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Oh what the FUCK (360 discs)
Harrier
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The Star Spangled ManRegistered User regular
So I've had my Xbox 360 for over a year, maybe close to a year and a half. And it's never given me any trouble in any way.
Then, last week, I find my copy of Mass Effect lying shiny side down on the bottom of my dusty TV cabinet, put there by my sister and her friend while they were attempting to use my 360 as a DVD player to watch a movie. Putting the game in later, it seems to stutter as it runs, and eventually it starts to freeze at random points while I'm playing. Taking the disc out and examining it, I see what appear to be small scratches at random places on the bottom of the disc.
This aggravates me, because Mass Effect is the 360 game that I actually play on a regular basis, at least until Fable 2 comes out. After griping to my sister to be more careful, I use some Best Buy gift certificates to help me buy a new copy of the game. Secure in my future use of the game, I make the final push from Virmire to the endgame and get the long-desired Renegade ending. I then download Bring Down The Sky, and plan to play it the next weekend when I'm home from school.
Yesterday, I relaunched the game with my old character, and again, everything seemed fine.
Tonight, I tried to resume playing my new-old file, but it froze on me three times. This may have resulted in me tapping the top of the 360 in frustration. The third time, I open the disc drive only to hear a grinding sound as the tray slides out. And there is now a crescent of scratches around the outer edge of the bottom of my new disc.
What the hell happened to my disc drive between this week and last?
Then, last week, I find my copy of Mass Effect lying shiny side down on the bottom of my dusty TV cabinet, put there by my sister and her friend while they were attempting to use my 360 as a DVD player to watch a movie. Putting the game in later, it seems to stutter as it runs, and eventually it starts to freeze at random points while I'm playing. Taking the disc out and examining it, I see what appear to be small scratches at random places on the bottom of the disc.
This aggravates me, because Mass Effect is the 360 game that I actually play on a regular basis, at least until Fable 2 comes out. After griping to my sister to be more careful, I use some Best Buy gift certificates to help me buy a new copy of the game. Secure in my future use of the game, I make the final push from Virmire to the endgame and get the long-desired Renegade ending. I then download Bring Down The Sky, and plan to play it the next weekend when I'm home from school.
Yesterday, I relaunched the game with my old character, and again, everything seemed fine.
Tonight, I tried to resume playing my new-old file, but it froze on me three times. This may have resulted in me tapping the top of the 360 in frustration. The third time, I open the disc drive only to hear a grinding sound as the tray slides out. And there is now a crescent of scratches around the outer edge of the bottom of my new disc.
What the hell happened to my disc drive between this week and last?
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I don't know about you, but that pretty much sums up my experience playing Mass Effect brand new :P
Mass Effect is pretty buggy and some tiny scratches led to more problems and you 'tapping' the top of your Xbox, opening it during operation and having the system scratch your disc to shit. So it seems.
Oh, you bought a new copy of the game. I missed a paragraph there.
Yeah, bad luck. Try playing other games and see if it starts to grind them. Or don't and just call microsoft and tell them your drive is starting to grind your games up and see if they will replace it.
Let me tell you about Demon's Souls....
This pisses me off because the only place the disc has been is in it's case and in the 360, and yet I noticed the disc has one or two scratches on it.
I don't know if that's the reason for the stuttering but if it is that's pretty shitty. I'm not a perfect disc maintainer but I'm not a five year old chewing on it either I hope it isn't going to crap out on me this fast.
On some disc drives (not just 360s) the lens is by default too close to the disc anyway and then it wouldn't matter how you have the unit positioned.
From wikipedia:
This coating really works. My 2 year old has ejected my CoD4 disk from my ps3 twice. And I've found it face down on the floor. No scratches on it. I think all Optical media should be coated with this stuff.
Let me tell you about Demon's Souls....
Let me tell you about Demon's Souls....
Hey if it's tougher than CDs (some of which have survived a whole lot over 10-15 years) then I'm all for it.
That would be a good point except it's already been stated that the 360 can do a good job of doing it for you while you're playing.
Of course, barring accidents, the best way to handle discs is to not treat them like coasters or sandpaper. Then you have the mental defects who don't take care of rental discs because it's not theirs so they don't care. Fucking ignorant hillbillies... SONS OF BITCHES! BUMPASSES!
Having owned 3 separate 360's, and many friends who own them I still remain skeptical.
Also, keep it horizontal.
Edit: After reading a little more, it seems this just...happens. So, the only solution is to send it in, and/or keep it horizontal/don't mess with it while it's running?
Edit newsflash: Apparently my brother was letting my 5 year old sister spin around in a chair next to my XBOX, which was for some reason vertical, causing it to fall over, causing it to ruin a disc. The fuck.
Anyone take the oppourtunity to get Halo 3 replaced with the free disk replacement thing? I got the collectors edition and it was loose with a bunch of scratches when I got it. Then the above cat incident happened to it and a few other seperate incidents of friends taking it out and setting it on top of the console for movies. By that point it was pretty banged up and I sent it in about 2 days before the deadline.
Now I have a nice shiny new disk and am getting ready to put a sign up by my console saying "PUT THE GODDAMN GAMES BACK WHERE THEY BELONG!"
Come on, COME ON
I'm on #3 now. The best part is I get a free month of Xbox live everytime!
I hadn't paid for quite awhile, since they sent me another free month when I replaced Halo 3.
Should I go out now, and buy my third copy of Mass Effect?
But replacing the game isn't the most pressing point. Why bother, if it's just going to get scratched again?
Admittedly, my moving the console around may have exacerbated the damage. But prior to that, the game froze on me three times; something was fucking it up without any intervention on my part. And there's the matter of my original copy getting scratched up, which didn't involve me moving the 360 around at all.
Is there officially a problem with my disc drive?
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Plus, simply exchanging the 360 for a new one could cause issues with any DLC you may have purchased. If MS swaps 360s then there is a kind of solution, but you're SOL if you just replace it on your own.
Also, I'm pretty sure ME is published by Microsoft. The logo for Microsoft Game Studios kind of gives that way. BioWare was the developer.
Mass Effect and Oblivion freeze on me every once in awhile. It never bothered me too much; after years of Win98, game freezing seems commonplace, and the occasional 360 hang, to me, feels like it comes with the territory.
Regarding the OP, I would suggest not "tapping" your console. I can only imagine that, in frustration, what you had done was not in the least gentile, and I am sure that contributed to your problems.
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Let me tell you about Demon's Souls....
I really don't want to return the system I just bought, Literally, a day ago, especially now that I've put some time on GTA.
I had it vertically, so next is trying it horizontally.
How good is Microsoft's disk replacement plan if the worst comes to occur/this keeps up?
Let me tell you about Demon's Souls....
Having worked at a game store for quite some time, I can tell you that 360's can in fact give a disc a circular scratch if it's moved while the disc is spinning. I've seen plenty of them when people try to trade them in. I'm not sure why it's more prevalent on the 360 though, compared to other systems.
So yes people, keep the 360 flat and don't fuck with it while a disc is spinning.
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I think its because the 360 spins them so fast, its also why the drive is so loud. (But on the plus side it loads fast.)
Let me tell you about Demon's Souls....