- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Quote from a random website I found after searching a bit:
grug2k:
There are three different DVD-ROM drives used in the Xbox, depending on your model...Samsung, Philips, and Thomson, in order of preference (and newest->oldest) ... The Samsung drive will read pretty much anything, including CDRs and most DVD media. Philips tends to be picky, but is OK with DVD-R media. The Thomson drive sucks.
As such, not all Xboxes can read DVD+R.
As for games, there is no way in hell whatsoever.
a) The only thing capable of reading Xbox games are the 3 models of Xbox DVD-ROM, which only work in an Xbox. As such, without a modded Xbox, you can't read anything off the discs.
b) All Xbox executables are signed with a 2048-bit key. Without a modchip, theres no way you're bypassing it.
c) They also have a media check as well to make sure they are being played from a pressed DVD, which once again requires a modchip to bypass.
There are also pictures somewhere, to tell which drive you have without opening up your Xbox. Ill look for them later.