XBOX wont play original games

So my xbox is modded with the evolutionx dashboard, and is the original hd with lots of roms/emulators on it. Original games always worked fine. Well, my original games quit working. The only one that works is splinter cell. No new games work, no old games, friends games, anything. All games have been tested on other xboxs and work fine. The game starts to load, then quits out and goes back to the dash. I tried reinstalling evolutionx and unleashx and microsoft dash and softmod. Nothing worked. I know the drive works fine because xbox media player will read dvd disks for mp3s and videos n such. Also, splinter cell works fine. Any reason as to why its doing this?

 

I had the same problem with my old Xbox only difference was that it would only play Halo 1 and DVDs and CDs, no other games. The Wierd thing was I sent it in and it worked perfectly for a few years and then one day Halo 2 wouldn't a few different maps, slowly each of the maps started not loading until eventually no maps at all would load. Then slowly Halo 1 started to lag more and more during game play until it was unplayable. Keep in mind it played on everyone elses Xbox but mine. And all of my games except for Halo 1 and 2 would play on mine. Then one day I modded my Xbox and coppied Halo 1 and 2 to the HDD but they still wouldn't play. And still all of my other games would play. So I finally got a new Xbox and it works fine with all games. But I think our problems are very similar and I hope someone can help us or give us a logical explaination as to why our Xboxes do this.

 

I'm not a huge expert on Softmod, but I think there is a file that is corrupt or something. You may have to do your Softmod process all over again. This is why I didn't go with the Softmod, because if something goes wrong, you have to start all over. So do the Softmod process all over, from the beginning. You may want to backup your HDD, because you may need to wipe it clean.

 

I reinstalled the softmod, and I backed up to the original xbox dashboard. Ah I'm going crazy. Is there any forums on how to reformat the hard drive without taking it out of the xbox? I can ftp it no problem. I'm not expert, it took me forever to figure out how to get emulators to work. Also, I want to see if anybody has a solution to this problem before I do it.

 

those softmods are dangerous, xecuter 3 is the solution

 

I agree with ps2gen, softmodding sucks when you screw up on something. Go with a Hardmod, and if you do, get the Xecuter 3 CE chip.

 

so is the xbox dead now? if so im just gonna chuck it in the trash.

 

I wouldn't think that it is broken. You just have to either start the softmod process over, or get rid of the softmod, and see if the xbox will boot up.

 

thats my problem. it boots up perfectly. either the original microsoft dash or the evox dash. it wont load any games, only game it loads is splinter cell or dvd movies or music. no other games. no halo, max payne2, grand theft auto, rainbow six, nothing.

 

Every week when new games are released the Backup Forums (and Newbie Chat) are inundated with posts saying "Such and Such game locks up! What do I do?" A huge number of posts on the main page of the Backup Forum are about how someone is having a problems backing/loading up a specific game (i.e. KOTOR, GTA, Crimson Skies, etc.).

These problems are hardly ever game specific. There are only a few games that have specific problems. For the most part game freezes happen for the same reasons on every game.

Follow these steps (one or more of them could be causing the problem) and chances are your game backup will play perfectly.

1.) Turn off IGR (Evolution X)

Problem:
The IGR in Evolution X has been known to have issues with some setups. Turning it off and using an IGR in your BIOS will alleviate any potential problems with games locking up on the "loading" screen.

Solution:
IGR (or In Game Reset) is toggled on/off through your evox.ini. It resides in three separate places: [Misc], [FTP] and [RDTOOLS]. Make sure each instance of IGR in the evox.ini file looks like the following:

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IGR = No


You can either do this in Evolution X through System Utilities/Settings (remember to save and exit) or by editing your evox.ini file and uploading it to your Xbox via FTP.

2.) Patch the Game

Problem:
A media check (read: copy protection) in newer games causes the game to lockup during loading. This usually occurs later than an IGR game freeze. All games released after February 2003 contain this media checks and it has several variations. The media check has been put in place so that the Xbox can verify that the game disc is a legitimate copy.

