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Hows your luck?

  • 25-12-2009 10:53pm
    #1
    Y2J_MUFC
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,110 ✭✭✭


    So, I bought Madden 10 in Xtravision for 39.95 pre-owned. I've been after it for a while, and thought, why not.... previously the cheapest i had seen it for was something like 54.99 in Gamestop, seeing as its Christmas...My GF got me a voucher for GAME, so I managed to pick up the new Smackdown vs Raw 10...

    What are the odds that BOTH games don't work? :mad: Smackdown stalls after you play a match. Madden randomly pops up that "disc is unreadable" error. I've noticed that Smackdown has a massive ring on the ring. Madden seems to have a couple of black patches on the disc, tiny, but no idea what they are.

    What are the odds? I've never bought a pre-owned game and had a problem before. The third game i got was Godfather 2, what are the odds of making it 3 out of 3. I'm afraid to try it now! :(

    To put the icing on top of the cake, I bought them at least 3 or 4 hours away from where I live...

    And just to put the cherry, on the icing, on top of the cake... .I'm fairly sure that someone has chucked out the bag with the receipts.


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  • #2
    120_Minutes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,706 ✭✭✭120_Minutes


    i'd bring them back, or failing that try installing them on the HD.


  • #3
    Y2J_MUFC
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,110 ✭✭✭Y2J_MUFC


    120_Minutes wrote: »
    i'd bring them back, or failing that try installing them on the HD.

    No luck finding the receipts yet... I think I might try my luck with the Smyths disc repairer for a couple of quid, and just hope that it works on both.

    The massive ring on Smackdown doesn't inspire confidence especially. Heres hoping though. I can't really install them to the hard drive... only have 20GB, most of which is used already.


  • #4
    Leprekaun
    Registered Users Posts: 836 ✭✭✭Leprekaun


    It might be a case of your DVD drive not being one of the good ones. I remember with the original xbox, Microsoft used 3 or 4 different DVD-Roms and the one that was recommended as the best one was the Thompson drive since it would read a lot discs very easily. I'm not sure what is the story with the X360 since I haven't modded mine but it might be the same case that your X360 came with one of the weak reading DVD-Roms.

    It might be good to contact Microsoft about it. They may be able to change the drive for you to a better one. Either that, or yeah, you just had some really bad luck with preowned games :confused:


  • #5
    Y2J_MUFC
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,110 ✭✭✭Y2J_MUFC


    I don't think its my disc drive... when I was having the problems with Madden, I checked the Smackdown disc before I put it in, and the massive ring was on it then. Lucky I did, or I would have been paranoid about it!


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