tried using many brands of toothpaste to repair PS1 games, but it's never worked for me. Maybe just bad luck.

 

I've never tried any, but there are plenty of very good car detailing products designed specifically for removing scratches from car paint.

I'd imaging that something like Poor Boys World Super Swirl Remover would do the trick, I might have to find a scratched up disc and give it a go...

If this proves to work well, it's then easier to buy a more or less potent one, rather than relying on many tests with different toothpastes (like whitening for extra scratched discs?)

Chris