Solution:
The game can be patched any number of ways.

Backup to DVD (PC)
You can use a patching program such as Craxtion, Qwix or ADR Patcher. These programs are designed to go through the XBE files on your computer and actually patch them to remove the media checks.

Backup to Hard Drive (Xbox)
There are programs that will auto patch games while backing them up to the hard drive. These programs include dvd2xbox and Px-HDD Loader.

BIOS Upgrade
Newer BIOS versions (Xecutor 4977 or later, Evox M7 or later) can auto patch games on the fly. This allows you to play backed up games on your modded Xbox even if they contain the media check.

3.) Set Your System Clock

Problem:
Games tend to freeze during game play. This will often happen when games are auto saving and run into errors (i.e. the Xbox reporting a date of 11-15-2001).

Solution:
Set your system clock through MS Dashboard/settings. If you leave your Xbox unplugged for 4 hours or longer the clock will need to be reset when you boot it back up.

4.) Clear Your Cache

Problem:
When you load games, the loads are temporarily stored in "cache" to speed up load times. This works on the same principle as web browsing. HTML files and images are temporarily stored in a cache or temporary directory so that the sites you visit the most often don't have to load the same graphics and text again and again, increasing the speed of your web browsing. Games do the same thing so that your load times speed up.

Occasionally these cache files will get corrupted or will not erase properly. This and causes a game to freeze or not load properly.

Solution:
Delete your cache files. The following directories can be emptied (delete all the files inside, not the directories themselves).

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E:\CACHE
X:\
Y:\
Z:\



5.) Game Specific Patches

Problem:
Some games have long file names that work fine with the DVD file structure but don't work on the Xbox hard drive's "Fat-X" file system. There are only a few games that have this problem (most notably: Enter the Matrix).

Solution:
In order to run these games on the Xbox hard drive, the filenames have to be changed and the game has to be patched to look for the new, shorter, file names.

6.) Switch Video Mode between PAL/NTSC
Use enigmah video selector to do this.

7.) Delete Save Game Files (Last Resort)

Problem:
A corrupted save game file makes it impossible for a game to launch properly or the game freezes when trying to load a game.

Solution:
Delete the save game files for that game. Obviously this is a last resort because no one wants to lose all the progress they've made in a given game. Your game saves are located in the following directories:

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E:\TDATA
E:\UDATA



These directories are pretty hard to decipher on their own. You would be best served to download XBox-Saves Manager. This program, if you are not familiar with it, will FTP into your Xbox and allow you to read the save game files to see what games they represent. You can then delete the offending file from the game giving you trouble.

 

all the games i am trying to play are legitimate, though. i'm talking about real xbox games. they lock up at that stupid microsoft loading screen. all except for splinter cell that i know of.

 

Yea, I know what he's talking about. Like I said mine did it too. It was as if the disk were damaged when they really weren't.

 

the drive still works and so do the actual disks. what the hell can it be? they used to play. the xbox is softmodded with emulators and such, i tried deleting the softmod and using microsoft dash, nothing.

 

sell it on ebay for 100 bucks

 

WHAT FILE TYPE OR WHATEVER, DOES THE XBOX GAME DISK CONTENTS HAVE TO BE IN THE "GAME FOLDER" ON THE FTP THROUGH THE XBOX...

I TRIED JUST COPYING THE DISK TO THE GAME FOLDER AND IT DIDN'T WORK,
DO I NEED TO MAKE THE GAMES INTO ISO'S, THE I CAN PLAY THEM FROM THE HARDDISK??

 

STOP POSTING RANDOM NONSENSE, I HOPE YOU ARE BANNED REPORTED FOR SPAMMING

 

ya know, cpas lock is considered yelling, this is at element Nu2Mods has a reason to yell

 

download slayers 2.7 and do a full rebuild. if u can boot cd's

 

the xbox doesn't have a modchip, so how can i boot slayers?