How to fix a scratched GH disk (Converted into FAQ format)

**HellAshes** · Joined: 06 Apr 2006 Posts: 8320 Location: Livingston, NY

I left it on HSB and went to eat dinner, only to come back to a silent TV.

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**Cthulhist** · Joined: 29 Mar 2007 Posts: 18

Works like a charm, I remember a long time ago when my Final Fantasy 9 game broke (PS1 FTW) and we toothpasted it to make it work. It really does.

**Ahriman** · Joined: 01 Apr 2007 Posts: 59 Location: Fayetteville, NC

**Ahriman** · Joined: 01 Apr 2007 Posts: 59 Location: Fayetteville, NC

I hate o double-post, but my original post is now in a FAQ format. This is also my first FAQ, so I would like feedback on it's quality
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**Ahriman** · Joined: 01 Apr 2007 Posts: 59 Location: Fayetteville, NC

**CloudFuel** · Joined: 06 Dec 2006 Posts: 1030 Location: Houston, TX

Ahriman. You're a god.

I just tried the toothpaste trick on my BADLY scratched (2 year old nephew got a hold of it) GH 2 disc... very few songs would actually play.. and the ones that did would skip... making an already difficult psychobilly.. even more so.

I used Crest's Whitening Expressions (Extreme Herbal Mint), a dish towel, running water, and a hair dryer... not all together at the same time of course.

Anyways... got some crest on my finger... smoothed it across the surface til I had the whole thing covered (we're talking hundreds of scratches here)... let it sit and harden a bit... then I had some slowly running water that I ran it under and used my finger to wipe the big chunks off... then I dabbed it with the towel... and warmed it with the hair dryer.

Just tried madhouse (one of the songs that wouldn't work) and I'm baaaaaaack! 97% - 334922... yess!

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**Ahriman** · Joined: 01 Apr 2007 Posts: 59 Location: Fayetteville, NC

**riyunoa** · Joined: 08 Feb 2007 Posts: 711 Location: Dragonforceland

O__O

Skipping, what do you guys mean? I have a recent problem with my GH2, with certain songs it jumps, you can see the screen move. Is this caused by disk scratches?
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**Ahriman** · Joined: 01 Apr 2007 Posts: 59 Location: Fayetteville, NC

Well, I still had that problem with my disk after it got fixed, along with long loading times for some songs. Crazy on You, along with Hanger 18 would do it. But now I have a new disk, so I use that. It skips, meaning the fretboard stops moving, along with the characters. But you can still do everything with the controller (Including strum, breaking a streak

). But the camera still moved. Also, when the music started back up, the guitar track was out of sync. I have no ideas on fixing this problem at the moment. This FAQ tells you how to fix scratches so you can at least make the game playable again. If I discover any methods to fix this, they'll get posted here. I say try this method first, befor giving up on it
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**CrimsonKing** · Joined: 01 Apr 2007 Posts: 5 Location: Lakewood CO

Hey, thanks a LOT!!! My disc has has been skipping all songs and I tried the toothpaste method. And it worked!!! Many thanks.

**At0m1Ca15** · Joined: 21 Jun 2007 Posts: 121

**Phr34k** · Posted: Sat Jun 30, 2007 3:06 pm Post subject:

Moved to Hardware, and stickied. Awesome FAQ!
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**Heritech** · Joined: 22 Jun 2007 Posts: 111 Location: Hammond,In

See you have this problem because you actually take your GH2 disk out of your systems.

That is why I've never experienced any of these type of problems....

We'll until I had the red ring of death on my 360 which I think was caused by the update that came with GH2.

Very annoying.

But as far as stopping skipping with the previously mentioned methods. I do recommend the toothpaste. It has worked for me in the past.
And if your toothpaste fix ends up not working the wonderful thing is, wipe your disk clean and do it again it should work. ( I'm sure after being played for hours toothpaste will fall apart from the heat and movement )

Who ever would ( physically ) burn a disk to get a scratch out I will never understand, you stand more of a chance of ruining your disk than anything.

And also those Disk DR. fixers you can purchase are CRAP!!!

if anyone has ever used one of those and had good results please contradict me.

**pennywise** · Joined: 22 Jun 2007 Posts: 134

well,i tried the toothpaste,and it doesnt sem to have changed anything in the game...the same songs dont work...so what should i do to possibly fix this?
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