You're in the year 2000. You have a 6 hour bus trip ahead. You're still at home and the bus is going to leave. You're in a hurry, so you grab your discman and your favourite albums and run to the station. You made it in time. You are sitting on your bus seat, it starts to move, you're on your way. You open your bag, it's a long journey, but at least you have your music with you. You open the discman, only to realize that it is your disc scratch remover that looks a lot like your discman. You cry.
Legit did nearly this, except it was mums discman shaped teledex, not my teac cd player.. And it wasnt just a bus trip, it was a week long school camp 😑 🤣🤣🤣 spent nearly all my pocket money on 4 energizer batteries too
Not quite the same but I've experienced this pain with forgetting earbuds before a 10 hour flight... Think I got some $30 (fuck airport pricing) tin can sounding ones from the airport that broke the next day
I've been playing games since I was eight years old (I'm currently 20), and when I trade in discs, they never fail to mention "You take great care of your games" as if that's the fucking exception.
I used to keep my discs and cartridges all over the place and the cartridges in particular have wear marks where my thumb has been pulling them in and out - and the CDs I have from back in the day don't read at all any more. These days I take much better care of my games and consoles, and when trading in my old 3DS the game store commented that it looked in really good condition!
Samniss Arandeen Games bought by me originally = Still like new or in very good condition, worse case scenario, light scratches. Even after 16 years. Games bought second hand = 10% Like new, 10% Very Good, 10% Good condition (light scratches), 30% Ok with many scratches 35% Acceptable as in, the game still plays but the disc seemed to be handed with sandpaper, 5% are basically returned since it seems they used a knife on the disc.
+Matt D It touched several points of comedy, and as with any joke, it was already written before he discovered it. It was a beaut. It was more low brow than his normal style so it was a little jarring, I think he chuckled because he had gone off piste... but the world is a better place for that joke being made. ;)
Matt D If i was a comic, that would be me. You hear him starting to lose it, during the set-up, knowing its going to be a zinger. I'm a comedy fan, but when a comic is dropping a bomb of a joke and you see them corpsing a little on the setup, it can really make the joke stick.. especially on second viewing. Sometimes you see comics doing jokes, holding it in, then laughing a few seconds later, and they are holding it in from the last one.. I guess its a laugh of knowing you're killing it.
I think I noticed scratches on the top/printed/non-read side of your disc, in which case no amount of underside buffers will help you. The (relatively) thick polycarbonate bottom is just clear plastic, and anything obstructing the optics can be buffed. Top side scratches are the real killers, as the thin foil that actually contains the data is far less protected. I noticed a few comments saying something like _"I reckon that's why I always put mah discz data-side up!"_ but that is MUCH worse, and those people are the reason why our Karate Kid DvDs no longer work.
Well you cant buy a second hand disc for steam because the code would allready been used so all of you who think im stupid go and try and buy a second hand pc game okay
i dont get it you said you bought a game on steam which is a download only thing unless you bought it in a store brand new and some how it was scratched so im confused you know :(
"Box is gone" is almost never a legitimate excuse, half the time their discs are lying right on top of the fucking box. It's just laziness, extreme laziness.
Bought a second hand ps2 game on Amazon, it was labeled as "good-used" with the normal "light surface scratches, etc", got it and it was literally pristine, absolutely no scratches at all. It comes with a second disc and even that one was flawless. Not bad when a new version of that game is 80$ minimum.
Disc Care Instructions for 12 year olds/idiots: 1. Remove new disc from case. Place disc face down on coffee table while you retrieve greasy snack food from kitchen. 2. Immediately knock disc onto hard floor surface. Curse loudly. Scrape disc on floor as you pick it up. Ensure that a good amount of finger grease transfers to the disc surface. 3. Open console disc tray, misalign disc in tray so that it jams while closing. Curse loudly while stabbing Open/Close button with finger. 4. Reload disc correctly, play game. Get bored of game, remove from disc tray and throw onto pile of other shitty game discs. 5. Accidentally knock entire pile of discs onto hard floor surface. Curse loudly then go to bed. 6. Lose disc case and never ever think about it again.
DarkKnightDan24 Then you understand the concept of "value" and the benefits of caring for your possessions. That's excellent. :) I still have items of musical/audio/computer/electronic equipment that I've owned for 15-20 years, a bit like Ashens. They are immensely valuable because they're loaded with memories.
What always got me is the fact that the V in DVD stands for versatile. Yet if you've ever tried to launch one at your younger sister, you'll know that VHS is far superior
My dad once drilled a hole in one of my game CD's with a fairly small bit. It still works. Its a game about zombies where you use a drill (ineffectively) on them.
Ah. A good video to remind me why my pet peeve is in fact my pet peeve. It reminds me of another obnoxious thing that happens to DVDs and video game discs, when they are brand new in the box but not in the holder part so they're loose and rolling around like crazy, getting all messed up by the holder itself!
We had a copy of LoZ: Twilight Princess that got run over by one of our bikes while we were moving it. Ran it through one of those disk repair thingies, worked like a charm. Actually, just realized, we used a skipdoctor. Huh.
I think Ashens is the only person on UA-cam who can make scratching a disc exciting. Should be some sort of tagline. "Now with real disk-scratching action!"
I once had a disc that was beyond scratched, however it would still work until I got to the end of the game. As soon as the final boss appeared the game would freeze and that's it. i remember it being a ps1 game but I forget which one. my collections keep vanishing due to borrowers, that's-miners, and parents that like to sell shit when I'm not looking.
That happened to me with Spyro Riptos Rage on the PS1. Every time I reached Crush(?) the game would freeze. I didn't have a mem card so every time I wanted to play again I had to redo the ENTIRE story.
The pawn shop where I used to buy cheap games and dvds has a disk cleaner scratch remover thing. They will put the disk in the cleaner when you buy them. Haven't been there in years because the area has gotten pretty bad.
I imagine that when Stuart's dvd player has seen the Karate Kid disc for the first time it went: I will play any disk on earth I will play any disk on earth But I won't play that
DVD players are pretty good at scratching discs too I've found cheap tellies with cheap DVD readers tend to naff up your discs more than a table, Also some discs will work when knackered, I have a bluesy copy o lesbian vampire killers which for some unexplainable reason has half the shiny underside stuff corroded away still works in my ps3
His Dark Materials trilogy by Philip Pullman- Northern Lights (The Golden Compass in the US), The Subtle Knife & The Amber Spyglass a very, very, very recommended read
For some reason, whenever I buy a used Family Guy or Simpsons DVD from Cex, the discs are scratched to hell and back. Luckily, if the disc is unplayable or if it looks like it would be unplayable, they'll repair it for you for free.
