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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/IveTriedForHours on 2025-11-22 18:04:09+00:00.
When I was a kid, I used to play GTA San Andreas. I had the original Xbox version, but I was playing it on my brother's Xbox 360 because it was one of the titles that magically worked through backward compatibility.
Naturally, my child-brain assumed.. If the 360 can play some Xbox games… then maybe it just doesn’t recognize the others properly.
Let me introduce you to Midnight Club 3 DUB Edition, a game the 360 absolutely refused to run.
So what did I do ?
Did I read the compatibility list ?
Did I accept reality ?
Did I move on with my life ?
No.
I took the disc… grabbed a bottle of white correction liquid (Yes, the thing you use to fix mistakes on paper...)
and proceeded to paint the top of the disc white, because Xbox 360 games had that white/grey top surface.
My flawless child logic:
"If it looks like a 360 disc, the 360 will think it is a 360 disc."
Spoiler alert, it did not work.
Midnight Club stayed unplayable.
And I ended up with a disc that looked like it had survived a snowstorm and a child crime scene.
All of this happened about 15 years ago, when I was around 8 years old. Maybe even younger, I can't quite remember.
TL;DR: As a kid, I tried to make Midnight Club 3 work on my Xbox 360 by painting the top of the disc with white correction liquid so it would look like a real Xbox 360 game. Shockingly, it did not work.