You're probably wondering why I'm making a blog post on how awesome toothpaste is. I mean all it does really is help prevent you from getting teeth that are like that of a English fellow, har har just kidding?... or am I?
Anyways there's one other functionality to toothpaste other than keeping your teeth in working order, which I will get too after I tell the story of the my Rainbow Six Vegas game.
So Rainbow Six: Vegas, a tactical first-person-shooter on the xbox, pc, and PS3, and probably one of the better shooters out there. Actually it's probably my favorite shooter on the xbox360 thus far. I got it over a year ago, and after a few months of play disaster struck and my xbox 'ate' the disc. Those unfamiliar with a problem that usually affects launch model xbox 360s, but has gone unnoticed because of the RRoD problems just watch this video - http://dwl.xbox-scene.com/video/Xbox-360-Scratch-Disks3.wmv.
Yeah something like that happened to my Rainbow Six Vegas disc, but not as bad. I also didn't moved the system. It just sort of randomly happened.
So I figured it was useless to try and fix the disc using those disc fixing kits you can buy, and I couldn't return the game because it was a Christmas gift, and the person who bought lost the receipt. Anyways I just sort of put the game and it's box and forgot about it - never actually throwing it away. I guess you can probably start to put together at this point why I'm saying toothpaste is awesome.
So last night a bunch of my friends were playing Rainbow Six Vegas, and I was instantly reminded of that stupid scratched disc - and then a thought occurred to me that did not occur a year go: using google to see if there was anyway to fix damaged CDs for free basically. After some searching I found out the best stuff is apparently Brasso, but since my house didn't have any brasso I kept searching until I found something quite interesting: use normal toothpaste.
I sort of took a double take - "toothpaste? Surely you jest Internet," but I figured "what the hell?" so I spent nearly 3 hours rubbing the scratched area of the disc with toothpaste and then washing it off. I put the disc down to try and went to bed because it was like 3am at that time and I was tired.
The next morning, this morning actually, I woke up and put my disc in - surely toothpaste wouldn't work, right? I put the disc in and my xbox started loading it. The screen went black for like a minute, an awfully long loading time for booting a disc up or getting a disc-read error, so I figured the xbox is just struggling to load it. Then it happens the music plays, and the opening trailer starts to play - I stat there staring at my TV screen for a couple of minutes. Even then I was completely convinced it was fixed enough to be playable, after all I had discs in the past that could be loaded up tot he loading screen and still not work, so I decided to load the first level - and it worked.
So there we go, Toothpaste can remove huge scratches from your damaged DVDs and CDs. How awesome is that?
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Feb 23 2008, 9:54 am (Edited on Mar 2 2008, 9:32 am)
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Feb 23 2008, 10:17 am
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Yep its cool; I learned that some years ago from a "multiple uses for household items" type book. Not like I have to use it since I keep my discs in perfect condition, but it has helped a few of my buddies out.
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I just told my friend this (I'm at his house using his computer right now) out of surprise, and his reply was, "I know. I've used it before." Kind of a let down on my part, as I was hoping for a surprised look. =(
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So...JROTC helps me out in real life: I have like a gallon's worth of nearly empty BRASSO containers around my house...Halo is getting a spiff up
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I found that wood furniture wax works really well as well. You just have to make sure you clean it enough or the wax will build up on the laser.
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