I used to work at Hollywood Video when I was 16. I always enjoyed running the disc repair machine. Once you started it up it got goop all over your hands and you weren't allowed to do anything else until you were done with the massive stack of dvd's that needed repairing, so I always found it kind of relaxing! The way the one in the shop worked was a lot more dramatic than this, it would spin the discs pretty fast and take off a good layer of plastic before polishing it back up. The weirdest thing was always when you'd have discs that had been run through a bunch of times (usually kids movies since they would get the most damaged) and the disc would be all weird and thin. We had one you could actually bend around like an old floppy disc. It still worked though! :3
That by Far was the most entertaining and riveting demonstration of slight DVD table related shuffling for the purposes of scratching it.. I even watched it twice.
Discs only get scratched in systems when the disc is being read and even then it doesn't seem to make a lot of difference. I've completed spongebob squarepants battle for bikini bottom for xbox (which I highly recommend to any playstation 2/early model playstation 3/xbox/xbox 360/gamecube/wii owner) and and when I bought it the disc was in like new condition and I inspected the disc after I completed the game and the disc didn't really seem different at all.
If you're taking the theory that systems scratch discs a lot from the playstaion 1 then I have really nothing to say on that because I've never played on the playstation 1 I've always played on my brother's early model playstation 3 or my playstation 2 and I can't guess the quality the the playstation 1's disc destroying abilities because the oldest disc reader I've ever used is from 2002 with my model 1 xbox (which has a really bad reader and can only read absolutely brand new discs) which never just destroyed a disc while I was playing it.
i know this is super duper old, but my discs never scratch. ever. i don't allow it and that's why every single disc i own of anything is clear and well maintained.
Saw this in my recommend feed today day and realised that the last time I even saw a piece of optical media was when I put a mixed CD in my car a year before this video was released. And it's been there ever since.
Discs are designed to scratch easily. They have a soft protective layer of plastic over the metal part which is designed to take all the damage. It's designed like that so that you can easily fix the scratches by removing the scratched area plastic all together and leave behind a fresh layer of plastic. Kind of in the same way ablative armour works on tanks
The Golden Compass has got to be by far one of the worst video games I have ever played. Bought it at 10 years old, and even I realised it was so crappy, to the extent I almost needed therapy after playing it.
One of the worst things you can possibly do to a CD/DVD/Blu-Ray disc is to put it in one of those felt/flocked/wtfeverthatfluffycrapis disc sleeves. The fuzzy crap collects dust like a glass coffee table, then you slide your discs in and out of them... yeah... tell me they don't make these things intentionally to destroy your discs.
While I agree that the majority of CD slieves sold at retail are worthless; I exclusively use a particular type of cloth CD sleves, and have had meddling family members and colleagues repack (and destroy) years of backups and other discs by repacking them into other types slieves/pockets "to be helpful" or for some misplaced loyalty to products "Made in USA". The hiarchy seems to be (in order of most crap to least): coarse felt (instant destruction!, $2~10) uncured clear vynil. ($1.50) paper w/ plastic window, ($0.65) coarse nylon, ($1~3) waxed cardboard, ($0.75) waxed cardboard w/plastic window, ($0.75) paper w/ glued seam on the inside, ($0.30) transparent cured vynil, ($2) hardshell polycarbonite, ($0.50) paper w/ glue on the outside, ($0.25) softshell vynil, ($0.70) lint-free treated polypropylene, ($0.10, I also use these as lens cloths) The infuriating part is that (locally) the more expensive (a slieve/envelope) the more likely it is to utterly destroy the disc; and I cannot tell the meddling fools to buy DAC brand model # whatever, because they will always buy one of their more expensive offerings that will throroughly destroy the discs. --- Actually; I'm reasonbly certain that DAC's "monitor attached floppy disc storage"(eqv) was actually designed to erase the discs using the degauss feature, and that the english product name was some sort of translation error. This would also explain why their discontinued "hardshell CD disc carrier"(eqv) seemed so well designed to consistently put a scratch at the centre of the disc when opened.
Yeah those machines cost around $2000 because the movie, music, and game industries want to be able to rip you off by charging too much money for media on crappy optical disks that are made from plastic that is soft as frozen butter. I feel no remorse burning pirate discs after all the money they sucked from me having to replace media. The damn things get nicked up by the plastic cases for christ's sake. Getting rid of all my CDs and DVDs and just streaming and downloading was so liberating.
I remember I got loads of scratches on my CD from when they'd rub the side of the CD tray when I was putting them in. Sure, each individual scratch was diddly. But after a few years that diddly really added up.
This reminds me of those VCR cleaning tapes you'd get that came with a little bottle of some sort of chemical to drip into your VCR to remove dust and such. Loved playing with those as a kid.
I actually have one of those disc cleaner things from the 99p Store, but I removed the mechanism and just use it as a convenient screw holder when I'm disassembling computers XP
Something worse and more dangerous than scratched discs; Disc cases that hold the disk too tightly. I snapped a copy of Trainz 2006 in half back in the day because the disc would just not come out. There's being secure, but then there's being over secure and snapping in half.
***** That old case didn't have it, it just clipped on to the inside of the disc and you had to pull them apart and release the disc, no button to push.
+computerman789 I would have said the same thing if I had not had the same experience with a cheepo PC game I got years ago. The case didn't have a press button thing in the middle, just a bit of plastic that was supposed to spring away when you pulled the disk. Thank god it didn't snap when I pulled it out.. Bent so much!
I bought MW2 in 2013. And there were lots of copies too. Weird. Do shops in the UK burn all copies after 6 months and feed the remains to wild animals or something?
I find that gentle rubbing with some brasso on a soft rag works wonders in polishing DVD'd and CD's with scratches and it can even considerable reduce the effect of heavy scratches enough so that the disc will play
I saw the thumbnail three or four times but never clicked on the video. I was 100% sure the cleaning device was a CD player with two sandpaper disks you put in to uniformly scratch a disc. Just because I read laceration in the title. Ok, I'm probably an idiot but I still want the scratching device to exist.
I found the director's cut of Blade Runner at a Goodwill once, and there was, I'm not kidding, a stain like someone sat a cup of coffee on it. Just, a ring and some splotches that were roughly the colour of coffee. Who- who does that? /why/. I did manage to get it working but I'm still entirely baffled.
