Can I Play Xbox Backups On Cd-r Options

[CyborgGamer]

I have a samsung dvd in my xbox and I can read just about ANY cd, even the cheapo cdr's.

[upup]

all i did was connect one of my extra cd-rom drives to my xbox to play my cd-r games and when want to play originals i reconnect the ide cable to the xbox's dvd drive

[Fire]

i say .. try 1 CDR.. if doesnt work.. bad luck.. ur XBOX doesnt play em.. if it does..
its like u won the tatslotto

[DrDolittle]

Jeez, what luck I have with my newly modded Xbox. I'm part of the lucky elite with the Samsung Drive that will play virtually any CDR's. Only problem is copying ISO images on to them. Everyone that I've recently downloaded, either is corrupt, or, poorly copied.Does anybody know of a reputable source where I can download 100% workable ISO's from?
Any help would be Magic.
Cheers

DrDolittle.

[sableholic]

does dvd+r games work on xbox? cause I found a really cheap dvd+rw burner and was thinking about buying it. However, if they dont work in xbox then I dont want it.

[Helios]

OK i have put in CD-R media on my xbox and it plays sweet but if i can run CD-R music cds can i run CD-R data? and if so what kind of data? only stuff that is compatible with the Xbox?

[nitronutter]

tried and tested cdr np here

seems to be a samsung drive had the samsung grooves on the case (i noticed that when my local modder stripped the box
also has the 2 thumbholes in the tray

tested old 12x infiniti and 12x verbatamin cdr-audio

burnt evolutionxv1_8_458_iso onto a new 48x infiniti cdr and the xbox booted that fine
also ftp'd into the box to verify /d was readable and it was

[Darkness2003]

Yes you can

Download latest nero burning software. choose udf/iso en there is a special xbox button "force DVD-Video compatibility mode (required for xbox TM)" then burn a game or divx file en play you DVD or CDR.

[jackyl_816]

QUOTE (jackyl_816 @ Oct 21 2002, 10:33 PM)

No,almost none of the Xbox consoles will read a backup on a cd-r,all backups must be burned to a cdr-w or dvd-r or dvd-rw,also some dvd+r media works as well. Games can be burned to a cd-r,but must be recopied to one of the above media types in order to play.

ok..at the time of my original post, we was on the 1st generation of xbox.... and almost none of them would read cd-r's.... now they are shipping with different brand dvd drives,and people are having great success with cd-r's.... this is wonderful..... so everyone should atleast play around with a couple different brands of cd-r and hope that it works.... chances are if you have a newly purchased xbox,you will be OK!!!!!


PEACE OUT!!!!!!

[gundamhr]

There is no list of games that will fit on CD-r(rw). There probably will never be any games that can fit themselves on a single CD. You can although, use multiple CD's to fit the cd onto. For example, if you want to transfer halo to about 3-4 cd's you can. Put the default.xbe in each cd. Then put the mulitplayer maps in maps on one cd. Then put some of the campaign maps in maps, on another cd. You should be left with a couple of maps and put those on a separate cd too. Don't bother with the bink file...all it is movies. Or you can get the bink movie editor thing and downsample the movies. This will work for many other games too, you just have to diagnose how you should do it.

[gundamhr]

Heh, one more thing I forgot. I forgot to mention that even if y ou have a thompson drive, you can upgrade the firmware, that might help, but do it at your own risk, because there are bad flashes and bad firmware upgrades.

[west17m]

QUOTE (jackyl_816 @ May 31 2003, 08:11 PM)

ok..at the time of my original post, we was on the 1st generation of xbox.... and almost none of them would read cd-r's.... now they are shipping with different brand dvd drives,and people are having great success with cd-r's.... this is wonderful..... so everyone should atleast play around with a couple different brands of cd-r and hope that it works.... chances are if you have a newly purchased xbox,you will be OK!!!!!

Just to throw a wrench in the works, I "settled" for a Phillips 1.0 system and found it to work fine any any CD-R media that wasn't blue.

I helped a friend mod his 1.1 Samsung and it wouldn't read hardly anything (including DVD-r's, and rw's).

(Oh, and yes, I only burn at 2x ... although the phillips still reads at a 6x burn)

[psxguy]

If you have a phillips drive and you wanna get it to read any CD-R, just tweak the pot a bit. It was easier for me to remove the top of my phillips drive and turn the pot 1/4 of the way (and it reads everything I throw at it) than tearing up a PC-DvD-Rom, and cutting up my case to make it fit, etc. And I pot tweaked several phillips drives and they are still going strong.

[Xeero]

QUOTE (psxguy @ Jun 24 2003, 01:23 PM)

If you have a phillips drive and you wanna get it to read any CD-R, just tweak the pot a bit.  It was easier for me to remove the top of my phillips drive and turn the pot 1/4 of the way (and it reads everything I throw at it) than tearing up a PC-DvD-Rom, and cutting up my case to make it fit, etc. And I pot tweaked several phillips drives and they are still going strong.

To those wondering if they should tweak their pot: if you are at all familiar with tweaking PS2 drives, you should know that the Xbox drives are constructed with much higher-quality components. As long as you take caution in tweaking the potentiometer, you're far less likely to damage the drive than you would be with a PS2 drive.

This post has been edited by Xeero: Jun 25 2003, 02:27 AM

[HumanClay]

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There probably will never be any games that can fit themselves on a single CD.

There are many a game that fit on a single cd, for instance Monopoly Party, The Sims, Smashing Drive.

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OK i have put in CD-R media on my xbox and it plays sweet but if i can run CD-R music cds can i run CD-R data? and if so what kind of data? only stuff that is compatible with the Xbox?

Why would it play something that is not compatible with the Xbox?! lol