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Happened to me too! I have a NTSC-U copy of it that looked fine normally but refused to boot on any region Wii

I had never seen this before, but good to know, let’s hope it doesnt impact it more rapidly over time :)

An audio CD rather than gaming CD/DVD, here's bitrot on NIN's Downward Spiral. When it's missing the silver, it's proper (fucked) bitrot as it cannot reflect the laser back into the reader, but the staining is the first step on the journey, as oxidisation is now occurring.

are these PAL or NTSC? more than half my PAL ones are rotting, and most I find in the wild have it too. NTSC (specifically Japanese I see more often) seems _mostly_ saved from it so far

Typically its defined as the reflective coating breakdown down thus the disc data becomes unreadable. The adhesive discolouring the surrounding material doesn't cause it to be unreadable (yet) but will when the two sides eventually separate (Which in a LaserDisc player, is going to be scary).

There are also PDO manufactured laserdiscs (Mostly BBC ones) which have BOTH kinds of "rot", which is an extra kind of cursed.

We need to know if PDO / Blackburn ever made Wii discs

we have recently started seeing Blu-Rays also do this, I would have guessed after all these years of DVD manufacturing, the process would be nailed down to avoid this 😂

PDO (UK, Blackburn) discs are infamous for it and instances date back to 1995 for manufacture but the issues only started cropping from 2000 onwards as it's an chemical reaction over time.

did you actually manage yourself to throw it out, or are you like me, and hanging on to the corpse for display purposes 😂?

ive a few budget dvd's, mostly horror and sci fi that have unusual swirls and patterns that seem to be between the data layer and the plastic, all of them work perfectly and even in one case buffing a damaged disc made the patterns less visible (likely from the heat of being buffed for so long)

But if you want to verify. Rip with USB loader GX and if it fails out. It will be somewhere in the middle as it tries to switch layers. Lot of dual layer movie dvds from the era have this issue too. Bad manufacturing.

We settle on the binary of plays or doesn’t play. Usually borked discs won’t even load. We have a resurfacing machine so that handles base line read issues. And its a cheap enough game that if it has deeper issues we are happy to refund. But we can pull trashed Wii Sports out of the grave all day.