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Nz17
03-28-2005, 04:37 AM
Every now and again a consoles goes and does something weird to a game, messing it up in some way, or busting it royally. And that's what this thread is about.

My story to share: Decided to show friends, years back, how cool Silhouette Mirage is. Since there were PSOne units at the video store I worked, I figured I'd use one of those to demo the game.

...It left THREE CONCENTRIC RINGS ON THE BOTTOM SURFACE OF THE DISC! :angry:

Mr.FoodMonster
03-28-2005, 12:19 PM
Never a console, but my dads CD player in his car CRACKED a cd. It came out of the deck, and I was sad.

NeoZeedeater
03-28-2005, 12:41 PM
I have had both a PS2 and an Xbox scratch discs. The PS2 left big arced gouges and the Xbox left several thin circles on discs. Joy.

AFGiant
03-28-2005, 06:38 PM
I think this is the console, not the games. Its happened many times to me on the NES and SNES, from back when I was younger until just recently. Be playing a game, save it, wait several seconds, shut off console. Next time I come back, ONLY MY FILE IS ERASED (sometimes they're all erased, but its not nearly as frusterating) :angry:

davidbrit2
03-28-2005, 07:16 PM
I had the fuse in my SNES blown 2 or 3 times, and I started to suspect my Street Fighter 2 cartridge. Weird. (Yeah, I know, this is kind of the reverse.)

And would it be too much to post PSP launching UMDs animated GIFs? ;-)

Slate
03-28-2005, 07:23 PM
This will ALWAYS happen, No matter what:

Every time that you insert a game (Cartridge format) then remove it (To play something else) some of the gold color comes off of the contacts, Wearing the game down.

ALWAYS.

ECWSandmanECW
03-28-2005, 08:28 PM
Ive had my Ps2 break NFL Street in two. I put the game in, it makes this loud noise, hit the eject button and the game was broke in half!

Slate
03-28-2005, 09:28 PM
Ive had my Ps2 break NFL Street in two. I put the game in, it makes this loud noise, hit the eject button and the game was broke in half!

:eek 2:

That takes the Cake. O_O

Lemmy Kilmister
03-28-2005, 10:00 PM
My friend had he's copy of Panzer Dragoon Saga scratched the very first time he put the game into his saturn. Needless to say he was pretty much rip-shit after that.

Gapporin
03-28-2005, 11:26 PM
I think this is the console, not the games. Its happened many times to me on the NES and SNES, from back when I was younger until just recently. Be playing a game, save it, wait several seconds, shut off console. Next time I come back, ONLY MY FILE IS ERASED (sometimes they're all erased, but its not nearly as frusterating) :angry:

I don't think that's a problem with the console itself. That just means that the batteries are dead in the games.

Nez
03-28-2005, 11:32 PM
My Xbox ate a JSRF disc once. I had to rip the game out with a pair of plyers.

I guess this is a common problem with philips drives.

Bluteg
03-29-2005, 12:50 AM
My first PS2 ate games and DVDs like it was no tommarrow both vertical and horizontal. It did eat House of the Dead however :)

swlovinist
03-29-2005, 02:24 AM
Ahh the cheap ass sega cd 2........left a nice "scratch ring" on my copy of Dark Wizzard. Needless to say, I went and got a CDX and the problem is gone.

Slate
03-29-2005, 10:51 AM
Ive had my Ps2 break NFL Street in two. I put the game in, it makes this loud noise, hit the eject button and the game was broke in half!

:eek 2:

That takes the Cake. O_O

On second thought, Maybe not.

Some of these are very freaky.

Just for precautions, Someone please, Show me a site where i can identify the DVD drive installed in my PS2.