With enough money, you can really fix anything.

I am sure it will rot away in 100 years or so, but no worries for now.

I never seen a GAME disk be that way. Strange, thought this is limited to CDs only. Regardless, good to hear the game reads just fine.

Thank you for summarizing everything.

Thank you, the more I know...... the more I know.

@@NotOrdinaryInGames yw.

@@NotOrdinaryInGames Also, i've seen that in rarer cases, it rots from the inside out (the first tracks impacted)

CD or DVD? It matters, plus I never seen a game being mis-printed like that.

@@NotOrdinaryInGames It is a game manual on CD.

@@macintoshrainbow6380 Not sure what you mean by game "manual", but if it a Sega Saturn game, I heard some of those can wear out fast. Never seen a PlayStation disk wear out though.

@@NotOrdinaryInGames It is a Windows 98 PC CD having the games manual.

@@macintoshrainbow6380 In that case, I hope it's 1 or 2 tiny holes. That's believable as a misprint. I will have to stress that in very rare cases, those are damage. It's just that usually it is not so.

I wish I could see it in person. It is possible to be the rare and dreaded disk rot. OR paint splattered on the surface during mass production. Or, as you said, air bubbles. Impossible to know without seeing.

@@NotOrdinaryInGames i posted a link to a image I took, but it probably got sent to your awaiting comment approval settings

No, """good""" Google AI auto-deleted it, it seems. I tell you what, if you are into buying select albums, and especially older ones, why not make an account on Discogs? From there, you could send me a message. Your CD is probably fine, but at least I could see the photo for myself.

@@NotOrdinaryInGames doesn't matter at this point. Just bought another new copy. This time it's factory sealed so there should be no problems

@@Wicked_Fox I actually did the same thing once. The "suspicious" CD is still fine years later, and now I have two.

The ugly truth is, no one really knows how long a CD will last. There are guesses, and really fast tests (decades of wear in days or smth), but no one knows. I will be using Sennheiser for the near future.

@@NotOrdinaryInGames Thank you

Remember that you can still scratch the label side and physically damage the metal layer. Holes can be an imperfection or actual damage. Thankfully, it's mostly imperfection form the factory.

@@NotOrdinaryInGames THANKS FOR YOUR HARD WORK BROTHER... I have some qames i bouqht without noticin at first.... Am i Screwed?... A few PS3 Games i bouqht have small scratches here n there on THE TOP PAPER/FOIL PART SMH 😥😞 DO GAMES STILL PLAY JUST FINE IF THEY HAVE SOME LITTLE SPOTS, SPECS OR LITTLE SCRATCHES ON THE TOP PAPER/FOIL PART ON A PS3 DISC? *** I DONT HAVE A PS3 TO TEST THEM YET BUT I JUST WANT TO KNOW IF SOME GAMES ARE STILL OK AND DONT SKIP OR FREEZE WITH MINOR SCRATCHES ON TOP OF DISC. ANYBODY KNOWLEDGABLE PLEASE REPLY SOON

@@NotOrdinaryInGames Will VIDEO GAME DISCS BE OK & UNAFFECTED WITH (SMALL SCRATCHES) IN THE METAL ARTWORK FOIL ON TOP OF THE DISC AS WELL?

I have never ever seen holes in a Blu-Ray disk. Never ever. Of course, your games can be physically scratched. The only way to know if trying to play them.

@@NotOrdinaryInGames thank u very much. ok but if i wna sell it online... but i dont have time to test from start to finish each qame...but can test first 15 minutes... can i sell them with a 15 minute Test as a Tested Game? Please reply soon.

"New" as in when people bought them in the 80s from stores. Modern CDs are made with machines much more perfected. 90s CDs almost never have it, nothing modern does. Your CD seems to have real actual damage.

