my story just gets sadder. here's why:
Exhibit A - my first original GT4 bought. arrives here with no cd inside:
As luck would have it tho, we were having friends visit, and they managed to buy me the game. they arrived here, and i played it for around 4 hours R1000 later.
Exibit B
but it seems i'm not meant to own this game, because after the previously mentioned 4 hours of enjoyment, my sister drops her &$#%*#$#& basketball SPOT on the tray area while the game was loaded, and i was playing it. screen freeze. no worries i thought, ill just reset it. only to open the tray and find to my horror a massive scratch at the bottom of the cd.
Exibit C
i assume this ones the worst since its really close to the center, the bigger one is right above it, as you can see:
everytime when i load the game it makes 2 clicks, and then fails to load. before i bought a cd cleaner, it didnt read the disk at all. i went out a nd bought a relatively cheap cd player. it didnt take the scratces away, but i did get the game to be read by the ps2, but it freezes way before the menu. at the part where they say "drive safely, this game shouldnt be used for that and that, and cars may not be in real life how they are represented in the game" that comes up right after the Playstation 2 logo pops up. then it freezes there or i get a black screen.
do any of you know of a way that i can perhaps fix this thing totally, or is it completely screwed over? im thinking of using brasso? anyway, thats my sad story for you.