HELP!

[MorbidAngel4Life]

Alright, I was playing FFVII On a PSX Emulator(Yes I own a PS1), and I was using a Dexdrive save for it. I was playing, and all of a sudden, I heard a loud BOOM! And my disk drive woouldn't open. It BLEW UP MY DISC! What should I do? And please don't flame me for using an emulator, I was just using it ecause it made the game look better. Does anyone have any suggestions as to what I should do? Thanks in advance for the help.

[punqsux]

:rofl:

[Scorch]

Buy another copy.

[zewone]

Is your CD drive ok? What do you mean by blew up your disc? Pics?

[EggViper]

what can u do? nothing... u'll have to go buy another copy if u want to keep playing. and next time make a back up off the game and play with that instead of the real copy.

[MorbidAngel4Life]

The disc is in about a million pieces and some of it is stuck in my drive. I can't take pics because I dont have a camera. And I don't want to cause damage to my computer by messing with it.

[punqsux]

take the cd drive out of the computer and try and get all the disc out, put it back in see if it works...odds are it wont tho, i doubt the laser could have lived through that

[WhipSmartBanky]

BWAAAAAHAHAHAHA! PWNED!

[zewone]

Mental note - Don't play PS1 games on computer

[hiccupleftovers]

:rofl: NO offense but I guess you should think about buying a new drive. That one sounds caput.

[friedram]

Wow- that sucks man.

Few things- 1st off- you might consider using a program like Daemon tools instead of actually using the CD/DVD. Companies don't really give a rats rear if our media dies on us, because then they can force us to buy another copy. (Check out d_skin for CD/DVD "condom" like protection- going to get a bunch for my DVD's - TV series collections, Saturn games, etc).

Before you use the drive again on a CD that you like- I'd recommend using a burned cd that uses the full 700mb (or 650) and see how it runs. Personally, I'd say fudge the entire drive and get a new combo reader/burner- they cost around $40-60 bucks and that is what I usually recommend to customers. Lite-on is great, with the exception of their new dual layer drive.

That does suck. If only the F***ing video game companies would let us play console games on our computers- I'd for one love to play Halo with a mouse and keyboard against console only gamers. The video is much better on a emulator (generally) too. They are afraid of piracy, and I guess that is legit, but I'd sure love to buy some PS2 games and play them on the PC. Oh well.

Best of luck.

[MorbidAngel4Life]

Wow- that sucks man.

Few things- 1st off- you might consider using a program like Daemon tools instead of actually using the CD/DVD. Companies don't really give a rats rear if our media dies on us, because then they can force us to buy another copy. (Check out d_skin for CD/DVD "condom" like protection- going to get a bunch for my DVD's - TV series collections, Saturn games, etc).

Before you use the drive again on a CD that you like- I'd recommend using a burned cd that uses the full 700mb (or 650) and see how it runs. Personally, I'd say fudge the entire drive and get a new combo reader/burner- they cost around $40-60 bucks and that is what I usually recommend to customers. Lite-on is great, with the exception of their new dual layer drive.

That does suck. If only the F***ing video game companies would let us play console games on our computers- I'd for one love to play Halo with a mouse and keyboard against console only gamers. The video is much better on a emulator (generally) too. They are afraid of piracy, and I guess that is legit, but I'd sure love to buy some PS2 games and play them on the PC. Oh well.

Best of luck.

I ebleive I do have a Lite-On combo drive. I just don;t know what happened. I geuss I should have tried making a backup of it on my compy. I'm more worried about the computer than the game. I can just go buy a GH version of it (I've had my copy since the day it came out.)

[hutno]

wow, Ive never heard of this happening ever. What emulator were you running?

[MorbidAngel4Life]

I was running ePSXe with the Petes D3d 6 GPU, Eternal SPU, and the PEC Cheat Engine. Also I was using the WIN2k/XP CD Core with an ASPI Layer.

[Moxio]

Ouch. I used to use an emulator for my PSX games (yes I have a PS -.-), because like you said, they perform better on the PC. I think your drive was faulty because... it blew up your CD?

[beerguy961]

Your CD blew up? Is that even possible? What could have possibly led to a CD being destroyed like that?

[sblymnlcrymnl]

Your CD blew up? Is that even possible? What could have possibly led to a CD being destroyed like that?

Even a small defect in the disc could cause that, given the extremely high rotational speeds of today's drives. I'm not about to do the math, but at 52x the outside edge of the disc is moving like a mother fucker.

[Gothic Walrus]

It looks like you've found the newest weapon in ways of preventing game piracy! Congratulations!

In any case, I'd suggest buying another CD-ROM drive. Sounds like you'll be needing it.

If this isn't a case where the word PWNED! applies, I don't know what would be... :lol:

[Alpha2]

I've heard about exploding disks on Myth Busters a while back supposedly they'd said that some CDrs when spun at the speeds some of todays disk drives can reach that they'd explode, but after testing disks upto speeds of like 2500,00 RPM they couldnt get disks to explode consistantly so the ruled it an urban ledgend.... but they always went on the suspision that it was the disk (always CDrs) and never the drive itself which is what I think the real possible cause is.

