what is the reason you cant play back up games on retail console

xboxpotatoeman

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Sep 10, 2012
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just wondering what is the exact reason back up games don't work on retail xboxs, i was comparing my back up mw3 disc to my stock mw3 disc, and noticed like a barcode type thing on the disc and started just wondering what the actual difference is. i also google searched this and nothing came up so if any of you guys know that would be wonderfull, thanks!
 

Oggy

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Mar 1, 2010
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The DVDDrive firmware is coded to only read from XGD media not DVD-Rom, the firmware changes this.
 

broomop

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Nov 3, 2013
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normally im not sure if this is the case for xbox360 but the media is burned the other way around thats the main difference normally.
 

Oggy

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Haha, that one again. FLOL