Reddit reviews SkipDr DVD and CD Manual Disc Repair System, Single

I ended up becoming really good at the game up until the gold saucer because it kept messing up from a scratch. We ended up using one of those CD buffer things and finally moved on.

Edit: Holy crap, they still make the buffer we used. Saved a lot of games.

Used to be you could by a disc repair thing in stores, it would use a type of ceramic to fill in deep scratches and some sort of device to grind down the plastic a tiny bit? Probably Best Buy and Walmart have them.

Edit: Amazon has some that are cheaper than local

my old room mate use to swear by his

My disk 2 was scratched and we had to buy another one from a friend until we remembered we had one of these laying around https://www.amazon.com/SkipDr-Manual-Disc-Repair-System/dp/B0015ACUKC

I used to have http://www.amazon.com/SkipDr-Manual-Disc-Repair-System/dp/B0015ACUKC/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1427138723&sr=8-1&keywords=cd+repair one of these in the early 2000's. It's a pretty simple process and would normally fix most scratches on a CD unless they were really deep scratches.

If they don't play, try the SkipDR. I buy and sell dvd's & video games and it always works perfectly as long as the scratches aren't deep.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Digital-Innovations-1018300-SkipDr-Classic/dp/B0015ACUKC

That, my dear friend is the absolutely best thing for this kind of thing. If it can be fixed, this should do it.

Video of it in action.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGACqFfOiE4

Legit bought a cd disk cleaner. anyone else buy one of these?

http://smile.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0015ACUKC/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?qid=1417981512&sr=8-1&pi=AC_SY200_QL40. There might be better ones, but that's the top seller.

http://www.amazon.com/Simotech-DSR-1-DVD-Repair-Machine/dp/B000GX31G6 works the best

or

I have something similar to this that works well too and is much cheaper

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0015ACUKC/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_dp_ss_2?pf_rd_p=1944687542&pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe-1&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_i=B000GX31G6&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=02E4A7N8YPDGNB8HMD42


You could get the right grit sand paper to do it yourself but thats only $15 and works much better.


It makes the discs look like they are really scratched when you are done but they work great / its just because it literally scrapes a layer of the plastic off so it is not polished anymore. You could try to carefully flame polish the plastic when you are done if you wanted a shiny finish but you would need to be REALLY careful since you have to use a very hot flame / like a butane torch.

Google flame polishing plastic.

So I know this has nothing to do with the question you asked but if you have discs that are scratched up so they won't play but they're not destroyed try the Skip Dr I didn't believe it would work but it rescued 30 DVDs that my kids wrecked pretty good. There were 4 that I was unable to repair but otherwise it worked amazing.

Super old school, I used to use these like 20 years ago, but you could try a SkipDr.

It will work, you just need to buy one of these to remove the scratches:

https://www.amazon.com/SkipDr-Manual-Disc-Repair-System/dp/B0015ACUKC

Something like this:

SkipDr DVD and CD Manual Disc Repair System https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0015ACUKC/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_SPnCzbYQHDXBE

for when your halo 2 disk stopped working on your xbox

You can use something like this to resurface: https://www.amazon.com/SkipDr-Manual-Disc-Repair-System/dp/B0015ACUKC/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=skipdr&qid=1563986877&s=gateway&sr=8-2

Then I'd recommend you use a program called ISOBuster to attempt recovery. Most recovery software is not well designed to work with optical media, but ISOBuster is.

Here, spend 17 dollars on this. I've used it to fix both my halo and MW2 disks that had this happen to them (I'm not the brightest person) and I spent 17 dollars not 120.

Tell him to look into disc buffers. The brand I bought years ago is no longer around (Disc Dr,) however, the spiritual successor is available on Amazon. As a side note, this style does leave a noticeable pattern on the disc when viewed from certain angles. That said, I've used it with Dreamcast, Xbox, 360, and PS2 games, and most read fine (there was one DC game... not sure what it's story is... ah well, at least it is a common game.)

Buy a CD, rip it to your computer, and put it away is the best advise I can give you.

You could try something like a Disc Doctor which repairs scratches.

I've used these with success for the XBox.

This is the classic answer for your problem. That, or find a movie rental place that has a disk buffer they'll let you use.

Prices on a lot of games seems to have swung up the last couple of years (SNES and GCN, especially, from what I've seen). I felt ripped-off buying Metal Warriors on the SNES for about $40, around 3 years ago. It's just the way things go.

