Anyone ever get frequent "Disk Read Errors"?

I can't finish a race in Mario Kart without it happening -- Prince of Persia does it, Soul Calibur, 1080..... And Nintendo tells me its the game. Pfft.

Any ideas as to what I can do?

[Edit: BTW if this should have gone elsewhere I can repost if needed, maybe the Tech Forum?]
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TDiR: The Destruction is Real

[This message has been edited by Backslash (edited March 05, 2004).]

you could have a dirty lens maybe... or something more serious

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wang is within all

If all of your games have this error, you either have damaged disks (your fault, unfortunately, even if they were pruchased damaged), or the drive has a bad laser head, and Nintendo is obligated to repair it/send you a new one, unless there's good reason that you might have damaged it. Nintendo is annoying in that they often try to shove any blame for faulty hardware onto their customers. I would know as I've had experience talking with one of their support people...

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I had this problem before, unfortunatly when i jsut got Metroid Prime so that i really wanted to play but couldn't. It got to the point where I would only get 5 minutes of play before i got the read error. i didn't have the problem King had, they first told me to try cleaning the disks, but that's what they're supposed to say anyway, at first. they dont want to replace the lazer when the problem is the disk. anyway, i sent it to them, they fixed it and sent it back and i haven't had a problem since.

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Sounds like my work (where I originally bought the Cube) is going to fix me up. Thanks guys.

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TDiR: The Destruction is Real

I've only had that problem with rented games. Luckily, my rental place lets you get a replacement.

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Whoa, flashback to old NES days where I would have to constantly blow air into the cartridges pin connectors to get them to work. I guess some problems never go away.

Yea, it might also have been jarred off, making it nearly impossible for the laser to read... although unlikely. I take my GCN everywhere, and I mean everywhere. LANs are great for em

It's probably more likely that your laser's lense needs to be cleaned. Just follow any cd-rom lense cleaner guide.

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Well, I had to hold my NES in a 12 degree angle to worl :/

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I had this error once when playing a game of Soul Caliber 2. I think it is because there is dust,dirt, or a scratch on the disc or lense. Im not quite sure which one it is, but i know mine didnt work because there was a a big fingerprint on the disc, go figure...

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Ha, ha at all of you. I've never ever had a single problem with my cube.

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Never had any problems with my cube. Sounds like a faulty/dirty lens.

And you guys know that blowing in your cartridges was the exact reason that they didn't work, right? Moisture from your breath isn't good for those things.

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well, it wan't the exact reason. the dust is what causes the original problems, and blowing in it does clean it out. however, after awhile, the moisture will get to it. but it isn't the only reason.

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"No good can ever come from staying with normal people"
-Outlaw Star
"Some people play tennis. I erode the human soul"
-Tycho, Penny Arcade
"I'm a Cannabal-Vegitarian. I will BBQ an employee if there is no veggie option"
-DX:IW

After cleaning the lens, the cube ran for about an hour of Mario Kart without a error. Hopefully it keeps up!

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Got a good point. However, if you used the plastic things all the time like I did you shouldn't have a problem.

I mean, my NES still works today. Flawlessly.

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you can't always use the plastic things because it's not easy to find games that still have them

it's really called know how to properly clean your games and all will be good (and it really helps if you have a cleaning kit)

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wang is within all

Heh, I remember I had to do that too with any console that uses cartridges. You raelly had to blow hard on those suckers in order to get them to work. Sometimes that can be a daunty tasks because you have to be careful not to accidently spit into the blasted thing when you blew.

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I had one of those, but i didn't really use it because it took so long to use. i resorted to blowing several times simply because i didn't want to deal with that.

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"No good can ever come from staying with normal people"
-Outlaw Star
"Some people play tennis. I erode the human soul"
-Tycho, Penny Arcade
"I'm a Cannabal-Vegitarian. I will BBQ an employee if there is no veggie option"
-DX:IW

I would consider a general-use cleaning kit to be an excelent investment. I have one that cost ~$5US (Wouldn't know now, it's been some 8 years since I got it), and it's still quite useful. The best part was a tool that works quite well fore cleaning the surface of a CD/DVD without scratching it at all...

As for the actual laser heads, there are companies that sell laser-head-cleaning disks, but you might be a little harder pressed to find one made for the GameCube, given the diminuitive size of its disks...

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