Posted by: M Yoda420
@InfernoDivider
My game wouldn't read at all or would be read as a DVD, so I gave your method a try. Surprisingly the box finally read it as a game instead of a DVD, however I got the dirty disk error when I tried to start it. So I got close. I ejected it and put it back in and now it's reading as a DVD again. Third time is reading it as a game but the preview pic isn't showing up so I'm assuming it's still not reading correctly. Which I can confirm. I'm thinking about boiling the disk to see if that works. I don't really have any other options anyway.
Alright, I boiled the disk, saw the oily whatever come off it, knowing the chemicals nowadays it's probably toxic. Popped in the game.
AND HOLY -blam!- -blam!- IT WORKED! I can at least make it to the main menu, I have to rush off to work now but I'll be running further tests on it later and I'll report the findings.
I suggest everyone having problems with this to try both methods (using a USB drive and boiling the disk) to make the game work. A note on the boiling part though, be extremely careful and delicate, if you so much as warp the disc slightly, it could explode in your xbox in which you would need to buy another xbox, at the least.
So far I've played up to chapter 3 and some matchmaking with no problem. Seems using a new/different HD that hasn't touched an xbox fixes half of the problem, and boiling the disk fixes the other half. So far anyway... we'll see how far I get.