Comments on: NCAA Football 08: Disk Unreadable, Experience Unbearable, Oversight Inexcusable…

By: Will

Will — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 23:31:44 +0000

Yea.. this is rather frustrating.. i took my game to a friend’s house and played it there, but i still had the same problems. i rented a game to see if it was just my game and neither of them worked

By: Spencer

Spencer — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 22:59:54 +0000

I agree with you 100 %.
And it is only Ncaa that seems to do that.
Both in 07 and 08 its been pissing me off…

By: Eric

Eric — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 03:24:26 +0000

I’ve had a problem the last couple of days with my NCAA 08 I would be playing and it will just go checkerboard, so I took the game out, and the Xbox works but the hard drive wasn’t registering, I reconnected and got the hard drive to work but then while playing NCAA08 the problem happened again now my hard drive wont come up

By: Rusty

Rusty — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 06:27:13 +0000

So what does everybody think? Is it the game’s fault or the 360′s fault for the disc unreadable error during ncaa 08?

By: kallop

kallop — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 18:18:39 +0000

Same issue and then some… i had the red ring… then got my new xbox… all excited… and I now my NCAA wont plya anymore due to this damn disc error. The testing that EA does for ncaa and for madden is UNACCEPTABLE. I guess when you get a monopoly on something it doesn’t matter the quality of your product… Gee… and I thought our economy was set up to encourage competetion and eliminate all non-government monopolies for this very reason!!!! EA sucks and microsoft swallows!!!!!!!!!! Nuff said! I just wish there was an alternative for my crackbox addiction!!!!!

By: Phil

Phil — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 02:15:50 +0000

Same problem as everyone else. It started out just freezing up and now the 360 will not even recognize it. All my other games work, but after this issue and going through 2 original Xboxes in a nine month period before the 360 came out, I am done with Microsoft and EA Sports. I can think of other things to spend my money on that don’t end up with me being pissed off.

By: Lewis

Lewis — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 15:43:39 +0000

FIFA 08 does exactly the same, there isn’t a scratch on the disk but all i ever get is This disk is unreadable

By: Rusty

Rusty — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 00:57:10 +0000

The disc unreadable error happens to me all the time on NCAA 08….every time I turn it on to play its just a random chance on if I’m gonna get through my game or not…It pisses me off so much, its unacceptable

By: Tyler

Tyler — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 21:05:55 +0000

i dont even get into a game situation. even if i just try to go into anyone of the play modes it screws up. very frustrating saying that i havent even gootten one damn hour out of the game

By: Chad Lakkis

Chad Lakkis — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 00:06:34 +0000

Jeff,

You may want to call the customer support line. If it is working with every other game and your copy of the game in question is flawless I am not really sure what the issue could be. It may be an issue with the data on your hard drive.

One thing you could try is playing the game with your hard drive disconnected. If that works then it could be an issue with that.

Chad-

By: Jeff

Jeff — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 23:55:40 +0000

My game wont even start playing… the xbox just says reading disk when i put it in… one time it said invalid dvd, but other than that nothing has even come up… It works perfectly fine with all my other games… Up until yesterday I just had the occasional freezing problem. I wonder if it has to do with me updating my xbox through xbox live, cause I updated it for the first time in like a year yesterday and when i tried to play the game it would not work.

By: Chad Lakkis

Chad Lakkis — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 22:06:54 +0000

Jeff,

Not sure if this works or not (it is coming from my eleven year old cousin) but I gave him my review NCAA 08 and he said it was giving him the disk unreadable error as well until he set the quarters to 4 minutes.

He said it stopped giving him the error after that. May be worth a shot. Please get back to us and let us know if it works.

Chad-

By: Jeff

Jeff — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 19:59:02 +0000

My NCAA 08 wont even play anymore… the 360 refuses to read it… there are no scratches or anything on the disk… this problem is driving me crazy.. please someone help me.

By: Zack

Zack — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 19:32:07 +0000

I have this problem with Halo 3, three copies, three disc unreadable errors

Any solutions so far for your case?

By: DaveyJ

DaveyJ — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 18:37:11 +0000

I haven’t ever really had any problems with EA games, but both my Guitar hero II disk and my Call of Juarez disk have given me errors. The only wierd thing is, on GHII it only happens on certain songs and on Call of Juarez it only happens on level 12. But it happens EVERY time on that level and those songs. Neither disk has a single scratch. This leads me to believe there must be some finite step compatability issue within the disks of certain 360 games. If this is the case, a patch should be able to fix it. It shouldn’t be the console, right? Right?

By: Xboxic » NCAA Football 08 disk error plaguing Xbox 360 version

Xboxic » NCAA Football 08 disk error plaguing Xbox 360 version — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 07:05:39 +0000

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By: Ravi

Ravi — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 06:11:03 +0000

Well I have many 360 titles but this kind of problem never ocurred usually. This only occured once when my NFS:MW disc got scratched ( I left it out open ), other than in this case it never happened. Infact my FARCRY disc has a lot of scratches and it runs perfectly without any problem in loading time, frame rate or anything else. So I think there might be some problems with the disc itself.

By: The Mad Gamer

The Mad Gamer — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 03:55:17 +0000

Hey guys,

Thanks for the feedback. This story has received many responses on other sites linking to it. Two that I thought may help are posted below...

"I did see a post on the Xbox forums a few months back that linked to a modding site that talked about how to adjust the drives laser. They were claiming that calibrating the laser would solve these problems. But they didn't explain why it happens only to certain games."
Igniter - N4G.com

"the problem happens sometimes when the game gets hot....use to happen with my older model that RROD often. use too happen in oblivion too.....with the replacement xbox, I haven't had it happen but twice playing madden...and i also tore the back off my entertainment center out for more air in the back, so that might of been the problem. I had the game glitch problem with tiger woods 08 also but it was patched and hasn't glitched ever since."
Snukadaman - N4G.com

Mad-

By: Zach

Zach — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 03:20:49 +0000

I had this problem and took the disk out to examine it (turns out this same problem occured with my copy of fight night round 3 and the world cup version of fifa when the 360 first came out). All three occasions there was a white ring around my disk about the size of a miniDVD. All three occasions i had my xbox vertical. I simply wiped the disk down with my monster screen cleaner cloth in a center-to-edge fashion , set the xbox horizontal and let ‘er rip. No problems since.

By: Hitta904

Hitta904 — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 02:53:09 +0000

i have the same problem with not only ncaa 08 but madden 08 as well