The Negative Edge of a Console Hard Drive

[Brisco Bold]

Mzo, why don't you get the new Crystal Xbox?

[MechDeus]

Better yet a HD and large mem cards.

Yeah, I'm down with this. As nicer in a more permanant sense as memory cards may be, I'm a huge fan of not having to delete saves to make room for newer games.

[dave is ok]

Harddrive Headcrash in 5...4...3...

[mrt]

ug. yes this is depressing.

i have the same model xbox (SegaGT/JSRF bundle), so its less than 2 years old. but mine was showing sings of problems over the last few months and finally pretty much died. it was very well taken care of, but the HD is a fragile thing i guess...

really really sucks about the saves though. i had a ton of them on there and dont even want to think about spending all of those hours trying to get back to where i was in all of those games. that is if i decide to purchase another xbox. a very depressing though.

my cube on the other hand was bought on launch day, played extensivly, dropped hard over 5 times, traveled with often, and hasnt so much as stuttered. of course all of my GC saves are safe and well on the mem cards, so if i had to replace the system, id still be all set.

my 1st DC, and a few old NES systems are the only other consoles ive had die on me (and those were treated very rough).

the HD idea was GREAT! but it also sucks hard.

now im much less concerned that xbox2 may not have a HD. :/

[Geen]

Better yet a HD and large mem cards.

I'm thinking a large memory card and a hard drive for everything but game saves. I think that would be best of both worlds.

[Tracer]

I'm thinking a large memory card and a hard drive for everything but game saves. I think that would be best of both worlds.

Not really. If you want a memory card for saves, then buy one for saves. Let us who really want to save our games to the HDD do so.

[Mzo]

Yeah, I don't understand locking game saves to the hard drive and not letting me bring them over to the new Xbox. I guess they're trying to keep sharing down, so everybody unlocks the secrets, costumes, whatever themselves... but that's still lame.

Well, she didn't give me any trouble last night, started up Vice City just fine (I back up to the memory card after every session). I know its days are numbered, but I'm going to ride it until it's gone.

I think now would be a great time for a new, sexy LE Xbox to be released.

Not really. If you want a memory card for saves, then buy one for saves. Let us who really want to save our games to the HDD do so.

Yeah, Geen. You asshole.

[Mzo]

MZO, Did you get an error code screen? If you did, then what was the number in the upper left corner of it? I had an error and my light flashed red,green,red,green. I was on xbox scenes web site and they explained the error code numbers. Hope this helps.

Yeah, I did... the code was 07.

I called tech support and it sounded like I was screwed paying through the nose with no guarantee of my saved games being, well, saved.

[Clash!]

when you gotta put together a top-notch gaming system and charge $150 you gotta cut corners somewhere.

Well the system came out at $300.

I recently had to buy a new Xbox because of constant disc drive errors. Had to scourge through every Xbox at my best buy to find a Samsung drive one (serial numbers are a different font). Which is the other bogus aspect of Microsofts Xbox, they did not make everyone the same. They used like 3 different companys for drives. The Thompson ones will take a nose dive in like 2 years, while the Samsung ones have extra features like being able to read CD-Rs and DVD-Rs out of the box.

[Despair]

I have never had a system break on me, knock on wood, but that's just luck and care I guess.

Also I got all three of the currect gen consoles at least a year after they launched, so I missed the shitty batches I think.

The only system to die on my was my 1st DC. Fucker died when it was not even year old. Rest of my consoles still chugging along, including 1st generation PSX, which continued working even after falling from good heights twice, and having friggin Power button fall in