Ball Point Pen on CDs

[IIXxRaVeNxXII]

Yes, received a shipment of CDs from someone the other day..
I noticed that these CDs were written on with one of these cheap plastic ball point pens, not like a sharpie or anything.

I also noticed that these games take at least five re-tries on my direct boot, Magic 3.1...Are there any negative side effects to writting on discs with a ball point pens...

Also, If the disc was just burned bad....if I reburned it, using the bad burn disc as the master, would this fix anything, or could it just get worse....like directly copying VHS to DVD.....

Thanks in Advance
RaVeN

[Nizmo]

Well writing on a cd with a ballpoint pen is pretty hard for me to do. maybe its the cds i use. when i tried to write with a pen it wouldnt appear. i would have to scratch the words into the cd to make it appear. I think the reason why your games dont work first try is because maybe its been compressed from a dvd to a cd or maybe its just that the pen has scratched the cd making the ps2 laser go through it. if you burnt the cd again i dont think any thing would happen to the original but the one that you are about to copy mite not burn rite.

[VIPER_1069]

my reply to this would be DON'T get copied games/software genuine games and genuine software will have printed or inked on labels ! not hand written !

[ps2king]

writing on a CD with a ball point pen is strictly a no no! It scratches the reflective surface of the CD making it very difficult to read.

[The-poacher]

very difficult to read.

or worse Not at all <> ergo use only proper CDR/DVDR marker pens!!

[VIPER_1069]

or at a push if you want ..use NONE ALCOHOL based permanent pens as the alcohol eats the disk surface/coating away