BLOG BLOG BLOG. People were talking about Tales so eventually everyone started splurging about ToDR (it's the law) including me so I decided I definitely had to replay it right now after deciding not to replay it a few weeks ago.
But in order to play such a Japanese game, I had to use my SwapMagic DVD, which I have been fearing for many months now. I think I only used it two or three times since I beat Dragon Shadow Spell's superboss, and one of those times nearly gave me a heart attack from the sounds I heard. After that time I had taped back the last huge chunk of plastic from the top layer of the center that had popped off just before in hopes that it would be enough to cure the nightmare-inducing sound. It was, but it still made some scary noises so I kept avoiding it.
Until now! Today was the day! I got out my index cards, tape, and the scissors that nearly sliced off part of my finger and got to work!
Three sets of 2-3 layers of tiny index card bits and lots of tiny strips of tape and it was good as new. Now I don't have to live in fear that the disc is trying to suicide itself against my PS2's laser lens!
But then ToDR glitched on me like a jeeerk. Giving me Kuushuuken with 0 usage count (totally unlikely to have been true since this was a New Game+ and I highly doubt I'd never used it before) AND two mastery stars (from, y'know, having a lot of uses). It also wasn't in my actual attack list and the only reason I could use it was because it was already set when I got Lion. And then I got annoyed at it being there and removed it and NEVER GOT IT BACK
EVER AGAIN.At least I don't have to try to figure out who is still selling Swap Magic discs, or worry about this thing on Google I saw that said people have had discs explode inside PS2s from the kind of damage that happened to my disc.