In the middle of a mad gaming sesh I started to get disc read errors. Took the disc out and there was a HUGE perfect circle in the disc. Took it in to gamestop and the guy said that the Xbox's can burn holes in the discs sometimes - WTF. Luckily I asked them if he would exchange it and they did, Praise the Sun!
Posted Aug 8, 2012, 8:21 PM UTC
Dude. The hole in the middle of your CD is normal.
Laser burn, not a hole but a perfect circular ring due to vibrations introduced while the disc is in motion.
Keep your 360 horizontal and away from your speakers! And for fuck sakes, don't move it while there's a disc inside!
Just a friendly PSA. :0)
Yeah I didn't move my xbox while it was on... unless my fiance is hiding something from me.
That's an engagement ender right there.
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Yeah I did die actually. I think after the SL 1 run, the next challenge is SL 1 NG+ with scratched discs on bosses. For the extra challenge.
Installing your game onto your system prevents even the most horrendous blemishes from causing a disc error. All while allowing my system to relax and stop hyper ventilating and reducing load times. I do this with all my games as soon as I put them in my Xbox.
I love your advice.
I got a few questions about the installation thing though, is it true that if you have scratches all over the disc and it would normally stop and say "Disc Unreadable" at some parts, would it work normally if you installed it?
Thank you!
Well, yes and no. It works without fail (at least in my experience) if the game was installed while in good condition.
Story time: A good friend and I got together one night to dominate matchmaking in Halo 3. 2 consoles, 2 TV's-the whole 9 yards. Regrettably, one of the consoles was on my bed and was jostled pretty violently mid-game. The sound was horrifying.. sadly it got damaged to the point where it wouldn't read at all. Luckily I had just recently read up on installing game discs and said 'what the hell'. So we took the undamaged disc, and installed halo 3 on one of the consoles, then put the damaged disc in said console. Lo' and behold, it worked. Flawlessly. Since then I advocate the 'install' feature greatly.
It should really increase the lifetime of your console too, given it hardly has to work after installation.
It depends on what part of the disc is damaged as the disc is still needed for booting the game. If you've got a friend with a copy of the game, borrow it and install it, then use yours to see if it will boot. If so you're golden, if not you're going to need a new copy unfortunately.
oh my god, the same thing happened last week, a perfect circle had been etched into my brand new Souls game.
I went and bought another one the next day without second thought.
If it's in the side it's serious. If it it's in the middle then ur a dumbass, cuz that's normal.
Man, why didn't you get a picture? I would have loved to see a hole burned through a cd just by an xbox360.
Obviously you are the chosen undead.
LOLOLOL!!! Points for you! <3
LAUGH OUT LOUD OUT LOUD OUT LOUD. Do you know how ridiculous that is?
LOL^3
Is that better?
No! that's BAD! >:(
I think he wants it L (OL)³
Is it bad to express my joy and tell the guy he made me laugh? OH, it is!
Cry cry cry cry there, that's better. MAC, your joke isn't funny! >;(
And when you hover over the down voting thing a message in a bubble comes up saying:" Please don't downvote comments unless they are inappropriate or false. " So, which one was it from the aforementioned two? Neither.
Your comment adds absolutely nothing worth reading. Nobody cares that you laughed.