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Hey everyone MTV just published a web article on the issue...check it out if you havent already.

http://multiplayerblog.mtv.com/2009/09/25/halo-3-odst-disc-re ad-error-complaints-reported/

  • 09.25.2009 11:56 AM PDT
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Gotland Rulez!!!!

I recently bought a new 120GB HDD

  • 09.25.2009 11:57 AM PDT
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Posted by: Hexen
I recently bought a new 120GB HDD


Does it work?? ODST wise?

  • 09.25.2009 11:59 AM PDT

Well it says Bungie is working on it.

[Edited on 09.25.2009 12:04 PM PDT]

  • 09.25.2009 12:01 PM PDT
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Gotland Rulez!!!!

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Posted by: Hexen
I recently bought a new 120GB HDD


Does it work?? ODST wise?


Nope, i have the same issue so i dunno...

  • 09.25.2009 12:01 PM PDT
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are there anymore confirmed cases of game working using only MU with no connected HDD?

  • 09.25.2009 12:06 PM PDT
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Here is the mtv article...http://multiplayerblog.mtv.com/2009/09/25/halo-3-odst-disc-re ad-error-complaints-reported/

  • 09.25.2009 12:07 PM PDT

I do not know what updates were talking about, which ones were these?

  • 09.25.2009 12:11 PM PDT
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Where do these editors get the information that "bungie is working on it"?

  • 09.25.2009 12:12 PM PDT
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Y'know guys this is the EXACT same -blam!- I had to put up with when Halo 3 was released. As soon as the cutscenes for the levels started the game would give me Disc Unreadable. And later when I started to load the missions at the opening menu, they would give me the same problem as soon as they had reached 100%

But this was ONLY with campaign. Forge and Multiplayer worked fine. But I was screwed out of the campaign story for a long time, and after numerous discs, calls to MS support, posts on Bungie forums I gave up.

And now I'm hearing that this is happening on ODST? Well I dunno about you, or anyone else. But I'm not taking the chance. I'm skipping this title.
Bungie got my hard earned cash once before, well they aint getting it this time I'm happy to say.


Now what I will say are some of the things I tried. And much of which did not work. Though hey, who knows, maybe this crap will help you out?

I was able to complete SOME missions by doing Co-Op and having a friend be the Host.

The Host was local and didn't report any problems with the game.

8 times out of ten I would still get the disc unreadable error so you must just keep at it... I know, it sucks but it depends on how much you want to see the story.

Downloading the Halo3 game to the HD didn't work at all. Infact Bungie.net recommends that I don't do it, because it's incompatible and will not improve performance... How? I dunno, thats just what it said. Since ODST is pretty much built on the same engine I imagine there will be problems too.

Removing the HD didn't work. Nor did using a Memory stick.

Seven discs later. Two of them being rentals and one disc from Love Film and to this day Halo 3's campaign doesn't work.


For the record.
The 360 I own is less than one year old.
Brand new and under warrenty.
I have had little to nearly no problems with other game discs. Sure I might have had Fallout 3 freeze up or glitch out but that's normal. (Just have a look at their support page to find that out...)
Games that I own and work are: The Darkness, Lost Planet, The Orange Box, Dead Space, Oblivion, Left4Dead, Halo3, Fallout3, Command & Conquer 3, Condemned 2, Call of Duty 4, Batman Arkham Asylum, GoW 1 & 2, Silent Hill Homecoming, Halo Wars, and well... you get the idea. All of them work, and many more besides.

The hardware is just peachy.

I'd be willing to reckon. It's Bungie have cocked up their coding of the game.

I reckon they have some explaining and nervous sweating to do...


But enough out of me, I just hope one of the solutions I gave might help some of you out. It's a longshot, but I don't see Bungie offering better...

Take care guys, and good luck.

  • 09.25.2009 12:18 PM PDT
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PLEASE BUNGIE!! JUST POST A MESSAGE SAYING THAT YOUR WORKING ON IT AND I WILL BE VERY HAPPY!!! YOU DONT EVEN NEED TO APOLOGIZE!!.....thats me begging.

Hey Bungie, i'll give you 5 bucks Canadian if you release an update by the end of the day...Thats me being desperate.

[Edited on 09.25.2009 12:28 PM PDT]

  • 09.25.2009 12:23 PM PDT

Alright, so, more disc failure today, I went and called up microsoft again. The represenative looked up my case number and promptly told me that Bungie and Microsoft are aware of the issue and are working to fix it now. Any information available can supposedly be found on www.xbox.com if any -is- posted, though I'd like a statement from Bungie, it'd make me feel a bit better about all this. For now, I guess I'm going to be singleplayering it through firefight, because that works about 1/10th of the time.

  • 09.25.2009 12:57 PM PDT
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Yet another article on the issue...

MTV article tagged on IMDB site.

http://www.imdb.com/news/ni1023172/

sheesh this thread is stirring up a storm.

