Captiosus
Shared on Thu, 08/16/2007 - 10:16I'm not a huge Ridge Racer fan, but I do miss my old Ridge Racer for PSP.
Since I no longer have a PSP, I decided I'd go ahead and pick up Ridge Racer 6 for X360.
Off I go to Gamestop, one of the very few places we have around here which buy and sell used games, and picked up a copy. The clerk gave the disk the once over and said it looked great. I also gave the disk a cursory glance and it looked damn near pristine. Confident in my cheap ass purchase, I get home and pop it into the 360.
Result: Unplayable Disk.
To quote the old anti-smoking campaign: WHATTHEFXUP?
Take out the disk, give it another cursory glance, run a DVD cleaning cloth over it, pop it into the X360 again. This time, it sat at reading for a good 5 minutes and finally loaded the game. Then it sat at "Now Loading" for another 10 before I went back to dashboard. At this point, my type A personality is starting to show and get pissed.
Grabbing my insanely bright, will-blind-you-if-you-glance-at-it, LCD flashlight, I scrutinize the disk.
Lo and behold!
While 99% of the disk looks pristine, there is a hairline crack from the inside of the spindle hole that goes into the media itself, right through the inner most section which, for those who don't know the setup of DVDs, contains the file system and media descriptors - A.K.A. the files which tell the system where everything is on the disk.
Looks like after I get back from getting my wife's car from the shop, I get to make another trip to Gamestop. This is twice in the last month this has happened, but, this time, I can kind of give Gamestop a pass (as long as they don't give me any grief about exchanging it). The disk itself looks practically brand new, unless you're really looking, this hairline crack is hard to see. But it's enough to destroy this disk's use.
Since I no longer have a PSP, I decided I'd go ahead and pick up Ridge Racer 6 for X360.
Off I go to Gamestop, one of the very few places we have around here which buy and sell used games, and picked up a copy. The clerk gave the disk the once over and said it looked great. I also gave the disk a cursory glance and it looked damn near pristine. Confident in my cheap ass purchase, I get home and pop it into the 360.
Result: Unplayable Disk.
To quote the old anti-smoking campaign: WHATTHEFXUP?
Take out the disk, give it another cursory glance, run a DVD cleaning cloth over it, pop it into the X360 again. This time, it sat at reading for a good 5 minutes and finally loaded the game. Then it sat at "Now Loading" for another 10 before I went back to dashboard. At this point, my type A personality is starting to show and get pissed.
Grabbing my insanely bright, will-blind-you-if-you-glance-at-it, LCD flashlight, I scrutinize the disk.
Lo and behold!
While 99% of the disk looks pristine, there is a hairline crack from the inside of the spindle hole that goes into the media itself, right through the inner most section which, for those who don't know the setup of DVDs, contains the file system and media descriptors - A.K.A. the files which tell the system where everything is on the disk.
Looks like after I get back from getting my wife's car from the shop, I get to make another trip to Gamestop. This is twice in the last month this has happened, but, this time, I can kind of give Gamestop a pass (as long as they don't give me any grief about exchanging it). The disk itself looks practically brand new, unless you're really looking, this hairline crack is hard to see. But it's enough to destroy this disk's use.
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Submitted by JeepChick on Thu, 08/16/2007 - 10:18