Are these black spots disc rot? From a Crash 3 CD I burnt like 12 years ago
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>>12242623Yeah, that's disc rot. I've only ever seen it on old CD-Rs myself.
>>12242627Cool. It's funny cause the game still boots up and the intro doesn't skip or anything, but it keeps freezing on the third level with Coco and Puru
Shoulda bought Verbatim. I have a whole binder of burned PS1 and PC games from 2006 and not a single one is bad.
>>12242623>crash warpedYeah, it's warped alright
>>12242636Well yeah cause that's the part on the disc where the rot has probably rotted too much. Well you can always burn more discs. Hmm maybe get some silica gel packets to keep them from getting moist from I dunno the atmosphere or some shit.
>>12242648The only real way to prevent disc rot is to buy better discs. It's a manufacturing issue that's more common with CD-Rs than with pressed discs but it's rare either way.Pretty sure the console with a known significant quantity of affected discs is the Philips CD-I of all things.It's a much bigger issue with movies since there's some known movie DVDs that have disc rot, importantly there's some films where the only known official release is a single print run DVD where the entire pressing is known to suffer from disc rot.
>>12242636looks scratched as fuck too. I doubt it's those little specks making it not working.
>>12242623Doesn't happen wirh my Steam library.
>>12242623>>12242625Damage to the top layer from friction on the surface.
>>12242860it also doesn't happen with .ISOs saved on my computer
>>12242676>It's a much bigger issue with movies since there's some known movie DVDs that have disc rotDVDs have a more complex structure than CDs with additional, thinner layers that provide more opportunities for impurities to be sandwiched in the disc. CDs are just a layer of foil deposited on plastic, so they're very susceptible to the kind of scratching damage in the OP, but less susceptible to the layers becoming unstuck from each other. Picrel, a = CD, b = DVD, c = BD.
>>12242860>use wrongspeak
>>12243039>nooooo you need to let me say racial slurs to others!
I'm convinced that physical media degradation is a myth at this point. I have a sample size of about 120 pre-2007 games back to the late 70s and they all work with no visible signs of decay
>>12243048they reserve the right to your games library for any reason, even if you don't break the rules
>>12243049It was a term that got popular because it was used for marketing "lost media" and other crap. Now everyone thinks every little spot is disc rot
>>12242901I let Gabe store all my games on his servers.
I have a few DVDs where the entire batch was known to be bad and supposedly "rotted" early. They all fail at similar times. One example is Harry Potter movie 5. Every single copy from a particular period of production has gone bad and they aren't even that old compared to most DVDs. They all fail at the same point. There's a bunch of bad batches like this from 2006-2008 specifically from WB.There's no visible damage or spotting on the discs so I'm not sure exactly why they all stopped working. I've tested it with like 5 copies just out of curiosity and they always fail at the same scenes.
>>12244009https://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/warner-dvd-defect-troubles.1197033/#post-34048768A list of confirmed "rotted" WB DVDs. Still doesn't really seem like rot to me but there could be similar bad productions of certain games that stop or will stop working at some point prematurely.
>>12242623No idea since I have a bunch of them from back to 1998 that are fine and one that was from like 2004 that has the spots.No idea if the spots ruin them but I was able to successfully create an ISO of the CD and no issues.
>>12244009>i have 5 copies of a harry potter dvd>i expect anyone to take me seriouslylol
>>12242623https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impermanence_(Buddhism)Read this, it should leave you with more questions than answers.
>>12243039>>12243069TWOMOREWEEKS
>>12244205I bought them for like 50 cents each after noticing the first copy didn't work just to see if it actually was all of them. I threw them away since they don't work.
>>12244205hermione commands my cock's attention, anon
>>12244429i get it, anon. you can like steam. it's a good service. just know that you don't own your games.
>>12244352what does jeet philosophy have to do with disc rot?
>>12245303>all that cope>>12245328>am i underage or a pedophile?
>>12245373Damn, that pretending is off the charts
>>12243049I've seen disc rot one time in person, it was some shitty off-brand burned CD that was left in a non-climate-controlled attic for years
>>12245373You could be a 17 year old pedophille.
>>12245373Coping about what
>>12245397for me, it's one CD-R i left in my parent's garage for about 10 years.RIP my burned CD of deltron 3030
>>12243560>I let Gabe store all my games on his servers.>I letloooooooooooool
>>12242625You scratched and scraped them.I've got 25 year old burnt cds that are perfectly fine still.
>>12243049I've never seen it myself outside of people leaving in the sun or soaked in water.But then that would just be typical damage from sun that anything made of plastic can take and water damage.
>>12243039>>12243048You can use racial slurs all you want on STEAM. The most they'll do is ban you from the discussion boards.
>>12245392>>12245464>>12245472
>>12243049>pressed-diskshad you bothered to read the thread you would know we are talking about CD-R, as in burnable disks.
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>>12242818It's 100% the disc rot. Scratches in the plastic have to be really deep to make a difference.
>>12245397I sometimes buy used music CDs and I've seen what appears to be disc rot once. 1989 release, typical light scratching for something that old, no signs of water or humidity damage, jewel case is damaged and unusually brittle so maybe heat or UV damage. Matrix code printing is kind of shoddy with the bottoms of the letters cut off so maybe just poor manufacturing in general. Lots of pinholes in the metal layer. Still plays fine though. CD error correction is pretty good.
>>12247142I accept your concession
