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So I just got a used Xbox 1...
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And I have a few questions.
1) Is there any way, short of opening the system up and taking the hard drive out, that I can see how big it is? The system screen just says "50000+ blocks", which doesn't help me a whole bunch.
2) Is there any way to format the hard drive, or simply delete all of the contents at once? The previous owner left behind a lot of savegames.
3) Are Xbox 1 memory cards still being sold in retail stores? I'd like to have one for backup purposes.
4) What's a good wireless controller for the Xbox?
5) Is there any reason I should bother with Xbox Live if I'm not going to play multiplayer games? (It's kind of a hassle for me to hook it up to my network, so I'm not figuring on doing it right now.)
...also, if anyone has any game suggestions, I'm open to most anything but FPSes. (All I have for it right now is Castlevania: Curse of Darkness, Silent Hill 2, and Dai Senryaku VII.)
1) Is there any way, short of opening the system up and taking the hard drive out, that I can see how big it is? The system screen just says "50000+ blocks", which doesn't help me a whole bunch.
2) Is there any way to format the hard drive, or simply delete all of the contents at once? The previous owner left behind a lot of savegames.
3) Are Xbox 1 memory cards still being sold in retail stores? I'd like to have one for backup purposes.
4) What's a good wireless controller for the Xbox?
5) Is there any reason I should bother with Xbox Live if I'm not going to play multiplayer games? (It's kind of a hassle for me to hook it up to my network, so I'm not figuring on doing it right now.)
...also, if anyone has any game suggestions, I'm open to most anything but FPSes. (All I have for it right now is Castlevania: Curse of Darkness, Silent Hill 2, and Dai Senryaku VII.)
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the games I recomend depends on what other consoles you own. For example, I would highly recomend PoP - sands of time/the two thrones, but if you have either of the other consoles they were on, you probably allready have them.
Okay, here's the thing: I'm relatively sure people can put their own hard drives in.
Also, 6 GB sounds rather low.
And I have a PS2 and GameCube already, so I'm mostly looking for Xbox exclusives, or Xbox/PC exclusives.
I didn't mean it that way. I meant that it sounded like an awfully small hard drive for Microsoft to put in.
Then again, it was 2001.
I'm 99% certain that the only way to put in your own hard drive is if you hack and/or use a mod chip. The hard drive is paired to the motherboard and only work together. I recently discovered this when my Xbox's motherboard died and I lost all my save files because you can't just put in the old hard drive with the new motherboard without modding the box.
Also, when you consider how small save files are, and how small PS2/GCN memory cards are, 6 GB for save files is giant.
Panzer Dragoon Orta.
I'd like to say HL2 or Call of Cthuhlu or Thief, but uh yeah.
Wait, you can play Thief in 3rd person. Maybe you'd like it.
I had a box and never bothered with Live, myself.
So basically, if it dies on me, I'm fucked? Whose brilliant idea was that?
Renzo: I was under the impression Phantom Dust was essentially multiplayer-only.
Phantom Dust works well as a single player game.
Also, it's online mode has pretty much dried up anyway... but it -can- be played 2 player splitscreen.
It has a single-player game that I spent almost 50 hours on.
I plan to do that soon though especially since I barely use my regular xbox anymore.
Yeah, I'll second these.
You cannot replace the hard drive without a modchip. It's locked to the hardware.
It is around 8 gigs. 100 mb is partitioned to the operating system, 3x750 is partitioned for game caches. That leaves you with around 5gb for the game saves, or nearly 300,000 blocks.
Considering the average game save is around 50 blocks, many are as low as 10-15 blocks, and they max out at 200, as Senor Fish said... and as long as you don't plan on modding the box, which would allow you to replace the hard drive anyways, trust me, it's MORE than enough
8 gigs may sound low for a PC, but remember, this ISN'T a PC. You're not storing video files or anything here, and you're not installing games to the HDD, they all run completely off of the disks.
We're talking small, 100kb-600kb (on average) files. I've in fact only ever heard of one person who actually filled up the hard drive, and they did it on purpose, expressly to prove that it could be done.
I mean, holy crap dude, the PS2 runs on 8mb memory cards. You're complaining about 5 gigs?
No, not without a modchip, but you CAN delete entire games, so you don't have to deal with individual save. Just select the game itself in the dashboard, and you get the option to delete it, and its saves entirely from the console.
