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Tue, Sep 16 2008

NHL 09 on XBOX 360 – Unreadable Discs?

NHL 09So, I went out and bought NHL 09 last week when it came out and enjoyed a few fun-filled hours with my son until the game stopped working.  We thought it might be the copy so we brought it back to Wal-Mart to exchange it for a new one.  Guess what?  The new disc doesn’t work either.  I’ve never actually had a problem like this before so when that second disc didn’t work, I decided to search around on the internet and guess what I found?  More people having the exact same problem with NHL 09 but it seems to be confined to the XBOX 360 version.  Since I don’t have/don’t want Playstation 3 and the game isn’t available on Wii, I needed to find something that could fix the problem. 

Here’s a tip that I found on the IGN boards that worked for me (let’s hope it continues to work):

  1. Check to see if your game disc works without the Hard Drive or any memory units plugged in.
  2. If it works, then plug your hard drive back in and clear your cache:
    To do this, go to Console Settings, Memory, then press Y for Device Options and press – X,X,LB,RB,X,X – the xbox will ask you if you would like to perform a system maintenance and you say yes. This will erase all game updates you have downloaded but you can get them back. Don’t forget to erase your NHL 09 save data as well … and VOILA!

Don’t get me started on how dumb this problem is…

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  1. By brandyn

    Thanks for the help.

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  4. By jonezze

    hey guyz i just bought 09 form eb games yesterday n it was fine up until the second period i tried erasing the cache but it didnt do nething it just fucks up again it happens more when i try to sign on line does anybody here no wat to do or wat they did if this happened to them?? thanks guyz would appreciate the help

  5. By Ben Sargent

    i didn’t even need to delete any saved data i have at least like 60mb of saved game on my hd and all i did was the maintenace and it worked!!

  6. By hammyjr

    How do you get your be a pro to work

  7. By hammyjr

    Help!!!How do you erase saved data

  8. By hammyjr

    Does anyone know how to erase the cache?

  9. By jas

    my game jus stops workin wehn its loading
    ive tried cleanin it and all the suggestions upo there

  10. By guthry

    Anyone still having trouble? I noticed my copy would only work perfectly without the hard drive attached but clearing the cache didnt help me. Ive found that If I load NHL 09 without being signed into my gamer profile on the hard drive I get no problem with the unreadable disc message. So all I do is sign into my profile once Im in the main menu of the game and it seems to work fine after that. Let me know if this helps anyone still struggling

  11. By Ben Sargent

    Same thing happened to me however after leaving it for a while it worked again! ill try your sggestion though

  12. By freddieshreddie

    I am tired of EA publishing games that don’t work.

    I am well into my season, and it appears my dynasty save is corrupt.

    disc unreadable. I bought another copy as well…to no avail. EA has really let me down again.

    BOYCOTT EA!!!

  13. By bethmems

    tried Jeanne’s suggestion and it worked. thanks.

  14. By jawhn

    are you kidding me!i bought mine at blockbuster , changed 2 times and still does not worck!FUCK ME? IM CANADIAN i need my hockey.Im going back to my SEGA GENESIS.Ey?

  15. By Basta

    Just for fun where did you buy your unreadable disc ??? I bouth mine at Wal-mart !
    Im just curius !

  16. By Kyle Marchuk

    spoke too soon i guess seems though i can play for a few minutes then it dies

  17. By Kyle Marchuk

    Thank for the info i seems to be working now

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