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| Grave
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|  "Re(1):Looking for Valkyrie Profile"
, posted Sun 5 Jan 00:11
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Does anyone know of where I can purchase the english version of this game online for a good price?
My game disk is confirmed dead, even after cleaning it and trying to play it in other machines :(
Cleaning it, that's one thing... Did you try resurfacing it?
I thought my PS Ogre Battle was done for when it had some bad radial scratches, but I got a Disc Doctor, and after resurfacing it, it worked perfectly ever since then.
If the disc's in good condition, just malfunctions, you should contact the manufacturer of the game... Enix, was it? I don't recall. As for a good price on the game now, I can't really help, besides pointing you to the obvious places... Hope this all works out.
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| Toxico 2737th Post
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|  "Re(2):Looking for Valkyrie Profile"
, posted Sun 5 Jan 13:53
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Cleaning it, that's one thing... Did you try resurfacing it?
I thought my PS Ogre Battle was done for when it had some bad radial scratches, but I got a Disc Doctor, and after resurfacing it, it worked perfectly ever since then.
If the disc's in good condition, just malfunctions, you should contact the manufacturer of the game... Enix, was it? I don't recall. As for a good price on the game now, I can't really help, besides pointing you to the obvious places... Hope this all works out.
Correct; using such utilities you can even do a image of a wretched CD, I just saved my "inutilities" CDs using such methods... The CD even had a hole on it; since it was done by a friend of mine I'll catch up with more info about the process later.
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| Holiday 1572th Post
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| "Re(2):Looking for Valkyrie Profile" , posted Sun 5 Jan 20:26
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Cleaning it, that's one thing... Did you try resurfacing it?
I thought my PS Ogre Battle was done for when it had some bad radial scratches, but I got a Disc Doctor, and after resurfacing it, it worked perfectly ever since then.
If the disc's in good condition, just malfunctions, you should contact the manufacturer of the game... Enix, was it? I don't recall. As for a good price on the game now, I can't really help, besides pointing you to the obvious places... Hope this all works out.
Thanks, Grave and Toxico! I've never head of resurfacing a damaged disc. Mine has really bad scratches because my PS goes crazy sometimes and manages to scratch the disc somehow :(
Could you tell me more of Disc Doctor and more of the methods of rescuing these things? The weirdest technique I've seen is boiling a DVD for 30 minutes and then letting it dry to play on an XBox 0_o;;
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| Grave
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| "Re(3):Looking for Valkyrie Profile" , posted Sun 5 Jan 20:47
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Could you tell me more of Disc Doctor and more of the methods of rescuing these things? The weirdest technique I've seen is boiling a DVD for 30 minutes and then letting it dry to play on an XBox 0_o;;
Boiling a DVD? Sounds like... er... not a good idea.
There are a lot of methods I've heard about for rescuing discs, but few I've tried. The Disc Doctor worked well for me. The problem with CDs is that straight scratches rarely do a whole lot of damage. CDs have pretty good error protection, and like it was said earlier on the thread, even CDs with a hole in them can work. Not something I'd recommend trying with a CD you really like, but...
The problem is radial scratches that go along the data tracks, and that's probably the problem you have. I got a used DC copy of KOFDM99 a little while back, and it kept crashing every time Iori was the 1P chara. Granted, this had pissed me off, and I was ready to blame the disc as being defective and take it back, until I noticed a sticky stripe of something, probably adhesive, on the bottom of the CD. It was really hard to see, but upon removing it, the game worked fine.
To make a long story short, Disc Doctor grinds a layer off the bottom of the CD, and creates a new, smooth one. The CD itself looks kind of different (it has a spoke pattern to it), but it works fine as long as you follow the instructions. You can get the Disc Doctor kits anywhere that sells a lot of optical media. I know Best Buy stocks them, even stores like Walmart sometimes have them. It'll probably run you about $30, but if your PS routinely damages CDs, it might do you well to grab one and fix up whatever damaged ones you have. But if your PS keeps making more, maybe it's a new PS you should look into...
I buy a lot of used games, and some are in pretty awful condition, so I'm really glad I discovered Disc Doctor when I did, heh.
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