Cheers for that. I have flown them before. Something to do if I get bored. Just fly round shooting at stuff.

Apologies if this has been covered before, but with 260 odd pages to go through I thought I'd ask again in the hope that someone might be able to help... I've just ordered a new Elite console (one of those nice red Resident Evil ones), seeing as I've got some spare cash since stopping smoking and my 360 is a years old core model with a tiny hard drive and no HDMI. But I'd like to know if there's a way to get my existing downloaded content from the old console onto the new one? I've heard mentions of "take the hard drive out and put it in the second console" but I haven't got an external hard drive... Can anyone offer any advice on the way to go? I was half thinking maybe just logging in on the new console with my current gamertag might solve it, by then going to the list of stuff I've downloaded and just downloading it again?

Have you got a memory unit or anything man? If not get one of those and transfer the data onto that then onto your new console.I dont think you can just recover your gamertag and then redownload everything.

go to xbox.com and request a data transfer cable.

they're free.

I've got a 4 gig memory card somewhere if that'd do the trick? I've never done anything like this with the 360 so I'm a total beginner at moving stuff around... Failing that, a transfer cable looks like the way forward. I'll probably order one tomorrow anyway, hoping it might be here before the end of next week.

Also, do you know if my Gold membership will stay intact when I sign into my gamertag on the new console?

your live membership will be the same once you recover it on your new console. Try saving the content onto your memory card and loading it onto the new HDD. Then google Xbox license transfer and do that and that should work. Hope that works for ya.

Just signed up to LoveFilm for the 2 week free trial.
Good Work UKFF

Ta very much, I'll give it a go. Won't be til the end of next week when the console gets released (and that's assuming Game live up to their promise of "preorder for delivery on release day" which I've heard quite often they don't) but I shall certainly give that a try. Turns out I couldn't order one of those transfer cables just yet because you have to tell them the serial number of the console you're transferring to, which I won't know until it arrives... Oh well, it's something to look forward to!

2 Weeks?! I could of got you 3 months

...This makes me a saaaad panda.
Bad Work UKFF

I did not need the data transfer kit with mine. I recovered my gamertag, moved all saves from the old HD to the new one and redownloaded all purchased items at no additional charge.

However, I have figured out why this is. The items you purchase are not just assigned to your gamertag, but to the Xbox itself. I didn't purchase a new Xbox, just a bigger HD so I was able to have all the items I had on my old HD on my new one without using the transfer kit and at no additional cost.

I do have a transfer kit available unused if anyone wants it.

If you're feeling more greedy than charitable steve, that transfer kit would fetch you 15 to 25 quid on ebay.

Anyone checked out that Wanted Weapons of Fate demo yet? Just had a bash and it seems pretty fun.

Really? Why are people stupid enough to buy them if you can get it for free from Xbox?

Oh well. Offer closed. I'm greedy.

cos the waiting list is quite long, microsoft arent exactly speedy gonzalez at sending these things out, so people buy them on ebay and then probably just list them as soon as theyre done.

Do well. Easy money.

FYI PES players. That option file I bought worked a treat. If anyone wants a copy send me your memory card and a couple of quid for postage and my troubles and I'll sort it out for you.

Tom Clancys Hawx looks absolutely fantastic and fun to play, I eagerly wait for the full game.

I have a problem with FIFA 09

i want to start a new manager mode with the new signings etc from after the jan transfer window, but i cant start with all the up to date teams etc as when i clik new it reverts back to the old sqauds (before the jan transfer window)

i can play exhibition matches with the update, but nothing else

i am thinking i may have to just delete everything and start again, but is there anonther way?

having a bit of trouble with my xbox today, ive moved it too another room (carefully though) but not its crashing alot. To be fair ive only tried playing Left4Dead but its crashed like 5 times and ive got annoyed and left it for now.
here hoping its the game thats crashing and not some hardware error...

Got 1000 points on The Ultimate Megadrive Collection today, well chuffed.

Been playing Dead Space too, terrifying game if you sit and play it in the pitch black alone. It's starting to get a bit linear though.

are you online when you're trying this, some updates only work if you're signed in to live.

how hard was it to get the 1000 points?
Got that and Avatar on the way for the points (in a race with my mate to see who can get to 10,000 before his wedding) so would be cool to know.

Also just realised you're Freezecarl5000 that added me a cpl of nights ago, giv you a game of street fighter next time your on?!

It's moderately easy. Some of them are just viewing all the artwork, getting a chaos emerald on Sonic, and talking to other dolphins on Ecco. Some are harder such as reaching level 11 on Vectorman 2, doing the first level of Comix Zone and getting to level 3 on E:Swat.

If I can do them though then i'm sure you can. Yeah i'm good for a game or two next time we're both on. Could do with fighting a UKFFer who isn't JLM

Ive read every one of JLM's posts and come to the conclusion i'm never going to put myself through that torture...

managed to score fro mthe halfway line on fifa yesterday

heres the vid

http://www.eafootballworld.com/en_GB/video/4148664

Typical FIFA. There's always a spot you can always score from.

Still playing Left 4 Dead religiously. I've discoverd how much fun multiplayer with friends is. Trying to beat expert at the moment and its such a blast. This game demands total team work, it's such a brilliant game. Really looking forward to the new content too. Survival mode looks awesome.

