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Tony_L · 12-29-2003, 01:31 AM

I get the same problem in ESPN Basketball 2K4 with my Thompson-drive-equipped Xbox. Whenever I try to use my custom soundtrack in conjunction some of the default, built-in songs, I only have to let the music play a few minutes to get the stupid dirty-disc error. This especially appalling because of the fact that both products are pretty recent manufactures (my Xbox around September, and ESPN Basketball came out last month I think), so legacy incompatibility is no excuse.

Worse is that I experience a host of other glitches: many FMV movies (examples: the start-up intros to Splinter Cell and Genma Onimusha, the "Features" clip in ESPN Basketball and many others) have this weird interlacing/combing artifact. In Syberia, the high-definition FMV sequences play squished (like, instead of 16x9, it's 9x16) and offset to the right. In Metal Gear Solid 2 Substance, the intro stutters ridiculously and sometimes even locks up and resets the system. I only have a few games or so, so who knows how many other games would suffer problems. Unbelievable. I buy consoles to escape from the errors, bugs, and hassles of the PC, you know?

Anyone have tips on how I should go about replacing my Xbox? I've had it for about a month, it'd be a hassle with all my harddrive saves, and I'm not even sure that I won't get another piece-of-shit Thompson drive (although I'm not entirely sure that Thompson is to blame for all of the aforementioned glitches). Not to mention that I'd rather deal with Microsoft than some department store that has nothing to do with the machine and its issues.

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12-29-2003, 01:31 AM	#5 of 7
Tony_L Member Join Date: Nov 2003 Local Time: 07:31 PM Local Date: 12-03-2008 Posts: 19	I get the same problem in ESPN Basketball 2K4 with my Thompson-drive-equipped Xbox. Whenever I try to use my custom soundtrack in conjunction some of the default, built-in songs, I only have to let the music play a few minutes to get the stupid dirty-disc error. This especially appalling because of the fact that both products are pretty recent manufactures (my Xbox around September, and ESPN Basketball came out last month I think), so legacy incompatibility is no excuse. Worse is that I experience a host of other glitches: many FMV movies (examples: the start-up intros to Splinter Cell and Genma Onimusha, the "Features" clip in ESPN Basketball and many others) have this weird interlacing/combing artifact. In Syberia, the high-definition FMV sequences play squished (like, instead of 16x9, it's 9x16) and offset to the right. In Metal Gear Solid 2 Substance, the intro stutters ridiculously and sometimes even locks up and resets the system. I only have a few games or so, so who knows how many other games would suffer problems. Unbelievable. I buy consoles to escape from the errors, bugs, and hassles of the PC, you know? Anyone have tips on how I should go about replacing my Xbox? I've had it for about a month, it'd be a hassle with all my harddrive saves, and I'm not even sure that I won't get another piece-of-shit Thompson drive (although I'm not entirely sure that Thompson is to blame for all of the aforementioned glitches). Not to mention that I'd rather deal with Microsoft than some department store that has nothing to do with the machine and its issues.