Pats1717

On 4/7/2024 at 7:45 PM, LFD1088 said:

Hey! Just recently found my GameCube with 9 games, but 8 of them are too scratched of course lol

i saw this post and thought why not give it a shot, since all my troubleshooting didn’t work and you have good reviews

im wondering how I go about sending you the discs?

I responded to your message thank you. 

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On 2/15/2024 at 2:27 PM, tysonbisme said:

@Pats1717 what is your 5-year success rate with GameCube games? I have been purchasing several online that claim to be tested and working, so I'm wondering if sending them to you could result in them becoming "broken" or "non-working". I saw several posts that were saying you are great at this stuff, so I wanted to get your opinion before potentially "ruining" working games.

I responded to you privately but for everyone else generally if the game is fully working I would avoid resurfacing until absolutely necessary. 

Gamecube sucess rate is pretty good but I have never kept track of percentages. 

Did a couple batches this week still going strong if anyone is interested. 

Thank you 

Still doing discs if anyone is interested 

bump still doing this. 

Bump! Still going strong 

Still doing discs did a few batches in the last couple of weeks. 

Thanks Zilch!

Still doing discs at a buck a piece you can't go wrong!

Still doing discs just finished another batch.

Still doing these!

still doing this great results! 

Bump still available. 

3 hours ago, final fight cd said:

any explanation on why some consoles have poor success? are not all CDs created equally? 

Well the ones I listed still mostly work after resurface. Lot of it has to do with how thin the disc is and what quality the discs are. I only run Gamecube, Sega CD, Saturn, and Dreamcast on the medium setting. 

Still doing this if anyone is interested. 

On 10/8/2021 at 11:11 PM, docile tapeworm said:

are people sending in games that work already? i find loose stuff often in the wild but alot are scratched. they boot and play. but im trying to flip/trade them. i have no way of testing them all 100%. i usually play for 5 min mess around in the menus and thats it. it would be nice if i could get them buffed so i could be more confident in a sale.

Yeah sometimes its a mixed bag really. It depends on the system really. If you would be disappointed seeing that as a consumer I would resurface it unless It is like Saturn or sega cd and even gamecube to an extent. 

bump still going strong doing discs.

On 9/6/2021 at 11:29 AM, 3rdStrongestMole said:

Okay this might be impossible to see in this picture,  but I have a copy of Sonic Adventure (i know, you already said Dreamcast games are hit or miss) and it looks super clean, but it won't read.

Tested other games in the Dreamcast so I assume it's the disc. I can only see this weird discoloration on it,  almost like a faint coffee stain (only way I can describe it).

Did someone botch a resurface on this game already? Or is it salvageable? 

In my opinion it looks like it was resurfaced and at too high of a setting. Wii games with the gold back disc (smash bros, zumba world party, hip hop dance experience, and I think a few others) all get the same types of issues. 

As always if it doesn't work at all it is worth a shot. Maybe not mailing to me but if someplace local to you has a machine. 

I just did about 300 discs this weekend for 3 different folks. Love to do more!

On 8/30/2021 at 10:35 AM, captmorgandrinker said:

Luckily on that site, once you deleted your PMs they were gone for good.

You aren't the only one that had that thought (as private sales deals might be exploited), so lots of us deleted our entire inboxes.   And if I recall, took down the site for short periods as we did so.

Yes sir I deleted a crap ton of messages 20,000 plus and crashed the site. 

1 minute ago, NESHQ said:

Were you guys paid as NA mods?

Not one cent. Took a lot of time to moderate that site. Thats why I laugh at all these posts here stating we are a bunch of vigilante elitist ban hammer dropping jerks. Certainly was not the case and you can never make everyone happy. 

I would be interested in playing. What site are you using for the league? 

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6 hours ago, Dain said:

Nice try, Brian. Some of you guys were ban-happy and you know it. It got to the point where you guys would swarm against me when I disagreed with your approach and I was in a pickle because all of the mods were ready to quit any time I reverted their decision. If you don't think that's the truth, I suppose I could dig out some of the Mod Squad threads here if you'd like; after all, I have the entire site sitting in front of me.

@Dain @B.A. @captmorgandrinker

I mean I think I bowed out of the mod scene maybe 1 or 2 years before the site went away. I think the majority of us worked our asses off on that site. Especially when BA VGD and I were admins. I do not think that we were that ban happy There was a whole time period that we had to handle things for you in the best interest of the site, when you were not as accessible. Some stuff just hit us out of left field including letting a banned member back to keep an eye on them, or suggesting someone a mod that hit us all out of left field (who was a big basher of the site). 

Being a mod and dealing with the problems on the site were not a picnic, and overall I think we did a damn good job. Maybe we didn't always get it right, but never was any ill intent at least. Also we dealt with absentee mods that only showed up when something happened but never dealt with any of the day to day issues. 

I have always had a tremendous amount of respect for you Dain and was very disappointed when NA went away like it did without any real closure. 

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