I picked up a PS2 disc at Goodwill, but the console wouldn't read it (it gave a "insert Playstation compatible disc" error). I bought one of these things on Amazon and it worked like a charm:

http://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B0015ACUKC/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o08_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Took all of 2 minutes to use. You spray on a little bit of the distilled water / alcohol mixture from the spray bottle (which is included), pop the disc in, turn the crank, and it buffs out the scratches. There are Youtube videos if you're curious. Definitely worth trying.

This is the one I have, works like a charm

Me imagino que estas buscando algun lugar que te haga resurfacing, dudo que haya mercado para que alguien compre una maquina profesional (tipo JFJ o mas grande, se que las cadenas de videojuegos en EEUU/UK tienen maquinas profesionales para limpiar y revender discos usados) o sea que lo que te queda es importar de alguna forma un Skip Doctor, que hace mas o menos lo mismo que esas maquinas (con resultados peores, obvio, pero es algo) o probar con algun fluido para pulir, o alguna otra solucion casera (he escuchado pasta de dientes, bananas, etc, nunca probe con nada de eso)

Protip: Si pones el disco a contraluz, y ves líneas/puntos donde pasa la luz, el disco es basura, ni te calientes en intentar arreglarlo.

>http://www.amazon.com/SkipDr-Manual-Disc-Repair-System/dp/B0015ACUKC/ref=sr_1_1?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1342792444&sr=1-1

Maybe?

Even inexpensive things like this have a decent 70-80% success rate in my experience. You can get much better gear for repairing discs, though.

You could buy a resurfacer for a reasonable price: https://www.amazon.com/SkipDr-Manual-Disc-Repair-System/dp/B0015ACUKC/ref=pd_lpo_vtph_23_bs_img_1?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=AH6Z7M1EF4BMDTB92MAY

If you want to you can try something like this:

https://www.amazon.com/SkipDr-Manual-Disc-Repair-System/dp/B0015ACUKC

I have used it before on some discs that were scratched and it made them playable again.

One thing you want to check is if the scratch is also through the reflective layer. Hold the disc up to a light source and if you can see through the disc (I'm talking about the shiny area) that there probably is holes in the reflective layer. That usually means the disc is damaged beyond fixable. But sometimes if it is small enough loss the error correcting parts of the game can skip over that.

You might try something along the lines of this scratch remover: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0015ACUKC/ref=cm_sw_r_awd_n95vub0R0903W (sorry cant remember how to link on mobile.) I however have not had much luck with these. You might just be better off buying the song from itunes, or acquiring it by other means.

Or you can do it yourself... http://www.amazon.com/SkipDr-Manual-Disc-Repair-System/dp/B0015ACUKC/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1414775217&sr=8-1&keywords=disc+fixer

Try to find one of these, or see if the game store has one to use.


https://www.amazon.com/SkipDr-Manual-Disc-Repair-System/dp/B0015ACUKC

Is it a circular scratch that goes all the way around the disc? That's what happens when the read head crashes into the disc while it's spinning at high speed. It will render the entire track unreadable, and it's really difficult to fix. You can try one of these, but don't expect miracles. It basically polishes off a layer of the polycarbonate. It works fine for minor scratches, but deep ones are pretty much a lost cause.

That's a pretty easy fix. Skip Dr, sucka

I did the same thing to Sims 3. Oh the humanity! Anyway, this worked great. Took a while though.

I've had generally good results with the old-fashioned hand-cranked SkipDr. Most recently I picked up a copy of Virtua Striker 2 ver. 2000.1 for £2 from a local shop which got as far as creating a VMU save file before dumping me back to the BIOS menu. A quick spin with the SkipDr resulted in a disc that works perfectly but looks like this (lots of fine scuff marks from the centre of the disc to the edge) which shows that it's been run through a cheap tool rather than properly resurfaced. If I'd tried to get a refund after this I might have had problems as they would be able to tell I'd done this (and potentially made the issue worse) which is why I only recommend it on cheap games.

or just get a small hand held disc resurfacer

http://www.amazon.com/SkipDr-Manual-Disc-Repair-System/dp/B0015ACUKC/ref=sr_1_1?s=audio-video-accessories&ie=UTF8&qid=1394724507&sr=1-1

What about a SkipDr?

I've used http://www.amazon.com/SkipDr-Manual-Disc-Repair-System/dp/B0015ACUKC/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1404873438&sr=8-1&keywords=Skip+Dr back in the day. It does work most of the time. It's essentially very fine grit sandpaper and water that rubs it in a perfect circular pattern.

You could always try the disk doctor. http://www.amazon.com/SkipDr-Manual-Disc-Repair-System/dp/B0015ACUKC/