[game_preservation] Game disc wear questions

[Rachel "Sheepy" Donahue]

All good arguments for moving to a media independent copy, I say!

On Fri, 18 Dec 2009 00:10:09 -0500, Devin Monnens <dmonnens at gmail.com>  
wrote:


> I have been going through all the games in my collection (it's taking a  

> very

> long time...) and recording what condition the discs are in. One thing I

> noticed as I was going through is some discs have a lot of wear that  

> doesn't

> seem related to normal wear and tear as they've been sitting on a shelf

> forever. I've gone through over 130 PS1 and 130 PS2 games and another  

> 100 or

> so games from other disc-bases systems. So this is a fairly large sample

> base. Here are a few observations I've made: