Grah
Not a "real" update, but something I felt like ranting about.
So, two days ago, I wanted to train a little in BlazBlue before nubbing. So I put the disc in, but the game froze right after it finished loading my data. I figured, no big deal, and then just reset... only to have the same thing happen.
At the time I was really freaked out that something had happened to the actual hard-drive, but Tales of Vesperia worked just fine, so I figured something was wrong with the disc.
But what? How could that happen? There's no way that it's so damaged that it can't be read. Seriously, I have PS1 games that I've been playing for years and are scratched up more than cat toys, and they still work. And I barely even took BB out of the machine.
The disc didn't even look that bad. Regardless, Jeremy suggested cleaning it with toothpaste, which I tried, and eventually I got the disc to work... ish. But my 360 was making sounds like it was going to die any second, and I soon realized that if I was on the network and there was a match in the room going on that didn't involve me, everybody would freeze.
So, I decided to sleep on it and figure out what to do the next day. When I looked at it again in the morning, I noticed something weird. There actually WAS a scratch; a perfect ring around the outside of the disc. I looked this up and apparently, it's a common thing that happens sometimes when the machine gets moved/tilted while there's a disc spinning inside. And once it happens, there's no way to fix it, unless you've got some serious equipment. And it's not covered by the Microsoft return policy, because on the front of the machine it clearly says: Do not move while there's a game playing.
Well, duh, you might say. It's pretty obvious that just picking up this massive machine while there's a disc spinning around at high speed is a bad idea. But the thing is, "moved" can mean anything from actually moving it, to strong vibrations through the floor, to jarring the container that it's sitting on. There are people who've said they've barely even touched their machines, and they still rip up discs. This is a problem, especially if you're like me and didn't know that it was considered bad to put the 360 up vertically where it can wobble and fall over.
So I learned my lesson. My 360 is always on it's side and I just got a new disc (it's a lot cheaper now). And yet, let's think about this.
Neither the Wii, nor the PS3 have this problem. If Microsoft had only paid just a little extra money, they could have put in foam padding on the inside of the disc tray, like a lot of other disc players, so that your game won't be destroyed forever if the machine gets accidentally jarred. Either that, or say explicitly not to set your 360 in a vertical position. Grah.
So, two days ago, I wanted to train a little in BlazBlue before nubbing. So I put the disc in, but the game froze right after it finished loading my data. I figured, no big deal, and then just reset... only to have the same thing happen.
At the time I was really freaked out that something had happened to the actual hard-drive, but Tales of Vesperia worked just fine, so I figured something was wrong with the disc.
But what? How could that happen? There's no way that it's so damaged that it can't be read. Seriously, I have PS1 games that I've been playing for years and are scratched up more than cat toys, and they still work. And I barely even took BB out of the machine.
The disc didn't even look that bad. Regardless, Jeremy suggested cleaning it with toothpaste, which I tried, and eventually I got the disc to work... ish. But my 360 was making sounds like it was going to die any second, and I soon realized that if I was on the network and there was a match in the room going on that didn't involve me, everybody would freeze.
So, I decided to sleep on it and figure out what to do the next day. When I looked at it again in the morning, I noticed something weird. There actually WAS a scratch; a perfect ring around the outside of the disc. I looked this up and apparently, it's a common thing that happens sometimes when the machine gets moved/tilted while there's a disc spinning inside. And once it happens, there's no way to fix it, unless you've got some serious equipment. And it's not covered by the Microsoft return policy, because on the front of the machine it clearly says: Do not move while there's a game playing.
Well, duh, you might say. It's pretty obvious that just picking up this massive machine while there's a disc spinning around at high speed is a bad idea. But the thing is, "moved" can mean anything from actually moving it, to strong vibrations through the floor, to jarring the container that it's sitting on. There are people who've said they've barely even touched their machines, and they still rip up discs. This is a problem, especially if you're like me and didn't know that it was considered bad to put the 360 up vertically where it can wobble and fall over.
So I learned my lesson. My 360 is always on it's side and I just got a new disc (it's a lot cheaper now). And yet, let's think about this.
Neither the Wii, nor the PS3 have this problem. If Microsoft had only paid just a little extra money, they could have put in foam padding on the inside of the disc tray, like a lot of other disc players, so that your game won't be destroyed forever if the machine gets accidentally jarred. Either that, or say explicitly not to set your 360 in a vertical position. Grah.