XBox Solution

Mine just stopped working this week, coincidentally my friend who lives just down the street is now experiencing the same thing. That cache thing isnt working either.

@Rich,
Yes we both are completely updated, but upon further investingation it seems that both of our copies have that wierd stain thing around the middle of the disk. It’s wierd, we both bought the game the day it came out and have played it a lot, now all of a sudden both our copies are unreadable because of this odd stain. I dunno, i have had it for months so im not sure if EA will replace it.

I bought my copy of NHL 09 3 weeks ago, played it for 2 days and now it gets the disk unreadable. I also have the dreaded “stain” on my copy. I did not look at it when I opened the copy because well why should you have to, so I don’t know if it was there from the get go. To make matters worse I get NCAA football 09 for xmas and after 1 day it gets disk unreadable and it has a stain on it, what is going on when u spend 60 dollars on a game and it works for a day. I still have a PS2 and all the games still work for that. Maybe I should have gone with a different route then xbox because this is pathetic. I just wanna sit with a couple buddies and have a few drinks while playing NHL 09 but unless I go through tremendous hassle I won’t get to do that. Has there been any reasoning to this at all? If not how can they continue to dodge this and get away with it. My buddy also had the same thing happen with his a couple of days ago. HELP

Hey i just got this game and i bought it from EB Games as a used disk. when i put it in it goes to the loading screen than says disk is unreadable i went back to the store to exchange it and the guy says just to go back home and try the cache code, so i did and nothing change. wut else could i do?

I had the game for 3 months played fine all of a sudden i got the disc read error… Every other game i play works fine… Never got this error till this game… Ok so ive tried over 4 copies of the game, ive tried burning to my hard drive, ive gotten friends to bring their copies over those dont work, ive tried using my copies on other xbox’s and they work fine…. EA charges you 60$ of money you work hard for… assuming you make 12 dollars an hour.. you’ve worked 5 hours to pay for a piece of software that is non-functioning.. Will EA refund my money since obviously its not a problem on my end???? They put out a game that only works on certain systems for whatever reason…

I have this prob online I can’t play otp more than 8 players and if I try it says I lost connection!
The only way my game works is on
My hdd if I play on disc undreadable disc error

Hey guys I’ve been reading all the comments …. now I bought this game when it first came out …. it has played good since i got it until about 2 months ago when the error of unreadable disc would pop up while I was browsing through the menus. Anyways like I said Ive been reading… so I checked my game and it has the STAIN like everyone is talking about near the center of the disc on the back… so im gonna call EA Support line, but my question is how do i get the patches or updates for my game cause i dont have xboxlive because i have a dailup connection… any help

I know it sucks … thanks for the help… how are the patches working?

I am on my second copy. I cleared my cache just to get the second copy to work. First of all, none of us should be required to do this for any game. After a couple months of playing the game, the famous message appeared again. Now I can’t play at all. Disc error. What a joke. I am out $60 now and I am just sick of this. I do not see any marks on my disc. Just for a teaser, it will let me get online and get to the faceoff and then shut down. The kicker is that I purchased an XBOX for hockey. What a joke. I bet a lawsuit comes soon from someone if not me.

Hey Greg Mack i have found a solution for you i had a problem like you and i put my game on the 360 hardrive and it works.

I’ve only had the game about a week now, and Xbox just started freezing. Sometimes it would let me get to the end of the game and freeze during the 3 stars presentation. ANNOYING. I installed the game to my hard drive (8gb required) and I managed to get through 2 games without a problem. Not sure if this is a fix or not, but worth a try.

Thanks Jay, I will give it a shot.

Jay, it worked! I did have to try to download the game 3 times. The first two times I got the disc error around the 16% download. The third time worked and I was able to play an entire game with no problem. I appreciate the help. THANK YOU!!!!

Has anyone had anyluck with getting a new Disc after they called EA …….Im on my second disc now and dont wana send my xbox in for a problem with the disc

Is this problem still going on. My game is freezing when I’m entering an OTP game.

my nhl 09 worked for a week then all of a sudden it said disc unreadable…but the weird thing is it work perfect without my hardrive in but when i puts in my hard drive it dont work IM ROTTED!!! an all my other games work fine how can i fix this problem?

I bought the game 4/26 and immediately had problems. Microsoft suggested I exchange the game, which I did and the same thing happened. I contacted EA and told them I didn’t even want it anymore because i was sick of it already but I can’t return it to the retailer unless Ijust want another copy of this turd. EA suggested I send it to their warrantly department with copies of receipts and they would send me an unopened game that I should be able to return to the retailer for my money back. I still have to check with the retailer to see if this will float but it might be an alternative to being out the $60.
How did this ever win any game of the year awards when so many people are complaining?

Just so everyone knows. EA can't fix the problem and refuses to give you your money back. After, you've blown past your 30day return period while trying to troubleshoot your pretty much screwed. However, EA did offer me any other game of my choosing. But then again that game may be defective as well….. because its EA.

i dont have nhl 09 but i have read alot about hamburgers yeah……peace out homies

i dont have nhl 09 but i have read alot about hamburgers. if you put a hamburger beside the xbox 360 then it will work. make sure you include the tomatoes….yeah im stupid………..