I have recently backed up Sonic Riders and Sonic Heros due to the increasing damage both those discs have been seeing lately. I haven't gotten any DDE's or freezes, but as a premptive measure I backed both of them up to Philips DVD+RW discs burned at 1x. I used the latest DVD2xbox to ripp the originals, ftp'd them to my pc and then mastered the ISO's with gdfimage (with wine, I use Debian GNU/Linux). I have used gdfimage to master ISO's with wine before with no problem. I burned both discs with the latest k3b, and while both originals boot fine, the backups aren't booting at all. I had made an attempt to get ahead in both games while using there respective evo x trainers, so I enabled IGR because someone on this forum suggested I do so along with TSR in my evo x settings. I then learned IGR might be preventing these games from booting and/or causing them to freeze. These aren't the first backups i have made using the dvd2xbox, wine + gdfimage, k3b, or even the medium. I have replicated these steps to make many successful backups but sonic riders freezes at the initial load screen and Sonic Heros doesn't boot at all. I have even checked my evox.ini file to make sure every instance of IGR = No has been set accordingly!
I know it isn't the game save because the original, though choppy, boots, loads, and plays fine!
I researched, fumbled around with, and checked everything possible. I have wiped my E:/CACHE folder and even checked X:/, Y:/, and Z:/.
I'd like to think I'm not a n00b to the original XBOX modding scene, just a returning old friend (first time I even heard of NDURE, back in my day we relied on good old Bert and Ernie! XD) As for backups, I am extremely anti-piracy due to my line of work, so I can't say I have backed up very many games (6 excluded these deffective ones) but the few I have work flawlessly!
Very fustrated, any help is MUCH appriciated!