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Free One Month of Live!

So the promo is back after people abused it. You can now only get one code per ip address (earlier people were entering fake emails and racking up 3 years of xbox live.) So theoretically you could get an extra by using a different ip and a different email. But where are the morals in that?

https://xbox.promo.eprize.com/tokenb...id=netflixgold

The new code is W2N4F9.

Enjoy!

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:up: thanks!

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cool thanks!

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If you think that's great, text NBA to 74139.

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1 month of live > a chance to win 400points.

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'chance' to win 400? :lol:

Thanks for the month of Live.

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Thanks!

Now I'm good though 7/2012

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exactly. I wish he had said what it was before I wasted a two texts on it (1in/1out)

Edit to comment on what's below this post:
Well, i'll wait until tuesday then.

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Well, you can enter everyday. There's a giveaway every Tuesday. Entering once enters you for every giveaway.

In three weeks time I've won 800 points.

Better than nothing!

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Well that changes things. Those odds aren't bad. Gave it a shot. Thanks TL.

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Thanks :up:

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Thanks! Worked great.

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Said supplies are DEPLETED already.

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Thanks for sharing this, but why did you not tell us 3 weeks ago? ;)

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Xbox 360 gaining USB storage support in 2010 update

Documentation obtained by Joystiq – and subsequently confirmed with two separate sources – reveals that "USB Mass Storage Device Support on Xbox 360" will soon be a reality. The document, authored by a senior software development engineer at Microsoft, states that due to "increased market penetration of high-capacity, high throughput USB mass storage devices, a 2010 Xbox 360 system update" will allow consumers to save and load game data from USB devices. The update is purportedly coming in Spring 2010.

Once the update occurs, Xbox 360 owners will be able to download Xbox Live Arcade games, Xbox Live Indie games, Games on Demand, DLC and Title Updates to the storage device. "USB storage devices may, however, have far greater memory capacity than MUs (at the date of writing, the largest MU is 512 MB), and may therefore support previously infeasible operations-such as installation of a full disc-based title." That's right, you can also store disc-based games to the USB device; however, it will require the disc to be in the tray for authentication, identical to the current functionality.

According to the document, the USB mass storage device must be at least 1GB and the system will do a compatibility check. "The system partition occupies 512 MB of space, and by default the consumer partition occupies the remainder of the device capacity, or 16 GB, whichever is smaller." Upon inserting a blank USB storage device, "consumers are offered two choices: 'Configure now' or 'Customize'." The "Configure now" option will use "the entire device capacity, up to the maximum of 512 MB plus 16 GB" meaning, regardless of the overall size of the device you're using, the Xbox will only enable 16 GB of usable, non-system storage. The "Customize" option will allow you to "preserve some pre-existing, non-console data on the device" such as music.

It should be clear by now that Microsoft is simply pulling out of the Memory Unit business and not the highly lucrative Xbox hard drive business. With an artificial cap of 16 GB – still shy of the 20 GB hard drive that shipped with the original 2005 Xbox Pro and a fraction the size of the currently shipping 120 GB hard drive – USB storage support simply removes the onerous requirement for a Memory Unit on Xbox 360 Arcade units, and brings the Xbox 360 platform a feature that's been present on the PlayStation 3 since that console's 2006 launch.

If you're intent on circumventing Microsoft's cutthroat hard drive pricing the Xbox 360, you can use two USB storage devices for a maximum of 32 GB of usable storage; however, the console "has a fixed limit of two external USB mass storage devices" regardless of whether they're "formatted for the Xbox 360 or not." If you fill all three USB ports on the console, only the first two to be connected will be recognized.

With talk of a new (slim?) form factor for the Xbox 360 picking up, and plans to abandon (or at least obviate) Memory Units underway, we're guessing those Memory Unit slots could be cut entirely from future iterations of the console.

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Why would you allow storage by USB, but then cap at 16GB? That's more of an insult than not allowing it if you ask me. If it's a limit of the hardware that they can only allow that much, then I appreciate the effort, but a tech limit of 16? Seems odd. I wonder if it would be total, or per USB slot. Would hubs work? :)

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Cause they still want to sell their overpriced HDs. :(

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Well that is certainly a cock tease.

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Maybe some hacker can mod it to where we can store more than 16 gb.

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Actually, this is great news for me. I've been looking at getting a 360 for my brother's house. Wanted to get the Arcade instead of the 120GB bundle. But I needed more storage space than the internal memory or add-on cards. A cheap thumb drive will be perfect.

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Could someone tell me why, when i play an XBOX 360 title, the machine runs much louder then when i play an old XBOX title?

it happened with the only two i've put in: RE 5, now Halo 3. the machine runs considerably louder then when i had Halo 1 and 2 in the machine.

is this normal? and if so, why?

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Install the game and it should be a lot quieter. Not silent, but definitely quieter.

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should i do this with all 360 games? and you have to still keep the game in when playing, correct?

now, when i play the game do i still go to the first screen, which is where the disc in XBOX shows or now i go to game library and play from there?

thanks MC. hope this works.

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Scott, you should have heard what the lauch 360s sounded like. Think 747 from the tarmac. I had actually bought an HD-DVD drive (shdder) and returned it because I couldn't even hear the dialogue above the din of that craptacular machine. So glad I was able to unload that hunk of junk on some poor sucker.

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Are the fans louder or is the optical drive louder when you run a 360 game?

Usually the fans are louder when playing 360 games because they drive the GPU harder than original X box games.