CDFixers.com will professionally refinish your disc for $2 bucks.
You can use disk cleaning spray, or take it down to a game shop and ask them to clean it for you.
Toothpaste! Toothpaste DOES in fact, WORK!
You'd be surprised at how well this common household gel will buff out scratches on your beloved game.
However, this process may take awhile
All you need is toothpaste (With baking soda, as it helps to "sand" out the scratches) and some Q-tips.
I would start out with putting the toothpaste in a small cup, then getting comfortable. (again this process takes some time)
apply the toothpaste to your Q-tip and start at the outer edge of the CD.
Slowly apply it in small circles in towards the inner edge of the disk.
Do this until you've covered the entire CD.
As soon as you feel that you've applied it enough, rinse it under water. I would rinse it twice, just to make sure that you haven't left any toothpaste on the CD.
Let it air dry, so you don't end up adding more scratches to it.
The results are quite visible to, I was astonished when I first tried it and noticed that the majority of scratches were completely gone.
replace it with a different game disc. Does not have to be new and many used PS2 game discs are very cheap. At least look on Amazon and see what it will cost also check Glyde and eBay
i have it for ps2,and all i need to do is put it in,close the disk tray,and it works.if yours doesent work the disk either is scratched or the ps2 isint working for some reason.if u wanna get a new ps2.pre-owned ones work perfectly and there only about $50.00
By replacing it, you can watch all the YouTube videos you want they will not tell you how to fix your disc to work trouble free. Instead just replace it with many of the huge surplus of PS2 games already out
When I was prompted for a format disk on ps2, I went to game stop to buy the disk. They said a disk was not available - the game was simply too scratched to play.
it's kinda obvious. you open the disk tray and put the game in. the you hit restart
It might be a double layered disk, and sometimes you're ps2 will not respond to double layered disks. so try going out and buying a new ps2. it was alot easier cause the game loaded up in like 2 seconds.
Often the game disc is scratched and damaged
They say it will. but I have my doubt's.
You might have a scratched disc, does it work on another system ok?
No it is a Blu-ray disc
Apparently in the rush to get the ps2 version out the discs had some problems and some ps2 units usually the fat ones but not always, won't load. I found it out the hard way and bought a new slim ps2 today. Now it works (the same copy of the game that wouldn't load on the fat ps2).
PS2 use DVD and not CDs, but being scratched only stops them from playing
PS2 are on DVD discs if that is what you mean. Badly scratched Game disc can make the PS2 not know the format, but it is just a bad disc