How To: Burn XBOX 360 Games On A Mac
Burning XBOX 360 Games On A Mac is relatively simple. All you need is the ISO of the game and the right software and you’re on your way to burning 360 games on your Mac.
The first thing you’ll want to do is download OSx360. This application is pretty much automated and handles much of the work for you. You could probably figure out on your own how to use this application to burn your games but I’ll give you a quick walk through just in case.
Download OSx360.app.zip
Once you’re done downloading, extract the file and place OSx360 into your applications folder. Now launch OSx360 from your applications folder. You should see something like this:
OSx360 Open
Once this screen pops up, you’ll need to drag your ISO ( game image ) to the big question mark. After you drag the image to the question mark it will verify the image and you’ll see a screen similar to this one.
OSx360 Verify
What you need to pay attention to here is making sure that everything is Valid and Everything has passed especially stealth. If you’ve downloaded an ISO that doesn’t have the stealth patch, don’t burn it or you will get banned from XBOX Live. Everything should look similar to the illustration above.
NOTE: If your ISO didn’t pass / validate everything then follow my tutorial for how to stealth patch your ISO here or everything seems to look good and the burn button doesn’t seem to do anything, then first if the extension is not ISO then you must rename it to .iso and then follow my tutorial on how to stealth patch your game. http://chris-fletcher.com/2009/06/07/how-to-stealth-patch-xbox-360-games-on-a-mac/
If everything looks good then go ahead and click on the Configuration button on the top right hand side of the application. You can mirror the configuration below. Once you’ve set your configuration settings you can close the configuration dialog.
OSx360 Configuration
If you haven’t done so already, go ahead and insert your blank DVD+R DL disc you might get the following popup, if you do just click on ignore and proceed to the next step.
Finder Inserted a blank DVD
Now you can click on the Burn button, you should get a screen similar to the below. Click burn and be patient as it takes a while to burn a dual layer DVD. I always burn at 4x and the discs turn out just fine. On a side note, I am using Memorex DVD+R DL discs and they haven’t left me hanging yet. You can pick up a pack of 15 at Wal-Mart for $20.00.
OSx360 Burn
When the burn has completed the disc usually auto mounts and opens DVD player instructing you to eject the disc and put it into the XBOX 360. Do as it says and enjoy your game 
I’m hoping that you’ve enjoyed the tutorial and as always if there’s anything I’ve left out or anything that you don’t understand, feel free to leave me a comment. Happy Burning
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Guys,
I’m on vacation now until the end of the month. I will review comments when I get back and do some QA on the software and see if I can’t get some of these bugs resolved.
Thanks,
Chris
Hey Chris,
I appreciate this valuable tutorial, I could really use your help. I bought a flashed 360 off of Craigslist (after the great banning) I intend to use this console solely for offline play. I have a mac and I’ve downloaded two disc images, and after scanning w/ abgx360 I burned them on DVD+RDL successfully with Osx360, ISO360, and iburn360. I say I’ve burned them successfully because there weren’t any errors in burning. However when I pop them in the 360 they read as “Play DVD”. The guy I bought it from said he thinks it was Ixtreme 1.4, but he demoed it’s ability by loading up a burned copy of Borderlands, which I’m pretty sure is wave 3 and therefore not playable on 1.4. The files I’ve downloaded all have a .DVD file with them, I have no program that reads this file, but since Osx360, ISO360, and iburn360 all have the ability to set the custom layer break, I don’t see why this would be a problem. ANY ADVICE FROM ANYONE WOULD BE MUCH APPRECIATED. Thank you for your time
Anything below ixtreme 1.51 will not play wave 3 games, you are however right in thinking that Borderlands is indeed a wave 3 game. Unfortunately, other then connecting the drive to a PC and running jungle flasher, I don’t know of any other way to find out for sure what version of ixtreme you have.
I’m using a refurb hardrive that I bought for it, do you think that would affect it’s ability to play burned discs?
Hey Chris,
I followed your instructions both on how to burn and how to verify the game but for some reason it doesn’t verify the game so i cant burn it… do you have a suggestion for me?
thanks a bunch
Have you tried using my software? ISOx360
Hey Chris,
First off, great tutorial. However, even though I followed your steps exactly, I have still not been able to burn the game. When the game is done, the disc will pop out, and I will get a message that says something along the lines of “burning finished with an error”. What could be making this happen? I don’t really want to try again and was another DVD. Hopefully you’ll be able to help. Thanks!
Daniel,
What brand of disc are you using? and are you using OSX360 or ISOx360? OSX360 is older software that seems to have issues, try my application ISOx360 and let me know if you still have problems.
Chris
I was using TDK DL discs. I was using OSX360, but just recently downloaded ISOx360. I compared the two programs side-by-side and feel like ISOx360 is much nicer, but I am going to wait until I get my friend over to help me, as he has burnt 360 games before. I’ll let you know how it goes. Thanks again.
Daniel
Daniel,
Thanks, I’m thinking that the TDK discs might be your issue, they are a lower quality disc and have been reported to have issues. Verbatim by far have had the best success rate, I’ve personally had good luck with the Sony brand that K-Mart sells. Let me know how it works out.
Chris
Hey Chris,
I think you might be right. I just tried burning a game again with ISOx360 and it seemed to work a lot better, and I didn’t get any error messages. However when I put the game in my 360, it started reading the game and just said “OPEN TRAY” in the dashboard. I will probably buy some Verbatims and try them. I’ve had experience with verbatims and other discs and this is the first time a disc hasn’t worked, regardless of disc type. Thanks for your help!
Daniel
Hey Chris,
Thanks for all your hard work. Just a quick question, does your application ISOx360.1.0.2 Alpha burn the newer Wave 4 games? After they’ve been verified on abgx360gui of course.
Thanks again,
Ben
Well I tried burning my game with a memorex DVD and still no results, and all I get is the Open Tray option on the 360. Any ideas?
Daniel
Do I need a modded or flashed 360?
Can I play online if the stealth checks pass?