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Canadian BeFirstToPlay Winners : 360 is In
- Thread starter LakeEarth
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Musashi Wins!
FLAWLESS VICTOLY!
How is it that several gaffers got Xboxen360 this morning and there are still no good impressions of anything?!?
BANNDED!
BANNDED!
VictimOfGrief
Banned
Okay - Links to other forums and or RE-UP the pictures since they are most likely CACHED on your system hence why YOU see them. :lol
Hitler Stole My Potato
Banned
EGM's are still showing for me, of course it could be because they're stored in my cache.
B-Rad Lascelle
Banned
So long as they haven't changed the on-board material from the X360s I've seen and handled (hey, you never know when those inane Canadian content rules will kick in), you're looking at 4 videos (one X360-Allard hype video practically ripped off the website, one lame ass Titanic video and couple others of no consequence), a bunch of music (roughly 10-15 tracks or so) and Hexic.truffleshuffle83 said:
In total, the content eats up roughly 2GB out of the available 13GB on the hard drive. The emulator software eats up a good 7GB out-of-the-box... so don't count on being able to play around with the full 20GB. No word yet as to how much data the online updates will chew through after you grab all of those compatability downloads from XBL.
Sathsquatch
Member
Work? Why are you worried about going to work when you have important videogames to play?
VictimOfGrief
Banned
Bump for pics.
Its not a job where I can just call in sick, but it is a job where I read GAF for a couple of minutes here or there :lolSathsquatch said:
The only thing I can really tell you is that the box is smaller than I thought it would be, especially considering how much stuff is in there. Its all in there tight, and the harddrive was already inside the system. I was having troulbe getting the controller to turn on the system, I actually thought it was the batteries. After fiddling with them, the controller then just started to work. I dunno what I did to get it to eventually work. The free remote it came with was really small, but you get what you pay for I guess. When turning it on for the first time, it asks you if you want to make an profile, even offline. There was no way to skip it so you MUST name your 360, apparently. And as I stated before, the power supply is nearly the size of a PStwo, how much power does the 360 drain?
That's pretty much all I got to see before heading off.
johnjohnson
Member
raYne said:
Thanks for the compassion!
johnjohnson said:
Üp!
The "lol" wasn't really directed at you.. it was me laughing at myself since I forgot that other markets have differen't launch dates.johnjohnson said:Thanks for the compassion!
As for the second part, EGM doesn't wanna open his since he's not keeping it anyway. LakeEarth is at work so no pics from him either.
As for the other guy, were I in his shoes, I wouldn't even be on the board to see the request.
Musashi Wins!
FLAWLESS VICTOLY!
I feel so let down by our neighbors to the north right now
BlueTsunami
there is joy in sucking dick
B-Rad Lascelle said:
Woah...
DenogginizerOS
BenjaminBirdie's Thomas Jefferson
teiresias said:
Seriously. A 20 GB harddrive and over 1/3 is already used up out of the box. Ugh.
truffleshuffle83
Banned
yeah because its gonna be so easy to fill 13 gb with legit stuff????? they already said adding new BC games is like 5MB, all the rest will be in game saves demos and music.
Even though I doubt I'll be using all the space in the first place, they better have the option to delete all the pre-loaded stuff on the HDD.
After the inital watching of the videos and checking what music they uploaded, I'm hoping to recover that lost space...
Come on Canadians! Confirm things already!
After the inital watching of the videos and checking what music they uploaded, I'm hoping to recover that lost space...
Come on Canadians! Confirm things already!
DenogginizerOS
BenjaminBirdie's Thomas Jefferson
When I read 20GB hard drive, I guess I thought that meant 20GB of free space. Do 64MB memory cards have 22 of the 64MB filled up with stuff?
^ Says you. Yes, it makes sense... but I still want confirmation.
(come on delete option!)
FYI, you didn't have full use of all the space in the xbox either. It is to be extected that you couldn't use ALL 20gigs in the 360. I just didn't expect them to waste a bunch of space on useless things from the get go.DenogginizerOS said:
(come on delete option!)
Tenacious-V
Thinks his PR is better than yours.
Sweetness, I just got mine in to, like 2 minutes ago!!. It does indeed have Kameo!! Fuck yeah!!! But I can't play the sucker till I'm done work, so off I go.
BlueTsunami
there is joy in sucking dick
Jerkface said:
I'm thinking the same thing but it makes you wonder how Microsoft went about doing their BC solution. Maybe they really are directly messing with all the executables for each game or something. That truly is a whole lot of space for emulation software.
It can't be that big though...
B-Rad Lascelle
Banned
We tried formatting the drive and the only option was to "format it to a 13GB capacity" after completion. I imagine there's a backdoor method at deleting the emulator files if desired... it's essentially a laptop hard drive in a casing, after all. Not everyone is going to want emulation functionality, after all.BlueTsunami said:
BlueTsunami
there is joy in sucking dick
B-Rad Lascelle said:
Hmmm. So its being treated like "important system files" type of situation. Obviously its a fail safe so the general user can't delete the files and can't play Halo2 for some reason.
I wonder how future BC games will turn out and how much space each new BC'ed game patch will consume. I personally think that it sucks that your essentially paying $100 for a 20 GB HDD that has 7GB already being eaten up by BC software.
7GB for an emulator is really ridiculous. It's almost as if they packed all executables compressed and have an engine to decompress them and an emulator to run them.
I actually wouldn't be surprised if this was the case. If you think about it, executables aren't more than a few MB in size. Say 5MB per executable, you can fit 200 within 1GB. You can pretty much pack the entire library within those 7GB.
I actually wouldn't be surprised if this was the case. If you think about it, executables aren't more than a few MB in size. Say 5MB per executable, you can fit 200 within 1GB. You can pretty much pack the entire library within those 7GB.
DenogginizerOS
BenjaminBirdie's Thomas Jefferson
They should have made a 27GB hard drive if they are going to advertise it as a 20. Or just say 13GB free. The 20GB advertisement is misleading.
So, will tard owners who buy a hard drive later have 7GB consumed as well? I'm guessing yes.
So, will tard owners who buy a hard drive later have 7GB consumed as well? I'm guessing yes.