"Breaking" PS2 CDs...

[Lhenardo]

How do you make a PS2 CD "not work"?

For my report about pirated CDs and how they work on the PS2, I'm planning to make a couple of pirated PS2 CDs "not work", meaning when you try to run them on the PS2, they will just display the message "Please insert a PS2 Cd,, etc..etc.."...

I won't result into cracking them, I want another method which would work not because of cracks.

Anybody has an idea of how I can do this?

[DanteTheLegend]

get a pc disc, wet them both and put them face to face and soak them in rubbing alcohol

idk if that will work but it might

[Sparkplug1990]

Try taking a magnet to the side with the information on it. I know that jacked a few of my PS2 CD's up.

[Midnight_Walker]

Originally Posted by Sparkplug1990

Try taking a magnet to the side with the information on it. I know that jacked a few of my PS2 CD's up.

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Are you kidding? That might work for floppy disks, hard drives and cassettes, because they store their data as charged particles, so waving a magnet around disrupts the charge and buggers everything up. CDs and DVDs don't work like that; they store data as 'pits' and no pits representing 1s and 0s, although I don't know which is which. Anyway, those pits are read using a laser, not a magnetic head, so a magnet will have no effect.

Well, it shouldn't, anyway, so I don't know what happened in your case, unless you used the magnet to scratch the disc.

[Sparkplug1990]

I actually had a PS2 disc in my suitcase one time and I guess I had one of those old Red U magnets in there as well. I went on the car ride and when I got to where I wanted to go, I took the disc out and the data side was all discolored. The magnet wasthe old thing taht had a chance to ruin the disc.

[Big Red 11]

A healthy dose of acid applied liberally to the data side.

[MenstrualGravy]

Put the PS2 disc in a xbox 360 when it first starts trying to read said disc pick up your 360 and shake it. Disc ruined.