To be fair none of that stuff will work but that's obvious and you already know thatR4Y_ANC3L wrote:I believed in the toothpaste method since I was young and I can remember I followed the steps to fix a game disc that I wanted to insert and play. From that point on, I wanted take as much extreme care of my discs as possible in order to not do that often.(It's toothpaste after all)
I'm really happy that it worked for you, I maybe can get into this method again if I come across any scratches that need dealing with.
This is the only method I will use, though.
There are other weird things on the internet that are thought to fix discs like using peanut butter, vaseline, insides of a banana peel and all that other crap. Seriously....
The reason toothpaste works is because it polishes down the disc so the rest of the disc is down level with where the a scratch was. Vaseline can help because it can slightly fill in very light scratches but I'd only use that as a temporary method if you needed to rip the disc to your PC just because the data is important. It won't actually get rid of the problem though.
If you or anyone else ever do this just make sure the toothpaste doesn't have any little bits in it unless you're using that first to buff out a deep scratch as it will leave the disc with lots of light scratches that the laser will have trouble with.
Try use a simple white non fluoride paste and a lint free cloth and the disc will literally come out nearly perfect so long as you keep slightly wetting it while polishing and keep going until the disc is nearly completely clean, then rinse it and you should be good. Sometimes if it's bad you might have to repeat the polishing.
I know there's better ways but they're expensive, probably more expensive than a replacement game. The idea is that toothpaste can be had for €1 or less and surely someone has a lint free cloth you can borrow and just wash when you're done. €1 worth of toothpaste can fix like 100 discs though
