The DVD drive in my Xbox 360 had been problematic for a while; sticking after
opening part way. It finally stopped closing at all the other day, so while it
will still work for downloadable games and media content, the system is useless
for playing disc-based games anymore. The drive got flaky long enough ago that I
probably could have had it fixed under warranty had I done so right away, but it
started out as a minor thing, and the growing seriousness of the problem only
became apparent more recently when it refused to open if it was closed with no
disc inside, requiring the use of a paper clip in that little emergency pokey
hole dealie (EPHD). Anyway, I replaced the unit with a hard drive-free arcade
system, since I knew from my pal Devicer's experience with an RRODed system that
I could just put the drive from the old system on the new one. Sure enough, this
new Jasper-based unit was very happy with my old drive, and I had no DRM issues
with downloaded games or content. Funny thing was, I did have to delete games
installed from the hard drive and reinstall them to be able to play them from
the drive. I'm guessing that's somehow related to preventing the play from hard
drive feature being used to pirate games, but I can't figure out how.
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