Getting back into Oblivion. Spent several hundred hours on it back when it came out and haven't really touched it again until now. It really is a fantastic game, I just wish I could afford the add-ons and expansion

I've just started my third attempt. Completed it the first time around, my second run through got interupted by GTA IV with nothing on the horizon for a while I thought now would be a good time to give it another crack.

As with my second run through I'm having a real crack at efficient levelling and am pretty determined to get everything bar personality up to 100 - I have also vowed to make sure I actually spend some significant time in the Shivering Isles this time as I didn't really do that last time prior to the GTA inpsired departure.

I swear just walking from one city to another in that game and seeing what happens is quite possibly the greatest thing in gaming.

Assistance needed!

I dunno where else to put this, but my XBOX live-ing seems to suffer from Chronic Lag Syndrome. When I got my housemates' Xbox set up on Xbox live in July last year, it wasn't bad at all. Now, however, I pretty much can't go on it without experiencing painful lag to the point where I can't even be consistently heard using my microphone. I do share a Virgin 20mb wireless connection with the rest of my house, but nobody was even using it yesterday and it was still being funky. I can't play SFIV online and it's bugging me. What could be the possible issues here? I was thinking of complaining to Virgin about it, but is there a possibility it could be a faulty router or even the Xbox itself, and how would I go about finding out?

Please understand I don't have a great deal of technical knowledge about these things. My brother was the techy one of my family so it wasn't really necessary for me to be.

Help?

Just sold my transfer cable for £30!

Bought Oblivion, Mirrors Edge & Game On Series 3 with the profits. Not bad for what is essentially free.

well in, its well worth doing. When I upgraded I bought the HDD for 60 suid, sold my old 20gb and the cable for 25 each.

I've started a pretty good game, it's called "Find the receipt from your Xbox that you bought in July that has the RROD". Apparently it's worth sticking at if only for the achievement reward.

If anyone is interested, there's a free full game available. It's called like Doritos Dinosaur Smash Up or something crap. It's alright for a free game I guess. You can be the T-Rex or the Doritos Van and you have to either smash stuff up and eat vans, or collect Doritos and avoid the dinosaur. Meh.

I haven't had the oppotunity to play that game yet. Any good? I feel for you dude.



It's been out a good few months now. You'll play it for half hour then never again but then it is free.

I'm going to apply for another one under my lads serial number, buy myself some MS points off ebay and download GTA IV TL&D.



Where from?

Xbox live Marketplace.

Amazingly, I got back from work and found the receipt within 5 minutes. I had it in my box with my important documents in. I'll give Game a ring in the morning and should be back up and running right away!

I'd have given 20-1 on that I'd have slung that.

I can't see Game replacing a 7 month old console with RROD, or did you buy some kind of guarantee from them?

From Game's return policy.



EDIT - Just gave the store in question a ring and they said to bring it in and they'll swap it over. However, they did say to bring in everything including the hard drive so that worries me a bit. Won't my credit card details be stored on there?

You learn something everyday.

Could you not plug it into a mates 360 and delete all details?

If not, take it anyway, express your concerns and just ask them not to supply you with the new hard drive.

Sadly, I'm on a different shift or 20 miles from my 360 owning mates, they said to bring everything in so that they can do a test on all bits instore, I mentioned my concern to the girl on the phone and said it could even be a hard drive problem hence why I need to bring everything. Fair enough really I guess, as Joe sort of said, you can't expect to turn up with an Xbox so late after you've bought it and just expect them to hand over a new one on on the spot.

Thus far the customer service has been really good, nice and polite over the phone, we'll see how it is instore.

What you'll probably find they do is test your stuff and if its just the console thats fucked, which it probably is, they'll just take a new one out the box, give it to you and put your one in the new box and send it back as a faulty SKU.

So if my console has the RROD, but I don't have the receipt (my friend sold it to me you see), what do I do?

Send it to Microsoft.

Still hammering my way through Burnout Paradise.

I bought the Legendary Cars, so I've been tearing up the Races and Marked Man events in the GT Nighthawk and just recently started working my way through the Burning Routes.

Bollocks.

RROD's are not caused by the HD.

unplug the HD and turn it on, you'll still get it, and no HD's cannot be infected with the RROD as one fuckwit tried to blag me.

More proof 90% of people at GAME haven't the slightest clue.

Whats your problem? One red light can be caused by the HDD and customers are generally idiots who are just like "ITS BROKE SOMEONE ELSE SORT IT" without actually looking at what they could do. They'd just like to check it to see if they can find a fix before giving you a new one. If they then find its the 3 RROD then they'll exchange it or refer it to Microsoft.

More proof that 90% of complaining consumers haven't the slightest clue.

And indeed they did. They also did it in a very polite and professional manner which is why I'll return there, good customer service (even if 90% of them haven't the slightest clue, apparently, which to be fair is still more of a clue than I have on such matters) gets you my business.

"Hey folks, let me tell you about the fine folks at the Game store in Broadgate, Coventry etc etc"

So some bloke at work today (bear in mind that he's a bit of a numpty, and not always accurate) said there is a new Xbox console coming out next year with Halo 4 being it's imediate release title.

A bit soon for a new console surely.