@@NotOrdinaryInGames I believe it's rare that it would have come from the factory that way, more likely that over time small portions of the metallic layer that were not applied as firmly flaked off or that unavoidable debris from life contacted and compromised the surface. Have you tried any metallic pens to try to cover up the holes to hopefully lessen the chance of playback issues and lessen the chance of the metal continuing to flake on these holes? I haven't and am wondering what pens exactly to look for.

@@BWcapture I have CDs from all eras of production, and never did I see MORE holes appear over time, it is always the same number, or none. Again, physical wear is a real thing, but that is not what I talked about, it's an exception. If you want to "protect" CDs, I suggest talk to someone who works at a pressing plant, in other words someone who knows a lot more than me.

That's rough. When something you paid money for is broken beyond repair.

I simply do not know what standard of quality Sega had with Dreamcast. Maybe you have to worry, maybe not. I only ever played PS1 and PS2 games (PS3 and after is all Bluray and those are built to last).

Only if you can create new matter out of nothing.

@@NotOrdinaryInGames put your camera phone to the reflecting disk you can see real entity

But you need to see the the reflecting thru your phone so you see the disk then back to your phone then back to the disk then you see real entity all around you small large different forms

If you see text me back

@@sergiogarza4120 Dude, I am God and I see all.

The holes are not disc rot. The holes are most likely there due to improper storage （disc binders) and just improper handling of the discs. Basically the label has been scratched off.

I have a CD that looks as bad as the one he shows here, and by an amazing coincidence, I listened to it last night. Plays flawlessly. Oh, and it came brand new like that when I bought it in 1987.

That will do absolutely nothing. It won't help the lazer read the data.

All sunlight does is attack (a strong but accurate word) everything it touches. So, under strong direct sunlight, for a long enough time, the lacquer part of the disk starts do break down, and have microscopic cracks. Through those cracks, oxygen and water vapor get in. And THAT causes the rusting of the metal layer. It is always visible to the naked eye, as a silver or bronze discoloration.

@@NotOrdinaryInGames I understand, then ... the cases do not protect from the effects of sunlight? More than anything I say it because in my case a bright, but not direct sunlight comes to me from the window (basically it bounces off a white wall, goes through a glass or has the curtain through) and it makes me wonder if it is a good idea to have them in there for what you comment. Could it cause damage? So far I have not seen anything strange The cases are semi-transparent video game boxes, such as Xbox 360 or PS4 or other more opaque ones such as Nintendo's Thanks for the answer!

@@angelmarquez4403 A little sunlight for a few hours won't kill a disk in a case.

@@NotOrdinaryInGames Oh! So the effects are immediate? I thought it was more relative in long-term effects, due to the separation of the disc layers, so I suppose it is more due to the temperature of the sun, than anything else, am I wrong?

@@angelmarquez4403 All I know is that I was never paranoid about disk safety, and I let most of them be exposed to SOME sunlight on all days (while in cases), and nothing bad happened in........ 10 years since I started building my collection.

These teeny holes I only saw in CDs, and no games I own have them. I guess DVD processing plants are just that much better, and PS1 disks were just made well. Maybe. Cause they're black, and you cannot see through.

@@NotOrdinaryInGames Well Misadventures of Tron Bonne is a PS1 game and there are visible holes holding it up to a very bright light. Either way it's probably a printing error as it's close to the center of the disc

@@sumiosquirrel Exactly what certain people on Discogs forums told me. Imagine buying a CD in the late 80s and seeing the holes already there.

@@NotOrdinaryInGames DVDs may have less tolerance for errors.

That sounds like serious mechanical damage, and basically RIP

Yes. Except no. In ~96% of the cases it's not a sign of dying.

Remember that disk rot still exists, my point was: it is actually very rare.

@NotOrdinaryInGames I understand it better now thanks.

Yes, BUT you can still create more holes through mechanical damage, and that can in turn lead to oxidation.

You'll notice bronzing in an irregular regressive pattern from the outside inward.

