I also have the same problem with my MGS TS, the coating on the surface of the disc is cracking very bad but then again, it was originally pre-owned.

I will have to check my PN03 later tonight though I'm sure REmake doesn't display such problem as I finished playing it recently. I think it depends on the type of "coating" on the surface as REmake one is slightly different from PN3/TS.

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well I just got the Wii edition a while back so I played the GC version as well to do a comparisons with the Wii. hehe

the Wii edition does not "sound" better to me (apparently GC has compressed audio) and the stretched "widescreen" image on GC looks better on LCD compared with Wii edition's preserved 4:3.

this coating problem is certainly very intriguing though, i'll have to look at my other GC games now tonight.