Copying Xbox Games
By Terry Dunn
There really is no shortcut to copying games. In fact, this is a mightily complicated process and has stumped some really techie people. This is evident with the prevalence of the question on copying games in Internet message boards and tech chat rooms. But why does one need to be going about there and copying games? Is this not legal?

If you have an and you have purchased original games to play on it, chances are you must have ran through a huge chunk of your savings. Original games are very expensive and because CDs are not exactly immortal, you can eventually wear out a game especially if you use it every minute of the day.

To give value to consumers, most countries allow original CD buyers to make back-up copies of their games in case their original got damaged or got lost provided that they are aware of the law against pirated software and that they actually own an original cd and are only copying games for their personal use only.

While it is relatively easy to do the copying of games, the same cannot be said in actually using the games that you have copied. Most software contain an encryption that must be met when inserted in an XBOX. Copying an game, however, does not copy this encryption. This is a protection system that most consoles have as protection against flagrant copying of games.

To be able to run games that you have copied, you need to modify your XBOX. This can be a daunting task especially to beginners who are afraid of destroying their XBOXes with their tinkering.

According to most tech experts, there are a

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lot of ways to modifying your in order to accommodate the practice of copying of games. Some are quite complicated and only a tech expert could do while other ways can be expensive but easy.

One is to buy and install a MOD-chip. This will allow your console to play games that you have copied as well as play imported games from other countries with perfect sound and video with no problem at all. While it may seem that all you have to do is purchase a MOD-Chip and then voila, you have another think coming. There are actually a lot of things that you should consider when buying a MOD-Chip. Most recommend the Divineo Modchips, which are purported to be really reliable. Some of the popular brands are the Xecuter 2 and 3, Xenium, SmartXX, X-bit, Alladin, Chameleon and Xchip.

Another way in copying and using games is to change the BIOS of the so that it will no longer read the requirements of the digitally-signed software. This is basically reprogramming the whole BIOS.

You might also consider purchasing a bigger hard drive and just save all your games inside the XBOX. This way, you already have copy of your favorite games inside and would no longer need to swap CDs.

The third way is to do the game swapping technique, wherein you will first boot the original CD and then swap the copy once it has already booted up. This might be very complicated and will not actually serve your purpose in copying your games… that is to preserve your original CDs.About The Author: Terry Dunn is webmaster of http://www.Copy-Xbox-Games.biz an informational resource on software to Copy Games.