Was it inside the disc itself(like the way you put it in the player)? If so, an XBOX game I had had the same thing on it. Have no idea how it happened.
my dad used to have a dvd rental store with the exact machine you have shown in the picture,and now that he has a different job,the machine is still up and running in our house and ready for my games...except that it doesn't work most of the time because the discs i tried to put in it were too scratched for that..who would've thought?
reason for a disk to be scratched: a family member touches it/doesn't put it in the case because he/she doesn't know where to put it, (and all other things that other ppl might do, that YOU might not have done) not hitting the EXACT place, when placing it in the video player, so you have to move it a third of an inch, moving it a 8th of an inch when removing it from the video player, dropping it, having ONE spec of dust on the video player cd holder, having one spec of dust in the cd case/compartment, dragging the cd an 8th of an inch when removing the cd from the cover, before putting it in the video player, and probably MORE, but i can't think of anymore, at this time. but you see, it's not as easy as it SEEMS to keep a cd scratch free, unless you're one of those guys who keep their comic books in a separate air tight dark room, with CONSTANT temperature control, and buy first grade acid proof plastic bags to put them in, and touch it with pincers, while wearing a hazmat suit and rubber gloves which you discard after every use.
While that's better then placing the disc face up leaving the disc face down is still not good because dust will get on it and the printed side will get scratched making the disc look just a tad bit worse.
Actually, you can't find every single movie on DVD. Scavenger Hunt was never released on DVD, neither was Song of the South, and at the time this video was uploaded, you couldn't get Animaniacs: Wakko's Wish on DVD (well, you can now, but point being, you can't find every single movie ever released on DVD)
I don't think he meant it literally. If he had lacked an exaggeration when talking about something intended for comedic purpose, his improvised comedy would fail. I'm fun at parties.
I'm always confused when I hear that Song of the South was never released for Home Video because I remember seeing it in supermarkets here like a decade ago...?? Or is it just in America it wasn't released in shops?
"HAHDJXKJSHSJAILOVELEMONADe" is exactly how I feel knowing that it's Sunday and I have school tomorrow and should be sleeping but instead I'm watching this
I take very good care of my game discs always put them back in the case after I'm done playing with them and if I find any fingerprints I wipe them off with a soft cloth and I still get scratches on them pisses me off
The main problem with Second-Hand games is that it's always the GOOD ones that get scratched, or popular ones like... CoD *shudders at the thought of the word "Good" & "Call of Duty" in the same sentence*
+ContraZombie4 The older CoDs were good. And the modern ones aren't all terrible. Honestly, the games don't deserve the horrible reputation they have. By no means are they Games of the Year or anything, but they're still fun. They're decent military shooters; not really innovative, and a bit bland, but they're fun enough. It's the player base that's really shit. Absolutely horrendous people, and toxic as hell. It's one of many cases of decent games being dragged down by shitty, stupid players. That's why I like the older ones better; more focus on the single player than the newer ones, and the single player mode was always the best part, in my opinion. And Zombies was plenty of fun, if you had friends to play with. I loved Zombies.
+Mr. Kitty Saves The World Zombies is the ONLY redeeming mode. Multiplayer, even with JUST friends, if fucking garbage. Using dumb tactics like only using SMG's, which are REALLY OP, & throwing C4, OR EVERYONE'S personal _favorite_ getting a kill by hurling a grenade across the map. & minus story, the campaign "challenges" your ability to walk sraight forward through linear areas & demanding you be able to take orders. What _fun_...
well, it stands to reason that the better/more popular a game is, the more its played, the more likely it is to get scratched. Of course, its pretty irrelevant in this age of digital distribution
This is why I always had qualms about lending my games to friends as a kid. I would take incredible care with my discs, and they just wouldn't. After a couple instances of things coming back covered in scratches I stopped lending them out.
I had in the past two xbox 360's. both of which scrached the disks. and over time destroyed them. thank goodness I ditched the consoles early on in the 360 days.
Yeah. I hate disks. Especially original playstation disks. They took no effort to scratch at all - set it down on something, and it's scratched. I see scratches on the back of the karate kid. That's usually a death sentence.
Fix: Don't set your damn disks down on the shiny side that needs to be clean to read data... Why do some people not understand this and think it's okay to set the discs down with the label face up?
Mmhmm. Also make sure no one else ever does that. Don't ever dare clean it with a soft, lintless cloth, it's still too sensitive. Better hope no one sets even a sheet of paper on that black-side up disk. If you put any spin on the disk while it's in a case, pray you had no pressure behind it. They were just plain too fragile. Absolute trash.
FDJustin Over exaggerate much? I've cleaned mine with proper cleaning cloths plenty and all of mine are still fine. I never let anyone else handle my games, they shouldn't be left out for it to be possible for someone to set something on them, and you shouldn't spin them around in the case like they're a toy. Yeah they weren't as durable as discs now, but that doesn't mean it was hard to keep them from being damaged if you took basic care of them.
Loponstorm I exaggerate a little, but no more than the idea of spinning them in the case "like a toy". I know it's hard to imagine, but when the playstation was released people were still inexperienced with disks. They would get spun as people grabbed for the edges, or pushed down on a side to try and get leverage. Plenty of times the disks would fall out when you opened the case, so you had to learn to open the case horizontally. And no, I'm not exaggerating much when it comes to cleaning: I have managed to scratch PS games with a soft cloth. Not a microfiber cloth; didn't know about them back then. Did you not have any friends or siblings? The more people that get involved, the more likely disks are to be mistreated, and they _do_ scratch extremely easily.
I don't need to imagine. I grew up with a Playstation, my second console after the SNES. CD's existed for plenty of years before Playstation was released, so I knew how to handle the disks and open the cases, and we had the cleaning cloths we'd used for CD's as well. I did have friends and siblings (tho out of my siblings I was the only one to play video games) but I didn't loan them out, and when I'd take them over to a friends house or they'd be over, we'd be responsible for our own games, as our parents taught us. I never had a single Playstation game become unreadable, and I had a lot.
You know what. I was watching Skyfall about 10 minutes ago and i had to pause it to go grab a snack. Came back and decided to start browsing your videos. There you go Ashens, you are now better than James Bond.
I own a Skip Doctor, and it worked wonders the one time I used it. My favorite game 5 years ago, Forza Motorsport 3, stopped working after my 360 tried to eat it (disk went in completely clean and brand new, came out a couple of months later with giant deep rings around the middle). After the Skip Doctor, it ran fine from then on and never had any more issues.
omg I'm slightly addicted to your sarcastic opinions I genuinely think you should break into stand up comedy you have very quickly become my favourite channel to watch please keep it up😂
One trick I found with a DVD, is if the video is scratched too much, you can make a backup copy of it to another blank DVD. That fixed a DVD for me, before.
My sister is the worst. She puts discs down on surfaces and leaves them there. She touches them leaving fingerprints and...argh. She seems to be intentionally destroying my games. I fear for my copy of Mario kart 8, which she frequently uses.
I reckon the better performance of the newer discs comes at the price of them being more delicate as a result. While less durable, they let you play more demanding games. So i think you very well could call them "new and improved".
However, if you dare lay a finger on the laser reading thing on a PS2 it will kill the console. Yet I still had two games that worked perfectly even though my mum disagrees. R.I.P My beloved PS2 2006-2013 you were my favourite console ever and I will never forget you.
