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Old 08 June 2006, 01:51 PM
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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.
Old 08 June 2006, 02:49 PM
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**** **** 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?
Old 08 June 2006, 03:09 PM
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Yes you can, (unless it's the hd itself that is broke).
Old 08 June 2006, 03:11 PM
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Originally Posted by messiah
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.
How many ££s does 500 relate to?
Old 08 June 2006, 03:14 PM
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About £4.16 - You can buy 2100 points for £17.50
Old 08 June 2006, 03:19 PM
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Originally Posted by kingofturds
**** **** 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?

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.
Old 08 June 2006, 03:20 PM
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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...
Old 08 June 2006, 03:36 PM
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Not to bothered about the arcade games tbh, but to lose my elder scrolls saves is gonna be a right kick in the bollox
Old 08 June 2006, 03:53 PM
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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...
Old 08 June 2006, 04:01 PM
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Originally Posted by kingofturds
Not to bothered about the arcade games tbh, but to lose my elder scrolls saves is gonna be a right kick in the bollox
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?

Old 08 June 2006, 04:06 PM
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^^^

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
Old 08 June 2006, 04:07 PM
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Originally Posted by bob269
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?

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
Old 08 June 2006, 04:18 PM
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Originally Posted by bob269
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?


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
Old 08 June 2006, 04:19 PM
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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.
Old 08 June 2006, 04:21 PM
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Originally Posted by kingofturds
Not to bothered about the arcade games tbh, but to lose my elder scrolls saves is gonna be a right kick in the bollox
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.
Old 08 June 2006, 04:25 PM
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Originally Posted by STi wanna Subaru
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.

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

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Old 08 June 2006, 04:26 PM
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Originally Posted by STi wanna Subaru
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.
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
Old 08 June 2006, 04:28 PM
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Just noticed the date of this thread I blame the devil

Least it didnt blow up on 6/6/6 at 6pm
Old 08 June 2006, 04:28 PM
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Originally Posted by bob269
I had no issues with Oblivion after the update, maybe it was just a coincidence, or just a random problem.
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.
Old 09 June 2006, 12:44 AM
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Originally Posted by messiah
Only benefit to me is being able to boot to the dash.

I hope the next update comes with some defrag utility.
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
Old 09 June 2006, 07:54 AM
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It will wipe your game udpates though, so proceed with caution
. . . . . unless you want more gold in Oblivion that is
Old 09 June 2006, 08:05 AM
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Originally Posted by DJ Dunk
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
Old 09 June 2006, 10:27 PM
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New xbox time
Old 09 June 2006, 10:34 PM
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Originally Posted by kingofturds
we seem to have formed an xbox triangle of death zone

Steering well clear of you.
Old 09 June 2006, 11:51 PM
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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 ????
Old 10 June 2006, 12:11 AM
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Originally Posted by badcompany
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
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Have they removed the item dupe cheat?
Old 10 June 2006, 07:04 AM
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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 ?
Old 10 June 2006, 08:13 AM
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Originally Posted by kingofturds
Have they removed the item dupe cheat?


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.
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Originally Posted by kingofturds
Have they removed the item dupe cheat?
Yes, you can remove the update tho, and then just play oblivion offline so it doesnt ask you to update it again


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