| Fumanchu said: Who knows I guess the most likely answer is that ALL games use the DVD-9 format regardless of size and it would be deliberate misinformation for them to quote the SL maximum speed if never used. |
Absolutely correct. All Xbox 360 games are on DL discs.
There is no single layer Xbox 360 disc in existence.
They all take up the same space no matter what game, from that crap that Burger King was giving away a couple of years ago to Fallout 3. The actual disc will contain 7GB of data on it, with the only variation being if they change the video that gets displayed when you place the disc in a DVD player, (which they have done a couple of times). Now it is about 10mb bigger due to the latest change where they have placed the NXE installer on all games released. That is the only variation you will see.
Back a couple of years ago, you could backup games to fit on a single layer disc, the padding\dumm partition was removed along with the video partition and the firmware on the drive was hacked to trick the Xbox360 to think it was still there and re-direct and requests for that data. However it became apparent MS were using new checks and so iXtreme firmware was made which enforced all backups be either.
7.05GB
or
7.29GB
The ones that are listed as 7.29GB aren't actually the structure of an original. they have an 2 copies of the video partition placed on the disc...one on each layer. I'm not quite sure why this is, but it's some extra measure to counteract MS if they do some new checks.
blah blah anyway time for bed.