@@DorianPaige00I’ve only seen that on blank CDs and its almost always due to humid storage conditions

SMERKUZHEO G I know this is pretty old and I dunno if you ever found an answer to your concerns, but in case you didn't or just for anyone else that's worried, I'll give my own anecdote on this. I collect a few games and have something like 200 physical PS3 games and about 350 PS4 games, about 30 or so Xbox One games. All blu rays, and I'd say about 1 in 10 have see through pin holes in them. With most it's just one or two holes, but my copy of GTAV on PS4 has several tiny ones. I've yet to encounter any issues installing or playing any of these discs, and most were bought brand new and had the holes already there right out of the packaging. I believe it must just be a manufacturing defect. Most of my Wii U discs have holes as well, and I know it's extremely common for Wii U discs to have them. They're a propriety disc so it might have something to do with how they're manufactured. Again, no issues playing them. From my experience, the only times I've had discs not work for me is when they have severe scratches, or the laser in the console doesn't like the disc for whatever reason (my PS3 super slim has never been able to read my Deus Ex disc even though it plays on my other 2 PS3s fine). I've not had a disc fail due to pinholes yet. HOWEVER, I have had one disc (old PC game) actually develop a see through area near the centre of the disc, which did make it not fully readable and unable to ever be fully installed again. It looked very different to the pin holes I'm used to, it was pretty big and still had some faded areas of the label still intact inside the see through area. I'm unsure if it was disc rot, but it was pretty dirty in the area where the damage was, I imagine for quite some time before I noticed. I used to kinda abuse my games as a kid, and this disc was about 20 years old. Anyway, if you're still worried, I recommend using a program that checks disc integrity such as VSO inspector. Not a lot of computers have blu ray lasers in their disc drives though so it may be hard to check those. Also keep in mind that even if a program can 100% read the disc with 0 errors, the laser in your console may be weaker and might encounter issues even if the disc can be read by a different laser. I don't think this is common though and it's never happened to me. I regularly use VSO inspector on pre owned PS2 games I buy to ensure they're fine without fully playing through them.

Christine nice thanks alot brother. Big help

CD collectors on one of the best forum for music lovers. Some of them bought disks in the 80s, which already had tiny holes in them. 99% of cases have the holes being a result of imperfect manufacturing, only 1% is actual damage which is bad and terrible.

@@NotOrdinaryInGames Motown and Polygram are full of them. That was before they silkscreened images on them which if not done right can cause access paint in the spindel area. I had that happen on my First Choice double disc Anthology made by Salsoul.

@@NotOrdinaryInGames Steve Hoffman forums.

That sounds interesting (and terrifying). Could you elaborate though? I don't quite follow the choice of words. Also, I do have a single Polygram CD, but that one have a silk screened image...... so guess I'm okay.

@@NotOrdinaryInGames The early cds where there were no images on Polygram, Island, and Motown are full of pinholes but they were pretty much created that way. As you know, they all play fine. You can make a 2mm gauge across the disc and still have it play because of the error correction. To fix the abundant paint that created a bump in the spindle area, I just took a knife and shaved it down. It was on First Choice double disc Greatest hits from 1992. Other times I have seen minor spindle wear where the plastic in a tad uneven but within acceptable range.

Well, that is mostly true. It's the quality of materials and equipment usually. But all physical copies of anything die eventually. All of us will have to back up, and back up again.

@@NotOrdinaryInGames I disagree! My feeling is if you handle them with care they'll last a lifetime. It's mostly how you take care of your stuff. Your cds should outlive you if you do!

I do have them backed up just in case they don't. 3x WD my books.

I'd invest in a bunch of m-disks. Maybe.

I wish I could read any of them.

And now it was explained again

You called me KID. I am defeated.

I literally got that thing by biting the lip too many times in the same place. I think it's a type of scar. Yeah, I'll get rid of it someday, I just don't care at the moment.

NotOrdinaryInGames oh I thought maybe you were biting your lip and then made the video. My apologies thought it was a just the skin hanging.

Don't worry, I have some really annoying commenters (here and Bitchute), and I still allow all comments.