I have around 200 or so games on DVD+R DL, and... maybe a few dozen retail discs too. I have a VAD 6038 which was pot tweaked three times in 2014, none were done with monitoring - just very fine adjustment, and the third one has worked since then... until last month I suppose, so.
The thing is, I read way back you wanted to spend on Verbatim discs and they're better etc. but now anything I have on Memorex, TDK, all still read - all retail discs too, it's just every Verbatim disc, ones from 2010 and the last one I have from late 2015 will attempt a seek once, then stop reading.
Popped one into my computer and I could get it to rip though I didn't let it finish, and I could get all the files on the disc up - so I know it isn't a case of scratched up Discs as some of the lesser discs with some similar damage can still be read out on my 360, so it has to be...
The layer not getting picked up by the laser, of course. I figured this was it, and all of my cheap discs have a deep purple, the Verbatim discs are lighter. What I don't understand is wouldn't it be the other way around for the laser to pick up lighter bottom games than the "cheaper" ones? I had a disc read around March, and after that I noticed I had a disc not read - thought it was just rotted, but then I kept trying and it's only these ones.
Mind you, it isn't the end of the world kind of thing, I have a ton of these owned digital by now though a lot of them are simply uncommon games, a lot of Cave shooters I can't play now etc. and I use Live, so RGH won't be sufficient.
Is the laser simply dying by this point? (it's had thousands of hours of use by now) or would trying my luck with another tweak be worth the risk of killing the thing?
The thing is, I read way back you wanted to spend on Verbatim discs and they're better etc. but now anything I have on Memorex, TDK, all still read - all retail discs too, it's just every Verbatim disc, ones from 2010 and the last one I have from late 2015 will attempt a seek once, then stop reading.
Popped one into my computer and I could get it to rip though I didn't let it finish, and I could get all the files on the disc up - so I know it isn't a case of scratched up Discs as some of the lesser discs with some similar damage can still be read out on my 360, so it has to be...
The layer not getting picked up by the laser, of course. I figured this was it, and all of my cheap discs have a deep purple, the Verbatim discs are lighter. What I don't understand is wouldn't it be the other way around for the laser to pick up lighter bottom games than the "cheaper" ones? I had a disc read around March, and after that I noticed I had a disc not read - thought it was just rotted, but then I kept trying and it's only these ones.
Mind you, it isn't the end of the world kind of thing, I have a ton of these owned digital by now though a lot of them are simply uncommon games, a lot of Cave shooters I can't play now etc. and I use Live, so RGH won't be sufficient.
Is the laser simply dying by this point? (it's had thousands of hours of use by now) or would trying my luck with another tweak be worth the risk of killing the thing?
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