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Has this been tested? I don't want to try this and it erases my profile or anything. Sounds a little fishy

  • 09.26.2009 10:10 AM PDT

lol sorry about the double post. I thought the first one didn't go through.

  • 09.26.2009 10:10 AM PDT
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Posted by: AlkalineProdigy
Try and hold the controller sync button while you boot up the console and continue to hold it until the dashboard pops up. This will clear any faulty firmware update. Just a thought.


i dnt think tht works

  • 09.26.2009 10:17 AM PDT
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KEEEP THE THREAD ALIVE

  • 09.26.2009 10:26 AM PDT
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Posted by: Konoha Phoenix00
WOW just WOW I never even knew about that jerk until now and to be PM'ed by him is pure harassment but some people are natural jerks. Oh and why of why would there be a conspiracy to prevent people from playing a game it seems counter intuitive when developers are trying to make money as well as create a great game.


It's understandable. If I paid for a game and couldn't play it, I'd be pissed too. Hopefully this is something as simple as a bad batch of discs, but we're still waiting on word. Hold tight.

  • 09.26.2009 10:28 AM PDT
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hey guys has anyone tried doing the maintenece buttons on the dashboard ? i havent but im just wondering if anyone has ?

  • 09.26.2009 10:29 AM PDT

I too hope that it is like you say, a "bad batch of discs." However, the evidence against this theory is rather conclusive. I went to the same Best Buy as my friend to pick up ODST and mine doesn't work while his does. Now granted, they may have been from a different box or something, but me replacing my disc three times from the same store, all giving the same error, seems to suggest it isn't the discs themselves

  • 09.26.2009 10:32 AM PDT

If it is a bad patch of discs how will we get new ones that will work? Can't just go to my GameStop and tell them everything and they say okay.

  • 09.26.2009 10:35 AM PDT

Holy crap, Alkaline Prodigy is my savior. I was having DRE issues forever. Usually I couldn't play anything, although once I managed to get to the helmet part but then I would get the DRE.

I started up the Xbox 360 holding the controller sync button as he told us. Lightning flashed (it's storming here) and my finger slipped off the buttom briefly, so I was worried it didn't work. However I just loaded up Firefight and it worked! Prodigy's solution DOES WORK (at least for me) for all those having issues.

[Edited on 09.26.2009 10:36 AM PDT]

  • 09.26.2009 10:36 AM PDT
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Posted by: FallenAngel9
Holy crap, Alkaline Prodigy is my savior. I was having DRE issues forever. Usually I couldn't play anything, although once I managed to get to the helmet part but then I would get the DRE.

I started up the Xbox 360 holding the controller sync button as he told us. Lightning flashed (it's storming here) and my finger slipped off the buttom briefly, so I was worried it didn't work. However I just loaded up Firefight and it worked! Prodigy's solution DOES WORK (at least for me) for all those having issues.


some 1 else try this out so we can have sum conclusive proof

  • 09.26.2009 10:38 AM PDT

I hold the controller sinc button while the xbox is starting up and i will have to redownload all the new updates?

  • 09.26.2009 10:40 AM PDT
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marvelous bauble how long roughly is this all going to take

  • 09.26.2009 10:41 AM PDT

No, holding the sync button (on the controller not the Xbox) while starting up until the dashboard comes up will not cause you to need to re-download any updates. Nothing was different from before restarting my Xbox after I held the sync button.

  • 09.26.2009 10:54 AM PDT

So it is controller not Xbox? Are you saying that is how you did it and it did not work or is that the way he was saying to do it?

  • 09.26.2009 11:01 AM PDT
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Posted by: Konoha Phoenix00
WOW just WOW I never even knew about that jerk until now and to be PM'ed by him is pure harassment but some people are natural jerks. Oh and why of why would there be a conspiracy to prevent people from playing a game it seems counter intuitive when developers are trying to make money as well as create a great game.


It's understandable. If I paid for a game and couldn't play it, I'd be pissed too. Hopefully this is something as simple as a bad batch of discs, but we're still waiting on word. Hold tight.


It's probably not the discs, since alot of people here, myself included, have gone through multiple discs to try to see if that was the problem. It works on other people's systems, but not ours. :(

  • 09.26.2009 11:03 AM PDT
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I returned my first copy which was faulty and received another faulty one instead!!

I'm happy to wait now that we've been told they're looking in to it, but I hope i don't have to wait so long that I won't be able to return it!

  • 09.26.2009 11:06 AM PDT
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Posted by: Colonel Frag
It's probably not the discs, since alot of people here, myself included, have gone through multiple discs to try to see if that was the problem. It works on other people's systems, but not ours. :(


Bummer. :(

  • 09.26.2009 11:08 AM PDT

1) Hold Guide button on controller
2) After Xbox starts up, hold controller sync button on controller. Hold until Dashboard comes up
3) Load ODST
4) See if it works by playing Firefight or something

That's what I did. Nothing else happened, I didn't have to re-download any updates or anything. And I'm currently playing Firefight with three friends (which I couldn't do before).

  • 09.26.2009 11:13 AM PDT
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Posted by: FallenAngel9
1) Hold Guide button on controller
2) After Xbox starts up, hold controller sync button on controller. Hold until Dashboard comes up
3) Load ODST
4) See if it works by playing Firefight or something

That's what I did. Nothing else happened, I didn't have to re-download any updates or anything. And I'm currently playing Firefight with three friends (which I couldn't do before).


That's interesting. I'll test it myself to see if that works.

  • 09.26.2009 11:18 AM PDT
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Nope. Didn't do a thing. Still got the DRE when I tried the campaign. I didn't think that would've done it anyway. =/

But hey, at least we're thinking of ways to fix it right?

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  • 09.26.2009 11:22 AM PDT
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hey is anyone else having a problem playing Brutal Legend Demo?? i cant even start it...can be in relation with ODST problem?

  • 09.26.2009 11:25 AM PDT

Okay, so playing through Co-Op campaign, I got the DRE at the part with the Recon helmet in the TV again. So it worked for Firefight, but it doesn't work for Campaign I guess.

  • 09.26.2009 11:32 AM PDT
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Haven't tried it, since I'm still on a silver membership. I was planning on going gold until this happened, but that's gonna have to wait.

So I can't test it out, but maybe someone else can.

  • 09.26.2009 11:32 AM PDT

I just want to stay I tried to play it again

and it worked fine

so hopefully it will be fine for the rest of the game

  • 09.26.2009 11:42 AM PDT
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theres one thing i wanna knw...how come so many peoples r working and not ours and i have the exact same console as my friends and we purchased them around the same time this is so wierd???

  • 09.26.2009 11:53 AM PDT