Dang it....Its back up to 179.99 I should have ordered it this morning when I originally read your post





EDIT: Check this out, I just called my "local" best buy in Rochester and asked if they had the hd dvd player is stock, she said they did and it was 149.99. I asked her how long it was going to be that price and she started going through the whole story about microsoft lowering the price today, to which I answered "yeah they lowered the price, but only $20.00 to bring it down to 179.99", and she said that best buy likes to stay 20.00 below microsoft so that was not a SALE price, but instead thier REGULAR price from here on in.

First off, bestbuy.com is back up to 179.99 and 20.00 below 179.99 is 159.99 not 149.99 so there were a whole lotta things wrong with that sentence

While I'm glad that it's not just me, it's a little frustrating since I'd like to play the game. I never played the original version, and I'm a sucker for Doom-era FPS games. I'm not sure if I want to pay $10 for a game that makes me feel like throwing up.

Maybe I can just play it in really small intervals...

Oh, and this morning, my 360 froze on the dashboard, with a few vertical bars of checkerboard pattern appearing. I reset it and it worked fine, but I guess I won't be too surprised if it red-rings in the next few days. Even if that happens, my 360 has had a good run. I bought it in December 2005 and it hasn't had a problem until now.

Cant you just keep your harddrive and sell your friend the xbox with the new harddrive?

Even if he did that, he would need to connect to Live to play his XBLA titles. And no other GamerTags on the new console could play the XBLA games.

MS will refund you the points, if the serial # change is due to a refurb being sent but I don't know if they would due to an "upgrade".

Best Buy cashier = teh retarded

Thanks for reminding me Marathon is up for downloading. One of my favorite games when I was younger. I used to spend hours making new levels with Anvil.

Seriously? I thought the whole point was that they would do this regardless of an upgrade or a refurb. I plan to upgrade, and this was my plan all along, so that I could get the points.

I guess I'll just have to raise hell if they say no. No point in upgrading if my wife can't play the games she can play now.

For the past 2-3 days, I've been having a problem where XBL constantly disconnects, around every 10 minutes or so. I've tried disabling Windows Firewall, and that doesn't seem to help. I'm using a wired connection straight to my router. Any suggestions on what might be the problem/how to fix it? Not very knowledgeable about networking, so please be detailed.

What do you do to reconnect?

Oh I have no idea. I thought it was an easy case to make since they sent me the refurb.

Has anyone reported upgrading and getting the points back? That is what I'm not sure about. It might be fine, we just have no data points on it.

Just click the "Connect to XBOX Live" option. Works every time...until it knocks me off about 10-15 minutes later.

There's you're problem. If you don't click "Connect to Xbox Live", it won't knock you off.

Obviously, I want to remain connected to XBL. Kinda hard to do that without actually connecting.

My local 7-11 is taking preorders for Halo 3. I know the game is popular...but c'mon.

Pac-Man: CE players, I have a theory about the controls being 'off'. I played some more last night and tried a new controller that's only been used a few times. The analog was very stiff making Pac-Man very hard to control. I only played a few minutes like this before I couldn't take it and swapped it out for my regular [launch]controller. Now Pac was smooth and easy to handle.

Sounds silly but it may have to do with how 'broken-in' your controller is to the fluidity of the controls. Of course there is nothing you can really do about it unless you changed up pads at some point and have an older one to go back to. Anyway, just a theory.

Great message on Live miyu. I got a kick out of that one.

I had this problem for 18 months. VERY frustrating. I would recommend doing a google search with your exact router and modem numbers and Xbox. After spending months trying to figure my problem out, I was able to find a message board thread that addressed my exact problem and gave a specific fix.

Good luck, I know how annoying that problem is.

BTW, my situaiton was AT&T/Yahoo DSL -> D-Link Router -- this is a known compatability problem.

Just shy of 200k after 2 plays last night.

So, what are the chances that they release TMNT: Turtles in Time next week to tie-in with the DVD release of the new movie? I just picked up the first game since my friend wants to play through it once he gets his 360 next month.

Yeah i crept my way up to about 210.000 points (iirc) - enough to snag the #6 spot on my FL. I find i die almost ever single time around 160k. It's like it gets moving so quickly i can make the turns i want to make in time. In the beginning i considered blaming the controls but more than that i think it is the speed everything is moving back and my hand eye coordination. That is also a ridiculously high score Sith Draven.

I just need to improve my game so i can pass Martin as well.

edit: i invented a new word "creeped." no clue what i was thinking.

whats the top score on these boards?

Curse Corvin's score on Pac-Man. Curse it. Actually.. I haven't even been able to get back to my 300,00 milestone. I've done a few 260s and 280s.. but still coming shy of that miracle run (to which my friend can attest to me doing mad celebration dances once the timer hit 0:00 and I saw what I had gotten).

Yeah Corvin and Pixy are the only 2 on my list to have cracked 300k.

I got up to 224k last night. I know it's nowhere near the top, but Im somewhat pleased with it. Now if I die once before 60k, I pretty much start over. It's critical to get as many ghosts chained together in the begining as possible to crank your score up.

I gotta believe there is a pattern too. I have a semi-pattern for the first minute or so and it works (as long as the controls don't F me). I saw on the Live leaderboard that someone has over 600k for 5 minutes!! That's sick - he's gotta have a pattern or else it's Charlie Babbich (sp?) playing the game.

Heh, so the US 7-11s are finally transforming into the Japanese ones. Nice!