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Posted by: SilentNoise
Why is this thread still alive?


Persistent people and people that do not like having their valuable money wasted.

  • 09.28.2009 4:31 PM PDT

I wish I was still legendary.

Posted by: KRayons90
I know guy I just want to play this game. It is awesome and I haven't been able to do anything on it. Ah yes. Can you quickly explain to me how you did the Alkaline Prodigy process you did.


Just start up your 360 whilst holding down the controller sync button on the console. I'm not sure if that did it for me, but doing that and installing to the HDD fixed my issues for ODST.

  • 09.28.2009 4:33 PM PDT
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well, i doubt ill keep xbox/microsoft products at all if they just downplay it, its not even about how small it is, even if it's only 50 ppl then they should do right by their customers. i swear i will dedicate all of my bored time to writing bad reviews, letters, emails, posts, blogs, crayon in the effin toilet stalls about microsoft for as long as i live if they just decide to do nothing. ball is in your court microsoft, you gonna do the right thing or be greedy corporate suits? fox & friends will get alot of letters, as well as every other news agency i can think of or find on google. i promise 1 post a day on one of your forums microsoft. i will call every day and maybe try vodoo dolls.

  • 09.28.2009 4:34 PM PDT

Live Free Die Free

Im sure if we start taking this seriously because we already got some major gamiong sites looking at us that we can get a news station on here so that microsoft can do something.

  • 09.28.2009 4:54 PM PDT

News Stations will find a way to show that games are bad.

  • 09.28.2009 4:56 PM PDT

Live Free Die Free

Posted by: KRayons90
News Stations will find a way to show that games are bad.

then we need G4tv on our side

  • 09.28.2009 5:00 PM PDT

True that. Shall we go to their forums?

  • 09.28.2009 5:02 PM PDT
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i just hope EVERYONE who truly protests this issue will post, email, message, comment, call, and draw pictures about this issue . Type your little hearts out and show the gaming world and anyone else watching what we think. make sure to include links when you post outside bungie forums. for every customer microsoft ignores, they should loose 5. my opinion, maybe a little out of anger, but even more out of principle, do the right thing microsoft!

  • 09.28.2009 5:05 PM PDT
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Well, we can pretty much guess that after all the fixes we tried, it's either our xbox (unlikely since they can play other games just fine), the discs (also unlikely, as two or more of the same game don't work, but they work on other systems), was an earlier update from like a month ago (latest update did diddly), or the HDD (unplugging it did nothing for me). It could be the firmware of the disc drive, but who knows?

Boiling the disc (I'm not risking that) or doing the Alkaline Prodigy method (holding down the sync button on the controller while starting up the console) might help a few people.

This video is for newcomers who don't know what we're talking about:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIcZL-LKHok#movie_player

Also for any new people who have the issue, please send a private message to Test Ninja Alpha, answering the 3 questions posted in the opening post on page 1 or Test Ninja Alpha's post in page 9.

And I guess we have to wait... waiting sucks.

  • 09.28.2009 5:07 PM PDT

Live Free Die Free

but if we wait and do nothing than how do we know for sure that it will be solved and not blown over

  • 09.28.2009 5:14 PM PDT

I think getting an article of the issue put on ign.com should help the situation that it doesn't blow over.

  • 09.28.2009 5:24 PM PDT
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Posted by: stoenrmonkey
but if we wait and do nothing than how do we know for sure that it will be solved and not blown over


Well, I have to wait, since I can't get a refund and all I can do is trade it over (but the #30 trade in will last for about 2 weeks, then it'll go down to like $25), but more proactive people can most certainly try to gain as much attention as possible. I'm just not one of those people.

  • 09.28.2009 5:25 PM PDT

Live Free Die Free

getting both would work very well G4tv because they have many many loyal fans and also ign.com everybody knows those two....we can do this

  • 09.28.2009 5:25 PM PDT

We can try. We might actually help Microsoft solve a firmware issue (if that is what is causing this) before it gets worse with more updates stacked on top of it. Then it will be like the e74 and RRoD.

  • 09.28.2009 5:32 PM PDT

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Well guys, I for one am now convinced the problem is compatibility issues with consoles.

If you read my previous posts around page 50, I've tried four copies of ODST: two from my local Target and two from my local Gamestop.

I had two in my possession, result of returning the first Target copy and getting a new one, and shelling out the money for another copy from Gamestop then exchanging that one for another.

I went to get store credit for my Gamestop copy, a extra bit of money for the Elite I'm planning on getting next week after my pay check.

I decided to stop by my cousins house, who I may add was happily playing his ODST, and see if the copy would play on his Xbox. I told him the trouble some of us are having, and how I wanted to try my copy on his console.

It played flawlessly, and I almost didn't leave being drawn in to the game I was missing. We played the Campaign till the end NMPD HQ, before I decided to leave. In the car I had the idea to try the Target copy, so I went home pick it up, call him to see if its cool, and went back.

On that one we played the Campaign till the beginning of Uplift Reserve, before beating one round of Firefight on Crater and Rally Point. I couldn't believe this! If my console didn't RROD, which I assumed was the problem, I would really pissed.

I still haven't ruled out I wasn't my console dying, but maybe somewhere, something happen which made the game unplayable. I decided to keep both copies to try on the Elite to confirm.

We know Bungie and Microsoft are working on it, and hopefully there will be a way to make it playable on older models. I for one though, am pretty sure its the compatibility.

I'm gonna get some more evidence, go to my friends tomorrow (who hasnt bought/played ODST yet), and I'll post what I find.

  • 09.28.2009 5:34 PM PDT

Rawr.

I just got my copy of ODST today and I am having the same problem... It gave me disc unreadable 6 times during loading screens until I installed to hard drive. I do have an older console though so that may be the problem there I guess, but I had to delete a bunch on hard drive. I hope Bungie somehow gets a fix to this. It's only ODST and the Halo 3 multiplayer disc that came with it that are having the problem.

  • 09.28.2009 5:41 PM PDT

Kat: The real Noble Leadership.

Wait, could someone explain the sync button trick? Does this work? And if so why? Is it the sync button on the xbox or the controller?

  • 09.28.2009 5:45 PM PDT

Live Free Die Free

We still need to get microsoft to realize they have a problem and not just that but they said it was only 2000 ppl with the problem when who knows

  • 09.28.2009 5:49 PM PDT
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According to everyone, you hit the power button on the xbox, then hold down the sync button on it until the dashboard pops up. Supposedly clears bad updates up.

  • 09.28.2009 5:50 PM PDT

Hold sync button on the Xbox then start it, while you keep holding the button. Let go once you hit the dashboard. Download the game to the HDD. It has really worked for few but try it.

  • 09.28.2009 5:51 PM PDT
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Im gonna go post the issue on PS3 forums, see how many of them make it an even more popular issue.

  • 09.28.2009 5:52 PM PDT

Live Free Die Free

Posted by: Valhalla
Im gonna go post the issue on PS3 forums, see how many of them make it an even more popular issue.

im goin to post on G4

  • 09.28.2009 5:55 PM PDT

thats not fun. maybe your xbox is jacked up

http://www.youtube.com/pizzafrogman

  • 09.28.2009 6:02 PM PDT

Live Free Die Free

G4 has just been messaged!
we need more sites also we need more people with discs messing up to post on this thread

  • 09.28.2009 6:02 PM PDT

I just got off the phone with Microsoft support. They were actually really nice this time and tried their absolute best to figure out the problem. They didn't unfortunately, but they put me to upper management to explain the problem to them. They wrote everything down and said they are going to try and see what they could do. Probably means nothing but, I tried

  • 09.28.2009 6:03 PM PDT