Recently, I haven't been able to play without the Charge & Play, even if I leave it charging for an hour. This happen to anybody else?

How old is your battery? They tend to die out eventually.

i have a newer battery that lasts a LOT longer than the older one. play and charge just keeps me rotating.

BTW I had a madcats battery that caused all sorts of connection problems when I put it in the MS made controller. No idea why.

Alright, that's pretty damn sexy blown up. However, using the the FPS freak extender would nullify the cool red analog stick.

I bought the kit less than year ago.

How often to you recharge it? Have you always let it completely discharge before you recharge it?

^LOL!

Not completely - I connected it as soon I noticed the light blinking or the first connect the controller command.

How many hours/week do you play? Sounds like the battery life is short. My first play/charge lasted a couple years actually.

~15hours/week.

Seems like I'm the only one with this problem. Weird...

I can't help diagnose the problem unless I fully know a man's habits diddling his knobs.

Yeah, jokes aside, my batteries lasted a couple years. I sold them off last year though when I picked up the red and black controllers. Actually sitting between those two that new controller would look like they procreated.

Um, no way. That controller is almost as ugly as my ugly ass Xbox T-shirt.

I guess they are never going to release a controller with an improved D-pad, huh?

No, because that would be like admitting there was a flaw in the original design. But still, MS must hate making money because if they put out a new controller just with an improved D-pad, it would sell in droves.

Isn't the d-pad only critical in fighting games? I don't seem to use it much in other games. At least not to where I notice a problem with it.

But they did. We just never got it stateside.

I thought the red controllers had the updated d-pad.

No, they do not.

Wow, that controller is even more hideous looking.

Yeah, it's fugly.

Don’t use unauthorized Xbox 360 Storage Devices

When Preview Program members start receiving the Xbox 360 system update next week, one of the changes is that unauthorized Memory Units will no longer work with the Xbox 360. If you’ve moved your profile or saved games onto one to “back it up,” you’d better move it back onto an authorized Xbox 360 storage device prior to taking the update. If you continue to use an unauthorized Memory Unit after the update, you will not be able to access your stored profile or saved games.

Major Nelson's Blog

So is that just for preview people or is that going to be standard now? I can't imagine they would cock block all the third party MUs out there.

I think there doing it to prevent modders, so it looks like it is going to be a standard.

I think they're mainly trying to block out those new 2GB+ cards that are actually just a MicroSD card that can easily be swapped out. That's making the system a little more open than they would like.