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KingDavid · November 17, 2007 03:56 PM

Okay - so I'm not much of a gamer right? But I could not resist buying Guitar Hero 3, and it is the shittt. But listen, I bought the damn thing, then I put the game in my counsel. I played it often, but not like every waking second of the day. THEN - it randomly starts glitching one time and my favorite song won't load =(, bulls on parade keeps skipping and it was all effffffffed right? SO I open up my counsel - REMEMBER I touched that CD ONCE , since I got it just to put it in , I take it out, and there's a HUGE scratch on it! How would this have happened if it was inside my counsel the whole time, and what are good remedies for removing scratches because I wanna play GH3 properly! I bought it a EB games and I didn't buy the warranty. do they have a free 30 day one do you guys know? Im just asking because im sure all of you are bigger gamers then me.

trent bortknob · November 17, 2007 04:11 PM

this happened to me with guitar hero 2

are you playing a ps2 because thats what i used

anyway yeah if the game has some trouble reading the disc or like you didnt put it in exactly right sometimes it will move around in the system and just get a big scratch on it

my did that and i couldn't fix it i had to buy a new one but its OK

MRat · November 17, 2007 04:30 PM

How long ago did you guy it? EBGames generally has like a 5 day grace period.

You can find some really great CD fixing junk that could theoretically buff the scratch out, but I don't have any names at hand. My suggestion, get a Wii with Guitar Hero. Mine is fine and it's been in the console since the day GHIII game out, well not true, on Tuesday I took it out and replaced it with Mario Galaxy.

P.S. I'm not actually saying buy a Wii, it's a joke.

rtil · November 17, 2007 06:01 PM

this is what xbox360 fans have become familiar with and they christened it the 'ring of death'. their problem is that since all 360 parts are manufactured by microsoft which is not a manufacturing company, the system is incredibly delicate and can break even with a slight push of the machine. what usually breaks is the positioning of the disc reader. the reader will actually make a cut into the game while playing it, and will eventually get so deep it will damage the disc. your reader may be broken and i would recommend bringing it in before you play anymore games with it. has it been tossed around at all? also, is it propped up sideways? i would recommend putting it so the disc reader is parallel with the ground. putting consoles sideways is never a good idea.

KingDavid · November 17, 2007 06:16 PM

I never had this problem with any of my games before though, I bought it for PS2, and I have mine propped up vertically most of the time. But right now it's sideways but my brother and his girlfriend are playing.. I bought the game last weekend on Saturday so it's a week old today. I first started to notice this, when my PS2 was vertically, and somehow my cat - or something i forget exactly what knocked it over so it landed horizontally when I was playing - maybe this shifted the disc or reader causing it to put a ring in it? But yeah this is really pissing me off seeing how I can't play Cliffs of Dover

trent bortknob · November 17, 2007 06:27 PM

i just watched weebl and bob its gayy

Gavin · November 17, 2007 07:05 PM

i dont know where the humor comes from its just little fucking eggs

rtil · November 17, 2007 08:00 PM

Quote from: KingDavidI never had this problem with any of my games before though, I bought it for PS2, and I have mine propped up vertically most of the time. But right now it's sideways but my brother and his girlfriend are playing.. I bought the game last weekend on Saturday so it's a week old today. I first started to notice this, when my PS2 was vertically, and somehow my cat - or something i forget exactly what knocked it over so it landed horizontally when I was playing - maybe this shifted the disc or reader causing it to put a ring in it? But yeah this is really pissing me off seeing how I can't play Cliffs of Dover

yeah, that'll do it. consoles these days are really flimsy and can't handle a lot of banging around. the only CD consoles that you could run a car over and still use were sega ones like the dreamcast and CD. they were built like rocks. things like the wii, 360 and ps consoles are flimsy and delicate, you have to be careful with them. i'd say that the reader is repairable but you'll have to send it in for repairs somewhere. dunno if sony does them or a game store, but its' the most common issue

psi43 · November 17, 2007 08:31 PM

I love you egg egg

come into my tummy, oh, so very yummy

Necronomitr0n · November 17, 2007 09:24 PM

Make sure you don't turn your 360 upright/horizontal during gameplay, that's how most of those giant circular scratches happen

ghostinglostfan · November 17, 2007 09:34 PM

Quote from: rtilthis is what xbox360 fans have become familiar with and they christened it the 'ring of death'. their problem is that since all 360 parts are manufactured by microsoft which is not a manufacturing company, the system is incredibly delicate and can break even with a slight push of the machine. what usually breaks is the positioning of the disc reader. the reader will actually make a cut into the game while playing it, and will eventually get so deep it will damage the disc. your reader may be broken and i would recommend bringing it in before you play anymore games with it. has it been tossed around at all? also, is it propped up sideways? i would recommend putting it so the disc reader is parallel with the ground. putting consoles sideways is never a good idea.

SOMEBODY FINALLY SPILLS THE TRUTH

rtil · November 18, 2007 12:07 AM

i know most of this from my friends and because i deal with hardware. i don't own any of those consoles

KingDavid · November 18, 2007 12:58 AM

Okay so i went on google and found some remedies - I don't think it's reader - just the game. I tried the whole lot of tricks, bulls on parade doesnt skip anymore - Talk dirty to me now plays - the only thing that doesn't work now is still Cliffs of dover - FACK!

rtil · November 18, 2007 01:38 AM

a game won't scratch itself

KingDavid · November 18, 2007 02:00 AM

then how would i have gotten the scratch - my reader could have just dug into when the counsel fell over? Because everything else besides that song works

psi43 · November 18, 2007 02:08 AM

the reader is just a 20th of a hair away from the disk. Well, that's what it's like on a harddrive, I'm not sure if it's like this on a console or normal cd-drive, too. They're actually built to stand bumps, like falling over.

adamant · November 18, 2007 04:53 AM

i've always wanted to play a real guitar but honestly dont think i have the potential for it :^(

Dagolith · November 18, 2007 07:33 AM

fuck game consoles, whenever i end up with a console of any type, i rip it apart and hot swap all the best part together in a server case.

mishkamash · November 18, 2007 11:10 PM

Quote from: rtila game won't scratch itself

queery spook did it

trent bortknob · November 19, 2007 01:07 AM

there's a queery spook in the old video game game console reader

!!!