fuchikoma Posted December 11, 2011 Report Share Posted December 11, 2011 I was going to joke that the dashboard needs vignetting... but I guess with the way it's lit, it sort of has the same thing! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waldorf and Statler Posted December 12, 2011 Report Share Posted December 12, 2011 @Dean I take it back, fuck the middle square. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hot Heart Posted December 21, 2011 Report Share Posted December 21, 2011 http://www.next-gen.biz/news/xbox-dashboard-satirised-new-xblig-game Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fuchikoma Posted December 21, 2011 Report Share Posted December 21, 2011 http://www.next-gen....-new-xblig-game It sounded good and Shoot 1UP was fun, so I went to get this before it disappears... Either they've removed it, or it really is that bad. I found the indies section in a few seconds, then sorted by name and scrolled... and scrolled... and scrolled... and scrolled... and after about a minute, I'd made it from "A" to "B". So I gave up and searched for "Game Type" but all I got was unrelated results. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hot Heart Posted December 21, 2011 Report Share Posted December 21, 2011 It sounded good and Shoot 1UP was fun, so I went to get this before it disappears... Either they've removed it, or it really is that bad. I found the indies section in a few seconds, then sorted by name and scrolled... and scrolled... and scrolled... and scrolled... and after about a minute, I'd made it from "A" to "B". So I gave up and searched for "Game Type" but all I got was unrelated results. Hmm, maybe the dash really is that bad. A search on the site worked. http://marketplace.xbox.com/en-GB/Product/Game-Type/66acd000-77fe-1000-9115-d80258550a27 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fuchikoma Posted December 21, 2011 Report Share Posted December 21, 2011 Looks like I tried just a little too early since it's released today. It's up there now as the third most recent indie game and comes up in search too! I don't know if the Canadian site lags at all either, but it's hard to miss now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fuchikoma Posted December 21, 2011 Report Share Posted December 21, 2011 But I challenge anyone to change their theme without looking it up. I just went into all the settings menus through various means and it wasn't in any of them. There IS still a way, but I had to turn off the 360 and look it up online to find it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hot Heart Posted December 21, 2011 Report Share Posted December 21, 2011 I did it without looking it up...but only because I remember where I saw it while snooping around. Could not tell you where it is off the top of my head (Settings and then a thing there?) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted December 21, 2011 Report Share Posted December 21, 2011 I also did it without looking it up, but only after MUCH searching. I agree it's in a retarded-ass location. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted December 21, 2011 Report Share Posted December 21, 2011 Okay, I just went spelunking for the indie games, and even knowing I was looking for a section titled "Game Type" with a picture of a girl with a green hoodie it took me a minute to find it. My brain's ad-filter automatically filtered that picture out, so it was like it wasn't even there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chewblaha Posted December 23, 2011 Report Share Posted December 23, 2011 Funny. I found theme changing yesterday, though I admittedly was not looking for it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faiblesse Des Sens Posted December 23, 2011 Report Share Posted December 23, 2011 http://venturebeat.com/2011/12/22/game-type-xbox-live-dashboard/#.TvNQ5ElOJhc.twitter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baconrath Posted December 29, 2011 Report Share Posted December 29, 2011 (edited) I know at one point you were supposed to be able to connect an external hard drive and partition about 16 GB toward storage for your 360. Did they take this feature away when they introduced the cloud storage? My brother tried it with my external and it almost wiped the few files I had on it completely. We had to use a recovery program to get most of it back. 20/20 Hindsight. Should've used cloud storage. Edit: they've added some automation to the gamertag recovery process. neat? Edited December 30, 2011 by Baconrath Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SomTervo Posted December 31, 2011 Report Share Posted December 31, 2011 Never heard of that system but it sounds good? The partitioning one. Cloud storage is pretty good, but that RHDD solution doesn't need t'internet, so if you have an isolated friend you're dandy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peteer01 Posted January 1, 2012 Report Share Posted January 1, 2012 I know at one point you were supposed to be able to connect an external hard drive and partition about 16 GB toward storage for your 360. Did they take this feature away when they introduced the cloud storage? My brother tried it with my external and it almost wiped the few files I had on it completely. We had to use a recovery program to get most of it back. 20/20 Hindsight. Should've used cloud storage. Edit: they've added some automation to the gamertag recovery process. neat? Yeah, that used to work. It doesn't anymore? I actually disliked it when they got rid of MUs, as I used that to bring my account between multiple 360s in my old house. Then I got a new 360, so I bought and formatted a USB thumb drive for just that purpose, which lead to losing all my save data. I'm back down to only one 360, as I sold my Japanese one before I moved, but my Xbox Live account, which was made in Japan because that's where I was living when I bought the 360, can't be converted to a U.S. account, no way, no how. It sounds stupid, but that's actually a reasonable chunk of the impetus to change to PC gaming. I had to sell my Japanese 360 games (or bring my Japanese 360 with me as well) because of region locking. I would have gladly held on to these, but instead those games were sold to people who might have bought new copies if I hadn't sold them because of being unable to use them I have to either jump through huge hoops to keep my Japanese account at Gold, or start a new US account if I want to game online. I'd have to rebuild my (full) friend list, give up all my achievement and juggle between accounts if I want to keep using my save files from my current account. In short, Microsoft's decision to region lock their software and not allowing people who move from one country to another to bring their gamer tag with them were business decisions they made that will probably mean 2011 was the last year I purchase a game for 360. I purchased +50 new retail games and +50 marketplace download purchases, three consoles and a lot of accessories/controllers, but now I'm probably going to game pretty much exclusively on PC, at least until the new consoles come out. Sorry, this is slightly off topic from the original purpose of the thread, but I thought it might be interesting and relevant enough to be worth sharing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted January 1, 2012 Report Share Posted January 1, 2012 How did making a thumb drive lead to losing all your data? