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Posted by: Xx DaGGa
do something bungie


Let's all hope they do.

  • 09.27.2009 11:26 PM PDT

Posted by: grandpa717
There's also a rumor that you can boil your x-box, or something like that.


It's boil the disc, not the 360.

And someone PM's me saying that they performed this and gave me the results. Currently, I am lazy, and not sure if it is 100% confirmed yet, so I will not give the results yet from what s/he did and got.

  • 09.27.2009 11:27 PM PDT
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I'm curious to know if it was successful or not, but I don't think I want to risk it.

  • 09.27.2009 11:43 PM PDT

I was able to successfully exchange my ODST game at Toys R Us this afternoon. When I told them it didn't work they were confused but they still let me exchange it for a new one. Although since I returned it open they said they had to open it for me there. No big deal since I was just gonna go home and open it to test the game.

My cousin brought his console over and the new disc worked! Currently my console is dying ever since the day after I started experiencing the ODST DRE issue (probably not related) so I haven't tried it yet on mine. Will be borrowing my friends console at the end of the week so I'll test it then.

  • 09.27.2009 11:47 PM PDT

Posted by: Cleaner7
I was able to successfully exchange my ODST game at Toys R Us this afternoon. When I told them it didn't work they were confused but they still let me exchange it for a new one. Although since I returned it open they said they had to open it for me there. No big deal since I was just gonna go home and open it to test the game.

My cousin brought his console over and the new disc worked! Currently my console is dying ever since the day after I started experiencing the ODST DRE issue (probably not related) so I haven't tried it yet on mine. Will be borrowing my friends console at the end of the week so I'll test it then.


my xbox keeps frezzing on call of duty now. it never froze tell i got ODST. ODST has given my xbox cancer and it is know dying slowly like ues lol. it is kind of strange how i am having the same affects like you, and why has bungie not said anything yet they just sit back and hide. know my xbox wont turn off lol and is broken i would not be surprised to see more and more of what has happend to me and you happen to other people

  • 09.28.2009 12:01 AM PDT
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I decided to play Ace Combat 6 while we wait for Bungie to give us an update (who knows when that'll be =/) and I noticed that the music would stop playing halfway through missions. Also, during cinematics, the sound would cut out altogether. It was working fine last week too.

But after trying to play ODST, all those problems started happening. Strange stuff.

  • 09.28.2009 12:06 AM PDT

Posted by: Colonel Frag
I decided to play Ace Combat 6 while we wait for Bungie to give us an update (who knows when that'll be =/) and I noticed that the music would stop playing halfway through missions. Also, during cinematics, the sound would cut out altogether. It was working fine last week too.

But after trying to play ODST, all those problems started happening. Strange stuff.


lol i am telling you ODST is INFECTING our consoles

  • 09.28.2009 12:11 AM PDT

I had a dream. A dream where gods spoke to me. They warned me. Warned me of a soon to pass even. They warned that the second coming of the Great Plague would strike our kind, sweeping through the house holds and killing those cared for. They warned me of the coming plague, seeking out at random, leaving utter chaos in its wake. Those gods warned me of the second coming of the RROD!Flee for your lives! Enjoy the lives you have become so accustomed to while you can, before the plague forces the light of the sky to once again touch your flesh, burning its surface. Enjoy before you are forced to claw across the earth's black frozen surface. FLEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I was bored.

  • 09.28.2009 12:13 AM PDT

Posted by: Exspartan 138
I had a dream. A dream where gods spoke to me. They warned me. Warned me of a soon to pass even. They warned that the second coming of the Great Plague would strike our kind, sweeping through the house holds and killing those cared for. They warned me of the coming plague, seeking out at random, leaving utter chaos in its wake. Those gods warned me of the second coming of the RROD!Flee for your lives! Enjoy the lives you have become so accustomed to while you can, before the plague forces the light of the sky to once again touch your flesh, burning its surface. Enjoy before you are forced to claw across the earth's black frozen surface. FLEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I was bored.


lol creative but i havent got RROD my xbox just keeps frezzing and wont turn off to turn it off i have to unplug the power supply (and thats terrible for the machine) its like taking my xbox off of life support. the next time i turn it on it might just stay asleep lol

  • 09.28.2009 12:19 AM PDT

I forgot to say that the chick working at TRU noticed something about my DRE copy of ODST. It was manufactured in Mexico. My new, working copy of ODST was manufactured in Puerto Rico. Where were all of yours manufactured? You can see this information on the back of the case in the bottom, right corner on the Proof of Purchase. It will say "Made in _". I'm just curious if it is a manufacturing plant issue at a specific location.

  • 09.28.2009 12:20 AM PDT

Posted by: Cleaner7
I forgot to say that the chick working at TRU noticed something about my DRE copy of ODST. It was manufactured in Mexico. My new, working copy of ODST was manufactured in Puerto Rico. Where were all of yours manufactured? You can see this information on the back of the case in the bottom, right corner on the Proof of Purchase. It will say "Made in _". I'm just curious if it is a manufacturing plant issue at a specific location.


