Just wondering if anyone can help figure out whats going on here. I'm using dvd-rw's to make a few compilation discs of my games. The problem is that most of them give me a 'your disc is dirty' error when trying to load the game. The weird thing is that if I don't use the game selector and just load a single game to the dvd-rw (the same dvd-rw that gives me the dirty disc error) the game plays perfectly. Could this have something to do with the game not residing in the top level directory of this disc? It could also be that I'm using relatively cheap dvd-rw's, but if I burn it as a single game I've never had the dirty disc error. Anyway, it's really not that important I was just curious if perhaps there were some limitations to the way in which the gameselector lauches xbe files similar to how some games need to be patched to run correctly from the hard drive?

Some games needs or checks the original TOC from the disk, so if you put other files (i.e. games) it wouldn't boot. I had similler problem with 'House of Dead 3' it about 900mb and i tried to put MotoGP on the same disk, MotoGP booted perfectly but HOD3 hung on the loading screen...

Damn.:( so is there no way to tell which games check the toc? without having to burn and hope for the best.

I made a 5 multi yesterday, and as above only 1 game worked, all the others hung on the loading screen too.

The thing I don't understand is why any of these games work when running from the hard drive. If it works from the hard drive (say in e:/games/pacman) it should work with the game selector (d:/pacman), but that doesn't appear to be the case.

That has always bugged me aswell mate, it makes no sense to me at all, anybody got any ideas?

Peace

Cal_G

Ya, it's damn wierd......try test with DVD-RW, but such waste of time.

i had the same problem with house of the dead, had the folder named hod3 renamed it to ahod3 and it works fine now??? tried this with a few other problem games and it has solved it for them too. also cheap disks can be a problem, i have burned the same comp on great quality disks and on memorex or apple. the gq disks will get the dirty disk errors the others do not. i also always burn my comps to rw's first just because of these problems. try it out and let me know if i am nuts :)

I think it's just wierd how it works, people have reported burning a game on 1 compliation that didn't work, but if you used the same files on another compliation and it works. Crap shoot, it sounds like.
No idea how the hacked menux works.

Anyway, looks like there is a newer version of menux type thing out now. Check xbox-scene for details.

Slight off subject,
does anyone know why Fifa2k3 hangs when you try to save anything when you have it on the hard drive through evox?

lol, way off topic from the thread :) You can post another on this if you want, see if you get more reponses. I still don't have it yet, so I can't help

Just found out that instead of wasting time configuring 'Xmenu' and wasting DVD-Rs, just use 'boXplorer' to load games from DVD. All those games that didn't load via Xmenu, do load via boXplorer:D

Burn all the games folder and boXplorer in DVD-R/CD-R
Just put 'boXplorer' in the DVD-R's root directory- so when inserted it loads boXplorer first. And now, browse in boXplorer to find your game's .xbe file and press A, and is should load:beer:

So have you tried this out? Because you say it should load!

I'll try it myself this afternoon if not, Gotta get some sleep it's 6.17am.:eek:

Cheers..

games dont have a toc size check on xbox games. i have everygame on a multi disk and i have over 130 games. there are key elements to remember that i havent seen mentioned yet in these forums. 1. if you have pets, make sure there is no hair or lint by your disks. turn your purple bottom disks over and take a look. theres a good chance a piece of hair got caught on the disk and you didnt even notice. this will definately give you the message because some files wouldnt have gotten burned. 2. if you have gdfimage, use it. theres unlikely that you'll lose a file in the burn process. when burning the iso in its raw structure theres always a chance of a file being lost in the transfer. especially if your pc doesnt have atleast 128 of ram. 3. cheap media. many people including myself choose to use cheap media. i have an xbox that luckily reads the disks with no problem, but alot of you wont. if you want a game that wont skip and has less chance of the error message, spend the dough. and ofcourse 4. if you use dvdrw media, you have to do a full format. its a long process but if you dont, theres a possibility your xbox wont read the disk until about 7 or 8 reboots. there are a few ways i've found to get them booting but i'll get into those a different topic.

Good point Game Master, but wasnt people saying that they were getting this problem with games running from the hard drive as well? or did I misread it?