The Xbox 360 is one of the most popular games consoles on the market, with millions of people relying on it every day to play a variety of different games. Although this is great, it also means that a lot of people are going to have scratched and damaged discs which can ruin your games. To protect yourself from this problem, it's important that you can copy the Xbox games yourself, allowing you to play backup games on your system, protecting your original discs.... but how do you do this?
The problem with copying Xbox360 games is simple. Because the Xbox uses DVD media, which almost every computer can copy, Microsoft have had to introduce a series of copyright protection measures, in an attempt to prevent people illegally copying their games. And unfortunately, it also makes copying the games for legal backup purposes very difficult as well... unless you know how the games are protected.
Xbox 360 games are all protected using what are known as "security sectors". These are small parts of the DVD which are physically burnt in a special way, making the game have a section which contains critical security information. These "sectors" are a part of the DVD which only Microsoft and the Xbox 360 console can read, and are designed to tell your console that the game is real and legal. If the Xbox tries to read a game which does not have these sectors inside, then it will simply not play it.
This means that in order to make a legal, playable copy of an Xbox 360 game, you just need to be able to copy the game with the security sectors intact. And because Microsoft are very clever, almost all DVD burners cannot read these sectors at all, meaning that if you try and copy an Xbox 360 game, your drive could miss the sectors and just copy the game, making it unplayable on the console. This is why mod chips are so popular - because they make the console bypass the security precautions, allowing you to play any game you want, copied or not.
To play copied games on your Xbox 360, you will either need to be able to somehow stream the game to your console via FTP, install a mod chip to play the game without any security checks or make a 1:1 perfect copy of the game, so that the Xbox thinks its the original. These 3 techniques are the only ways you can play games that are not the purchased originals on your console, despite what a lot of people might say. This is important because you just need to use one of these methods to play all the backup games you like.
To copy a game and then use it on your console without a mod chip, you need to be able to copy the game perfectly, making a duplicate of the disc. To do this, you just need to be able to download a tool such as GameBackupSystem, which allows your PC to read the copyright protected game. Then you just put the DVD into your PC, let it read the data from it and then copy that data onto another DVD.
And you can actually copy Xbox360 games [http://www.ipodbackupwizard.com] very easily with a tool called GameBackupSystem [http://www.ipodbackupwizard.com]. This tool has been created by an anonymous team, but we were able to backup and play 20+ Xbox360 games with it. It copies your game discs perfectly, including the copyright protection sectors. This means that you can copy as many games as you want with the system, and then play them on your console without a mod chip.
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