J Hughes Megami Tensei. If you're unfamiliar with it, Megami Tensei is a Japanese sci-fi/cyberpunk novel, turned into a video game in 1987 by Atlus. Now, Megami Tensei is a decently big game franchise and nobody remembers the novel. The MegaTen sub series Persona is more famous than mainline MegaTen too.
I let (was forced) one of my cousins borrow one of my games now the music doesn't work properly. You wouldn't believe how angry I was. Seriously if I wasn't forced I wouldn't have let him. Because he leaves his games out of the case. And from this day forward he isn't allowed to even touch my games or game systems. Especially after deleting one of my saves.
Deleting games is just wrong. Any gamer knows that a game save needs to be kept until you hate that game and never play it, and even then you keep it just in case. Others that delete data need to be deleted themselves. If I have someone try a game and they decide to delete my data, I will punch them in the face and force them to play up to the point that I was as, while collecting all the collectibles. No one should ever mess with someones game saves. Ever.
You're in the year 2000. You have a 6 hour bus trip ahead. You're still at home and the bus is going to leave. You're in a hurry, so you grab your discman and your favourite albums and run to the station. You made it in time. You are sitting on your bus seat, it starts to move, you're on your way. You open your bag, it's a long journey, but at least you have your music with you. You open the discman, only to realize that it is your disc scratch remover that looks a lot like your discman. You cry.
Legit did nearly this, except it was mums discman shaped teledex, not my teac cd player.. And it wasnt just a bus trip, it was a week long school camp 😑 🤣🤣🤣 spent nearly all my pocket money on 4 energizer batteries too
I pay attention this would never happen to me😊
@@Colt45hatchbackall my pocket money on FOUR batteries 😂
@@samholdsworth420 burning cds on the family computer
Not quite the same but I've experienced this pain with forgetting earbuds before a 10 hour flight... Think I got some $30 (fuck airport pricing) tin can sounding ones from the airport that broke the next day
I've been playing games since I was eight years old (I'm currently 20), and when I trade in discs, they never fail to mention "You take great care of your games" as if that's the fucking exception.
lol
because unfortunately it is the exception.
I used to keep my discs and cartridges all over the place and the cartridges in particular have wear marks where my thumb has been pulling them in and out - and the CDs I have from back in the day don't read at all any more. These days I take much better care of my games and consoles, and when trading in my old 3DS the game store commented that it looked in really good condition!
I cannot stand poor disc care. Godspeed, keep fighting the good fight ;_;7
Samniss Arandeen Games bought by me originally = Still like new or in very good condition, worse case scenario, light scratches. Even after 16 years.
Games bought second hand = 10% Like new, 10% Very Good, 10% Good condition (light scratches), 30% Ok with many scratches 35% Acceptable as in, the game still plays but the disc seemed to be handed with sandpaper, 5% are basically returned since it seems they used a knife on the disc.
Love how he chuckled to himself when he made that Mel B joke
+Matt D It touched several points of comedy, and as with any joke, it was already written before he discovered it. It was a beaut. It was more low brow than his normal style so it was a little jarring, I think he chuckled because he had gone off piste... but the world is a better place for that joke being made. ;)
+Steve Sharp wonderfully put
Matt D If i was a comic, that would be me. You hear him starting to lose it, during the set-up, knowing its going to be a zinger. I'm a comedy fan, but when a comic is dropping a bomb of a joke and you see them corpsing a little on the setup, it can really make the joke stick.. especially on second viewing. Sometimes you see comics doing jokes, holding it in, then laughing a few seconds later, and they are holding it in from the last one.. I guess its a laugh of knowing you're killing it.
MELB!
I want a cup of @PG Tips tea
I think I noticed scratches on the top/printed/non-read side of your disc, in which case no amount of underside buffers will help you. The (relatively) thick polycarbonate bottom is just clear plastic, and anything obstructing the optics can be buffed. Top side scratches are the real killers, as the thin foil that actually contains the data is far less protected.
I noticed a few comments saying something like _"I reckon that's why I always put mah discz data-side up!"_ but that is MUCH worse, and those people are the reason why our Karate Kid DvDs no longer work.
Indeed
i always did that on my old ps2 gta's and it always worked and i shared them with 2 younger brothers which gave no fucks about the games
Hello, Orpheus. Fancy seeing you here.
did not expect you here.
Orpheusftw the world needs now more then ever.
I bought a game on Steam but it was scratched and didn't work. FML
LOLZ
how do you buy a disc from steam ?
Well you cant buy a second hand disc for steam because the code would allready been used so all of you who think im stupid go and try and buy a second hand pc game okay
Lets P@rty
No need to take offense man: no one means it, we're just poking a little fun ;)
i dont get it you said you bought a game on steam which is a download only thing unless you bought it in a store brand new and some how it was scratched so im confused you know :(
"Rent for £4 and keep for 5 nights." "That's what Eddie Murphy did."
Lmao! 🤣
I didn't expect that joke and I have been laughing like an idiot at it for nearly five minutes
@@AniW2x4 What's it referring to?
Ashens is such a great youtuber
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Yeah, i know plenty people who just leave discs lying around. Never understood it myself. Like, the box is right bloody there.
*Lazyness/box is gone
"Box is gone" is almost never a legitimate excuse, half the time their discs are lying right on top of the fucking box.
It's just laziness, extreme laziness.
Marshal Walker Laziness makes sense, but some people throw their boxes away for absolutely no reason or they lost the box.
hello catman
Mohammad Rashed Uhhh, high?
Bought a second hand ps2 game on Amazon, it was labeled as "good-used" with the normal "light surface scratches, etc", got it and it was literally pristine, absolutely no scratches at all. It comes with a second disc and even that one was flawless. Not bad when a new version of that game is 80$ minimum.
The postal service has in-built scratch repair
Imagine spending $80 on a PS2 game… oh, 2010!
Disc Care Instructions for 12 year olds/idiots:
1. Remove new disc from case. Place disc face down on coffee table while you retrieve greasy snack food from kitchen.
2. Immediately knock disc onto hard floor surface. Curse loudly. Scrape disc on floor as you pick it up. Ensure that a good amount of finger grease transfers to the disc surface.
3. Open console disc tray, misalign disc in tray so that it jams while closing. Curse loudly while stabbing Open/Close button with finger.
4. Reload disc correctly, play game. Get bored of game, remove from disc tray and throw onto pile of other shitty game discs.
5. Accidentally knock entire pile of discs onto hard floor surface. Curse loudly then go to bed.
6. Lose disc case and never ever think about it again.
Oh my god this is so funny and true.
I can't tell if the "Place disc face down" thing is bad or not.
I do it all the time.
