Having a Pro resurface your games...

I have a personal policy that I won't buy used games with deep scratches or many nicks at all. I may buy a lightly scratched game still if it is hard to find or rare.

Anyways I was at a Gamestore the other day and asked to see the disc, it was slightly scratched so the clerk offered to fix it. They had a machine that looks like it sharpens tools but with some covering on in. In a few seconds it was flawless again. They said they would fix and cds I wanted to bring in for 50 cents to a Dollar. Interesting as this seems to be a good thing, I've heard too many bad things about Game Doctors so maybe this is a solution? Some Gamestops I believe will resuface your disks for a small fee too.

I suppose there is always a risk but a place like that may come in handy.

Anyone pay for someone else to resurface your games?

we used to have the machine to do it they made us send it back though i dont know why

but anyway if you had me resurface your disk 99.9999% of the people out there wouldnt have been able to tell it wasnt a new game

i mastered how to use that thing

wish we still had it

hell wish i had mine own ive passed up alot of hard to find games for cheap prices cause they were scratched

ohhhh and the Gamedoctors are evil evil evil machines

I have never had this done... Usually if it looks playable i will buy it used... I try not to but sometimes i just cant afford the extra money for a new game, expecially if the game is really old..
And Why are Game Doctors evil? I have seen so many infomercials about them! EB used to play them repeated in the store! hahaha :D

Different people will swear completely opposite stories, some horrific others postive, on the effectiveness of the Game Doctor. But such an almost down the middle even split makes me wary of the risks associated with it, seeming like there was a 50/50 chance I'd either successfully resurface the game or screw it up even further.

Thankfully I buy almost all my games either new or in mint condition used, but in the rare instance I picked up a HTF used game that's seens some abuse, if it's playing fine and not skipping, I'll just keep it as it is rather than take the risk of resurfacing it.

Disc scratches are weird things. My copy of Raiden Project is so scratched up that I'd never buy it in a store without testing it first. Thing is, it works perfectly.

On the other hand, my SOTN's only scratch is a relatively small one on the outside of the disc, yet several of the music tracks skip like crazy.

I also own two discs that have been through a Gamedoctor - Ys III and Exile, both for TurboGrafx. Both work fine, and cost me VERY little to obtain. ;)

I hope EB has one of these machines... there are no Gamestops where I'm plan to relocate.

Chemist: The Game Doctor is far less reliable than a professional resurfacing service, mainly because of the fact that it scratches up a CD or DVD quite heavily during its resurfacing process. The manual that comes with the Game Doctor recommends that you use a piece of felt included with the device to minimise any scratching created during resurfacing, but all it will end up doing is just scratch up your discs even more heavily.

Professional resurfacing evenly shaves a thin layer of plastic off of the surface of a disc, which means that it's restored to a near-new condition. It won't leave any scratches or grooves in a disc, which means it's far less likely to cause problems than the Game Doctor is. I agree with John, the Game Doctor is evil.

my local gamestop sends all their games away to be fixed, sucks to be me I guess...

I love the Game Doctor, for me, it revitalized my Saturn library when I bought a ton of games from a friend for $10 that were all scratched up. These games worked like brand-new after using the GC.

a few years ago, i picked up a used copy of klonoa that wouldn't play properly. choppy music/video, if the game booted at all. without knowing any better, i bought a gamedoctor and tried it out. worked like a charm.) looks like i got lucky, eh?

You think that's lucky? One of the Saturn games I bought from the friend was Dragon Force, game was scratched up a bit, and wouldn't work. I bought a GD, and it worked like a charm, up until recently when it sorta stopped working in the middle of play.

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Originally posted by Shin Johnpv
we used to have the machine to do it they made us send it back though i dont know why

but anyway if you had me resurface your disk 99.9999% of the people out there wouldnt have been able to tell it wasnt a new game

i mastered how to use that thing

wish we still had it

hell wish i had mine own ive passed up alot of hard to find games for cheap prices cause they were scratched

ohhhh and the Gamedoctors are evil evil evil machines

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hell yes. I remember when Mezz used to work for the company and the huge ethical crisis he went through when encountering them at E3. ah the stories he spoke of when he was at EB. heh.

bloody GD's, it messed up my copy of Soul Calibur! :mad:

i tried to buy a Game Doctor once. but the cashier would not let me buy it.

<Me> *puts GD on the counter* just this for today.
<Cashier> Alright then. *puts GD behind counter*
<Me> Wha....? *puts another GD on counter*
<Cashier> *puts GD behind counter* What can I get for you today?
<Me> This! *puts 3 GDs on counter*
<Cashier> What? *puts GDs behind counter*
<Me> Fuck! *walks out of the store*

it was pretty funny.

