Xbox 360 is an unreliable piece of shit

[Borman]

Theres no real evidence of that, as games like Oblivion should be pumping out more then DR. The 360 has one single processor anyway, with 3 cores. The HDD isnt necessary to play, but even that wouldnt cause DREs

[News Bot]

I got the same problem with my first 360. It first started with Dead Rising, I was escorting FOUR survivors, had very limited health and just barely made it to the warehouse. DISC READ ERROR AFTER ALL THAT TROUBLE. I had to fight off the convicts, punch my way through halls of zombies and even ended up accidentely blowing the 5th survivors head clean off with a rifle -__-

So, I returned the 360. Got a new one...which came with an extra controller, which was bundled with Project Gotham Racer, and the 360 itself was the PES6 bundle. Guess what? It was cheaper than the first 360. So I saved money in the long run. It also works perfectly aswell.

Though I swapped the HD over. So whether it will pose a problem or not I don't know. But, if it does. I'll just pick up a memory card and backup my saves. I'm almost lvl 50 in Dead Rising -_-

The reason DR malfunctions alot, is because it uses both of the 360's processers, rather than one like most other games. This causes the system to overheat pretty badly. The HD doesn't help either (one of the shoddiest products ever).

[Cyber_Shinobi]

Well don't know about Dead Rising killing 360's, but some 360's definitely kill games

In fact, when i was in town today at Gamestation some guy came in with about 3 games he'd just bought that didn't work. Looks like his 360 had scratched a big ring around them and made them unplayable. The guy in Gamestation said this is a big problem.

[khfan1]

I've been playing Dead Rising for 2 weeks, not a single problem.
Sorry about the badluck. ; _ ;

Also, the people who say Daed Rising killed their 360s are just unfortunate. It would be complete bullshit if you couldn't play a game on a system you just paid 500 bucks for. =/ (i'm canadian)

[VirusPunk]

That may very well be... but if you're saying your not having any problems with it then you should be fine. It more so happens to the people who bought the system on launch day though.

Also for the record, a guy working at Hollywood Video told me a little about how Dead Rising fucked up his 360, he had to replace it with a new one. This is one reason why I didn't get Dead Rising, I've heard horror stories about how that game can ruin your system and I'm not going to take any risks despite it being a great game. Sucks for me but its still better than having a broken Xbox...

I still love the 360 regardless of the horror stories, despite having DRE's every now and then its still a great system and far more realiable than any PS2 I ever owned. I think its just your luck dot, hope all goes well for you and your game.

One more thing, if you want to kill zombies you can check out Oblivion that game is full of dungeon crawling (and headless) zombies for you to enjoy killing. Any TES player would say the graphics are the best ever seen, if you can handle the DRE's and long load times.

[James]

I got mine in January 2006, but that means it's most probably manufactured in 2005...yes? >_>

[VirusPunk]

I'm having the same problems with The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion, I just recently purchased my Xbox 360 3 months ago, worked pretty fine the first month. After a while though it just kept giving me Disc Read errors whenever I would talk to NPC's in the game.

I'm just praying I won't have to replace my 360 or get it repaired because I'm short on cash. A few helpful hints I learned:

- Keep your 360 in an open area with room to breath

- Keep your 360 high above ground

- Never move it while its turned on

- Put a cover on it at night to prevent dust from coming inside the air holes

Still doesn't prevent it from getting Disc Read errors, but I'm sure it'll prevent your Xbox 360 from getting the red ring of death. Most 360's from 2006 are OK, but if you bought it in 2005 you are more likely to get the red ring...

[Cyber_Shinobi]

What does that "spillage" effect on the disc actually mean? I've encountered it alot at work on normal DVDs, but never on 360 games. >_> Guess I'm lucky.

Heh.

Bad or poor quality produced disc basically. Thats one way you use to avoid bad/poor quality CD-R's/DVD-R's. Poorly manufactured... CMC Magnetics(who make discs for various companies such as Memorex, Maxell etc) are pretty notorious for it.

The worst console i've ever experienced for problems is the Dreamcast. Had the spindle snap on 2 of mine, both brand new consoles and lasted less than 6 months each
Then theres the "reset" problem, but luckily, thats an easy enough fix. I love the console itself, just a shame about its durability. I have 3, 2 as back ups, just in case...

[Dot50Cal]

Ugh so frustrating. They need to cross ship me one I swear. It looks like this ones going in too, I cant get the damn game to play more than an hour before DRE pops up. Drive stops spinning and click click click *DASHBOARDED*. It doesnt even care that I was well on my way to doing Zombie Genocider.....god damn I hate xbox.

[Borman]

Ouch At least my Xbox 360 is better then the 4 or so PS2s that ive had lol

[Dot50Cal]

Two more DRE's while playing. The drive would spin down and make various clicking noises before giving up moments later. Thankfully I've been saving like a bastard.

[Borman]

Yep, that was one problem though, months ago. You seem to be the recurring case of doom. Mine works awesome now. Even still, ive never had a single DRE, harddrive error, anything error, except for that one time.

[Dot50Cal]

Erm..Didnt you send your 360 back too? You even told me to take the face plate off, like you did (and I did that too, now I have TWO FACEPLATES MUAHAHAH)

[Borman]

Ouch that sucks, its just your luck really heh

[Dot50Cal]

So an update:

We took back dead rising to Walmart (the third copy) to try and get a refund, but they were super assholes about it and wouldnt do anything but exchange it for the same game. wtf. So we go get a new copy of Dead Rising (NOW THE FOURTH) To top it off, she takes out a box cutter and rips open the package. Yay, decreased re-sale value -_-. I complained that its an XBOX 360 game, which cannot be copied without a great deal of bullshit. She doesnt budge. So as were leaving I realize we didnt get a memory card so I run up and get one.

We get home and I try:

Copying HDD save to mem card, loading from mem card: DRE
Loading from mem card, without HDD attached: DRE

We now notice that ANY mode, wether loading a save or starting a new game = instant disc read error. What the hell!?

So after various combinations of loading I figure out that somehow the cache and or save system on the HDD for Dead Rising has commitied suicide in some impoper way, and it now DRE's on anything.

After previous attempts at clearing the HDD game cache, I realize thats not a help. So I copy the save back to the memory card, and format the god damn Hard Drive.

What do you know, it works. So I copy the save back onto the HDD and it works. Good lord what the fuck? I played it for a few hours and it seems to be A-OK now, we'll see in the future if any issue crop up.

(Bonus: The HDD also ate my fucking Burnout Revenge save which took forever to get to)