Lol! I actually take care of my discs, but yeah, that sounds about right. XD
Im 12 and i take care of all my disks and haven't done what you said.
DarkKnightDan24
Then you understand the concept of "value" and the benefits of caring for your possessions. That's excellent. :)
I still have items of musical/audio/computer/electronic equipment that I've owned for 15-20 years, a bit like Ashens. They are immensely valuable because they're loaded with memories.
did he try to fix karate kid with polish on, polish off?
Hehehe nice one 👌X'D
mmmYes
IrRegular *Wax
His newest video's does exactly look the same as he did 8 years ago.
He's the real deal. I'm always surprised when it jumps from 2019 to 2012 without missing a beat.
What video
Why fix whats not broken
The only things that are really that different are the sound quality and visual quality. And even then they're not that massively different.
I pray for one master video of every single ashens video put together, just to marvel at the incredible consistency. Smooth as peanut butter.
What always got me is the fact that the V in DVD stands for versatile. Yet if you've ever tried to launch one at your younger sister, you'll know that VHS is far superior
"Oh it's Mel B" 😂😂 I legit died
My dad once drilled a hole in one of my game CD's with a fairly small bit. It still works.
Its a game about zombies where you use a drill (ineffectively) on them.
***** It's a shit game though, so I would rather it didn't work.
Liarra Sniffles lol why did you're dad do that
JAZZ HANDS Fucked if I know. Was funny to watch though.
Dead rising 2?
tristan benefiel I don't think so, mainly because it was on a pre-dvd CD. And it was on the playstation one.
I once snapped a disc by accident because it just wouldn't come out of the case.
LMAO! xD
It was the worst thing ever, but i took it back and the guy said "It wouldn't come out?"
I was like "Yeah"
He said "It happens a lot."
Old Man Jenkins my xbox one disc broke when I just got it out its case goodbye 50pounds
Old Man Jenkins Yeah, I actually broke my copy of GTAIV that way.
I did that with a gamecube game :P
Watching In 2019. Missing 99p stores and gamestation.
Watching in 2020, missing going out and be able to see people’s faces in public.
Ah. A good video to remind me why my pet peeve is in fact my pet peeve. It reminds me of another obnoxious thing that happens to DVDs and video game discs, when they are brand new in the box but not in the holder part so they're loose and rolling around like crazy, getting all messed up by the holder itself!
Hiragirin That happens too often when getting DVDs etc through post.
I know this was ages ago, but did you have Wii sports, when the original one came in a damn cardboard sleeve, that just scuffed the disk to hell?
We had a copy of LoZ: Twilight Princess that got run over by one of our bikes while we were moving it. Ran it through one of those disk repair thingies, worked like a charm.
Actually, just realized, we used a skipdoctor. Huh.
I think Ashens is the only person on UA-cam who can make scratching a disc exciting. Should be some sort of tagline. "Now with real disk-scratching action!"
I once had a disc that was beyond scratched, however it would still work until I got to the end of the game. As soon as the final boss appeared the game would freeze and that's it. i remember it being a ps1 game but I forget which one. my collections keep vanishing due to borrowers, that's-miners, and parents that like to sell shit when I'm not looking.
+mlwy45
Happened to me with MGS2 (ps2). The game works but the sound glitches and completely disappears until the very end.
Lego Star Wars on ps2 was the worst i had, kept freezing on the loading screen
I had the same thing with my Shrek games and Madagascar on Xbox original 😂
+Adiee Kalter Romans *classic.
That happened to me with Spyro Riptos Rage on the PS1. Every time I reached Crush(?) the game would freeze. I didn't have a mem card so every time I wanted to play again I had to redo the ENTIRE story.
I'm still waiting on the sequel to this video!
The pawn shop where I used to buy cheap games and dvds has a disk cleaner scratch remover thing. They will put the disk in the cleaner when you buy them. Haven't been there in years because the area has gotten pretty bad.
Probably a lot of illegal immigrants and non-whites am I right?
@@samholdsworth420 virtually guaranteed
@@samholdsworth420we get it, you’re a diehard MAGA simp
i lost it when he did the eddie murphy thing :DDDDD
I imagine that when Stuart's dvd player has seen the Karate Kid disc for the first time it went:
I will play any disk on earth
I will play any disk on earth
But I won't play that
DVD players are pretty good at scratching discs too I've found cheap tellies with cheap DVD readers tend to naff up your discs more than a table,
Also some discs will work when knackered, I have a bluesy copy o lesbian vampire killers which for some unexplainable reason has half the shiny underside stuff corroded away still works in my ps3
His Dark Materials trilogy by Philip Pullman- Northern Lights (The Golden Compass in the US), The Subtle Knife & The Amber Spyglass a very, very, very recommended read
So in conclusion, lemonade.
Or potato.
Or celery.
Or yogurt.
I once reciveved a set of familyguy DVDs that looked as if they had been halfway shoved directly into the dirt
For some reason, whenever I buy a used Family Guy or Simpsons DVD from Cex, the discs are scratched to hell and back. Luckily, if the disc is unplayable or if it looks like it would be unplayable, they'll repair it for you for free.
Equestrian Idiot best option would be to buy it brand new on Amazon for like 10 quid
"Oh, god, it's spraying everywhere - the doctor said I wouldn't have that problem any more..."
Ashens: "Don't you hate how used games are always scratched? Here's an example:" *Pulls out two discs in perfect condition*
never had a scratched 3ds or psvita game
some day steam will shut down and all your games will goo bye bye
nothing you cant fix with A9LH and you can still play your games just not access online features
You mean like how Nintendo closed down the ENTIRE online network for the Wii, DS, DSi and Gamecube?
Nintendo has a terrible track-record.
you dont buy eshop games you buy carts those will ALWAYS work
***** Until they one day don't. Flash memory hasn't got an unlimited life-span you know, it will get demagnetised unless you keep playing them.
I used to work at Hollywood Video when I was 16. I always enjoyed running the disc repair machine. Once you started it up it got goop all over your hands and you weren't allowed to do anything else until you were done with the massive stack of dvd's that needed repairing, so I always found it kind of relaxing! The way the one in the shop worked was a lot more dramatic than this, it would spin the discs pretty fast and take off a good layer of plastic before polishing it back up. The weirdest thing was always when you'd have discs that had been run through a bunch of times (usually kids movies since they would get the most damaged) and the disc would be all weird and thin. We had one you could actually bend around like an old floppy disc. It still worked though! :3
spray some guff on it. mmmm guffy.
+Skunkdog Gro I really like your profile picture. It brings me intense happiness, actually.
+Professor T yea oddly 😞
Legend has it that to this day, Ashens is still buying crap media repair devices to fix his copy of Karate Kid.
