My understanding is that all games can be installed to hard disk. However, you shouldn't install Halo 3 to hard disk due to certain technical issues on the game side which actually increases load times! Other games should benefit though.
Well i got one a few weeks ago and as the assistant had no idea about the Jasper boards i got the 60 gig one with Halo 3 and Gears of War 1 + 2, In the whole of my gameplaying there are only 2 games i have continued to play after completing them, 1, Commando C64 and now Gears of War 2 it is fantastic. I have played Halo 1 on Xbox and loved it but after playing GoW2, Halo 3 it is a disappointment i don't like it and haven't played it much instead i have gone back to GoW2.
Don't you think its ridiculous that u have to have the disc in so you can play the game from the hard drive. Now having probs using the 360 to stream media from my pc though :(
As I said above, I've already bought an Arcade model. At the moment I'm not that arsed about downloadable content and stuff, maybe later. I've heard you can buy a separate hard drive and install it, if you know how to do it?
About game saves - I take it the internal 256MB flash memory handles these, or do I need to buy a memory card?
Anyone know where I can buy a cheap copy of Oblivion?
Cheers.
I bought Oblivion second hand in Game (exeter branch) for ?9.99 - which I thought was okay. (I'm not sure if that is their regular price on it second hand.)
I still haven't tried it - My fabulous girlfriend surprised me by buying me a 60gb Xbox360 for my 30th birthday last week. So I bought a few second hand games although I've only been playing Virtua Tennis and Burnout so far (I work in a school and I'm saving Oblivion and the Orange box for half term week.)
I have played Halo 1 on Xbox and loved it but after playing GoW2, Halo 3 it is a disappointment i don't like it and haven't played it much instead i have gone back to GoW2.
I think Halo 1 is as good as it gets for the single player side of the Halo franchise. Halo 2 and 3 are not very good for single player campaigns, but their strength is supposed to be the online matches. I find these very tedious though, as the death match is just a high tech version of the playground game 'tag' or 'it' that I played when I was 5.
What you need is TVersitymy friend! :) I've been using this to stream media over wi-fi from my non-Media Center PC to the Xbox 360. Works flawlessly!
What is the point? The 360 can play XViD now, so just set Media Player on the PC (Media Center PC not required) to share your library with the 360 and you're away :)
That's how I do it, and no need for any flakey bits of software in between.
What is the point? The 360 can play XViD now, so just set Media Player on the PC (Media Center PC not required) to share your library with the 360 and you're away :)
The point is that despite this there are tons of video formats that the 360 can't play yet. What TVersity does is convert the videos on the fly to a format that the 360 can understand and streams it to the console. I should know 'cos I have some movies lying around in some obscure formats that the 360 doesn't recognise.
I got it working ( anybody fancy a game of GOW2 ? ) and like Arjun says half of my avi's won't work although the 360 can display a picture for the thumbnail ( i guess this means the probs with the audio ? ) i put tversity on my pc and switched 360 on and voila i could watch any avi or mkv file i have thanks for the suggestion Arjun :)
Anyone had a go at the new R-Type Dimension from XBLA yet? Looks stonking good I must say! Have it on my download queue. If I like it enough I might just buy it considering I completely missed the arcade craze over it all those years ago!
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OK, this official 120GB HD from Argos - is it easy to install on an Arcade console?
http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/5660816/Trail/searchtext%3EXBOX+360+HARD+DRIVE.htm
Can all games be installed to Hard Drive?
As I said earlier, it literally just clips onto the top of the Xbox. It's a 5 second job.
I'm not sure that all games can go on the drive though.
Bytes:Chuntey - Spectrum tech blog.
Unless you download them off from Xbox Live, in which case they are installed to hard disk. Right?
Bytes:Chuntey - Spectrum tech blog.
Don't you think its ridiculous that u have to have the disc in so you can play the game from the hard drive. Now having probs using the 360 to stream media from my pc though :(
I bought Oblivion second hand in Game (exeter branch) for ?9.99 - which I thought was okay. (I'm not sure if that is their regular price on it second hand.)
I still haven't tried it - My fabulous girlfriend surprised me by buying me a 60gb Xbox360 for my 30th birthday last week. So I bought a few second hand games although I've only been playing Virtua Tennis and Burnout so far (I work in a school and I'm saving Oblivion and the Orange box for half term week.)
I think Halo 1 is as good as it gets for the single player side of the Halo franchise. Halo 2 and 3 are not very good for single player campaigns, but their strength is supposed to be the online matches. I find these very tedious though, as the death match is just a high tech version of the playground game 'tag' or 'it' that I played when I was 5.
What you need is TVersitymy friend! :) I've been using this to stream media over wi-fi from my non-Media Center PC to the Xbox 360. Works flawlessly!
Bytes:Chuntey - Spectrum tech blog.
What is the point? The 360 can play XViD now, so just set Media Player on the PC (Media Center PC not required) to share your library with the 360 and you're away :)
That's how I do it, and no need for any flakey bits of software in between.
The point is that despite this there are tons of video formats that the 360 can't play yet. What TVersity does is convert the videos on the fly to a format that the 360 can understand and streams it to the console. I should know 'cos I have some movies lying around in some obscure formats that the 360 doesn't recognise.
Bytes:Chuntey - Spectrum tech blog.
Anyone had a go at the new R-Type Dimension from XBLA yet? Looks stonking good I must say! Have it on my download queue. If I like it enough I might just buy it considering I completely missed the arcade craze over it all those years ago!
Bytes:Chuntey - Spectrum tech blog.