RyokoYaksa
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Story time.
My 6+ years old copy of 1.0 Melee routinely sits in my Gamecube for extended periods and plays without issues. So of course my friends and I are surprised when we attempt to load up my copy and see "An error has occurred. Turn the power OFF and check the NINTENDO GAMECUBE Instruction Booklet for further instructions." This is the type of message that completely kills the Gamecube's session... no opening/reclosing of the lid in hope of it eventually loading.
So I checked the disc. There were no new visible scratches, let alone those that would be major, and those that are on it did not stop the game from running perfectly for years up to this point. I cleaned it thoroughly anyway. Still, it spits out the same fatal error.
I tested other games with the same Cube, and they ran with no problems. I tested the Melee disc in another Cube and a Wii, and they were getting the same error.
After several fruitless tries, I had no choice but to load up my PAL copy of Melee, which would be fine except it has no 480p option (we were using a lagless only on 480p HDTV to play on).
*There are only two things I can actually do before receiving that message of death, which are setting progressive scan on/off and to load/deny memory card data. My guess is the problem is coming from the game being unable to load the opening FMV sequence. This is a disaster, since getting to the title screen always involves going through that FMV.
As it stands now, my copy of Melee is practically unusable. As far as I know, 1.0 copies of Melee have been discontinued for years.
Has anyone ever experienced such a kind of "disc burnout" and had any success in rectifying it, short of replacing it? I really want to keep my 1.0 copy handy. The only thing I can think to do is find a code that somehow skips the opening sequence, but I'm not sure if anything on the net actually does that.
My 6+ years old copy of 1.0 Melee routinely sits in my Gamecube for extended periods and plays without issues. So of course my friends and I are surprised when we attempt to load up my copy and see "An error has occurred. Turn the power OFF and check the NINTENDO GAMECUBE Instruction Booklet for further instructions." This is the type of message that completely kills the Gamecube's session... no opening/reclosing of the lid in hope of it eventually loading.
So I checked the disc. There were no new visible scratches, let alone those that would be major, and those that are on it did not stop the game from running perfectly for years up to this point. I cleaned it thoroughly anyway. Still, it spits out the same fatal error.
I tested other games with the same Cube, and they ran with no problems. I tested the Melee disc in another Cube and a Wii, and they were getting the same error.
After several fruitless tries, I had no choice but to load up my PAL copy of Melee, which would be fine except it has no 480p option (we were using a lagless only on 480p HDTV to play on).
*There are only two things I can actually do before receiving that message of death, which are setting progressive scan on/off and to load/deny memory card data. My guess is the problem is coming from the game being unable to load the opening FMV sequence. This is a disaster, since getting to the title screen always involves going through that FMV.
As it stands now, my copy of Melee is practically unusable. As far as I know, 1.0 copies of Melee have been discontinued for years.
Has anyone ever experienced such a kind of "disc burnout" and had any success in rectifying it, short of replacing it? I really want to keep my 1.0 copy handy. The only thing I can think to do is find a code that somehow skips the opening sequence, but I'm not sure if anything on the net actually does that.