Here I am, 3 am, meeting in the morning, watching a british bloke seeing if his newly bought DVDs have fingerprint marks on them
Hang on - a product that Ashens actually likes? What is this witchcraft?
he liked pretty much everything in the foreign food special
He was also really enjoying the Nanodots
Billy Parker Cause they paid him.
i like the guy fawkes mask
That by Far was the most entertaining and riveting demonstration of slight DVD table related shuffling for the purposes of scratching it.. I even watched it twice.
Scratches happen whenever you put a disc in a system.
Discs only get scratched in systems when the disc is being read and even then it doesn't seem to make a lot of difference. I've completed spongebob squarepants battle for bikini bottom for xbox (which I highly recommend to any playstation 2/early model playstation 3/xbox/xbox 360/gamecube/wii owner) and and when I bought it the disc was in like new condition and I inspected the disc after I completed the game and the disc didn't really seem different at all.
mac john I've put hours into Spyro the Dragon and it's scratched to hell.
If you're taking the theory that systems scratch discs a lot from the playstaion 1 then I have really nothing to say on that because I've never played on the playstation 1 I've always played on my brother's early model playstation 3 or my playstation 2 and I can't guess the quality the the playstation 1's disc destroying abilities because the oldest disc reader I've ever used is from 2002 with my model 1 xbox (which has a really bad reader and can only read absolutely brand new discs) which never just destroyed a disc while I was playing it.
i know this is super duper old, but my discs never scratch. ever. i don't allow it and that's why every single disc i own of anything is clear and well maintained.
***** that's why when anyone wants to play a game of mine i put it in for them lol and take it out for them
Same lol
+Techno sailor Do you whip them if they dare to get scratched?
Saw this in my recommend feed today day and realised that the last time I even saw a piece of optical media was when I put a mixed CD in my car a year before this video was released. And it's been there ever since.
Discs are designed to scratch easily. They have a soft protective layer of plastic over the metal part which is designed to take all the damage. It's designed like that so that you can easily fix the scratches by removing the scratched area plastic all together and leave behind a fresh layer of plastic. Kind of in the same way ablative armour works on tanks
The Golden Compass has got to be by far one of the worst video games I have ever played. Bought it at 10 years old, and even I realised it was so crappy, to the extent I almost needed therapy after playing it.
Bonus extra, the subtitle of Karate Kid is the same in french and spanish but in italian it says: "To win tomorrow"
One of the worst things you can possibly do to a CD/DVD/Blu-Ray disc is to put it in one of those felt/flocked/wtfeverthatfluffycrapis disc sleeves. The fuzzy crap collects dust like a glass coffee table, then you slide your discs in and out of them... yeah... tell me they don't make these things intentionally to destroy your discs.
While I agree that the majority of CD slieves sold at retail are worthless; I exclusively use a particular type of cloth CD sleves, and have had meddling family members and colleagues repack (and destroy) years of backups and other discs by repacking them into other types slieves/pockets "to be helpful" or for some misplaced loyalty to products "Made in USA".
The hiarchy seems to be (in order of most crap to least):
coarse felt (instant destruction!, $2~10)
uncured clear vynil. ($1.50)
paper w/ plastic window, ($0.65)
coarse nylon, ($1~3)
waxed cardboard, ($0.75)
waxed cardboard w/plastic window, ($0.75)
paper w/ glued seam on the inside, ($0.30)
transparent cured vynil, ($2)
hardshell polycarbonite, ($0.50)
paper w/ glue on the outside, ($0.25)
softshell vynil, ($0.70)
lint-free treated polypropylene, ($0.10, I also use these as lens cloths)
The infuriating part is that (locally) the more expensive (a slieve/envelope) the more likely it is to utterly destroy the disc; and I cannot tell the meddling fools to buy DAC brand model # whatever, because they will always buy one of their more expensive offerings that will throroughly destroy the discs.
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Actually; I'm reasonbly certain that DAC's "monitor attached floppy disc storage"(eqv) was actually designed to erase the discs using the degauss feature, and that the english product name was some sort of translation error. This would also explain why their discontinued "hardshell CD disc carrier"(eqv) seemed so well designed to consistently put a scratch at the centre of the disc when opened.
Legend has it the disc still sits on a shelf in Stewart's house, quietly sobbing in its dusty case, praying for a follow up video.
i love lemonade
ok?
Good for you?
did you completely miss him saying that in the video?
Yeah.
0:17 "I LOVE LEMONADE" -Stuart Ashen
Yeah those machines cost around $2000 because the movie, music, and game industries want to be able to rip you off by charging too much money for media on crappy optical disks that are made from plastic that is soft as frozen butter. I feel no remorse burning pirate discs after all the money they sucked from me having to replace media. The damn things get nicked up by the plastic cases for christ's sake.
Getting rid of all my CDs and DVDs and just streaming and downloading was so liberating.
That Mel B joke was savage!! 😂
Commenting in 2022…. 10 years too late? 😂
I had one of those hand spin ones, and all it did was put circular scratches on the entire disc. Went from having a few freezes to unplayable.
"In conclusion, (laughs) lemonade..."
-Ashens, 2011
I remember I got loads of scratches on my CD from when they'd rub the side of the CD tray when I was putting them in.
Sure, each individual scratch was diddly. But after a few years that diddly really added up.
***** Shut up Flanders.
+spitfire184 STUPID SEXY FLANDERS!
+spitfire184 I am not in this post at all but subing as you are a spitfire
+Spitefire6 always nice to meet a fan.
spitfire184
not a problem dude :)
This reminds me of those VCR cleaning tapes you'd get that came with a little bottle of some sort of chemical to drip into your VCR to remove dust and such. Loved playing with those as a kid.
2018 here, apparently UA-cam's algorithm really wanted me to watch this. Who am I to say no?
16:07
Sounds like my local hospital
you ever think its shop that scratches them? i mean they store them in the shitty plastic wallets and they dont give 2 hoots if you get it scratched
I actually have one of those disc cleaner things from the 99p Store, but I removed the mechanism and just use it as a convenient screw holder when I'm disassembling computers XP
Good idea. Personally I use an Altoids tin to hold screws.
llibertyGamer
I personally use toothpaste to remove scratches.
I know a guy who owns a disk buffer, he got it cheap from a local tech store that was closing.
Ivan Simpson toothpaste never worked for me. :(
Brady Turner Yep,, toothpaste can be tricky, you have to use certain types, as anything with crystals etc will make the disc worse.
Even if I don't put my games back in the case immediately I still put it upside down on a table
God damn it, he haven't changed the formula one bit, it's the exact same content today, after 7 years and somehow it still feels fresh.
Something worse and more dangerous than scratched discs;
Disc cases that hold the disk too tightly.
I snapped a copy of Trainz 2006 in half back in the day because the disc would just not come out.
There's being secure, but then there's being over secure and snapping in half.
