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Sun 25 Sep, 2005 05:06 pm
Hi, I'm a gaming dummy, so I hope you'll indulge this question which you most certainly will find sophomoric.
A couple years ago, I was working at a client's house, and their kids had this video game set in their home, and they were using these black discs in it.
They looked to be the exact size, shape and thickness as a regular CD or DVD, but were opaque black.
I understand how CD's and DVD's work, but I don't understand how these black discs contained games. I couldn't see any "light grooves" or rainbow patterning in the discs, so I'm wondering how they work.
I'm just curious, and don't know who else to ask, so thanks for your help.
Tom
It is just a color it isn't any different from a normal cd and I imagine you are talking about the black cd that you find on the ps1.
You can take the black cd and put it in your computer and it can read it
maybe this can help :
http://www.weethet.nl/english/cdrw_howitworks.php
basically it's the CD's surface that stores data.
good luck.
So, even though it's black, it's tranparent?
THanks for the assistance!
So, according to the info you provided, I assume that even though the game CD is black and appears opaque, there must be a clear layer, and then an internal Data layer.
So does this mean that the rainbow colors we see on CDs is not necessary? It's just put in there to make the CD pretty?
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