Is a "circular scratch" unfixable?
Hey:
The other night, I was playing a game on my Sega CD. Eventually, I decided I didn't like the way I had gone about certain things and decided to start over. When I did, I got to a certain point in the game and it basically froze. The animation and sound effects kept playing, but the game didn't go any further and I could hear the disc stop spinning, try again, stop spinning. I blew it off, but the next night I tried again and the same thing happened in the exact same place. I took the disc out and discovered a perfectly circular scratch on the disc, as if someone held a needle to the bottom of the disc in one place as it spun. However, the scratch isn't even that deep. I took the game to a place with a resurfacing machine, they ran it through twice, still no luck. I hate the Game Doctor, but I am so desperate to get the game to play that when I came home last night, I ran the disc through it like eight times. Now, the animation where the game freezes sort of sputters for a second, which is more than it was doing before, but I am still not moving forward.
The game is Snatcher, Sega CD. I plan to take it back to the resurfacing machine place tonight for one last try, but I'm not optimistic and I'm really upset about the whole thing. So I ask: if a game disc has a scratch in it where it was apparently damaged by the system tray (either by the lens scratching it or a piece of dust) and leaves a circular scratch running along one "line" of the disc, is the disc totally ruined?
-Technosphile
