{"id":266,"date":"2007-09-30T17:33:04","date_gmt":"2007-10-01T00:33:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/?p=266"},"modified":"2007-09-30T17:36:50","modified_gmt":"2007-10-01T00:36:50","slug":"update-halo-3-truly-hates-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/?p=266","title":{"rendered":"Update: Halo 3 truly hates me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I played up through the fifth mission on the system I borrowed from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamesradar.com\">GamesRadar<\/a> before <em>Halo 3<\/em> gave me the disc read error &#8212; the one most other people are getting, right before The Ark.  So no, let&#8217;s change that list entry from the previous post:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Radar\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s console, my hard drive, my disc = yes&#8230;but only for five levels<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Stranger still&#8230;now the brand-new console doesn&#8217;t seem to want to read any discs. Maybe it&#8217;s just overheated, but I tried four or five known good games and nothing. So another update:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Radar&#8217;s console, Radar&#8217;s hard drive, any disc = no<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I am afraid I killed a Halo 3 console by playing <em>Halo 3<\/em>. I am not kidding.I am also not crazy and <a href=\"http:\/\/kotaku.com\/gaming\/defective\/halo-3-disc-read-errors-rampant-304600.php\" target=\"_blank\">I am not alone<\/a>.  Reading those threads is very interesting. People are trying different discs on different consoles and getting the same bad results &#8212; including &#8220;now my 360 won&#8217;t read any discs&#8221; &#8212; so there&#8217;s clearly something up. Those threads offer some theories, including corrupt hard drive data &#8212; which would explain my save file being valid yet invalid at the same time. But I step back from this, and I see the 360 apocalypse. If the biggest game of the year is responsible for damaging user data or worse, user hardware&#8230;well, to coin a Kaz phrase, the console wars is over.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, at Paul&#8217;s suggestion, I have tried moving my save file and my profile to a memory card and running the game without a hard drive plugged in; it still refuses to run.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>My console, no hard drive, my save file, my disc = no<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know what to do now, except wait. If it turns out that I have to delete my save file and start again, I will &#8212; a small hardship, and maybe I&#8217;ll find some darned skulls on the second lap. But I don&#8217;t want to buy new hardware and I don&#8217;t want to start a new gamertag. I have done absolutely nothing wrong as a consumer; I have not tried to make the game or system do something it was not designed to do. I just wanted to play <em>Halo 3<\/em>. And since I cannot fix the problem, my only hope at this point is that Bungie &#8212; which has addressed the whole &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bungie.net\/News\/content.aspx?type=topnews&amp;cid=12821\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Halo 3<\/em> doesn&#8217;t run at 720p<\/a>&#8221; kerfuffle, but not the &#8220;<em>Halo 3<\/em> reports disc read errors&#8221; issue &#8212; is secretly working on a title update to fix it for me and for everyone else who is similarly affected. Blind faith is all I have at this point, because neither Bungie nor Microsoft has made any public statement about this, despite two very lengthy threads at <a href=\"http:\/\/forums.xbox.com\/1\/15792880\/ShowPost.aspx#15792880\" target=\"_blank\">xbox.com<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bungie.net\/Forums\/posts.aspx?postID=13193500&amp;postRepeater1-p=1\" target=\"_blank\">bungie.net<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think getting upset about a problem ever solves a problem, but even I am running out of patience. I literally had problems with <em>Halo 3<\/em> from the moment I turned it on &#8212; I started out with <a href=\"http:\/\/news.teamxbox.com\/xbox\/14657\/Halo-3-Game-Save-Bug-Bungie-Is-Investigating\/\" target=\"_blank\">the save bug<\/a> on the very first level and had to delete the file to start again. I didn&#8217;t know it was going to be a harbinger of doom. It just wasn&#8217;t supposed to be this way.<\/p>\n<p>This much I know: What&#8217;s happened to me has happened to other people. The question is, when will it happen to you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I played up through the fifth mission on the system I borrowed from GamesRadar before Halo 3 gave me the disc read error &#8212; the one most other people are getting, right before The Ark. So no, let&#8217;s change that &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/?p=266\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}