Do most Gamestops do that? I have a Guardian Heroes that needs some tender love. :(

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Originally posted by Rhydant
i tried to buy a Game Doctor once. but the cashier would not let me buy it.

<Me> *puts GD on the counter* just this for today.
<Cashier> Alright then. *puts GD behind counter*
<Me> Wha....? *puts another GD on counter*
<Cashier> *puts GD behind counter* What can I get for you today?
<Me> This! *puts 3 GDs on counter*
<Cashier> What? *puts GDs behind counter*
<Me> Fuck! *walks out of the store*

it was pretty funny.

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Originally posted by Son of Bryce
Do most Gamestops do that? I have a Guardian Heroes that needs some tender love. :(

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I don't think that many have em, there is only one Gamestop near me that does it and it's not too close to me. CD shops may have one, and for a nominal fee they may buff it.

Ask at your local GameStop tho.

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Originally posted by Rhydant
i tried to buy a Game Doctor once. but the cashier would not let me buy it.

<Me> *puts GD on the counter* just this for today.
<Cashier> Alright then. *puts GD behind counter*
<Me> Wha....? *puts another GD on counter*
<Cashier> *puts GD behind counter* What can I get for you today?
<Me> This! *puts 3 GDs on counter*
<Cashier> What? *puts GDs behind counter*
<Me> Fuck! *walks out of the store*

it was pretty funny.

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An employee with a heart of gold. Saving you from the crappiness of the GD.

Thou shalft not diss the GD.

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Originally posted by Rhydant
i tried to buy a Game Doctor once. but the cashier would not let me buy it.

<Me> *puts GD on the counter* just this for today.
<Cashier> Alright then. *puts GD behind counter*
<Me> Wha....? *puts another GD on counter*
<Cashier> *puts GD behind counter* What can I get for you today?
<Me> This! *puts 3 GDs on counter*
<Cashier> What? *puts GDs behind counter*
<Me> Fuck! *walks out of the store*

it was pretty funny.

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tell me it wasn't that ass clown that scolded us for cussing...

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Originally posted by Son of Bryce
Do most Gamestops do that? I have a Guardian Heroes that needs some tender love. :(

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Dude, my Guardian Heroes needs some fixing too. It started with the main menu music skipping, now it is spreading...and it has taken Valgar's theme song!! :eek: :eek:

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Originally posted by Jeremy
Thou shalt not diss the GD.

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I've had mixed results with Game Doctor. On one disc that didn't work for like one stage of the game the GD pretty much ruined the game for some reason. But it's completely fixed destroyed discs before too. It seems to be game sensitive or something. My EBs Disc Doctor a lot of their PSX games before selling them, it's kind of a good thing, but I don't like the way they look damaged afterwards.

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Originally posted by Korian
I don't think that many have em, there is only one Gamestop near me that does it and it's not too close to me.

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Is that the one near Northtown?

Hmm not sure, I'll ask next time I'm at GS again.

I should correct myself as I was in Discland again for you MN folk, props to 16-Bit for telling me about it, but it
is really a buff job, not a resurfacing exactly. The clerk showed me a scratched CD and in a matter of seconds it was flawless. Just out of curiousity would anyone buy games if they had been buffed to new conditon? Only asking cuz some folk have said that if a game has been game doctored or whatever without revealing it, that is a bad business practice. So now I can make my scratched rare games like new again for a buck a piece! Any thoughts? Hopefuly TNL Trade Depot will benifit once I bring some CDs to be repaired!

For MN TNL memebers their phone number is 952-884-0686
call for directions, it's off of 98th street I believe but I'm not good with things like that. The store is great! I'm prety sure if you are buying one of their games and it is scratched they will buff it for free. At least they did it last time.

There's this independent game store around Chao and I, Games USA. Sells some nice imports and whatnot. But besides that, whenever you buy a used game, they resurface it for you for free. They put it into some machine in the corner (pretty big) and 10 minutes later, you get your disc, brand spanking new looking. They also do it as a service, 7 bucks a disc I think. If it doesn't work they refund you the money. Nice guys.

Hmm $7 bucks seems a tad high but if it is a rare scratched
game you could sell it in like new condition.

Aren't there high-end services that you send damaged discs to? I know that sometimes, the plastic side of CDs can be replaced...

I think so, but then you have to pay postage and you can't
get to watch them do it. It's more ideal to find someone
in your area that can do it for you.