No idea on this one, but I don't see why not.
I don't own one, myself, but I hear that far and away, the Logitech ones are the best. Quality feel, good reception, 70 hour battery life, so I'd probably go with that one.
With the Xbox, you might find you need wireless alot less though, because the cables are like 9-10 feet long, as opposed to the PS2/GC's 6. Try it out first.
Nope. On the 360, yes, but on the original Xbox, that's pretty much all it was good for.
Highlighting the most important:
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
Crimson Skies: High Road to Revenge
Dead or Alive: Ultimate
Fable
Gunvalkyrie
Jet Set Radio Future (You ABSOLUTELY NEED THIS GAME. Possibly the most underrated game on the entire console, and since it was part of a holiday bundle in 2002, you can get it used for like $2-3 bucks now. There is simply no reason not to own this game.)
Ninja Gaiden (Best action game EVER? Possibly.)
Otogi: Myth of Demons
Otogi 2: Eternal Warriors
Panzer Dragoon Orta
Project Gotham Racing 2 (My personal favorite racing game of the last generation. Great gameplay mechanics, beautiful graphics, excellent music choice.. You really should at least try it out, even if you hate most racing games.)
Rallisport Challenge 2
Forza Motorsport (Unarguably better than GT4 in every single way except for GT4's sheer quantity of car selection)
Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory (Awesome, awesome, awesome game. Yes, it's on other platforms, but the Xbox version is hands-down the best. Excellent graphics, awesome plot and storyline progression, music by Amon Tobin, definitely one of the masterpieces of last gen.)
going back to the HDD:
So? You can't replace the RAM or DVD drive either. So what? Are you going to complain about that? OH GOD, WHAT IF THE POWER SWITCH FAILS, IT'S UNREPLACEABLE.
They're built to be $150 consumer consoles, dude, not your overclocked watercooled $2000 tuner rig. Having a user-replaceable internal HDD would just be a little bit silly, don't you think?
If it fails just get a modchip. Won't matter anyways, since you're not going online, right?
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Well, shit. Bookman's had it for like $12 but I passed it up.
I have absolutely no interest in fighting games, and almost none in racing games. I probably should've said that, but I wasn't thinking about it.
Already have KOTOR.
I'm leery of Jet Set Radio Future for the same reason as the Dreamcast game: Music.
Don't be an ass. Hard drives fail much more quickly than DVD drives and about a billion times more quickly than RAM. This is a used unit with at least three years of usage on it. I think I'm justified in being a little miffed at the idea that the failure of the hard drive means I'd have to buy a whole damned system over again, especially for a reason that doesn't appear to make any sense whatsoever. Which brings me back to my question: Whose bright idea was that? What possible purpose could it serve to key the hard drive to a specific motherboard?
And for the record, yes, I am liable to complain that I can't replace the RAM and DVD drive if they fail.
If you haven't played the Tony Hawk series on other platforms, the Xbox is a pretty good one to do it on since it has the best graphics, good controls, and the ability to switch out the soundtrack. THUG was probably the best Tony Hawk from 3 to THUG 2, and I imagine it was probably better than American Wasteland.
Oh fuck yes.
This is just a tribute.
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I never played JGR on the DC. What was the music like? I have the impression that it had a lot of American rock and pop? I say this because JSRF has Japanese hiphop and electronica mixed with rap from a Beastie Boys side project that is funky and also fresh. It fits the visuals of the game really well.
Man, I pine for a sequel to that game. Too bad Smilebit bit the dust.
on the ps3 - doubttom
on wii - 2056 0358 8899 2028
Even using fancy tricks to get them on a memory card won't work, as another Xbox won't recognise the save.
No, the first one had plenty of Japanese stuff and a couple Beasties samples. Plus some Rob Zombie and other American tracks. My guess is that he just dosen't like that kind of thing.
"I would like to bek a cayke for my son. It is his sirteeyef birsday."
I can't go back to that game because of that damned Birthday Cake song.
You can talk about modding all day long up in here as long as you don't endorse or talk about ways to run emulators or make copies of games you don't own.
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None of the above. Neither is Phantom Dust.
Ah okay. Yeah, I can't blame anyone for not liking that. It's pretty crazy stuff.
emnmnme: "sirteeyef birsday" is like the most perfect way to spell that. I lol'd pretty hard.