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peteer01 Posted January 2, 2012 Report Share Posted January 2, 2012 (edited) I couldn't copy some of the data, I could only move it. I was selling my main Japanese 360 (with the HDD and all my save data) with the intention of moving as many files as I could to both my 4GB Japanese 360 and my Kinect Bundle new U.S. 360 I'd just gotten. So I moved everything to the thumb drive, with the intention of copying what I could from there, and keeping the move-only files on the thumb drive to move between the two. I don't know if the problem happened while copying, or if it happened when I plugged the thumb drive into my new 360, but at some point between trying to "move all" and trying to access the information on the U.S. slim 360, something happened, and the U.S. 360 only gave me the option to format the thumb drive to use with my 360. The thumb drive failed every 360 attempt to format after that...it'd work on a PC, but the 360 wouldn't let me format it. (I could try, but during the testing process it did before formatting, it'd come back saying the device didn't meet the requirements) I did follow up with the maker (Buffalo) and they actually were pretty awesome about overnighting me a replacement after I sent them the busted one, and the new one (exact same model) did work with no problems...but that didn't make me feel any better about losing all my data. TL;DR: It actually seems like the thumb drive was to blame for the data loss...but that wouldn't have ever been a problem if I was able to keep using my MU to go back and forth between consoles. I suspect that some of the pre-installed programs on the flash drive may have been to blame. It was a while ago, so I don't remember if I plugged the USB drive into my PC before or after I first tried to access the data on my new 360, but I remember being surprised when I plugged it in to my PC to try to see/copy/rescue the data some autoplay programs wanted to run that shouldn't have even been on the drive after formatting. (They would always show up on the drive, even after formatting. The drive I got to replace it did not have these programs, possibly because I complained about them when doing the RMA) Edited January 2, 2012 by peteer01 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fuchikoma Posted January 2, 2012 Report Share Posted January 2, 2012 (edited) Wow. It sounds like multi-decade operating system maker Microsoft forgot the first rule of moving files. Copy first, then delete. I'd probably have done it so that the first 360 copied all the files and then wiped out a file for licensing them or something... Then copy them all to the new system and authorize it, making a new license file. The first 360 would be useless for running the files after "moving" them, but if all else failed, you could log in and reactivate it. That way MS could at least make sure you didn't have 2 concurrent systems running the same file set... Edited January 2, 2012 by fuchikoma Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peteer01 Posted January 2, 2012 Report Share Posted January 2, 2012 (edited) Wow. It sounds like multi-decade operating system maker Microsoft forgot the first rule of moving files. Copy first, then delete. I'd probably have done it so that the first 360 copied all the files and then wiped out a file for licensing them or something... Then copy them all to the new system and authorize it, making a new license file. The first 360 would be useless for running the files after "moving" them, but if all else failed, you could log in and reactivate it. That way MS could at least make sure you didn't have 2 concurrent systems running the same file set... Yeah, ironically, they were smart enough to figure out a system that allowed people to revalidate their Live purchases on a new system, but weren't able to follow that same "unvalidate, then allow user to revalidate" process for saves. Maybe they just wanted to sell more HDD transfer kits? Not that an HDD transfer kit worked for what I had in mind for my data. (I'm still not using cloud storage at all on the 360. Not sure if it would have been a good idea with two 360s, but now that I'm down to one, I don't really have any compelling reason to try it out.) In retrospect, I should never have tried to save time by initially moving everything from the MU to the USB. Simply loading up and then saving a few save files on the USB drive, and proving that I could successfully move one file onto a new 360 before trying to do the whole thing at once would have been far more prudent. Just typing that makes me miss my old RAID 5 NAS. Maybe, when HDD prices come down, I'll buy four cheap drives and set them up RAID 5 in my gaming PC. Right now all my photos are on a USB drive, and I only have a few dozen digital photos from 2001-2004 (pulled from e-mails) because I know first hand that storing important stuff on one, and only one, drive is a bad idea. (All my photos are on flickr as well [all 20,677 of them], but I'm not sure how reasonable getting them back onto a disk would be if something happened to that drive.) Edited January 2, 2012 by peteer01 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted January 3, 2012 Report Share Posted January 3, 2012 I'm using the cloud for backup reasons: if my drive takes a shit, my saves are still in the cloud. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peteer01 Posted January 3, 2012 Report Share Posted January 3, 2012 I'm using the cloud for backup reasons: if my drive takes a shit, my saves are still in the cloud. The cloud option...was too late for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waldorf and Statler Posted January 7, 2012 Report Share Posted January 7, 2012 Region Locking shmegion smocking. Only Sony doesn't region lock shit. because nobody cares WHO SAID THAT?! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chewblaha Posted January 7, 2012 Report Share Posted January 7, 2012 (edited) I thought Sony region locked games? That's what those big one's and two's are on the back of boxes. Edited January 7, 2012 by Chewblaha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted January 7, 2012 Report Share Posted January 7, 2012 The blu-ray movies are still region locked, hence the 1 n 2s. The games are not. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fuchikoma Posted January 7, 2012 Report Share Posted January 7, 2012 Locked systems in bold: PSX, PS2, PS3, PSP, Vita N64(?), GC, Wii, GBA, DS, 3DS XBox, 360 It seems MS is always locked down, Sony's moving away from it, and Nintendo's locking down even more. That seems to fit their third party hardware policies too though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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