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[Stinkles]

My Japanese lumines, after weeks in a dirty backpack, finally quit booting. Anyone tried resurfacing, boiling or otherwise repairing a fuxored UMD?

 

[Matlock]

That's what you get for having a UMD out for portability!

 

[Stinkles]

It's what I get for filling my backpack with snacks, dirt and crack rocks.

 

[Guy LeDouche]

yeah, it works. Speeds up load times and increases battery life too.

 

[Stinkles]

Thanks for the help Guy. Anyone with more specific advice though>?

 

[Defensor]

http://shop.brando.com.hk/pspumdcleaningsystem.php

 

[Sgt. Killjoy]

Keep it in thge case, or get smaller ones then.

 

[sly]

yeah, it works. Speeds up load times and increases battery life too.

:lol :lol :lol

 

[Dragona Akehi]

NO FUCKING GATES. FUCK YOU SONY.

 

[Stinkles]

Thx Defensor.

 

[Matlock]

NO FUCKING GATES. FUCK YOU SONY.

No protection for DS carts either.

 

[Vark]

No protection for DS carts either.

Except you know.. the fact that it's a cart.

 

[Fuzzy]

Except you know.. the fact that it's a cart.

But the connector is completely exposed when a card's not in the DS or a case so it can be easily damaged.

 

[Wario64]

this is why i plan to do memory stick loading in the future. for the games i own, of course. not only do you protect your discs, but it saves load time tremendously

 

[The Faceless Master]

But the connector is completely exposed when a card's not in the DS or a case so it can be easily damaged.

except you can easily clean the connectors...

 

[Stinkles]

the problem with UMDs is that they trap sharp bits of dirt almost comically well, and then spin up to a squillion RPMs with like, pubes in 'em.

 

[Dsal]

On one of my games the plastic window part collapsed so the disc couldn't spin. I had to reseat the window back into its groove and then it worked. Kind of lame that they made them so weak .

 

[Dragona Akehi]

No protection for DS carts either.

I've already bitched about DS cards lacking protection for their exposed pins in this thread .

Sucks, but NOWHERE NEAR AS BAD AS NO FUCKING GATES FOR A FUCKING OPTICAL FUCKING SYSTEM.

 

[Stinkles]

and on a PORTABLE FUCKING OPTICAL SYSTEM while we're at it. What, they thought nobody was going to carry their portable system around in like a bag?

 

[zooL]

Man it just sucks that Sony chose to let a window open in their UMDs instead of protecting it like MiniDiscs or FloppyDisks. (Sorry for my bad English... I am drunk and German. :Þ)

 

[Soul4ger]

How did you get pubes in your UMD case..?

 

[Deleted member 1235]

How did you get pubes in your UMD case..?

How dont you?!

 

[Zaptruder]

How dont you?!

By keeping it out of my pants? More specifically, out of my underwear...

 

[Barnimal]

if it doesnt work why are you even asking? would we have electricity if ben franklin went and asked around the bonfire what a key tied to a kite would do? boil the fucking thing already.

 

[Stinkles]

Because I want an unsuspecting Ben Franklin to risk it for me.