Since the Xbox 260 is one of the most popular and advanced gaming consoles in the world, it’s no wonder millions of people want to back up or copy the legal games they own. However, having become inconsiderate who decided to copy games illegally, Microsoft has placed all kinds of security measures on 360 discs, preventing them from being duplicated. This is a big problem if you want to protect your games from being damaged… but luckily, there’s a way around it that you can do without a mod chip.
The problem with Xbox 360 games is really quite simple. On the disk itself, Microsoft encodes a set of “security sectors.” These are parts of the DVD that tell your Xbox what the game is and that it is a legal copy. Every time you put a game disc into your console, the Xbox looks to see if it has these security sectors. If he can find them intact, he’ll play the game… but if he can’t find them, or if they’re damaged, he’ll refuse to play.
This means that if you want to copy or backup an Xbox 360 game you own, you only need to be able to duplicate the game disc with the backup sectors intact. And unfortunately, these parts of the DVD are invisible to almost all game copy tools, which means if you try to copy them, the sectors won’t copy and you’ll have made another roller coaster (which is the term for a fake copy).
Getting a tool or method that can copy your games perfectly (with backup sectors) is considered the “holy grail” of the backup and copy community. It’s the holy grail because there are almost no methods or tools that will allow you to copy your games and play the duplicates without a mod chip. However, we have been lucky to find a tool that can do this for you.