Another stinker - Asking 500 points for 4 maps on PDZ, when at least 1 of them is free with the Demo...

God knows what they'll be charging the GRAW stuff.

 

**** **** bollox, downloaded the update and now it looks like my xbox has given up the ghost Does anyone know if you can take the hdd off stick it on a working machine and save your game saves to a memory card?

 

Yes you can, (unless it's the hd itself that is broke).

 

How many ££s does 500 relate to?

 

About £4.16 - You can buy 2100 points for £17.50

 

Not all games will allow you to copy the save though. I lost some of mine, DOA4 was one The rest I got backed up to mem card.

 

Some games will allow you to copy your save game to a mem card and others wont - arcade games for example, so if like me you were on level 131 of Bejewelleds endless mode you're buggered.

2 others that wont - PDZ & Kameo - also COD2 was a bit dodgy last time I had to do it. I thought I'd completely lost my game midway through Veteran so never went back to it as there was no COD2 save game data on the HDD - I thought I'd try giving Hardened a run through last week and the old save appeared from nowhere!

Be warned though - a 64mb card only has 53 for use IIRC and a game like PGR3 took up 9mb of that...

 

Not to bothered about the arcade games tbh, but to lose my elder scrolls saves is gonna be a right kick in the bollox

 

You can copy the Oblivion game saves across onto a memory card. I know because I did this on mine when my 360 went belly up a couple of weeks ago...

 

If your box is buggered from the update then don't you simply keep the hd and get the console replaced, then simply plug your hd back in to your newly replaced xbox and carry on as normal, or do you have to send the whole lot back including the drive?

 

^^^

What he said, my mate recently took his faulty 360 back to Dixons and asked if he could keep his HD, they were fine with it, probaly a FAQ

 

im pretty sure the posts ive read have implied they had to send both the console and HDD back together.

which i think is silly, the least they could do is copy all your data to the new drive they send you out.

Mark

 

Not sure, Found fuse had gone in the psu, replaced it and bang she goes again, will try it again with the xbox not plugged into the psu, and if she goes again I would say it is a fault on the transformer. I never got any dreaded red lights of death come up that my mates have ,will sure make things easier if it is just the psu though.

Just ordered hitman as well

 

Yep, MS insisted that I send the whole lot back, HDD still attached. Luckily I could boot for 30 seconds or so before mine borked, just enough to get my saves off. Pretty scary though as it could have crashed mid way through backing them up, corrupting them.

 

there is a load issue with ES after the dash update I've read. you need to clear the cache on your HD. to do this hold down A while it loads I believe.

 

I had no issues with Oblivion after the update, maybe it was just a coincidence, or just a random problem.

Buy a new one from Argos, swap the power supply and take it back for a refund

 

Would if I could get it on I am the 3rd person I know of on our close to have an xbox die, we seem to have formed an xbox triangle of death zone Time to ring up ms I guess

 

Just noticed the date of this thread I blame the devil

Least it didnt blow up on 6/6/6 at 6pm

 

just read something on it. To do with the cache it creates if you have a HD. It can become corrupt during the update. The A thing clears the cache which the game then creates again next time you play. If you have the core pack then this is not an issue.

 

Not quite a defrag option, but not far off >

An undocumented feature in the latest Xbox360 dashbaord update has surfaced -- a cache clear. In order to perform this "maintenance" follow the instructions below. (Thanks, Kakarotto)
Go to the system blade and then memory. Press Y on either the HDD or a MU and then press X,X,Left Bumper, Right Bumper, X,X. Once you do this a blade will pop up saying: This will perform maintenance on your Xbox 360 storage devices. Do you want to continue? Pick yes or no.



BTW, i've not tried this yet so don't blame me if it's a quick format function

 

It will wipe your game udpates though, so proceed with caution
. . . . . unless you want more gold in Oblivion that is

 

Yup, it does have it's benefits

 

New xbox time

 

Steering well clear of you.

 

so lets cut to the chase if i update the 360 online ive got the lead and number at hand here .. will i lose all my saves on the hard drive "games" tomb raider & oblivion ..??

hope not ive got the inbuilt hardrive version ????

 

erm, you've got no choice about updating the 360 firmware if you wish to go online, the game updates will only be removed if you do the above maintainence thingy. All it does is clear the d/l cache, if you wish to play the games again it will simply download the update again

 

Have they removed the item dupe cheat?

 

My console has now decided to not power up via the controller guide button now ? I haven't done the update yet becausde I'm away at work but thought I'd ask if this is a known problem ?

 

http://www.xboxcore.com/news/1562.html

Check this link it's got a list of the apparant fix's, and yep the infinite gold's gone, the bow trick is fixed aswell.

 

Yes, you can remove the update tho, and then just play oblivion offline so it doesnt ask you to update it again