As for your computer I'm sure the shards caused more damage to the case than the CPU, just vaccum it out carefully and get a new drive because I'm betting the old one is toast.

[redgopher]

HELP!
I need somebody!
HELP!
Not just anybody!
HELP!
You know I need someone!
HELP!

[Zenithian Legend]

HELP!
I need somebody!
HELP!
Not just anybody!
HELP!
You know I need someone!
HELP!

When I was younger, so much younger than today,
I never needed anybody's help in any way.
But now these days are gone, I'm not so self assured,
Now I find I've changed my mind and opened up the doors.


Everybody sing!

[sblymnlcrymnl]

HELP!
I need somebody!
HELP!
Not just anybody!
HELP!
You know I need someone!
HELP!

When I was younger, so much younger than today
I never needed anybody's help in any way
But now those days are gone, I'm not so self assured
Now I find I've changed my mind and opened up the doors

EDIT: Damnit, the horse beat me! I knew I should have copied and pasted.

[Zenithian Legend]

HELP!
I need somebody!
HELP!
Not just anybody!
HELP!
You know I need someone!
HELP!

When I was younger, so much younger than today
I never needed anybody's help in any way
But now those days are gone, I'm not so self assured
Now I find I've changed my mind and opened up the doors

Damnit, the horse beat me! I knew I should have copied and paste.


I've said it before and I shall now say it again, there's definitely something wrong with you... er no... us, yes there's something wrong with us.

[JackSuper]

HELP!
I need somebody!
HELP!
Not just anybody!
HELP!
You know I need someone!
HELP!

88 Fingers Louie!!!

What do I win?

[Kaijufan]

I've heard about exploding disks on Myth Busters a while back supposedly they'd said that some CDrs when spun at the speeds some of todays disk drives can reach that they'd explode, but after testing disks upto speeds of like 2500,00 RPM they couldnt get disks to explode consistantly so the ruled it an urban ledgend.... but they always went on the suspision that it was the disk (always CDrs) and never the drive itself which is what I think the real possible cause is.

I cant believed I missed that episode of Mythbusters. I did see the one where they put a CD in the microwave though.

[Trakan]

Buy a new copy

[NateWhs152]

haha

[MorbidAngel4Life]

It looks like you've found the newest weapon in ways of preventing game piracy! Congratulations!

In any case, I'd suggest buying another CD-ROM drive. Sounds like you'll be needing it.

If this isn't a case where the word PWNED! applies, I don't know what would be... :lol:

LOL yeah the disk PWNED my drive!

I've heard about exploding disks on Myth Busters a while back supposedly they'd said that some CDrs when spun at the speeds some of todays disk drives can reach that they'd explode, but after testing disks upto speeds of like 2500,00 RPM they couldnt get disks to explode consistantly so the ruled it an urban ledgend.... but they always went on the suspision that it was the disk (always CDrs) and never the drive itself which is what I think the real possible cause is.

As for your computer I'm sure the shards caused more damage to the case than the CPU, just vaccum it out carefully and get a new drive because I'm betting the old one is toast.

None of the shards left the drive. They are all stuck in the drive. I still can't believe it happened. At lest I have a save on my memory card so I can still play it on the PS2 (Disc 3 still works.)

And It was an actual copy, not a pirated copy.

[Zenithian Legend]

well all I can say now is may your drive "Rest...In...Peace..." :roll: (sure it's not the right eyeroll, but it's all I got)

[spyhunterk19]

HELP!
I need somebody!
HELP!
Not just anybody!
HELP!
You know I need someone!
HELP!

When I was younger, so much younger than today,
I never needed anybody's help in any way.
But now these days are gone, I'm not so self assured,
Now I find I've changed my mind and opened up the doors.


Everybody sing!

Help me if you can im feeling down
And I do appreciate you bein' round'
Help me get my feet back on the ground...
Won't you please please help me

[MorbidAngel4Life]

well all I can say now is may your drive "Rest...In...Peace..." :roll: (sure it's not the right eyeroll, but it's all I got)

Man where is a cement truck when we need one?

[the_deej]

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:)

[sj41]

I think this was the work of karmapolice620. You have bad karma.

[MorbidAngel4Life]

I think my drive is posessed by DLF! IT POWERED DOWN MY DISK LIKE A SUB!

[Alpha2]

I cant believed I missed that episode of Mythbusters. I did see the one where they put a CD in the microwave though.

Actually thats one of the things they did to the disks before they put it in the mock disk drives to get them to explode, Microwave, blowtorched, hammered, etc. but they never used regular CDs which have a non writable surface... which always seemed to me like something they should have checked.

[MorbidAngel4Life]

Meh I'm just going to wait a whlie and se if I can get some money together to buy a new CDRW Drive. Ah well.