Madden 09 When I reached the playoffs in franchise mode the game will no longer save. If I simulate to the end of the season it will not advance to the off season. What the @#*&.

then theirs something wrong with your version, because my cousin's works perfectly fine. and his cousin has it for Xbox and it works fine. i would check the back of the cd see the scratches and if its damaged, get it buffed out or buy a new/used one.

DUDE- I have played 09 on xbox 360 through 4 seasons three different times with liverpool and each time the same thing happens. it happened to me a 4th time last night. so today i came up with the resolve to solve it. AND I DID!!! basically, if you conduct contract negotiations after the league season is over but you are still playing UEFA/ECC games it will 100% crash your game once you get into the next season once the trade season begins. If this happens it will corrupt your save file permanently destroying the future integrity of the game, like a digital Russian Roulette. To be sure this doesnt happen to your team's save file, keep a back up file safe that you won't adjust right before the season ends. at the end of the season a contract negotiation screen comes up. you need to make sure that when you go to the contract negotiation screen everyone listed on your team who has less than 12 months left on their contract is listed with "the computers" offer to be resigned, therefore extending their own contract based on their terms. you will see all sorts of wild offers, especially if you have been under paying your players. As per the Bosman ruling these guys are treated as free agents during the transfer window, so the game is modeling REAL life. However, if you sign them after the season is over but while you are still playing euro competitions then this will corrupt the save file for free agents. This crashes the game, maybe perhaps because some other team is trying to sign that "Bosman ruling" player on the computers own terms, but he improperly still belongs to your club for less than 12 months. WOOOOOT gonna play another 4 seasons. pass this on. Keep backup saved files at the mid point between transfer windows and right before the regular season games end based on your schedule. ENJOY!!!

I think your lens may be very dirty. And alos please tell if the problem is only with this gamne or all the other games as well?
moreover, if your lens is dirty, you'll have to clean it using a lens cleaner, OR get it replaced lens).
I got my PlayStation's lens replaced when it was giving me trouble and all was fine after that.
Best of luck.

try a new memory card or erase some that u dont use on the old one!

tey to clean the disc, then if it still wont play tere might be scraches, and if so use a disc docter

EA are working on a patch for both XBOX LIVE AND PSN. It is a known issue. propossed rollout for the patch is mid march im afraid

This sounds like you might have a dirty lens. clean your ps3's lens with any CD/DVD cleaner kit and then try to play the game again.

maybe the game is a x box live game not a x box 360 game

press and hold power until you hear a beep sound

go to the XBOX desktop and cleared all my Madden 08 history out and then everything started working great again. That really sucked though because 5 franchise years and probaly over 75 hours of time GONE. Thanks for the reply and the xbox site was on the right trac