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I’ve noticed that once and a while when I try to launch Fight Night Round 4 it hangs at the first splash screen. While all this time I thought it was my Xbox 360, this time the culprit is the game itself. Thank goodness EA was able to replicate this behavior and are now in the process of getting the patch released to Xbox Live.

“Firstly, apologies to all those FN4 fans that have been impacted by the freeze at the start of the game. We have found a code problem with how we dealt with playlists that caused this freeze – this is not hardware related. We have a fix that solves it and are arranging a title update / patch as soon as possible (this generally takes 2 to 3 weeks to get through the various stages and available on LIVE). To avoid the freeze, please ensure you have less than 35 playlists on your console or streaming from an external source such as a PC via Windows Media Center. Thanks again for the communities dedication and support !”

Original article…

Apparently the game freezes if the console is connected to a media server like the one that Windows Media Player launches. Since Fight Night Round 4 has the ability to import a custom playlist, the game seems to have trouble indexing a list that has a large number of items. So a workaround would be to just disconnect the console from the network, launch the game and it should bypass this behavior with no problems.