Well, I bought the Sandisk Cruzer 1gb drive which matches the stock feel of the XBox Core/Premium system, and I have a standard key (which I didn’t think was working) for my XBox360… Turns out, ANY USB device cannot access saved games or
XBL data…
So, what’s the problem? Well, I bought them so I could copy my XBL account to Walter’s XBox (and vice versa) so that he doesn’t have to bring his over all the time so we ca link systems to play together on our respective accounts…
So, now I have to buy the XBox Memory Card to do this… I found several of the 512mb’s on EBay though for under $20 (after shipping); and I can supposedly use them as storage devices (vs media devices) in the xbox. So I should be able to store downloads on there, such as game downloads, like Halo1 should I choose to blow 800 points on it ($10~).
So, a word to the wise:
USB Devices - Media Devices, music, pictures, video.
Memory Devices - Game Saves, Downloads, Storage.
Soooo, we get the bright idea on Black Friday that we want an XBox360… We have money, why not… Eventhough it’s rent and food money ;)…
So, Walter gets down here (From Vancouver, WA (Approx 30-35mi)) at about 10pm… We go to Walmart, they’re out. We go to Fred Meyers as we await sam to return a game (we bought the wrong version of it, which cost twice as much), they’re out… We go to toys r us, they’re closed… All in all, we hit every store on 82nd that was open in about 20 minutes… All out…
Long story short… We ended up in Camas, WA (Approx 30-35mi or 25mi from Walter’s house in the opposite direction)… The Walmart there had 2, core machines… the old ones… Old as in no HDMI, no “new chips”, no “additional heatsync’s”… So lets just hope we don’t burn out or I’ll have ot send it in for service…
Well, I have the XBox now… Halo is much more fun when I don’t have to wait for Walter to have to come over with his XBox lol… Made loads of new acquaintances :).
Well, a fine slap in the face from Microsoft… Turns out that when you cancel your gamertag for the XBox Live service, you cannot recover it in the future… Most people wouldn’t care here, but I do for two reasons…
1. Moguai is mine on their service, i’d have preferred to keep it…
2. If you port your old gamertag up to XBL for the 360, you get a free copy of Halo3…
As I can’t port up, I can’t do the deal :(…
Why did I cancel my XBL you ask? Well, in 2003 they overcharged us, and refused to refund us as their systems “didn’t allow” for it; so I had my creditcard company do it on their behalf and told them where they could put it…
So, now I’m on XBL as Gremelin, but still wanting to take part in the XBL thing to get a (second) copy of halo3…