Buffing PS1 discs and selling them on ebay

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is it okay to use a Game doctor on PS1 games? I heard it might not be good since it's a black disc.

also, what about selling these on ebay-- is it a bad idea? i know sometimes buffed discs are picky and will work on some players and not others. Do people still bid on them? of course, I would indicate if a game was buffed...but it seems like evryone would send their games through the game doctor rather than put a scratched game on ebay...
 
DOnt use the disc doctor on your games!!! search around for a place that has a professional resurfacing machine and pay to get them to do it, other wise you run the big risk of ruining your gamesm unless of course the games are worth less then what it costs to get them resurfaced
 
[quote name='hutno']DOnt use the disc doctor on your games!!! search around for a place that has a professional resurfacing machine and pay to get them to do it, other wise you run the big risk of ruining your gamesm unless of course the games are worth less then what it costs to get them resurfaced[/quote]

I don't have a disc doctor, but let's be honest, there would be a huge outcry if they didn't work. It's probably ok if you use it correctly. I use the cd repair paste all the time. I've probably used it on 20 games, and I've never had a bad experience with it. So, it's probably fiine, just use it on an old crappy cd first, just in case the directions aren't easy to use.
 
disc doctors are shit. they leave those crappy lines all over the cd and most often don't do anything but clean up smudges and fingerprints..

Go to a gamecrazy or a family video or a local cd shop place that has a real, commercial grade disc buffer. At gamecrazy its only $.99 a disc if your a MVP member, and it makes them look like new, no lie. I had FFVII discs I've played for hundreds of hours and had since the game came out that used to skip a lot, all the scratches were gone, looked brand new, and played great too.
The commercial grade ones use a resurfacing liquid along with a rough nerf style material pad that actually resurfaces the bottom of the cd to remove scratches.
 
I have had the disc Dr for about 5 years and used it quite a few times. Usually it works quite well. I have had a couple of discs it couldn't fix but I am mostly satisfied with it. It won't make your discs any worse that is for sure. Sure the disc looks different after resurfacing but I for one don't care as long as it fixed the skipping.
 
Thanks for the suggestions guys!

It's good to know that gamecrazy has a resurfacer...I only need it for one game and I don't want to pay $20 for a game dr.
 
I wouldn't buy a game that was disk doctored. Alot of people don't mention it, so i always ask. The bottom of a DD disk looks really, really crappy.
 
so, just to be clear....a disc doctor will leave nasty marks and a resurfacer, like at game crazy, won't?
i want to get this game perfect if possible.
 
I overheard a worker at my local EB saying, "I can run it through the Disk Doctor(Apparently that is there professional method of buffing disk...) AGAIN if you like". I guess he didn't realise that it WEARS down the disk everytime he does that...
 
Yes if you do it too many times it will wear it down. Once or twice is fine, in fact the instructions say to run it through twice which I always do. It leaves radial lines running from the center of the disc outward. It looks weird but actually does fix the disc most of the time. I have fixed cd's , dvd, and games on all systems with great success. If you actually care what the bottom of a disc looks like then do the professional machine.
 
My Tekken 3 disc worked fine, but it had scratches on it so I used my cousin's Game Doctor on it for the hell of it. The disc still plays alright, but now the music skips, and the disc looks like shit.
 
Back when I bought NFSU, it got a little scratched and wouldn't play so I used a disk doctor on it and it got worse and then brought it back to eb, they took one look at the disc and didn't ask any questions about it being defective. They just gave me another one,
 
OP, just get some good glass polish and use that, it will make the disc's look like new, it's kind of like cd repair stuff.
 
[quote name='jennie25']OP, just get some good glass polish and use that, it will make the disc's look like new, it's kind of like cd repair stuff.[/quote]

Actually, that's not the best idea. Doing this repeatedly could damage the disk (especially with an amonia based cleaner).
 
[quote name='evilmax17'][quote name='jennie25']OP, just get some good glass polish and use that, it will make the disc's look like new, it's kind of like cd repair stuff.[/quote]

Actually, that's not the best idea. Doing this repeatedly could damage the disk (especially with an amonia based cleaner).[/quote]

Good to know... Didnt realize this,. :?
 
i just brought it into Gamecrazy and had them do it for a buck. Game looks brand new! I would never guess it has been through a machine. and I got re-hooked to the game(intelligent qube) so it ain't going on ebay either.
 
[quote name='Jrunt20x']Holy crap! You were gonna game doctor intelligent Qube. Thank god you asked here first. :lol:[/quote]

I bought intelligent qube at gamestop and they disc doctored it. The guy said he was fixing the scratches and I didn't see what he was using, so I thought it was a professional one. I bought it to resell though and, luckily, I found a guy who payed full price with buy it now.

On a side note, I once had albert odyssey for saturn professionally resurfaced, twice, and it still didn't work properly. I used a disc doctor about 8 times on it afterward and it finally worked.

I also once got a exile: wicked phenomenon for turbo duo for 8 bucks cause the guy said he used the disk doctor on it, and it normally went for 50 at the time.
 
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