I don't have firsthand experience with this but I've read that many games disable transferring saves in the dashboard even when the saves would technically be small enough to fit on the memory card.

Ninja Gaiden is one. Had to start all over when I got a new xbox since I couldn't copy the save to a mem card.

So it's not really going to be backwards compatible....

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/content_page.php?aid=8996

Just a FYI for the Halo 2 fans. Tomorrow morning the matchmaking playlists will be updated to include the new maps released last week and everyone's stats will be reset to level 1 due to the rampant cheating before the last auto update.

-Tony

wOOt! Got my 2005 FPW yesterday and it looks awesome especially since there are no dead/stuck pixels and no backlight bleeding that bother me. The bad news is that playing Halo2 through the x2vga looks better on my CRT than the new LCD which is probably due to the LCD stretching the 480p output to fit the screen. I ended up putting the 2005 on my Mac Mini and it looks great on it. I have gobs of desktop space to use iMovie & iDVD!

You can now download two maps for free and two more $5.99. I just downloaded all four and did a short walkthough of each and they seem pretty cool. Cant wait to get back home and try some custom games on them tonight.

XBL GT: tehShadowWolf

-Tony

Yes it does! I dont have any games that use 720p or 1080i, but halo 2 in 480p looks awesome on my 19" CRT, much better than the TV plus I use a SmartJoy FRAG KB&M adapter for the xbox and it works out well having everything at a desk...

-Tony

Check out this site for overclocking, especially the forums:

http://www.overclockers.com

If your mobo came in a pc like a Dell, you wont be able to overclock it as Intel branded mobo's dont give you the options to do it.

That said I've been running my P4 3.0c at 3.5ghz stable for about a year now us a ABit AI7 mobo.

-Tony

I cant wait for my 2005 FPW to come, ordered it yesterday for 438.00 shipped! Although, I missed the uber deal this lcd on Thursday could be had for 384.00 shipped using some stackable cupons.....

Anyhow I cant wait to try Halo 2 on it in 480p widescreen using my x2vga!

I played the demo that came on last months OXM and I didn't really care for it. I might give it a rent....

Read about it in the weekly whats update over on bungie.net. Its supposed to have a bunch of fixes for cheating/glitching and weapon tweaks. Also within two weeks after release the leaderboards will be reset and everyones rank will be reset to zero.

Yeah I think they did, but my Z isn't stock and puts down 350 rwhp or ~400 hp at the flywheel and thats NA (no boost or N20).

-Tony

Thanks! Ok I'll reveal the mysteriousness of it all... I started using that nic in 1999 when I got my 1995 Mystic Teal Z28 (which I still have today) and joined the camaroz28.com message board and its just what I use pretty much everywhere.

-Tony

As of today's update our newest Gold Trader is.... the one, the only, the mysteriously named...

Mystic95Z!

Congrats!

+1 to Rage for a great trade as well.

-Tony

+1 to mikeg for a great trade.

-Tony

Any one here running this combo? How doe games look in widescreen mode on it??

-Tony

ygpm.

I'll give it a go for $20.00. Take paypal??

-Tony

Here's my list.

Devil May Cry 1
Sly Cooper
Ratchet & Clank 1 & 2

And if you can swing it God of War is awesome. if not definatly give it a rent.

Can anyone positively confirm/deny that SC:CT on xbox has support for 480P? I use an X2VGA to connect my xbox to my monitor and games have to atleast support 480P for it to work.

Holy shit! Picked this up yesterday and had a blast with it last night. I dont care if it is only ~10hrs, its worth every penny for the gameplay. I thnk this is what I'll be playing until DLC arrives for Halo2.

Mebbe one of the launch titles is gonna be Burnout 360 Dougnut Destruction....  

I wont be ditching my 6800GT anytime soon, however I do plan on getting a XBox 360 on launch day...

 Same here. Lets just hope it`s NOT called that. Anything but that please! :wink:

No kidding Xbox Whatever is better than that....

I wont be ditching my 6800GT anytime soon, however I do plan on getting a XBox 360 on launch day...

Been playin alot of Halo 2 lately. Bout the only other live game I have worth playing is MechAssault 2, and I haven't even gave it a try yet.

I'm waitin on my brother to send me my demo copy (got two with a preorder). He was talking about some characters having special abilities and one he mentioned was wall jumping.

I've been playing the Unreal Championship 2 demo from OXM, and I'm enjoying it (looks amazing and plays very smoothly), but I'm missing something.  I've been watching people wall jump.  There's one map in particular which has a numebr of close walls set up reaching rather high and I've seen the AI jump back and forth and get up there, going all Mario.  Anyone figure out how to do this?

wOOt! I'm famous  :lol:

Check out this news post over on bungie.net

http://www.bungie.net/News/TopStory.aspx?story=halo2ce&p=2071512

-Tony

Anyone else give this a read?

http://firingsquad.com/games/gran_turismo_4/

Anyone know of a good PS2->VGA adapter? I have a X2VGA for my xbox and love it, I'd like to ba able to hook the PS2 up to my monitor as well.

-Tony

Deal ends Saturday 01/08

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Ratchet & Clank games and the Jak & Daxter games are excellent platformers. Just picked up a PSTwo myself just before xmas. That thing is supa small.

-Tony

What I read also said that if you got the XBox2 with the optional HD, it would have Halo 2.5 preloaded.

-Tony

Just picked me one up from KMart. They just got a shipment of seven thismorning. I briefly thougt about buying a few of them and ebaying them, but I decided I just didn't want to deal with the hassle.

-Tony

Damn are you sure your not Drazzil??  :?

It doesn't matter if it shipped from alaska, they have a nexus in your state therefore they legally have to charge you tax. We've been going through this here at work as well, since we are now part of a larger company that has nexus all over the country.

-Tony

Ok heres a new one for ya...they charged me state taxes of 10% because they said they have a warehouse here in TN....so why the hell does my ship info say....

8:07 pm
 
 Arrived at Sort Facility  
 
 NEWARK NJ  
 
   
 

   11:43 am
 
 Pickup status  
 
 EDISON NJ  
 
 Pre-routed meter pkg picked up  
 

   10:46 am
 
 Left FedEx Origin Location  
 
 EDISON NJ  
?????????????????????????????????

It shoulda came from my own state of TN!..grrr.

Well if ya cant, try a no cd patch. Usually works like a charm.

GoGamer rocks! Ordered the game at around 1:00PM and its already shipped. Cant wait to give this a go as it looks soo cool.

-Tony

Anyone playing this?? It looks sweet. I ended up ordering a import cpoy from gogamer since its not due to arrive in NA until Feb 05.

http://www.lik-sang.com/info.php?category=160&products_id=5438&

-Tony[/url]

Any impressions yet Purge? What about live, can you use it when playing multiplayer?

Not yet... I didn't think Half-Life2 would suck me in as much as it did. I'll try it out this weekend; I'm on call this week and between pages I'm in HL2.

Thats exactly the same thing thats kept me from trying it myself. I'm on the prison level right now (hard).

-Tony