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I might be in for <B>Trials HD</B> if MS ever gets around to adding my 800 points from the October deal.

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How does san andreas control on the 360? I'm so used to playing with the ps2 controller.

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Coworker gave me a 20GB HD to try out, she says she got error 98 or something on it.
I have an Elite with the 120 GB hard drive.

Can I connect this hard drive to my console, just to see if it works for her? Or will that 'confuse' the console?

re: The official Xbox 360 thread - the console of choice on nuclear submarines
 

yes you can and no it won't

re: The official Xbox 360 thread - the console of choice on nuclear submarines
 

will Splosion Man be on sale Friday? because the way i read the article titles will be on sale starting Tuesday 11/23...

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Some items are on sale Friday only for Black Friday. Others seem to be all week, apparently. Here's what went on sale today:


Game Add-ons:
- Splinter Cell Conviction Deniable Ops: Insurgency - 400 points
- Rock Band 3 Lady Gaga - 280 points
- Rock Band 3 Nirvana pack 1 - 640 points
- Rock Band 3 Nirvana pack 2 - 240 points
- Alan Wake The Signal - 320 points
- Trials HD The Big Pack - 240 points

Arcade:

- The Secret Of Monkey Island SE - 400 points
- Monkey Island 2 - 400 points
- Puzzle Quest 2 - 800 points
- Serious Sam HD - 600 points
- Zombie Apocalypse - 400 points
- Portal - 400 points
- Voodoo Dice - 400 points
- Mega Man 10 - 400 points
- Magic: The Gathering - 400 points
- Madden NFL Arcade - 400 points

Avatar items:
- Monkey Island: Cotton Swab - 80 points
- Fantasy Pets: Red Dragon - 120 points
- Lara Croft: Xolotl Mask - 80 points
- Modern Warfare 2: Gas Mask - 120 points
- Gears Of War 3: COG Armor - 160 points
- Street Fighter IV: Dudley, Chun Li outfits - 160 points
- Diesel: Matic 883, Viker 8A7 jeans - 80 points
- Quicksilver: Fuze Flannel, Enough Said shirts - 80 points

re: The official Xbox 360 thread - the console of choice on nuclear submarines
 

thanks Decker.

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I was hoping for 400 points on Serious Sam. Has anyone here played it? Worth 600 points?

I liked the one on the OG Xbox but it always locked up on me and I never could finish it.

re: The official Xbox 360 thread - the console of choice on nuclear submarines
 

If you still have it, it's backwards compatible.

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It's pretty fun. Don't remember any issues with the XBLA version locking up. I thought it was The Second Encounter that was on sale (from the XBLA thread). Is it both?

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I think I saw on CAG that the first is on sale for 800.

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A couple of questions since I'm apparently now in the market for a new 360 (old one RROD'd - E73)

Does the new 4gig model have a place for a hard drive (have an existing 120gig drive)

And, anyone know of any good black friday deals for new systems?

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Don't the new, slim Xboxes have a different HDD design? You can't put your old 120 gig drive onto a new slim xbox...

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I think the new ones have an internal HDD (instead of the older ones that snapped onto the side).

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Just found out when going onto amazon to look at pricing and specs.

damn them.

Does that go for the new 250 gig drive model also?

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4gb model does have a place for a hard drive, however your old 120gb drive won't fit in there. You can jerry-rig the setup which would have your hard drive sitting outside your console, or you could try and find a new drive casing (off ebay? not sure.)

Amazon will have the 4gb model on sale for Black Friday. 199 with a 60 promo credit back. Toys R Us has it with a $50 gift card back.

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From Welcome to the Official CAG Black Friday/Cyber Monday Roundup:

For the Xbox 360 4GB console, $199.99 everywhere:

Amazon: w/ $60 gift card

Best Buy: w/ LEGO Batman: The Video Game, LEGO Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures, LEGO Star Wars: Complete Saga

GameStop: w/ Madden NFL 11 or Medal of Honor

K-Mart: w/ Call of Duty: Black Ops

Target: w/ $50 Target Gift Card (Additional $10 Gift Card if Purchased Between 4 and 10 AM Friday)

TRU: Xbox 360 4GB or 250GB Console w/ $50 Toys R Us Gift Card $199.99 and $299.99

Walmart: w/ Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 and Mass Effect 2

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There are videos on youtube showing that you can remove your old HDD from it's case and slide it into the HDD slot on the new slims. It will be loose and you can find empty cases online to slap in your old HDD. You can also find 250g slim HDDs online for about 1/2 of the retail $130.

I plan on upgrading to the 4gb unit because it is flat black vs the glossy of the 250gb, and then either use one of my old HDD or ebay/Amazon a used Slim 250gb HDD. Just make sure it is an official Microsoft HDD and not a generic drive, could get your console banned.

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The slim HDDs online, though... are they hacked together? I see those every once in a while, but figure that the risk of a console ban isn't usually worth the discount...

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For what it's worth, I got a 120GB "official" drive off ebay a year or two back that wasn't real. I had to hack it myself to make it fully work (with backwards compatible stuff.) I never got banned, but I have heard of it happening before. I frankly wouldn't trust getting one of Ebay.

But I was able to get a 250GB Slim hard drive brand new off Warehouse Deals for $90.

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ok.. Im sure its been discussed in here.. but Im too lazy to go hunting

the discount thats being offered for a family gold membership, covering up to 4 units
if you dont have 4.. can you use some of those for multi years on single units?
if not, can you share with friends, or is there anything that verifies they are on the same subnet?

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In the FAQ they generated about it they said that technically it could work for friends, though they did kind of poo-poo the idea. I don't think they are doing subnet filtering to confirm, IIRC they mentioned the kid going to college and taking their live account with them on a different xbox there as a typical scenario.

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ah yea, kids to college makes sense
and i guess if the codes are only good for a year from when purchased.. wouldnt do any good to try and stack any on a single or a couple consoles

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I can't find it on the new xbox.com Marketplace site, but there's a pretty nice free Premium Kinect theme available from the 360's marketplace.
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Ethics question : I got one of those new rotating D-pad wireless controllers from ebay through buy.com. I liked it, but the left thumbstick squeaks. I called MS customer service to ask how I could fix it. They created a job number and gave me instructions to mail in my squeaky controller and they'd send me a new one, but they informed me that they won't pay shipping costs to send it in. I put my controller in a box and took it to the post office. There I discovered that with insurance it would be over $9 to mail the controller back to them. I decided it wasn't worth that much for a mild squeak on a $47 controller, so I just left and came back home. I tried to contact Buy.com to see if they would take the return, but to no avail since this was an ebay purchase and just left things be. Now today I got a box from MS. They sent me a new controller. No instructions or anything. I feel I should return the old one, but still don't want to spend $8-$9 on postage. What should I do now?

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Do they have your CC info? If so they could charge you for the replacement if you don't return one.