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I have some decently (as in two cats playing Tic-Tac-Toe) scratched up games over here which I want to play, how does one clean em up?

Toothpaste & a paper towel or soft cloth, I'm not kidding, it really does work (don't look at me like that...I'm not crazy!). Spread a bit of toothpaste on the CD with your finger and polish it with the paper towel until the scratches go away. Don't forget to wash off the CD's with water before using them. The toothpaste polishing will leave tons of fine swirl marks on the CD but those are usually too small to mess up the CDROM unless yours is really picky. It worked for my CD's after I bumped them off my desk and stepped on them after coming home late from a party.

jmac wrote:Toothpaste & a paper towel or soft cloth, I'm not kidding, it really does work (don't look at me like that...I'm not crazy!). Spread a bit of toothpaste on the CD with your finger and polish it with the paper towel until the scratches go away. Don't forget to wash off the CD's with water before using them. The toothpaste polishing will leave tons of fine swirl marks on the CD but those are usually too small to mess up the CDROM unless yours is really picky. It worked for my CD's after I bumped them off my desk and stepped on them after coming home late from a party.

[paranoid]Mommy! She's out to get me again!!![/quote]

I'll try it and see....

Straha wrote:

[paranoid]Mommy! She's out to get me again!!!

I'll try it and see....[/quote]

The reason it works is because toothpaste contains very fine abrasives which help clean all the crap off your teeth. Which is why those weirdos who brush their teeth 5 times a day sometimes end up brushing all the enamel right off their teeth which ain't good.

None of that clear gel shit, though. Regular paste only.

Strangely, another solution that works is peanut butter...

SPOOFE wrote:Strangely, another solution that works is peanut butter...

Nice try.

just don't use one of those skip doctors. dear god. Tropen had one of those he bought from his work and i decided to try it out. the damn cd played better with all the scratches on it than it did after i ran it through that piece of shit.

Alright I did it once, didn't work, going to do it again right now.

Wipe in a radial fashion, not circular

Pu-239 wrote:Wipe in a radial fashion, not circular

Circular is harder for the ECC to fix.