CG/CGI skipping in ps1 games? Can I save my FF8 game?

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Recently, I've been having a lot of problems with my ps1 game, final fantasy 8. It freezes at the scene where squall dances with the asian-looking girl (sorry if this is offensive, I don't know her name because I haven't gotten to that part yet.) I've tried leaving it on for about 5 hours to see if it would just complete the CGI scene and be OK. However, it failed to work, and only got about 35 seconds through at an average of 1 second per hour. I am afraid to try the toothpaste cleaning method and screw something up really bad. It does not go faster on a ps2. It's actually worse.

I have heard that on the old grey brick ps1 (the one I have been using) you can skip CG/CGI cinemas by opening and then closing the disc cover. I have tried this multiple times during the cgi scenes but they just freeze. What am I doing wrong???

Can I save my game?

Note: let me know if my ps1 is the problem, I'm going to try it on a friend's old brick ps1 if so. It's about 1.5 years older than mine, I think.

Please help!

-Smartcomputernerd
 
Odds are the disk is the problem. You may wanna try cleaning it. Otherwise you might wanna find a replacement (which will be very hard now). I remember having to get 3 copies of FFVIII because disk 2 kept on getting damaged (oh my luck).

As for your playsation being the problem, that's unlikely since you've already tested it on another console.

As for saving your game you can only do that at the save points. And you can't skip cutscenes either.
 
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