The brand of the disk you are burning isn't as important as the drives you are trying to use to burn and read it, just don't get some shitty 99c officemax dvds and you should be fine. There is a hole ass thing on reddit on xbox drive types and what they can and can not read soo yeah read up there if you wanna know more but yeah cds and single layer dvds should be fine most of the time.

(there are caveats to all things, in this case with tsop flashed and mod chipped xboxs but i'm trying not to ramble to much, just don't mix hdds but you can mix dvd drives)Īlso og xbox is from 2001 remember, it will only read single layer dvds (4.7 GB), it can't read dual layer dvd (8.5 GB) The hdds are locked so don't get them mixed up, it worn't harm them, it just won't boot and you will get an error.

Thankfully og xbox dvd drives are not locked so if you can't clean or fix it you can just grab another one from another xbox and it should work fine. You can check that by just trying to load a legit game and if it takes wayy longer to load and it's making some weird noises then might want to have a look at it. and yes if your xbox drive is warn out it will not read disks aswell. Yes, early dvd xbox drives (aka Thomson) do not read burnt games that well. (Redump on top, normal xbox iso on bottom)Īlso as redumps are dumping a lot more data then a normal disk they are typically a lot larger then a normal xbox iso so that's also a good hint too.īurning normal xbox most of it but we'll go over it quick. This image we can burn to a disk, we can not burn redumps to a disk unless we convert them first. Somewhere in the root of all the files you should see a defult.xbe. Your normal xbox iso will only contain game data and will open up fine on most ISO tools and you should see a XBOX DVD or XBOX ISO for the image type. Redumps are a bit for bit copy of the disk, grate for archiving but a fucking pain in the ass to deal with as you can't just extract or use them as they have also copied the copy protection and dvd movie layers of the disk so you will need custom tools to do anything with them. There are 2 main xbox ISO types I know about, your 'normal' xbox iso and redump isos. Hello off we need to establish a few things first, What type of xbox iso do you have and what iso programs do you have?įor programs I would recommend something like UltraISO, PowerISO, etc.Īnd yes as we are gonna need ImgBurn to burn the iso to a disk if it's the right iso that can be burn to a disk.Īlso iirc windows 10 has inbuilt iso tools but I don't windows 10 so we will be using UltraISO in today's example.

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