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 CD is scratched up the wazoo. What can I do?!
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SuperGroove Newbie 
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My CD is scratched up, and Redstorm is taking forever to contact me. They ignored my first e-mail, and I was on the phone for 45 minutes with no answer today. They were probably closed, but there was no announcement saying if it was or not. Anyways, my CD cracked. It is the original copy of Rogue Spear. I would have backed it up, but I have no CD-RW drive. I have the manual and box. I don't have the receipt anymore. I bought this waaaay long ago. When it first came out long ago. Ya know...1999!! Well anyways...what can I do? Thanks,        
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David Sergeant 
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if its cracked, well, first....what do you mean cracked? All the way though? Or just the bottom of it? If you got just got the bottom, use some Cleaning Fluid which you can get from Radio Shack. It worked for me before, well go little scratches. If you cracked it, you cant use the 3d, it just wont work. Oh and the cleaning fluid I use is in a black tube, with a white top on it. Its 3 inches tall lol, with this information, hope you dont miss it by walkin by it... ------------------
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SuperGroove Newbie
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Well I've tried two cleaning solution and crack fixers on the CD. The cracks aren't all the way through. They're miniscule scratches. ------------------
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David Sergeant
Posts: 87 |
Ok, well if the cleaning fluid doesnt work, sorry to say you might be screwed, I'd go buy another cd right away!  ------------------
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SuperGroove Newbie
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$44 more for something I Paid $44 for a year ago?! Man, I ain't made out of money...lots of fluid...but not money  Paul ------------------
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David Sergeant
Posts: 87 |
Sorry bud, but I told you everything I know. Best thing to do is save money and buy another. If you can find it, I havnt seen RS in computer stores for a long time. Unless someone else knows what to do, thats bout it. ------------------
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SuperGroove Newbie
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Sigh...thanks man. This is royal poo poo Maybe I can find a used copy.Paul ------------------
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David Sergeant
Posts: 87 |
No problem, glad to help...if I can, ------------------
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SamTheMan Sergeant
Posts: 84 |
You can buy this wierd lookin CD fixer thingy, it fixes most scratches, it looks like a toy and sells around 30 bucks. I forgot what it was called though. ------------------
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David Sergeant
Posts: 87 |
That really helps sam, lmao.. ------------------
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Warthog Private 
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If I was you (had already purchased cd), I would dl it from a warez site. You wouldn't be taking money from the company, because you already bought it. I think that is a pretty ligit reason to dl warez. Warthog ------------------
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David Sergeant
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Warez are not the answer....(Starts to crack up laughing) ------------------
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Drunk Captain 
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haha, warez is a big tut tut  .------------------
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snicker 3d Retreat      Posts: 560 |
Try RSE next week. You most likely are not having any luck because it is during the holiday week/weekend. ------------------
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Drunk Captain
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try using a "no CD Crack" - If you have the game already installed on your pc (which you should have) one of these patches should work fine and you can also play music cds while your playing a game (slow as hell on my setup) ------------------
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Drunk Captain
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You may also need to disable the movies depending on the selection of install you did, eg Full will install the videos, but the others will not so it may cause it to crash. ------------------
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David Sergeant
Posts: 87 |
That is a good point. Full install puts uses lots of memory, is that what you mean drunky? Confused me.. ------------------
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Drunk Captain
Posts: 151 |
sorta, don't worry i confuse a lot of people. Standard Install - This is everything BUT the videos, because of this the user if hes not using the cd will need to disable the movies otherwise the game will search for them and most probably crash the game when it doesn't find them. (saves about 100 meg in HD space). Compact install - this is the smallest install option and will pull most of the data from the cd, it will be unlikely that you will be able to use the cd crack on this option, but i believe you can with the other 2. Think that makes sense ------------------
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David Sergeant
Posts: 87 |
Ohhhhhhhh....I see...Yet again...another good point..  ------------------
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SamTheMan Sergeant
Posts: 84 |
CD Doc, thats what its called... i think. ------------------
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Warthog Private
Posts: 37 |
uhhhhh...why was my post funny? Was just trying to help... I like the no-cd crack idea. Warthog ------------------
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David Sergeant
Posts: 87 |
When I said "Warez is not the answer", I was laughing because I shouldnt be talking. I use warez practicly all the time, People dont like that, hell, they can kiss my white butt.. ------------------
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Warthog Private
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LOL! I see Warthog ------------------
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USMC Greg Private
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Try going to the local CD vendor. I know there is a popular CD selling chain in Canada called "CD Warehouse" and it offers to fix scratched CD's. I don't know how it's done but I know it's cheap. Perhaps they have a similar chain in the US. ------------------
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