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[QuikSsurfer]

NHL10 anyone??

[Mr. Plow]

Originally Posted by Pittsie

You have to talk to them sometime, right?

sure, but they don't need to be smart to understand "take off your clothes and bend over" or "jiggle my balls THIS way".

[bowener]

Hey, this seems pretty sweet.

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.

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. http://www.joystiq.com/2010/03/18/xb...n-2010-update/

Interesting, but pretty sad to see that M$ is still going to try and bend owners over and ram the 16GB limit up our asses. I will be interested to see how people can use the disc image on hard drives with a disc in the drive to "authenticate" the game to use burned games or what not... at least I hope that can be done.

I don't know about anyone else, but a slim 360 sounds like a headache. If they can't keep the RRoD from happening now, even with the improved newest edition, wtf is going to happen when it is packed even smaller?

[007]

oooooooh, a whole 16gb of storage. Stop the presses. M$ needs to stop this shit and just let people install their own friggin hard drives like the PS3 allows and stop gouging their customers.

[bowener]

Originally Posted by Guru

oooooooh, a whole 16gb of storage. Stop the presses. M$ needs to stop this shit and just let people install their own friggin hard drives like the PS3 allows and stop gouging their customers.

Makes me think that xbox is going to rip off the PS3 slim and have an internal
(and removable - hopefully) hard drive.

Might have the 16gb cap on the current gen of xbox so that it may drive owners to buy the new slim so that there is no cap.

[TinyEvel]

Originally Posted by Guru

oooooooh, a whole 16gb of storage. Stop the presses. M$ needs to stop this shit and just let people install their own friggin hard drives like the PS3 allows and stop gouging their customers.

Quoted for truth.

[007]

Originally Posted by bowener

Makes me think that xbox is going to rip off the PS3 slim and have an internal
(and removable - hopefully) hard drive.

Might have the 16gb cap on the current gen of xbox so that it may drive owners to buy the new slim so that there is no cap.

Based on their history, don't count on that.

[kysirsoze]

Originally Posted by bowener

Hey, this seems pretty sweet.

Xbox 360 gaining USB storage support in 2010 update

Interesting, but pretty sad to see that M$ is still going to try and bend owners over and ram the 16GB limit up our asses. I will be interested to see how people can use the disc image on hard drives with a disc in the drive to "authenticate" the game to use burned games or what not... at least I hope that can be done.

I don't know about anyone else, but a slim 360 sounds like a headache. If they can't keep the RRoD from happening now, even with the improved newest edition, wtf is going to happen when it is packed even smaller?

I think the redesign is largely to address the RRoD. It's a slimmer motherboard, not just cramming the same hardware in a smaller case. To be honest, I know very little about how this stuff works, but that's the impression I've been given by what I've read.

[SnakeXJones]

I just renewed my subscription my ID it's SnakeXJones I really only play UFC against others or NBA 2K9 im still addicted to nba since it came out

[JOhn]

OK, I finally joined the crowd and bought a XBox 360 a few weeks ago, and got a HD for it today. (Bought it from a friend and paid $50 for it, and $25 for the HD.)

Now to figure out the online aspects of it.

I did get the following games with it also for $10 each

Call of Duty: World at War
Call of Duty: Modern Combat 2
Star Wars: Knights of the old republic
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed
Nascar 08
Indiana Jones(lego) / Kung Fu Panda
PGR Racing: 3 & 4
Guitar Hero: World Tour

[Kraus]

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[Pants]

Man, I think I have finally found a way to play without a squad and not get pissed off to the point of throwing the game away, lol.

I just snipe on Rush - that shit is actually hella fun. I pretty much single handedly held off a ****ing army last night on that daytime winter map (don't remember the name). Started off as an engineer and planted mines all around the entry ways, went up to the hill down which they come from after spawning and racked up 6 kills with my silenced XM8C. Dudes just kept running by me. Got killed and started sniping. Tanks rolled up and got blown the **** up by the mines as I was chillin in the back with my GOL. Ended with 4200+ score before any pins. Probably helped that the other team sucked.

On offense - nothing better than sniping a diffuser through the dome, hahaha.

[Ceej]

Been playing Silent Hill on my cousins' 360 -- my uncle and I played the series on the ps2 when I was a wee, young lad. Great game thus far -- just one bad thing .. there's a game glitch during the sewer portion of the game. Well, that saved it -- and it wiped out everything we had saved -- which was 6 hours of game time. Ugh.

Time to start all over.

[QuikSsurfer]

Originally Posted by CJizzles

Been playing Silent Hill on my cousins' 360 -- my uncle and I played the series on the ps2 when I was a wee, young lad. Great game thus far -- just one bad thing .. there's a game glitch during the sewer portion of the game. Well, that saved it -- and it wiped out everything we had saved -- which was 6 hours of game time. Ugh.

Time to start all over.

I enjoyed it. Very, very creepy. The atmosphere and music (akira yamaoka) are terrific.
Silent Hill 2 is still the master.

edit: i never experienced a glitch in SH:Homecoming.

[Ceej]

Originally Posted by QuikSsurfer

I enjoyed it. Very, very creepy. The atmosphere and music (akira yamaoka) are terrific.
Silent Hill 2 is still the master.

edit: i never experienced a glitch in SH:Homecoming.

I was looking through a walkthrough after the fact. The game glitch is in the sewers after you face the three needlers. You run into a Siam which you're supposed to lead into a room where he breaks down some walls for you.