Please don't leeeeavvve!

Thanks alot Shagrath!

Chris

Well everything can be found easily via google, as far as I'm concerned. :)

Still, like you said no one really minds answering the simple questions and personally it always seems people ask regardless of whether you try and present info in a specific manner. Hell, there's a lot of outdated FAQ's and stickies littered across this forum which shows how often people really refer back to them.

And really, I don't think any particular question has come up so often that they're annoying to see. At least I certainly haven't been annoyed.

I would have just called cs as soon as I opened the package. They're pretty good at replacing defective items. I bought some items that came smashed and they next day aired me replacements.

Hey, there's a free Premium Theme in the Marketplace today (the first since the NXE upgrade ones, I believe). It's called "Winter Holiday 2008" in the Marketplace and "Holiday 2008" once you download it. The friend avatars are in front of a ski lodge, giant lollipops and a frozen 360. It's cute. :up:

Cool. I like my "Star Trek" premium theme but I'm open to new "freebies". :p

One thing they need to do is figure out a way for the Friends list to load faster. It's not a big deal but it's annoying.

anyone have a link to where i can preload that online?

This is the link from the marketplace: http://marketplace.xbox.com/en-US/ga...f-0003fffe07c3

But it currently says the content isn't found. Maybe later?

thanks, i tried looking for it but it just gave me links to game themes

For those interested, Anand took apart a new Jasper system, and posted some pics + a technical writeup. http://www.anandtech.com/gadgets/showdoc.aspx?i=3472

Power consumption, from the article:

<table width="550" align="center" border="1" bordercolor="#dddddd" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="3"> <tr> <td align="center" bgcolor="#016a96" class="contentwhite"><strong><strong>Xbox 360 Revision</strong></strong></td> <td align="center" bgcolor="#016a96" class="contentwhite"><strong><strong> System Off</strong></strong></td> <td align="center" bgcolor="#016a96" class="contentwhite"><strong><strong>Idle</strong></strong></td> <td align="center" bgcolor="#016a96" class="contentwhite"><strong><strong>Halo 3</strong></strong></td> <td align="center" bgcolor="#016a96" class="contentwhite"><strong><strong>Rockband 2</strong></strong></td> <td align="center" bgcolor="#016a96" class="contentwhite"><strong><strong>Gears of War 2</strong></strong></td> <td align="center" bgcolor="#016a96" class="contentwhite"><strong><strong> BioShock Demo</strong></strong></td> </tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="#eeeeee" align="left"><strong>Xenon</strong></td> <td align="center" bgcolor="#f7f7f7">2.3W</td> <td align="center" bgcolor="#f7f7f7">155.7W</td> <td align="center" bgcolor="#f7f7f7">177.8W</td> <td align="center" bgcolor="#f7f7f7">167.7W</td> <td align="center" bgcolor="#f7f7f7">177.1W</td> <td align="center" bgcolor="#f7f7f7">172W</td> </tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="#eeeeee" align="left"><strong>Falcon</strong></td> <td align="center" bgcolor="#f7f7f7">2.8W</td> <td align="center" bgcolor="#f7f7f7">101.4W</td> <td align="center" bgcolor="#f7f7f7">121.2W</td> <td align="center" bgcolor="#f7f7f7">112.8W</td> <td align="center" bgcolor="#f7f7f7">121.5W</td> <td align="center" bgcolor="#f7f7f7">115.5W</td> </tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="#eeeeee" align="left"><strong>Jasper</strong></td> <td align="center" bgcolor="#f7f7f7">2.0W</td> <td align="center" bgcolor="#f7f7f7">93.7W</td> <td align="center" bgcolor="#f7f7f7">105.9W</td> <td align="center" bgcolor="#f7f7f7">101.0W</td> <td align="center" bgcolor="#f7f7f7">105.9W</td> <td align="center" bgcolor="#f7f7f7">98.1W</td> </tr></table>

Hey, what's the big idea, spammer?

Oops wrong one. I meant to give the link to queue the free theme.

I've found some conflicting reports through google, but wanted to get some feedback here on this terrible awful grinding noise my Xbox is making. Is this normal for everyone here, should I be concerned?

Some people online seem to say it comes with the territory. Some seem to say it's indicative of bad things to come (discs getting torn up, etc.) If it helps, my Xbox is horizontal.

Thanks to all who have been so kind and generous with their advice.

That's just the hamster wheel. Just wrap the whole thing up in a towel for about an hour to warm up and you'll be good to go.

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/article...says-microsoft

Chris

I don't know about that. Sure Avatars helped sell Kingdom For The Keflings, but I always use 360voice.com as a relatively accurate read on XBLA sales and though the single-day peak of 1859 is impressive for an XBLA game, it's no where near the 2536 that Braid saw or the 5244 peak of Castle Crashers.

If anything, I'd expect that any increase in XBLA sales has more to do with SSFIIHD Turbo which had first day numbers of 2782 more than anything to do with the NXE.

The Uno curve is funny -- 434 on 11/18 and 5257 on 11/19. It's been running 550 - 700 per day since.

Didn't the NXE come out the day after Kingdom as well? Hardly an impressive jump since it's all still first week sales.

No, NXE hit on a Wednesday, the same day as XBLA games launch.

I admit to launching both Uno and Bomberman to get their avatar updates, but I didn't play them so take those numbers with a grain of salt for actual activity.

According to Wiki, KfK and NXE came out the same day.

Wait... I read the release wrong... I read it as KfK having a 650% jump in sales but it looks like that was referring to UNO.

There is a glitch that lets you remove non-zero-gamerscore games from your list. The only requirements are that you need to get the game to the second spot of your list (usually by loading the game, meaning you still own it) and you need to a zero-score game in the top spot of the list.

So if you have severe OCD and want to remove some games, check out http://www.xbox360achievements.org/f...d.php?t=111020.

Sweet. I know what I'm doing tonight. :lol:

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Uh oh. Play with backdoor codes at your own risk. I successfully removed Undertow & Lumines, both of which I only had one achievement in, but when I tried Totemball it reset my Gamerscore to zero. :eek: :mad:

I rebooted and I still had zero Gamerscore. :sad: I let it sit for a few and my GS eventually came up but when I went to look at my achievements it only showed my 5 most recent games and nothing else. If I let it sit, the list very slowly populated itself again.

After the heart attack and cold sweats subsided I decided to tempt fate twice. Screw Totemball, I don't want that blight on my Gamercard. Well it did it again. Zero gamerscore. This time it took a little longer to get it back and a little longer for my achievement list to repopulate.

and Totemball remains... sigh. Totemball wins, I don't have the stones to try it for a third time.

In my computer you are showing with a zero gamerscore.

;)
*I was going to photoshop it but I'm still tired of doing the charts this morning.

Yeah, there were reports of similar things. Basically it just has to rebuild your info, but is fine after that.

Sweet, I didn't know we could do that. Just "bought" it and queued it up for the next time I turn on the 360.

Does it actually remove the points associated with the removed games?