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You would love the history of cat and mouse with the Xbox 360! When Microsoft lost another round they came out with the brilliant idea of making the games larger then commercially available dvds had space for. The next round hackers truncated the games so they could burn to standard disc as most games had a lot of padded data it didn’t need and this worked well for a while. Then the ban hammer dropped and a bunch of people playing truncated games got banned. So the next thing the hackers did was so cool. They found a way to burn more data to a standard DVD. DVDs were 7.5gb too small for xbox games which were now made to almost 8gb if I remember correctly. Hackers developed a custom software for certain DVD burners, the one I used was a lite-on drive but they supported a few different ones, and you would flash the firmware of the DVD burner and it allowed you to write to the very edge of the DVD. Typically DVD burners don’t allow you to write to this area because it can sometimes be prone to errors. Hackers didn’t care though they even came out with a program that would scan your disc after and verify it was clean with no errors so it was essentially a clone. Of course you still needed a flasher DVD drive in your Xbox but Microsoft wasn’t able to detect that they were detecting discs. It was such a cool cat and mouse game in the end I stopped with the burnt discs and went for the reset glitch hack which allowed me to play all the games from an external HDD but of course not online with microsoft. Though you still could connect to other servers and do things like album cover downloads and play with other hackers xboxs. Good memories.



>Xbox 360! When Microsoft lost another round they came out with the brilliant idea of making the games larger then commercially available dvds had space for.

When Windows & DOS were still normally installed from 3.5 inch floppies, each Microsoft factory install floppy also had more data on it than a PC would be able to write to a regularly formatted blank floppy.




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