so ive been getting a huge retro kick the past few months. buying up a lot of old school games and rpgs. Especially a lot of ps1 rpgs lately on ebay. After getting a copy of lunar 2 that looked like a bad car wax job i have started asking people before bidding if their disks are resurfaced. I know that there are professional machines out there that supposedly do a good job tut i just dont like it, its grinding a layer off the disk. Anyway, i recently got a disk that looked alright. Just a few scratches but there is a weird thing ive never seen before. there are a series of little dots along the outer edge that go around the entire disk in a circle. It almost looks like someone put a lot of tiny fingerprints right next to eachother ina full circle.
its kinda hard to explain and even hardter to take a picture of. i took a few pics of it
http://home.comcast.net/~kenshindono/junk/resurface1.JPGhttp://home.comcast.net/~kenshindono/junk/resurface2.JPGhttp://home.comcast.net/~kenshindono/junk/resurface3.JPGthey're evenly spaced like that and in a complete ring
what the hell are these? i havent seen them before. I looked at several of my personal disks and they dont have those. Neither do any of the other used games ive bought. I need to test the game for an hour or 2. I just popped it in briefly and it seems to work ok but seemed to lag a bit durring battles when some moves were taken (its tactics ogre btw so i dunno if its just suposed to do that or if it was a fluke)
So does anyone know what the heck those dots are? is it an effect of resurfacing? How can you tell if a disk IS resurfaced? Obviously when its poorly done it looks swirly and cruddy. But the professional machines suposedly make it harder to tell, i hear they leave kinda a ring on the outer edge or something, but ive never heard about these dots
btw its not dirt, i did my standard light hand soap and water rinse, followed by an alochol wipe with a microfiber cloth and they are still there