  • 09.25.2009 1:14 PM PDT
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It's like voltron, the more you hook up the better it gets

Same problem here.
On ODST:
Go to Load Campagin through any lobby, start here, and on any difficulty. Get to watch first cutscene, second load screen it always is unreadable.

Firefight:
Crater: Every now and then if it is feeling friendly it will allow me to play Crater on easy, usually not.
Rest of the maps: It will load in the lobby, as soon as the screen turns dark for the map, bam disc un readable.

Halo 3 Multiplayer:
Roughly half the maps work, no Orbital, No assembly. Matchmaking worked the couple times I played it.

All other discs work fine, this is my second copy of ODST. Gamestop does not money or value refund new games. Both discs work fine in my neighbors 360. Installing it did not solve any problems. I have had my 360 nearly 2 years (Oct 4 2007 is purchase date) so it shouldn't be that old.

  • 09.25.2009 1:27 PM PDT

Posted by: poho
Same problem here.
On ODST:
Go to Load Campagin through any lobby, start here, and on any difficulty. Get to watch first cutscene, second load screen it always is unreadable.

Firefight:
Crater: Every now and then if it is feeling friendly it will allow me to play Crater on easy, usually not.
Rest of the maps: It will load in the lobby, as soon as the screen turns dark for the map, bam disc un readable.

Halo 3 Multiplayer:
Roughly half the maps work, no Orbital, No assembly. Matchmaking worked the couple times I played it.

All other discs work fine, this is my second copy of ODST. Gamestop does not money or value refund new games. Both discs work fine in my neighbors 360. Installing it did not solve any problems. I have had my 360 nearly 2 years (Oct 4 2007 is purchase date) so it shouldn't be that old.


I'm having the SAME exact problem as you. SAME!

  • 09.25.2009 1:53 PM PDT

trying to keep the thread alive.

  • 09.25.2009 1:54 PM PDT

So does anyone have a guess on how long till we can play? Everyone on my friends list beat it once already.

  • 09.25.2009 2:01 PM PDT
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Ya, dude my disc keeps saying that its unreadable everytime I
finish Data Hive or try to play the last mission in Co-Op

  • 09.25.2009 2:08 PM PDT
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I'm new on the forum, hi everyone.

I'm playing ODST from Italy and got the same problem.

Bu i noticed some things that make me suppose a patch can fix it.

I bough it and played for the 1st time at dayone (22nd of september). All woked fine. I saved my checkpoint in the plaza in the second mission (when you play like Buck).

Today I went back on my saved campaign. After a very long loading time i begun to play and all looked good. But when I died for the 3rd time it respawned me back to the beginning of the mission. I had to play it all again, i reached again the same checkpoint, i died and it tried to repawn me back to the start once more time: so i pulled out the dvd to avoid the game to save once again the checkpoint at the beginning of the mission.

When i put my dvd back in, it loaded in a very few second, then the message "unreadable disk" appeared.

So i tried more and more times. No way to solve it.

I installed my game and it looked to work properly: I NOTICED IT LOADED THE CHECKPOINT I SAVED ON SEPT 22ND, IGNORING THE ONES I CROSSED TODAY, just like my last play was on sept 22nd.
And i saw the saved game was dated 09/22/2009.

But after three deaths, it tried to respawn me at the beginning of the mission once again. So i quit to avoid checkpoint saving and the error came out again (with the game installed). I tried to uninstall and to re-play everything from the beginning, but no way. When cutscenes end and you should take control of it, it "crashes".



I'm so sorry if i wrote the story of my life, but i think my post could help developers.

BTW my xbox got 3 years, and it was repaired due to E76 or something (but no RROD).

Sorry for my very bad Italian-like English (Italian public school cannot do better :( )


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  • 09.25.2009 2:11 PM PDT
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SAME PROBLEM THIS IS RIDICULOUS I NEED A PLAYSTATION NOW

  • 09.25.2009 2:15 PM PDT
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wow is anyone else getting weird disk read errors now? i tried playing the brutal legend demo and i got the same error as when i was playing odst, i also tried play forza 3 demo and same thing

  • 09.25.2009 2:42 PM PDT
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READ INPORTANT:
i think this is hd related becus i played it with my hd on and i got to the bit where he pulls the helmet out of tv (also the audio wasnt working) i then pul;ed my hd out then managed to get to the bext mission. (butr i turned my xbox off so it wuldnt spoil it for me) i think its a hd issue

  • 09.25.2009 2:45 PM PDT
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somone correct me if im wrong as test ninja said play the game with no hard drive it worked fine for me, dus tht meen if i get a new memory unit i will be fine??

  • 09.25.2009 2:52 PM PDT

Live Free Die Free

My buddy has the game and he plays it just fine no problems nothn he also has a 1yearold 360>

  • 09.25.2009 2:53 PM PDT

Just swapped for my third disc...same results :(

  • 09.25.2009 3:04 PM PDT