If I were a crossplayer, I'd DEFINITELY be going as Meru!! She is sooo my favorite girl from an RPG, besides Noa from Legend of Legaia, of course.
"Ooh, LoD! I remember playing that game! Unfortunately, my disks were scratched and wouldn't let me get passed the 1st disk.." T_T
"That will be an awesome cosplay though, I hope I'll see you around!" ^^
That sucks. My game has disk 1 scratched so bad I'm probably going to get another one off ebay.
Hope to see you at the Con!
I've actually tried this myself, and I can verify that it works about half the time. If your game is badly scratched and you're going to throw it away anyways, try putting some white toothpaste (not that glittery crap) on the bottom and rubbing it in to fill in the scratches. You still gotta be gentle doing it, but if you really believe you have nothing to lose and the game is hopelessly lost, give it a shot.
The only problem is that the machine can get warm and mess with the consistency of the toothpaste, but it's only happened once to me.