+ClonesDream Maybe that's why they made cases that have a little button in the middle to release it, did you think about using that?
*****
That old case didn't have it, it just clipped on to the inside of the disc and you had to pull them apart and release the disc, no button to push.
ClonesDream Can you show me an image of this case?
+computerman789 I would have said the same thing if I had not had the same experience with a cheepo PC game I got years ago. The case didn't have a press button thing in the middle, just a bit of plastic that was supposed to spring away when you pulled the disk. Thank god it didn't snap when I pulled it out.. Bent so much!
+ClonesDream i have a immense fear of doing that to my games.
I bought MW2 in 2013. And there were lots of copies too. Weird. Do shops in the UK burn all copies after 6 months and feed the remains to wild animals or something?
They must ship them to gamestops here in 'Murica...
Every single game store I visit at least has one copy of Modern Warfare 2 for both platforms.
do animals eat my favorite game of all time? BURN THEM WITH FIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIRE!
I find that gentle rubbing with some brasso on a soft rag works wonders in polishing DVD'd and CD's with scratches and it can even considerable reduce the effect of heavy scratches enough so that the disc will play
I saw the thumbnail three or four times but never clicked on the video.
I was 100% sure the cleaning device was a CD player with two sandpaper disks you put in to uniformly scratch a disc. Just because I read laceration in the title.
Ok, I'm probably an idiot but I still want the scratching device to exist.
I found the director's cut of Blade Runner at a Goodwill once, and there was, I'm not kidding, a stain like someone sat a cup of coffee on it. Just, a ring and some splotches that were roughly the colour of coffee. Who- who does that? /why/. I did manage to get it working but I'm still entirely baffled.
I use shitty games as coasters all the time.
i use coasters as shitty games. I will try your version :)
Was it inside the disc itself(like the way you put it in the player)? If so, an XBOX game I had had the same thing on it. Have no idea how it happened.
@@ettoresalvatore9437 oh sounds like a cool idea actaully use shit games as coasters a cool estatic
my dad used to have a dvd rental store with the exact machine you have shown in the picture,and now that he has a different job,the machine is still up and running in our house and ready for my games...except that it doesn't work most of the time because the discs i tried to put in it were too scratched for that..who would've thought?
That Eddie Murphy pun was great, man. Top Kek.
whats the joke
+Double Step Castillo U
Mel B and Eddie Murphy went out for a time and she became pregnant and denied that the kid was his for a time.
reason for a disk to be scratched: a family member touches it/doesn't put it in the case because he/she doesn't know where to put it, (and all other things that other ppl might do, that YOU might not have done) not hitting the EXACT place, when placing it in the video player, so you have to move it a third of an inch, moving it a 8th of an inch when removing it from the video player, dropping it, having ONE spec of dust on the video player cd holder, having one spec of dust in the cd case/compartment, dragging the cd an 8th of an inch when removing the cd from the cover, before putting it in the video player, and probably MORE, but i can't think of anymore, at this time. but you see, it's not as easy as it SEEMS to keep a cd scratch free, unless you're one of those guys who keep their comic books in a separate air tight dark room, with CONSTANT temperature control, and buy first grade acid proof plastic bags to put them in, and touch it with pincers, while wearing a hazmat suit and rubber gloves which you discard after every use.
over the years i will come back to this.. 5 years on and still no follow up suspect he will never be able to watch Karate kid from a disc =(
I seem to be the only person who puts discs face down, causing the delicate, important side of the disc to not get scratched.
While that's better then placing the disc face up leaving the disc face down is still not good because dust will get on it and the printed side will get scratched making the disc look just a tad bit worse.
Zex Eios lol rub it in with a banana (it works for real)
That's what I do
Why not do what I do, and vacuum wrap your discs.
E Quinn use a banana peel.....the potassium rids of scratches
Actually, you can't find every single movie on DVD. Scavenger Hunt was never released on DVD, neither was Song of the South, and at the time this video was uploaded, you couldn't get Animaniacs: Wakko's Wish on DVD (well, you can now, but point being, you can't find every single movie ever released on DVD)
I don't think he meant it literally. If he had lacked an exaggeration when talking about something intended for comedic purpose, his improvised comedy would fail. I'm fun at parties.
GameFactz Oh, OK. =)
I'm always confused when I hear that Song of the South was never released for Home Video because I remember seeing it in supermarkets here like a decade ago...?? Or is it just in America it wasn't released in shops?
Roadent1241 well Disney don't want it to be related to them since the movie has racist undertones
@@Roadent1241 Yeah, mostly an American thing, I think.
"HAHDJXKJSHSJAILOVELEMONADe" is exactly how I feel knowing that it's Sunday and I have school tomorrow and should be sleeping but instead I'm watching this
should've ordered a 2nd-hand GTA if you want scratches, srs
Any sandbox game really.
I take very good care of my game discs always put them back in the case after I'm done playing with them and if I find any fingerprints I wipe them off with a soft cloth and I still get scratches on them pisses me off
That Eddie Murphy joke was great
you should have tried to put the xerapol on the disks in the disk cleaner and spun that around.
The main problem with Second-Hand games is that it's always the GOOD ones that get scratched, or popular ones like... CoD *shudders at the thought of the word "Good" & "Call of Duty" in the same sentence*
CoD 4?
+Liquid Ocelot ALL CoD's... except maybe the original & maybe WaW.
+ContraZombie4 The older CoDs were good. And the modern ones aren't all terrible. Honestly, the games don't deserve the horrible reputation they have. By no means are they Games of the Year or anything, but they're still fun. They're decent military shooters; not really innovative, and a bit bland, but they're fun enough.
It's the player base that's really shit. Absolutely horrendous people, and toxic as hell. It's one of many cases of decent games being dragged down by shitty, stupid players. That's why I like the older ones better; more focus on the single player than the newer ones, and the single player mode was always the best part, in my opinion.
And Zombies was plenty of fun, if you had friends to play with. I loved Zombies.
+Mr. Kitty Saves The World Zombies is the ONLY redeeming mode. Multiplayer, even with JUST friends, if fucking garbage. Using dumb tactics like only using SMG's, which are REALLY OP, & throwing C4, OR EVERYONE'S personal _favorite_ getting a kill by hurling a grenade across the map. & minus story, the campaign "challenges" your ability to walk sraight forward through linear areas & demanding you be able to take orders.
What _fun_...
well, it stands to reason that the better/more popular a game is, the more its played, the more likely it is to get scratched.
Of course, its pretty irrelevant in this age of digital distribution
This is why I always had qualms about lending my games to friends as a kid. I would take incredible care with my discs, and they just wouldn't. After a couple instances of things coming back covered in scratches I stopped lending them out.
I had in the past two xbox 360's. both of which scrached the disks. and over time destroyed them.
thank goodness I ditched the consoles early on in the 360 days.
