Well in England were the article is from they don't have that now.

Hmm.. unlike VC games you can easily walk into any GameStop and grab most OG Xbox games for $5-$10 with case and manual, but that's still very cool.. other than the fact that this would finally make the 20GB HDD severely inefficient. Hopefully this means that they're still working on future BC updates because I'm almost 100%, I believe I just need Sudeki, Otogi and Otogi 2 to close out all the OG games I own.. though I'll be honest, I could probably settle for just getting Sudeki supported.

My Eternal Sonata case came with a broken spindle. Is there any place I can buy empty cases? I know I could use any DVD case, but I'd like to pick up one of the toxic green XBox cases if possible.

You can check www.xbox.com to see if they have it under parts sales.. but it'd probably be cheaper (unless you plan to buy several cases) to hit a GameStop and grab one of the Burger King games ($3) and discard the garbage inside the case.

or preorder a game at Best Buy for $5. Then after the game comes out go back and get a refund for your $5.

:)

Didnt know that. Thanx friend! Hopefully Ill be able to make it there in a timely fashion that its still there. I am waiting in line at Circuit City so after I leave there hopefully I can pick it up.

Ask a Blockbuster...they throw them away and will likely give them to you for FREE.

check the dumpsters behind blockbuster--they got TONS!

For any Canadians interested, Future Shop has bundled NHL 2K8 and NBA 2K8 for $60. I'd get it only for I already bought NHL 08 for $30 during their sale.

So guys remind me, I know there's some weirdness if you don't log into LIVE when playing single player games as far as not being able to save or something like that.

But if LIVE is down/wonky like last night and the scheduled maintenance today, and you play single player and get an achievement, does that data upload when LIVE is back up?

yes, it won't have a date stamp though, under the achievement it will simply say "acquired."

Thanks.

i've been thinking about picking up a 360 for a while now but haven't. i'm in no rush to do so but know that i would enjoy having it once i got it. currently i can get a system 20% off at kmart with the available coupon but wanted to know if anyone had suggestions to wait.

i know that there's a new 65mm cpu chip, but there's also talk about a new gpu chip that should solve all the heat problems. is the new gpu worth waiting for? and what's the general consensus regarding the elite over the premium... is it worth the extra hundred?

looking forward to maybe diving in soon...

If the downloadable Xbox 1 titles have achievements I'd sell off my originals and buy them in a heartbeat.

I was just talking to a coworker about this very topic. It would be awesome if they souped up these titles somehow, but I'm sure they'll just be disc images that the 360 will mount. I doubt they'll even re-encode the FMV sequences with DivX (as I assume it is coming) or any more modern A/V codec at all to reduce the footprint.

The 13gb of usable space I have is only going to support 1 or 2 Xbox games probably. 3 at the very outside.

The games should at least run in at least 720p now, I would think...

Via upscaling, I'm sure. Doesn't it do that already if you pop a disc in? It's just a matter of emulation vs. retooling the software.

I don't pretend to know what the right answer is, I'm just assuming they aren't doing anything to the compiled code and resources on the discs.

I was midway through mission 6 in Halo 3 when I was disconnected from live
(playing single player on legendary, wasn't about to toss my progress away)
last night.

Found the skull while off and received the achievement, then was able to log
back in while at the ending cinematic for the mission and the achievement
was still listed among those I'd unlocked.

The Bungie site also had my complete stats for the mission as well, so the
game/360 stored it and sent it when it could.

Anyone else still having problems with live? Really starting to piss me off. :mad:

Microsoft say Thanks to EVERYONE....some more than others
 

http://news.teamxbox.com/xbox/15083/...lly-Announced/



"As a gesture of thanks to the gaming community, all 8 million members will have the opportunity to download a free Xbox LIVE Arcade game,* available for downloading between 12:01 a.m. PST on Nov. 15 and 11:59 p.m. PST on Nov. 16.** In addition to this, every active member who joined the service in 2002 will receive 500 free Microsoft Points. "

^^^^^

Pretty damn cool.

Sweet!! I was a beta member of Xbox Live in late summer of 2002, got two games, 1 memory card and 15 months for the price of 12 months.

So is it a game of our choice? A specific game? Any game worth X amount of points?

Yeah, it is driving me nuts. I did not realize how integral having the constant Xbox Live connection is to the perfect gaming experience. I didn't want to play any of my arcade games because I just knew that I would get a crazy huge score on one of them and it would somehow not get posted. :lol:

A buddy and I tried playing Halo this afternoon and we got disconnected, kicked out of games, and other just plain wacky stuff all this afternoon. Friend's gamercards aren't showing up, it is taking forever to send a message, and I still can't log on to www.xboxlive.com . Been trying that all day.

Wonder how long all of this is going to last?

Nevermind, Kotaku says its Carcassonne