Gamestop Disc Checker

[SavannahLion]

OK, to start. I rarely shop at Gamestop anymore. IMHO, they've gone waaay downhill since my PSX purchasing days.

Anyhow, I was at this super mega mall down in the bay. My GF was bopping around the makeup stuff so I decided to hit the boy stores. Unfortunately, it's all girlie stuff until I spot the Gamestop. Eh, whatever, I'll check it out. Got in, spent a good twenty minutes in there and spotted a used PS2 title that looked semi-interesting (Did Gamestop stop selling new titles at ALL? I saw only about 1/2 dozen brand new titles) for $9. My GF was easily blowing $200 on makeup so I figured a $9 wouldn't make much of a dent in our budget

I knew the routine, brought the case up, inspected the disc (scratches, as usual), when the girl behind the counter offered to "check the disc data integrity." On a PS2 title? Whatever. I figured it was going to burn at least five minutes so I agreed. Before I could even finish my sentence of agreement, she had the disc back out of the "machine" and in the case.

WTF? That was fast! I asked her what she did. She validated it of course. I asked her how. She didn't know the details but she said the machine scans the entire disc and validates the data.

At this point my mind went into full gear. Dump and validate the data on a disc in less time than it takes for me to finish a simple sentence?!? NO ---smurfing--- WAY! I asked if I could look at the machine, she refused.

I wasn't going to spend time arguing or trying to convince her otherwise. I know how Gamestop employees are.

So what the hell is this alleged "Disc Checker" that can dump a proprietary disc, validate it, then spit out results before a person can finish zipping up their pants? I call bull ---Cleveland steamer---, no way there's a disc checker that can do all of that.

Anyone on the inside know the details of this nonsense? I'm betting it's another one of Gamestops gimmick ---smurf-poop---.

[pointdablame]

There's no way it dumped the data in that amount of time.  I'm sure it's only checking for scratches somehow.  My guess is it never even read any of the data on the disc, it simply ran a laser by it to see if it could theoretically read the entire surface of the disc.

[Samstag]

It's probably just a marketing gimmick.  You'll feel better knowing the disk was "thoroughly checked for data integrity" and the manager will feel better knowing that if you bring it back unreadable he has an argument against accepting the return.

[shardian]

Smells like bull crap to me too.

[Malenko]

she prolly popped it into a PS2 and made sure the disc icon loaded

[BradC]

Or into a PC and see that the name of the disc shows up.

[SavannahLion]

Well, my curiosity is burned out. I'm sure the next time I'm in a GS I'll be bored out of my ---smurfing--- mind or it'll be a going out of business sale.