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full disclosure: disc was bought 2nd hand, I don’t know it’s usage/storage history Is this the first signs of disc rot on ‘newer’ consoles? White swirls on the internal layers of this wii game (PAL smash bros Brawl, nintendo published!). This could be bad for collectors 😢 cc @timeextension.com

Robin Enrico

@robinhoodie.bsky.social

28 May

I work at a game store and Brawl is kind of the one cursed Wii game. It might be the only dual layer Wii disc, so it is more susceptible to layer separation. We have to double test every copy that comes in. But on the whole most Wii games avoid this issue.

Dennis van den Broek

@pointerfunction.bsky.social

how do you verify the data in it's entirety? Just wanna double check my copy is atleast still good. Also good to hear from someone dealing in "bulk" this is not a problem yet :)

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Robin Enrico

@robinhoodie.bsky.social

28 May

But if you want to verify. Rip with USB loader GX and if it fails out. It will be somewhere in the middle as it tries to switch layers. Lot of dual layer movie dvds from the era have this issue too. Bad manufacturing.

Robin Enrico

@robinhoodie.bsky.social

28 May

We settle on the binary of plays or doesn’t play. Usually borked discs won’t even load. We have a resurfacing machine so that handles base line read issues. And its a cheap enough game that if it has deeper issues we are happy to refund. But we can pull trashed Wii Sports out of the grave all day.