Okay, i just recently bought a moded xbox 360 arcade with 12 GBHD from a friend. I also purchased 30 or so burned games form him which work fine on it. The problem is when i try to burn games everything goes right except when i put it in the Xbox. its updated to the new thing where you have an avatar and all. when the burned game goes in it says "play DVD" if I hit play it shows a Xbox logo and gives me the dvd menu on the bottom. I did alot of research and I downloaded and burned a "activate.iso" and put it in the xbox before i put the other games but still no luck.
So so far
Xbox plus games - $100 30p Verbatim dvds - $30 + 3.99 shipping Im already 134 bucks into this thing theres no going back now..
My Mac Book Pro has a DVD burner that burns DL dvds and i am running windows 7 on it.
here is the process i use to burn the games.
utorent - Download game (I already did Fable 3 and fallout new vegas)
Winrar - extract
Imgburn - Select dvd file not iso imgburn - chose speed 2.4x have the specified to the right number 0000000 ( i dont know it off the top of my head)
img burn - Click burn and wait for it to finish
(i have abgx360 but i don't use it cus its only for stealth games right?)
When its done i pop it in the xbox and it starts up and goes to the xbox logo. even if i put the activate.iso dvd in first the video plays that says "to play this disc, put in a 360 console" i take that out and put one of the burned dvds and still nothing.
I burned Fallout New Vegas twice, Fable 3 once and the activate.iso
so iv waisted 4 DL dvds already, before i waist anymore can someone tell me if I'm doing something wrong?
also i assume my xbox is NTSC since i live in America.
The old games i have, work. The newest ones being GTA 4, halo odst and Fifa 09.
I read in some forums that maybe i need to upgrade firmware for wave 4 games?? from my Noob understanding i need to re-flash my 360 to a newer version? and i have no idea how to do that.
Can someone help me please? i can hold out on the games he gave me, but Im craving Fable 3 so bad right now.
Side note: I don't care about going online, I have a xbox thats not modded and i use that to play online. Ill buy the game if it deserves it.
the problem most likely has to do with the firmware that is flashed on it, it is probably 1.6 and needs to be updated to the newest LT, if i were betting i would say the system is banned as well, although that would not effect game play. maybe if you are not able to flash it yourself look on craigslist and see if you can find somebody to update your firmware around here most charge 30 to 40 to do it.
Sounds like a bad investment on my part. I do have another Xbox with RROD and i brought it to get fixed, everything is up to date on it. However I'm going to have a friend flash it.
If i play burned games offline, can i be banned when i go online again with retail games?
And if Microsoft launches another update will it ban my xbox?
Does any Microsoft update (like game updates) ban my xbox if it is flashed?
