My pal got this cd brand that works and doesn't work list for backups. I don't think it's a bad laser since all Xbox driver should read the same way and was supposed to be built the same way. B/c it wouldn't been fair if one xbox can read the cd and the other xbox can't. Click here for the list.

Hope this help for people who are using the non-working CD's on their xbox.

thanks for the info, but everyone's xbox seems to react differently to media. so what works for you might not work at all on someone else's machine, and vice-versa. bummer, huh?

Yeah, even aside from the thompson/pioneer (or whatever) different brands, there seem to be differences in how certain ones work. It's starting to look like the Dreamcast, where a few wouldn't read CDRs just because the lasers weren't all calibrated exactly the same (just good enough to make sure all read GDRoms)


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