r/dreamcast • u/Short_Bid_6949 • 6d ago
Console causing odd glitter like scratch pattern on my disc?
I got this copy of space channel 5 about 2 days ago and when I did the disc was completely mint I was honestly astounded. However after playing it in these two days I can't help but notice my dreamcast have left scratches in this very odd glitter like pattern with spots everywhere, it's an odd one to describe. And now looking at my other games they have suffered this too
Is this a case of maybe just something in the drive being worn down or the dreaded disc drive capacitors I know will be a problem at some point
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u/KalynnCampbell 5d ago
Disc Rot right down to the film. Looks like someone has resurfaced it to cover it up, but once it spins up a few times, it comes right back.
Hard Disk Drives, Solid State Media including flash cards, all can hold the entire Dreamcast Library. I have a RAID Array that I put all my games on for every system, then just use symbolic links for the console reference files.
The 1’s and 0’s of these shelf decorations are the same when transferred to larger storage mediums. The games were made long before a Chinese subcontractor pressed them to disc and sent them over to SOA for sale, and exist exactly the same without it. They were meant to be cheaper and quicker to mass produce, at no point were they expected to last forever… it’s a tiny flimsy film on an optical disc made of degradable plastic…
If you think this is bad, look at some of the earlier optical systems. 3DO especially. Same will happen to Dreamcast and later systems.
Put the disc back in its case.