NOOOOOOOOOOOOO mine is made in MEXICO. first they give us swine flu now ODST infection

cleaner you might just be on to somthing tomarrow i am going to the store and see if i can get a copy not made from mexico and see if it makes a differnce

[Edited on 09.28.2009 12:24 AM PDT]

  • 09.28.2009 12:23 AM PDT

Posted by: Xx DaGGa
Posted by: Exspartan 138
I had a dream. A dream where gods spoke to me. They warned me. Warned me of a soon to pass even. They warned that the second coming of the Great Plague would strike our kind, sweeping through the house holds and killing those cared for. They warned me of the coming plague, seeking out at random, leaving utter chaos in its wake. Those gods warned me of the second coming of the RROD!Flee for your lives! Enjoy the lives you have become so accustomed to while you can, before the plague forces the light of the sky to once again touch your flesh, burning its surface. Enjoy before you are forced to claw across the earth's black frozen surface. FLEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I was bored.


lol creative but i havent got RROD my xbox just keeps frezzing and wont turn off to turn it off i have to unplug the power supply (and thats terrible for the machine) its like taking my xbox off of life support. the next time i turn it on it might just stay asleep lol
I don't think anybodies has. I was just saying that if it actually is our xbox's(though you may be on to something with Mexico) it could be "like" a second RRoD event. I can of course see where one would assume I meant the RRod. I mean I wrote RRoD. Mine is in Mexico, btw and I'll check my amigos tomorrow.

  • 09.28.2009 12:29 AM PDT

Exspartan 138

your disc does not work

and it is from mexico

  • 09.28.2009 12:30 AM PDT
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Mexico here too...Another strange thing happened. On this gt ive only played like 60 or so games of multiplayer, got to 20xp and didnt unlock the achievement for being a spartan or whatever that 15 point achievement is called.

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  • 09.28.2009 12:38 AM PDT
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Yup, says Mexico, but I really don't see the connection, unless you mean shoddy product.

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Posted by: Colonel Frag
Yup, says Mexico, but I really don't see the connection, unless you mean shoddy product.
It could be. Although if all the discs that came from mexico werent working this thread would probably be 400 pages by now.

[Edited on 09.28.2009 12:57 AM PDT]

  • 09.28.2009 12:54 AM PDT
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Either way, Im gonna call gamestop when they open today and see what my options are with returning this game. I dont feel like constantly checking this thread and praying for a fix.

[Edited on 09.28.2009 1:02 AM PDT]

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Same. I'm getting kinda tired of it too.

  • 09.28.2009 1:03 AM PDT
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By the way, before I try to get a refund for this game, has anyone tried one of those laser lens cleaners? You know, the CD with the brush that clears the dust off of the lens?

  • 09.28.2009 1:13 AM PDT

Halo Baby!

Don't know if anyone else is having the same troubles as me. Everything loads first time every time and I've successfully completed the campaign (solo) without getting a disc read error. My problem comes with firefight - I begin playing a game with some friends and EVERY game we play, after about a minute or two the game throws us all back out to the lobby saying that there was an error with the game.

This also happens with me on Halo Wars. I can play the second disc fine, I can finish every game, playing with the same friends, it's just firefight and any multiplayer mode on Halo Wars. I have a first generation XBOX, so I will try it on my housemates newer elite XBOX when I can, but I diagnosed the connection and I really am sure it's not that, and that it is a loading problem. Does anyone else have the same issue?

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Now my 360 stops playing Halo 3. It wont load multiplayer at all and it has trouble with all my games now. This wasn't happening before ODST and it seems to be getting worse with every time I turn the system on again. Bungie broke my 360.

  • 09.28.2009 1:49 AM PDT

My disc says made in Puerto Rico and I am still having DRE problems. Although for the brief moment before I checked my copy I really wished this would be the answer to our problems.

  • 09.28.2009 1:57 AM PDT

Mine was manufactured in Mexico, but either way, I am more than sure that both Mexico and Puerto Rico make the games pretty much the exact same way.

I hope this problem either gets fixed or addressed before Tuesday, as that is the day my 7 day return refund will expire.

[Edited on 09.28.2009 2:36 AM PDT]

  • 09.28.2009 2:36 AM PDT

Posted by: Dr Zombie90210
Mine was manufactured in Mexico, but either way, I am more than sure that both Mexico and Puerto Rico make the games pretty much the exact same way.

I hope this problem either gets fixed or addressed before Tuesday, as that is the day my 7 day return refund will expire.


Likewise. If this isn't fixed by tommorow afternoon, or we are at least given an ETA on the fix, I'm returning mine. I hope Microsoft and Bungie are getting ready to eat alot of discs, because I'm sure alot of people are planning the same.

  • 09.28.2009 3:57 AM PDT

I wish I was still legendary.

Kinda weird:

My ODST Disc works fine, except some freezing when starting up. Does anyone else's disc have sorta serrated edges, like the central layer of the disc hasn't been filed to fit or something?

Anyway. H3 and H3M both don't work still, whether installed to HDD or not.

  • 09.28.2009 4:12 AM PDT