Quote Originally Posted by nik0tine
how did you clean your cd's? try this: get some rubbing alcahol and a cotton ball. put the rubbing alcahol on teh cotton ball and rub it all over your ff8 cd. do it in straight lines, up and down or left to right. or do it left to right, then up and down. after you have cleaned the whole cd get a soft rag or toilet paper or whatever, and wipe it dry. then try to play it. it often times will fix my problems with bad cd's.
Alcohol is a solvent, so it runs the risk of damaging the CD further by dissolving it. It'd be great for removing dirt or grime, but I can't see how it'd fix scratches. Scratch removal is the biggest problem with CDs, but it can be done.

Also, when you're cleaning a CD, one thing to do it never rub around the disc. Always go in a straight line from the center to the edge, the edge to the center. The laser in a Cd player works like the needle in a record player; it reads information in "rings" around the disc. So, if you rub around in circles, there's the risk of making new scratches that go over the information. A straight from, from edge to center, will do less harm. There should be information on disc maintenance in the instruction manual for the game.