RIP my copy of Oblivion from very slightly bumping into the side of it while it was running.
Yeah. I hate disks. Especially original playstation disks. They took no effort to scratch at all - set it down on something, and it's scratched.
I see scratches on the back of the karate kid. That's usually a death sentence.
Fix: Don't set your damn disks down on the shiny side that needs to be clean to read data... Why do some people not understand this and think it's okay to set the discs down with the label face up?
Mmhmm. Also make sure no one else ever does that. Don't ever dare clean it with a soft, lintless cloth, it's still too sensitive. Better hope no one sets even a sheet of paper on that black-side up disk. If you put any spin on the disk while it's in a case, pray you had no pressure behind it.
They were just plain too fragile. Absolute trash.
FDJustin
Over exaggerate much? I've cleaned mine with proper cleaning cloths plenty and all of mine are still fine. I never let anyone else handle my games, they shouldn't be left out for it to be possible for someone to set something on them, and you shouldn't spin them around in the case like they're a toy.
Yeah they weren't as durable as discs now, but that doesn't mean it was hard to keep them from being damaged if you took basic care of them.
Loponstorm I exaggerate a little, but no more than the idea of spinning them in the case "like a toy". I know it's hard to imagine, but when the playstation was released people were still inexperienced with disks. They would get spun as people grabbed for the edges, or pushed down on a side to try and get leverage. Plenty of times the disks would fall out when you opened the case, so you had to learn to open the case horizontally.
And no, I'm not exaggerating much when it comes to cleaning: I have managed to scratch PS games with a soft cloth. Not a microfiber cloth; didn't know about them back then.
Did you not have any friends or siblings? The more people that get involved, the more likely disks are to be mistreated, and they _do_ scratch extremely easily.
I don't need to imagine. I grew up with a Playstation, my second console after the SNES.
CD's existed for plenty of years before Playstation was released, so I knew how to handle the disks and open the cases, and we had the cleaning cloths we'd used for CD's as well.
I did have friends and siblings (tho out of my siblings I was the only one to play video games) but I didn't loan them out, and when I'd take them over to a friends house or they'd be over, we'd be responsible for our own games, as our parents taught us.
I never had a single Playstation game become unreadable, and I had a lot.
You know what.
I was watching Skyfall about 10 minutes ago and i had to pause it to go grab a snack. Came back and decided to start browsing your videos.
There you go Ashens, you are now better than James Bond.
R.I.P Gamestation.
I actually have one of those disc cleaner things :/
I own a Skip Doctor, and it worked wonders the one time I used it. My favorite game 5 years ago, Forza Motorsport 3, stopped working after my 360 tried to eat it (disk went in completely clean and brand new, came out a couple of months later with giant deep rings around the middle). After the Skip Doctor, it ran fine from then on and never had any more issues.
2011??? Fuck i'm old...
all hail steam where you can buy so menny old games.
*many
EpicPixelSwift9000 sorry my fingers just want to spell menny becouse it makes more sense to spell it that way in my native language
+DribbleNaught nope swedish is weird
...Yes... BUT NOT "BLADE OF DARKNESS"!!!! RAUUUUUUUGHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!
+MXOY99 Bleid of Darkness
Estonian ftw!
omg I'm slightly addicted to your sarcastic opinions I genuinely think you should break into stand up comedy you have very quickly become my favourite channel to watch please keep it up😂
Look how young the sofa looks here.
smexizool :-)
My childhood copy of Oblivion died to a tiny scratch near the hole. Fuck.
+The Ass King Just like your grandpa.
+Professor T what
+The Ass King He died because of a scratch near the hole.
+Professor T *clicks* noice
+Professor T made me laugh harder than the comment itself
One trick I found with a DVD, is if the video is scratched too much, you can make a backup copy of it to another blank DVD. That fixed a DVD for me, before.
Thank god blu-rays are fucking impossible to scratch.
And yet somehow my copy of Borderlands stutters like hell at times. Whoever owned it must have seriously not taken care of it.
And yet my pristine looking copy of Dark Knight hiccups a lot. Not sure why, but maybe it's a firmware issue?
My sister is the worst. She puts discs down on surfaces and leaves them there. She touches them leaving fingerprints and...argh. She seems to be intentionally destroying my games. I fear for my copy of Mario kart 8, which she frequently uses.
That sounds exactly like my cousin hehe....
and pretty much any careless idiot
4:13 Nerdgasm from him mentioning Dizzy the Egg; thought I was the only one who referenced obscure franchises. :D
Oddly enough PS2 games can look like trash and still work, the scratches don't matter on it, but a smudge on a ps4 disc freezes the game.
Ikr? I mean, they have got to be kidding when they say "NEW AND IMPROVED" and stuff!
I reckon the better performance of the newer discs comes at the price of them being more delicate as a result. While less durable, they let you play more demanding games. So i think you very well could call them "new and improved".
And PS1 games could be extremely fucking scratched and it will still work 100%
I think that this might have to do with the data density of these media. The higher the density of data, the more a scratch matters to it.
However, if you dare lay a finger on the laser reading thing on a PS2 it will kill the console. Yet I still had two games that worked perfectly even though my mum disagrees. R.I.P My beloved PS2 2006-2013 you were my favourite console ever and I will never forget you.
I had the golden compass it was a load of shit!
It came free with my Wii, it was shite.
J Hughes i had it on the ps3 the wii one sounds worse
Shame really cause the book was really good
The dyl Pickle Do good books ever get made into good games? I'm genuinely interested haha.
J Hughes
Megami Tensei. If you're unfamiliar with it, Megami Tensei is a Japanese sci-fi/cyberpunk novel, turned into a video game in 1987 by Atlus. Now, Megami Tensei is a decently big game franchise and nobody remembers the novel. The MegaTen sub series Persona is more famous than mainline MegaTen too.
The Mel B game had a purple case I’ve never seen a game with a purple case before
@Taipan Tails I see
I let (was forced) one of my cousins borrow one of my games now the music doesn't work properly. You wouldn't believe how angry I was. Seriously if I wasn't forced I wouldn't have let him. Because he leaves his games out of the case. And from this day forward he isn't allowed to even touch my games or game systems. Especially after deleting one of my saves.
Deleting games is just wrong. Any gamer knows that a game save needs to be kept until you hate that game and never play it, and even then you keep it just in case. Others that delete data need to be deleted themselves. If I have someone try a game and they decide to delete my data, I will punch them in the face and force them to play up to the point that I was as, while collecting all the collectibles. No one should ever mess with someones game saves. Ever.
WHY YOU DELETE GAME SAVES THIS DUDZ COUSIN!?
at least my steam games don't scratch :)
Some films you can’t buy, because they discontinue them