i changed the felt pad to a soft cotton, and it loaded even more disks. but i've noticed the head is pretty worn, it's got a slight flat spot on the top of it. like i said before, i'm thinking about just atempting to rewrite some of these disks, but not before dumping the cool ones. my SMB 2 one is hacked so you float like your in the water at all times, and can't die unless you fall dwn a hole. hacks like that deserve to be preserved in my opinion., then i've got games that just plain old suck. which will totally be writin over, like replicart, god that game sux, it's just snake, i dunno how in the hell it takes up two sides of a disc! LoL. hopefully after i go buy my parts for my cable, i can test out the writing cababilities, im hoping that if i write the games that are damaged over again, then maybe they will work perfectly on my fds. just a theroy i have. i'll make sure to sacrifice replicart first, LoL.