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[akilshohen]

Is this a weird boiling Xbox discs reference?

Exactly what I was thinking! I'd feel weird explaining to my family why I'm boiling a disk though.

 

[Huevos de Oro]

Because some games should simply be treated like shit.

This post needs more recognition.

I've never heard about that technique OP, but now you've got me intrigued.

 

[Mudkips]

You guys are all wrong. You have to put them in the microwave for 5 seconds for CDs, 8 seconds for DVDs and 10-12 seconds for BluRays.

 

[Zia]

One time my father-in-law dropped his phone in a lake, so we put it in a gallon Ziploc bag full of rice then flushed it in the toilet.

 

[Scavenger]

Oh my god, people actually do it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1wy9CvN-kw

 

[VeryGooster]

Back and forth. Forever.

))<>((

 

[Jive Turkey]

This is why I will never again buy a used game. You just don't know what the clown before you did with it.

Especially if it's a Team Ninja game.

 

[Robot Pants]

I hear yelling at it works the best.

 

[VE3TRO]

I heard the same works for HDDs.

 

[CambriaRising]

What do you people do with your discs that scratches them up in the first place? Use them as plates in baseball?

 

[Raptor]

You are crazy man.

 

[Greenzxy]

What kind of cardboard box do guys live in? Toilet is one the most oldest tricks when it comes to fixing discs.

 

[theDeeDubs]

Boiling my brand new Lost Odyssey disc 4 was the only way I could get it to work. Couldn't believe it worked.

 

[jbug617]

I remember when my 360 had scratched my MW disc, I used toothpaste to get the scratch out.

 

[Typographenia]

I did that once.

No, wait... no I didn't.






What the heck are you talking about, OP?

 

[SirIgbyCeaser]

Towel trick,

wet a towel and wrap your 360 around it!

It will fix it.

 

[EightBitNate]

FUCK. YOU OWE ME A COPY OF SUPER MARIO SUNSHINE OP.

 

[DJMicLuv]

You're living in a gullibubble, son, a gullibubble.

 

[Huevos de Oro]

I guess you might as well simplify the process and take a shit directly on the disc.

 

[NMFried]

What do you people do with your discs that scratches them up in the first place? Use them as plates in baseball?

You'd be surprised. It really does take a lot to make them unplayable. Most common is people who basically bend the disc in half to get it out of the case. Weirdest I've seen is a kid who came into the store with disc in his mouth, and then asked us to fix it. Bite marks don't come out.

 

[kittens]

I heard if you submerge your Gameboy in your toilet while holding down B next to the truck you can catch Mewthree.

 

[MormaPope]

Even if this method works, do you really want to put a disc in your console when it's been in the same vicinity as shit and piss? You're putting doodoo in your console.

 

[IceDoesntHelp]

Don't do this with a GameCube disc

Already did, Super Mario Sunshine.

 

[Recall]

What kind of cardboard box do guys live in? Toilet is one the most oldest tricks when it comes to fixing discs.

hahahahahaha. So what magical process do you think happens?

 

[Baconsaurus Rex]

 

[brandonh83]

I've been here for a while, and I'm pretty sure this is at least in my top five personal favorite completely random batshit insane OP's.

 

[Card Boy]

OP have you tried putting Ice on your discs?

 

[Tehalemi]

Spoiler

Wow, you must REALLY want to play this game to clean it like this.

 

[Mr. Poolman]

Oh my god, people actually do it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1wy9CvN-kw

We deserve extinction.

 

[Labombadog]

I heard of the following techniques in getting a disc to work:

Boiling a disk.
Toothpaste technique to clean it.


Never heard of putting in the same place where you poo poo at though...brah.

 

[Lord Ghirahim]

I just slather some peanut butter on the disc and get my dog to clean it.

 

[IceDoesntHelp]

Amir0xed!

NO!

Guys...GUISE
You obviously make sure ders no poop.

 

[Family Fry]

I smell a new meme somewhere in this thread.
discflush.gif
doesitflush.gif

 

[ArjanN]

Placebo effect most likely.

 

[MormaPope]

NO!

Guys...GUISE
You obviously make sure ders no poop.

The ghosts and molecules of past turd still remain the unholy bowl.

 

[demolitio]

I usually just run over my discs to clean them.

Fine, I lied. I never need to clean my discs.

 

[SlowRevolution]

I do this all the time even if the disc works fine

 

[10101]

Not heard of that one OP, but I find a jet wash usually does the trick

 

[Seraphis Cain]

I legit can't believe that most of you haven't heard of this before. Of course it's BS, but this "method" has been circulating the internet for at least a decade, if not longer.

 

[antitrop]

I'm actually surprised how many people have never heard of this before.

It was a fairly common recommendation in the late 90's and early 2000's. Nobody really took it seriously, obviously. I never flushed a game down the toilet.

It's not any less legitimate than those Game Doctor's they used to sell at GameStop.

 

[Tobor]

Oh my god, people actually do it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1wy9CvN-kw

Seriously, this needs to be posted in every pro-used games thread going forward.

Unbelievable.

 

[Strike]

 

[SmithnCo]

lol wut? Never heard of anybody doing this, wtf...

 

[hidden offline]

Who would think this is a good idea seriously. C'mon!

 

[ShadowgeistX]

Even if this method works, do you really want to put a disc in your console when it's been in the same vicinity as shit and piss? You're putting doodoo in your console.

Depending on the games they put into their console previously, that ship may have already sailed.

 

[Robot Pants]

I imagine these sort of "ideas" get discovered the same way people find glitches in games. Spend hours upon hours just trying different things until something happens.

 

[SpinningBirdKick]

If flushing the disc down the toilet doesn't fix a disc that won't load, try flushing the console down the toilet.

That should do it.

 

[Rated-Rsuperstar]

I have a Sly 3 disc that I use as a coaster because it doesn't work. I've tried cleaner and toothpaste to no results. I am contemplating this toliet solution.

 

[antitrop]

I have a Sly 3 disc that I use as a coaster because it doesn't work. I've tried cleaner and toothpaste to no results. I am contemplating this toliet solution.

Well, do it for us and report back.

What's the worst that could happen?

 

[IceDoesntHelp]

You (;