Xbox 360 Game Discs

sei1925

Does anybody know if there is a way to back up xbox 360 game discs that i have legally brought as my kids seem to scratch them . I know it can be a bit iffy as it probably infringes copyright but as i own them all i wanted to do was keep originals safe and let the kids use the back-up discs. 100 dvd-r-/+ only a tenner vs latest games £40. Thanks in advance , appologies if it is a silly question

Marty_J

There may very well be an easy way to copy them, but I don't think your XBox 360 will then be able to read them.

gillianandterry

There is but you would need your xbox flashed to play backup games

Treadway1

This wont really answer your question, but is it definately your kids scratching them. This may sound like a silly question, but the reason im asking is that I saw a segment on Watchdog a while ago about xbox's scratching discs while they were in the machine, and rendering them unplayable. Microsoft was denying any liablity saying that the machines must have been moved around whilst the games were inside to cause the problem, but this had happened to thousands of people, and they cant all have picked up the console while it was playing.

The scratch looks like a circular ring (Much like a tea stain) around the centre of the disc.

If this isnt your problem, and it really is your kids discarding them in the most inopportune places, (Like my nieces and nephews have a habit of doing... :rolleyes:) then I apologise for wasting 30 seconds of your life. However, if this sounds familiar then check out
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/watchdog/2009/03/xbox_360.html which has all the details.

Tredders.

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What size hard drive do you have for the console?

With the November dashboard update it brought a feature where you can copy the contents of the disc to the hard drive of the console to reduce wear, heat and noise. You still need the game disc in the drive to be able to boot the game from the hard drive, but I wouldn't expect a lot of scratching (unless it was really severe) to render the disc completely unreadable to a point where the Console couldn't verify the disc and continue to boot from the hard drive..

Just food for thought..

Marty_J

I store my most played games on the HDD; apart from anything else, it saves wear on the DVD drive.

trets77

Some Blockbuster stores have a machine that can repair scratched disks . take em there .

Got this from Watchdog program again.

sunshine54

Marty_J wrote: »

I store my most played games on the HDD; apart from anything else, it saves wear on the DVD drive.

is this also possible on a ps3 80gb?
i heard this will speed game play/load times

how do you do it?

Marty_J

Some PS3 games allow you to install them (or at least part of them) to the HDD, but I'm not sure there's a way to do it in the manner the XBox 360 can.

Bowling_4_Gold

sunshine54 wrote: »

is this also possible on a ps3 80gb?
i heard this will speed game play/load times

how do you do it?

It will speed up load times but game play may become laggy or low quality. I remember a message on Halo 3 saying don't download to your HDD as the game will become laggy... even offline

sparklygemster

I gave my OH a game which had a huge scratch, worked ok on my 360 for a while, but not on his elite, so we hired the game from one of these dvd websites (similar to lovefilm), copied that to the hard drive (his came with the elite and its 120gb, whereas mine is only 20gb so he had plenty of space), and although we still need to put my original game in to play, it reads off the hard drive so it doesnt crash where it gets to the point where the scratch is, but you do still need the original game disc to play the game, it doesnt work just copying the game to your hard drive and try to play it without the disc.

Also, ive heard that if you have your 360 modified to read copied games, you cant get access to xbox live, not sure how true that is as ive not tried it.

Hope that helps