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You know how much you paid for your Xbox 360 games. If you’re like every other Xbox gamer, you worry about being able to afford to replace your favorite Xbox games if one should become lost, stolen, or permanently damaged. Making Xbox 360 game backup copies [http://www.zimbio.com/Xbox+360/articles/JESAmkHFn-s/Download+Xbox+360+Games+Everything+4+360+Review] must seem to be a pretty good idea. Right? Just remember your motives for making these copies.
You are legally entitled to back up Xbox 360 games [http://www.articlesbase.com/video-games-articles/its-important-to-know-how-to-backup-xbox-360-games-1363988.html] for your personal use, but are not legally allowed to copy them for any other purpose such as trading or resale. You can be arrested and prosecuted for counterfeiting video games. The games are costly, but not expensive enough to spend time in jail to save a few bucks.
One of the first hurdles you will have to face is modifying your Xbox 360 console to enable it to play your backed up games. There are some modification schemes which involve using software applications to change the Xbox’s operating system. The other scheme is to physically modify your Xbox console motherboard by soldering in a special computer chip. The software modification is less risky than messing with the Xbox hardware, but understand that either scheme will void your Xbox warranty. This puts you between a rock and a hard place. Make mods, and you can backup Xbox games. Make no mods, and you cannot. It’s a dilemma, but it’s your decision. continue reading…

Article By: jack bush

There is a right way and a wrong way to copy Xbox 360 games. The wrong way is to attempt to make a copy using your traditional DVD burning software. It simply won’t happen. Those older copying applications cannot bypass the Xbox game’s copy protection scheme. So, you may ask, “How do I copy Xbox 360 games the right way?” Easy; you acquire one of the many software applications that were designed specifically to read, copy, and burn Xbox 360 games.
When Xbox games first became popular, knowing how to copy Xbox 360 games was no simple skill. Before this special software came onto the market, gamers had to physically modify their Xbox game consoles by soldering a modulation chip, mod chip for short, onto their motherboards, at the risk of damaging their consoles. Even with this modification, copying Xbox games was a complicated process of ripping the original game files onto the computer hard drive, and then burning the files from the hard drive onto a DVD blank disk. The backup copies were often not as pristine as the originals, and often worked poorly or stopped working at all after a few plays. Certainly not a reliable way to backup expensive Xbox games. continue reading…