Burnt games sometimes dont play?

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  1. Raiden4

    Raiden4 Member

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    Just wondering if anyone has the problem where burnt Xbox games sometimes (not always) come up with a disk dirty or damaged ? And also me and my mate have different chips and some games will work on his and not mine and vice versa?

     
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    yup

    and its not the chip

    its the brand of disc and your brand of dvdrom drive.

    i have a philips. it plays all cd-r's with no hassles, and it plays ricoh dvd movies. but it won't read princo's.

    i went out and specifically bought ricoh dvd+r's
    only to find out after backing up 10 games or so that playing them results in random messages saying dirty or damaged.

    i wanted to see if it was bullshit, so i used DVD2Xbox and ripped the game off the dvd+r with no errors and then played it off the hard drive with no problems.

    so i would imagine you could try a different brand of disc,

    these are the risks we take with 'backups'

     
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    Yes ph33rluss. You are quite right. Although after some experimenting I have found that burning at 1x I have no problems converting the backups and the games run smoothly. I guess it may be more to do with the lens? I have tried a few different disks, with the same result. The lower the speed the better the copy. I should of thought about that to start with!!! Thanks for getting back to me anyway.
     
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    hey no thank you.

    thank you for sacrificing a few dvd's to come to that conclusion, i cant afford to play around.

    i appreciate the advice, i'll try burning them all at 1x from now on just to be safe.

    thanks.
     

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