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Old 06-21-2006, 06:38 PM   #16
 
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Re: um...cleaning discs...

Just warning everyone ahead of time who's using Tiny's advice...

...please wpe off the toothpaste before you pop it back into your PS2. My friend wasted a perfectly good PS2 because he tried to clean his FF8 disc with toothpaste and put it back in with the toothpaste still on. Gummed up the laser and the PS2 stopped reading anything.
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Old 06-21-2006, 08:46 PM   #17
 
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Re: um...cleaning discs...

LOL!!!!!
Hahahahaha!

Yes. Pleeeeeease clean off the tooth paste with water before using it in a console.
I took that as commen sense.

Tell your friend he's funny. Maybe a bit thick, but still very funny.

Once I got some sort of gunk on the laser reader(they're generally blue/crystal)
I used a Q-Tip and got it squeaky clean and working again.
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Old 06-22-2006, 12:13 AM   #18
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Re: um...cleaning discs...

I'll be sure to keep that in mind, TB. Toothpaste...huh.

If Disc One of SO3 doesn't take five minutes to access the camp menu, than that'd be awesome.

Or FFVII not stopping every two seconds during the first FMV. xD That's actualy better on the PS2 though.
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Old 06-23-2006, 02:41 AM   #19
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Re: um...cleaning discs...

heard something about putting alchohol on it but i don't believe it
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Old 06-24-2006, 11:17 AM   #20
 
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like rubbing alcohol,or the drink?
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Old 06-24-2006, 11:58 AM   #21
 
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Rubbing alcohol is a disolvent so I'd assume that would work.
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Old 06-29-2006, 11:29 PM   #22
 
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yea thats wat came to me just .....i guess getting technical
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Old 06-30-2006, 04:52 PM   #23
 
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Re: um...cleaning discs...

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Well this is a bit late for Zero, but for anyone else who wants to know...
I found a neat thing in a Popular Science magazine. Tooth Paste is the key!!!!!

Tooth Paste is really a bunch of chemicals that "vibirate" around and then Chemicals to kill germs. Anywho. The chemicals that vibirate are noramlly there to get off plaque. But these same chemicals also work to loosen/buff out all the greece, dirt, other junk, ect. out of the litlle tiny grooves in a CD. I tried this on my first copy of FF7 and it actually does work cause now I can start a game without it freezing right away! So tooth paste along with water + using soft cloth to drag out from the middle can fix a CD perfectly except for the scratches.
lol, I use that all the time... Worked on everything I've ever scratched up, except for my Marvel vs Capcom 2. @_@ But oh well. It's a great method to clean discs.
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Yep. Toothpaste really works. I found out about it in Maximum PC mag, and its been great ever since. I cover it in toothpaste (Use stuff like colgate and crest. The kiddie stuff dosnt work as well) and then put it under steaming water. It should melt the toothpaste right off. Then dab with somthing soft. If anyone in your family has glasses, ask them for the soft glasses cleaning rag that they SHOULD have gotten.
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just remember to wipe off the tooth paste
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