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Title: Gta:sa Dirty Disc Errors On Retail Copy
Post by: gureo003 on August 01, 2005, 12:24:00 AM
I wanted to add some questions to other Matrix users out there:

Is there anyone who is successfully playing the North American retail disc copy of Grand Theft Auto : San Andreas on a modded Xbox (matrix mode chip)? Not a backup disc & not playing form the HDD, but using the official retail game disc?

If so, is your Xbox console also a North American console or other?

If you are able to play the retail game successfully, would you mind telling me your XBox setup (Bios, dash, settings, modchip disable or enabled)?

This info may help me get closer to finding out where the problem with my system & setup lies.
 Thanks !
Title: Gta:sa Dirty Disc Errors On Retail Copy
Post by: Q3A-TaNK on August 27, 2005, 11:42:00 AM
Heres some things to do to help with booting your games easier.

1) Update your Bios. Your bios is like crazy old. Go out and grab either EvoX M8 Plus or X2 4981 since the Matrix is only 256k. You can then use XBtool (X2 Bioses) or EVTool (EvoX M8) to edit the bios the way you want it.

2) It might help if you grab a dashboard. I recommend UnleashX. Its got serval nice features such as a File Explorer, Game Saves Manager, a SAFE EEPROM changer, and other nice goodies.

3) Grab DVD2Xbox. This can help copy your games much easier than boXplorer can and it can patch certin HDD copy protections.

4) Grab Xored ETM Launcher (optional) This can load EvoX's ETM trainers for those tough to beat games like GTA San Andreas and Ghost Recon 2, without having to EvoX to load the trainers.

Hopefully this should help you out in the long run with running some of the more recent games like GTA SA.
Title: Gta:sa Dirty Disc Errors On Retail Copy
Post by: Q3A-TaNK on August 31, 2005, 03:44:00 PM
Ok great you updated your bios to M8 and installed SLaYeRs disc. I still recommend you get unleash x but if you want to stick with EvoX heres what you do to run GTA SA in EvoX go to your settings find the region settings and change it to North America. Then try booting GTA SA. Oh and ditch the Engimah X NTSC-PAL switcher all that tool does is screw up boxes in my opinion. Most PAL games will run under NTSC just find elimating the use of the Engmiah Switcher. But try switching the region to North America like I sid and post back.
Title: Gta:sa Dirty Disc Errors On Retail Copy
Post by: Q3A-TaNK on September 04, 2005, 10:11:00 PM
Just try another dashboard thats all i know to do. I have a NTSC v1.1 xbox running EvoX m8 plus and i havent had a problem with gta sa. just copy gta sa to the hdd and try loading the game through another dash other than evox like unleashx or if you want to try to load gta sa through evox disable tsr and igr in evox dash and have the region on north america. thats how i got my gta sa trainer to work under evox (this is b4 i got the Xored ETM Loader and ditched EvoX dash) other than that i dont know what to do try searching under the dvd backup section for some more help.
Title: Gta:sa Dirty Disc Errors On Retail Copy
Post by: Uberman on October 10, 2005, 10:42:00 AM
bump

Anyone have any luck running GTA:SA on a Japanese xbox?
Title: Gta:sa Dirty Disc Errors On Retail Copy
Post by: gureo003 on October 10, 2005, 04:27:00 PM
I have tried everything to get my NA GTA:SA to play on my Japanese Xbox with no luck.... not playing the retail disc directly or even playing it copied to the HDD. Using SLayers 2.6, tried multiple combinations of TSR & IGR & everything else I mentioned in my prior posts. After spending too many hours (days !!) on it, I eventually just gave up.... would love to hear from someone who actually has a copy of NA GTA:SA running on a Japanese Xbox.
Title: Gta:sa Dirty Disc Errors On Retail Copy
Post by: Uberman on October 10, 2005, 08:28:00 PM
Have you tried changing the region code to 1 per this threadhttp://forums.xbox-s...howtopic=257341?
Title: Gta:sa Dirty Disc Errors On Retail Copy
Post by: dsimpson4 on February 21, 2006, 04:58:00 PM
Im having a somewhat similar problem with gta SA. I own a korean modded xbox with evox +3935 and the current dash is :1.00.5960.01 and kernal 1.00.4817.01 . I own the retail version (version 2 w/o the hot coffee) of GTA SA. The game used to run fine either on my hdd or direct off the disc. I went onto xbox live (to download those new halo 2 maps, and I used one of those free 2month subscription cards). When I went online I updated my xbox via xbox live. I poured over the internet checking if xbox live would srew up my xbox, I could not find any documentation saying not to do it. Of coarse I updated and reset my xbox. After that I could not play either GTA SA, Star Wars KOTR, my xbox states "Region Error". It doesnt work through exox either, the screen fades out like its loading then fades back in like it was rejected. If I play it off the hdd it freezes at the evox loading screen. The weird thing, I can play most of the other games I have either on HDD or disc (Half Life:2, Halo 2, Gun, DOOM 3 collectors, brothers in arms)either through exox or M$ dash. What should I do I went to a gamestop the told me they can be fired for talking about modded consoles which is rediculous since the supreme court ruled modchips and modded consoles legal. Should I upgrade evox or downgrade my M$ dash does any one know excatly what I can do? PS: Im not sure what modchip I have but i do have samsung dvd drive and 120 gig hdd. PS how exactly do you upgrade evox, I know how to ftp and transfer files but cant figue out how to upgrade the evox dash.
Title: Gta:sa Dirty Disc Errors On Retail Copy
Post by: dsimpson4 on February 21, 2006, 05:13:00 PM
I have an xecuter modchip but im not sure what version
Title: Gta:sa Dirty Disc Errors On Retail Copy
Post by: TwigFigure on February 23, 2006, 02:45:00 AM
QUOTE(dsimpson4 @ Feb 22 2006, 11:05 AM) View Post
the supreme court ruled modchips and modded consoles legal.


No, they did not. PS1 chips were ok'd in Australia. Get your facts right.
Title: Gta:sa Dirty Disc Errors On Retail Copy
Post by: DeepStroke on February 23, 2006, 12:05:00 PM
I have a US Xbox, with EvoX version 3921 running and am having the same Dirty Disc Error msg with this game. I have tried changing the settings and changing the GTASA .xbe file to no avail.

I'm at the end of my rope here... been trying to get this game to work for a week now.
Title: Gta:sa Dirty Disc Errors On Retail Copy
Post by: dsimpson4 on February 27, 2006, 08:44:00 PM
QUOTE(TwigFigure @ Feb 23 2006, 01:52 AM) View Post

No, they did not. PS1 chips were ok'd in Australia. Get your facts right.


That quote was from an employee of a EB games, dont blame me.