My melee disk is dead. Is this the right place to post for help?

[The_Guide]

So, sorry if this is the wrong place, but my melee disk is finally going on the fritz. Its fine till I get to the CSS screen, then a second after a pick a character, I get an error screen that directs me to look at the gamecube manual, with no specific information. Can anyone help?

UPDATE: It seems as if this is only happening with Ganon. Falcon isn't freezing the game. Going to test with other folks, see where I'm @.

UPDATE 2: Yeah, everythings borked. Only Ganon freezes the game outright, but everyone else freezes it upon entering the Stage Select Screen.

 

[rhan]

The only thing that can help is buying a new disc.

It's only about 15 - 20 bucks at Gamestop.

 

[l0telephone0l]

A standard laser reader can easily read small scratches, but larger scratches on the plastic overlay may effect your load time. One quick tip is to put some toothpaste on a wet papertowel and VERY GENTLY buff the surface of your disc. Take your time; 15 minutes of lightly doing this should be good. I've fixed countless old CD's this way, including 2 melee discs.

 

[MTKO]

A standard laser reader can easily read small scratches, but larger scratches on the plastic overlay may effect your load time. One quick tip is to put some toothpaste on a wet papertowel and VERY GENTLY buff the surface of your disc. Take your time; 15 minutes of lightly doing this should be good. I've fixed countless old CD's this way, including 2 melee discs.

This does work pretty well. I think it works better than buying the disc fixer stuff. Try it and if doesn't work, just pick up a new copy at gamestop or off ebay. I'm really surprised my disc hasn't stopped working yet.

 

[Redd]

http://glyde.com/#!viasearch/products/7947814/Super-Smash-Bros-Melee

 

[Zivilyn Bane]

Its fine till I get to the CSS screen.

CSS = Character Select Screen

Its fine till I get to the character select screen screen.

Anyways, this happened to me too like three years ago. I had to purchase my wife's little brothers copy of the game for ten bucks.

http://glyde.com/#!viasearch/products/7947814/Super-Smash-Bros-Melee

Oh I totally vouch for Glyde. I purchased a couple of games through them earlier this year and I will most likely never purchase from Gamestop again. Glyde is awesome.

 

[Kason Birdman]

Lol this happened with like me like 3 discs ago. I was funny cause it only happened with falcon and it spawned the joke that 'falcon was so manly he broke the game.' it was good fun.

 

[tera twin]

My Melee disc is weird... it reads on my Gamecube but not on my Wii <_<

 

[victra♥]

thats impressive that you guys are finding melee for so cheap. Melee (as well as Double Dash) are two GC games that still selling as full priced games.

I suppose you can try to get it cleaned up, but your best bet is to probably just find a new disc somewhere.

 

[rhan]

http://glyde.com/#!viasearch/products/7947814/Super-Smash-Bros-Melee

I'm so buying like 3 of those..

My Melee disc is weird... it reads on my Gamecube but not on my Wii <_<

That's because Melee was never meant to be played on a crappy system like the Wii.

 

[Johnny_C13]

Toothpaste huh...? That's neat.

I hated those stupid GCN optical disk. It never happened to me personally, but once day I was at a friend's house, and as he was taking out the Melee disk from the case, the disk snapped in half! Over a year later, I tell this story to some of my university buddies, and 2 of them tells me it happened to them also...

 

[GhllieShdeKnife]

wow try not bending the disc from one side DUR!!

 

[Codi]

go to game stop buy a disc and get insurance on it then go back with your old disc and get another one

 

[l0telephone0l]

Toothpaste works well because there are thousands tiny abrasive little particles that are generally used for polishing/cleaning teeth, but they work to lightly and evenly mark your disk.