My xbox froze once to point where I had to get up off the couch and press the button to restart it. Other than that it owns.

PS Get halo 2.

dude, im like 2 feet away from mine and I dont even like lounging over to push it, I know how ya feel.

god you people are lazy...arne't you used to the other systems which made you press it to turn it on...

thinking ya'll can use the force to magically put the game in the cdrom as well?

[quote="TGB!":79279]You can use the controller to turn the thing on?[/quote:79279]

Yup, all 3 consoles have that ability. Turn it on or off.

I wouldn't say I'm a lazy person it's just when I'm in a good spot for game playing I don't like to move from it. And I usually am stuck on one game for months so that solves that huge dilemma.

My game has only frozen up on sneak king..lol but its 4 bucks so you cant complain.

if you are worried about heat buy one of the huge fan adaptors for it.

ps DONT WORRY when you turn the machine on. They sound like a god damn lawnmower revving up, I thought mine was gonna explode the 1st time I turned it on.

[quote=geRV]Yup, all 3 consoles have that ability. Turn it on or off.[/quote:72591]

not when it freezes up on ya.

dont take his advice, these things are not recommended for it at all, they do more harm than good.

[quote=Bucknub]not when it freezes up on ya.[/quote:64ab5]

Throw a brick at it then to perform a hard reset.

I thought they were going to come out with some firmware upgrade that fixes the spinning drive. SOmething about how it slows down the drive when it doesn't need to be spinning at full speed or something. But yeah, the thing is pretty damn loud.

I like my year old 360. It has never been a problem. If you buy a new one, im hearing, that most of those "circle of death" red light problems are ironed out. An intensive search on the web will turn up manufacture dates of the "bad" consoles all made before a certain date.

I've had mine since launch and have more than a few people that play the hell out of it and I've never even heard of the red light.

Meanwhile ive heard of people going through 5 boxes or more. It really seems to be something random, and odd. Frankly i think those people just take horrible care of them. Though i have heard the "omg i just got my 360 back from repair and 3 minutes in i got he red circle".

im on my second. didnt get any red lights on the first one, but I got alot of clicking noises and disc read errors. so I exhanged it. No problems (yet) with my second one.

geRV, pls just promise TGB a 10yr guarantee on his would-be purchase ffs... annoy:

Haven't ever had a problem with mine, and I got it last spring. Not too loud either

dont think you can change your name or add someone to a live account.

same here

[quote="TGB!":a440d]Well I finally got the mother fucker. . .the XBOX that is. . .

Jesus fucking christ this thing is huge. I know my PS2 wasnt the thinnest girl in the class - but FUCK! And the battery. . .dear god the battery.

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Lol you wanna see how bulky and heavy the ps3 is in the vertical position compared to the 360, also weighs a lot more, something like 11LBS. ed:

Never heard of a firmware upgrade. Find it now... rock:


Also i have the Nyko intercooler snapped on the back of my 360 and it works really good.

[img]http://www.nyko.com/Img/Nyko/IntercoolerTemperatureChart.jpg[/img]

The nyko intercooler is a piece of shit, it takes power from the 360 and can cause it to short out.

http://forums.xbox.com/1/6077580/ShowPost.aspx#6077580

http://kotaku.com/gaming/intercooler/ny ... 214846.php


If i were you id remove that thing, take a dump on it set it alight and pray to god gates for forgiveness. ed:

Why is everyone so concerned about temps in the 360? Its designed to run that way, when im gaming on my pc my 2 cards hit 90+c each and my cpu hits over 60c. My ps3 belts out a load of heat at the back as well as my 360, theyre designed to run that way.

[quote="TGB!":d2442]I also suck at controller based FPS's.[/quote:d2442] it takes a while to get use to it, i hate that switch from mouse+keyboard to controller

[quote="TGB!":a5310]Well I finally got the mother fucker. . .the XBOX that is. . .[/quote:a5310]is it a firmware hack or modchip?

[quote="TGB!":58ac0]Im still hoping someone will eventually come out with a mod that allows games to be dumped to the HD - bypassing the need to read from the disk (and thus shutting the fucking machine up and decreasing load times). . .sort of like HD-Loader for the PS2 (god I love that mod).

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Would depend on them making regular hard drives accessable to the 360, you're not gonna fit much on the standard drive it has (13 gig free space).

loading time son the 360 are pretty good, with the ps3 data has to be dumped to the hard drive for a lot of games (even demos), tekken 5 for instance when you buy the game first time you put it into the ocnsole you've to wait 7 minutes for it to dump files to the hard drive, and even after that the loading times between matches are pretty long. its not a bit of wonder sony opted for a 60 ig hard drive and allowed users to upgrade the hard drive with a regular sata 2.5 laptop drive, if you have a large game collection the 60 gigs will be eaten up pretty fast.

Got Patiences?

Ive noticed maybe 30 seconds of load time on all the games Ive played

Yeah load times are relativity fast. A LOT faster than my PS2, that thing took minutes to load games.


Also FPS on a console to me has gotten easier. I use to hate it, but i can play R6 Vegas and CoD3 without any problems.

[quote="TGB!":f656d]Its the firmware hack. I bought it pre-modded. The problem was that the discs would SOMETIMES load up. . .and most of the time would not. It kept on giving me an "Open Tray" error - and for like an hour, I searched online finding out where I go to start the fucking game. . .not realizing that if the game was to play it would say PLAY GAME where OPEN TRAY was displaying.

I found out that on some firmware or other - the laser goes "off track" into dead territory and doesnt go back to reading the disc - and stop spinning. So I spent about 4 hours of cursing getting the pos open. . .to apply a bit of rubber band to keep the laser from going off-track. At first it didnt work. . .but once i trimmed the band up a bit, I got it up and going.

What I wouldnt give for a fucking modchip though, but something tells me with this laser behavior - Id still get the same problems.

Still the shit works so Im not going to complain - for about 15 minutes there I thought I broke the damn thing.[/quote:f656d]
you should update the firmware, its really easy to do. i did my Hitachi 78fk, and did some sammy drive for some other people. i got a free via vt6421 (i didnt need the card for my Hitachi, but needed it for the sammy drives) card out of it plus money for DL disc's.

Fuck, the time we spend to have our gaming equipment up to snuff. I spent alot of time to get my damn lappy just to shutdown. Good job on your patience TGB.....good thing you don't have lil' kids running around though oOo:

he's probably got several they just don't live with him.

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tru dat

I regret buying my 360. I don't even play it. Anyone wanna buy it?

what is your gamertag TGB?

I may just buy it after this fuck show over here with my lappy.