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Xbox360 NXE Dashboard Leaked to the Net!!! But theres a problem
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CrunchinJelly
formerly cjelly
The Faceless Master
Member
i guess this deserves it's own thread so people know the risk vs reward scenario
Domino Theory
Crystal Dynamics
Just release this publicly, Microsoft.
Zombie James
Banned
Silver users should be happy.
MikeE21286
Member
Must fight temptation......
CrunchinJelly
formerly cjelly
Well, there isn't really a risk.The Faceless Master said:
Without Live the Dashboard is pretty pointless, though.
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Deleted member 21120
Unconfirmed Member
I don't think it's that they are actually banning people, I think it's just that anyone with the NXE is unable to connect to Live.rhfb said:
Omar Ismail
Banned
I installed it, took about 3 seconds using a USB key.
SOOOOOOO much faster. And the HDD loading is SAWEEEEEEET. A lot of the cooler features like Avatars/Parties obviously aren't available to me, but I'm going through a single-player game kick right now, so this is perfect.
Before The Darkness was taking ages to load between sections, and every once in a while I'd get a DDE. Now the loading is miniscule and I don't have to worry about a DDE again
If/when I want to play some multiplayer before the 19th I'll just delete the dashboard file. No harm, no foul.
SOOOOOOO much faster. And the HDD loading is SAWEEEEEEET. A lot of the cooler features like Avatars/Parties obviously aren't available to me, but I'm going through a single-player game kick right now, so this is perfect.
Before The Darkness was taking ages to load between sections, and every once in a while I'd get a DDE. Now the loading is miniscule and I don't have to worry about a DDE again
If/when I want to play some multiplayer before the 19th I'll just delete the dashboard file. No harm, no foul.
DancingJesus
Banned
Omar Ismail said:I installed it, took about 3 seconds using a USB key.
SOOOOOOO much faster. And the HDD loading is SAWEEEEEEET. A lot of the cooler features like Avatars/Parties obviously aren't available to me, but I'm going through a single-player game kick right now, so this is perfect.
Before The Darkness was taking ages to load between sections, and every once in a while I'd get a DDE. Now the loading is miniscule and I don't have to worry about a DDE again
If/when I want to play some multiplayer before the 19th I'll just delete the dashboard file. No harm, no foul.
But you can't delete the dashboard file?
CrunchinJelly
formerly cjelly
Omar Ismail said:
The Faceless Master
Member
i was wrong... people lack reading comprehension.The Faceless Master said:
Domino Theory
Crystal Dynamics
mandiller said:
"Microsoft officially announces Halo 4 rumor at E3' 09"
dreamer3kx
Member
cant wait to install my games, come on MS just release this shit, Nov 19! sheesh.
Death_Born
Banned
DancingJesus said:
PSGames said:
My guess is you are only getting the console end of the service. Which means, you will get avatars and all that stuff, but on Microsoft's end they do not have all the online integration quite setup yet for the transition. It could also just be purely a marketing thing with it coming out a week before the biggest shopping day of the year, and their marketing is built around that date.
PSGames said:
Because they need to make sure all their behind the scenes stuff is up to scratch. Servers and other stuff etc. PLUS they released the beta now to see if there are any problems that need to be fixed before releasing it officially to everyone. If you think about how many 360's there are in the world and then think about releasing an update the might break something onto all of them, that's a bit scary. Best to have a large control group to test it all out now and see if it's working the way it should.
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Deleted member 22576
Unconfirmed Member
Kinda tempting.. but 19 days isnt that long.
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Deleted member 21120
Unconfirmed Member
I wouldn't even really call it a risk. You can download it and not be able to connect to Live, or you can wait on it. Everyone knows what they're getting.Guled said:
But I think that links to it are not allowed, since technically, you're only supposed to have it if you got in the Beta.
Benghis Khan
Member
Ok so I'm considering installing this, but I must play Gears online at launch, I must
So I'm thinking of getting a new 120 gig harddrive, I'll put my gt and the NXE onto that and use my old harddrive for playing online, until Nov. 19.
Would this work? Or does the NXE install directly into the Xbox 360's internal memory.
So I'm thinking of getting a new 120 gig harddrive, I'll put my gt and the NXE onto that and use my old harddrive for playing online, until Nov. 19.
Would this work? Or does the NXE install directly into the Xbox 360's internal memory.
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Deleted member 21120
Unconfirmed Member
Read the OP:Benghis Khan said:Ok so I'm considering installing this, but I must play Gears online at launch, I must
So I'm thinking of getting a new 120 gig harddrive, I'll put my gt and the NXE onto that and use my old harddrive for playing online, until Nov. 19.
Would this work? Or does the NXE install directly into the Xbox 360's internal memory.
Benghis Khan said:Ok so I'm considering installing this, but I must play Gears online at launch, I must
So I'm thinking of getting a new 120 gig harddrive, I'll put my gt and the NXE onto that and use my old harddrive for playing online, until Nov. 19.
Would this work? Or does the NXE install directly into the Xbox 360's internal memory.
It installs onto the system. It'll be there even if you remove the hd.
Benghis Khan
Member
angelfly said:
Makes sense, I guess I'll hold off on installing then.
The Faceless Master
Member
well, maybe nobody wants to take the risk of a ban for people who fail at using google?Guled said:
nicholasbrutal
Epic Games PR Manager
You guys are more than welcome to update using this, but I wouldn't advise it.
I can't say how permanent the ban is, but when the words "so that we can ensure you arent permanently banned" are used in an email to press (regarding innocently swapping hard drives to another console), it might be a good idea to hold off.
I can't say how permanent the ban is, but when the words "so that we can ensure you arent permanently banned" are used in an email to press (regarding innocently swapping hard drives to another console), it might be a good idea to hold off.
jordan0386
Member
Dont switch HDD, gotcha.
beelulzebub
Banned
Just like my 360 wouldn't get along with my monitor over a 1920x1080 VGA resolution, same goes with the 16:10 resolutions.
Greatly disappointed. I hope they fix this (the 1080 VGA update has shown that it works for some and not for others. I imagine that'd be the case here as well.) but doubt there is one. My monitor accepts all these resolutions through VGA from my computer, just not my 360.
But hey, at least there's installs.
Greatly disappointed. I hope they fix this (the 1080 VGA update has shown that it works for some and not for others. I imagine that'd be the case here as well.) but doubt there is one. My monitor accepts all these resolutions through VGA from my computer, just not my 360.
But hey, at least there's installs.
The Faceless Master
Member
it's because everything can't fit on the flashrom, so the core of the update goes on the flashrom, while all the extraneous stuff like avatars and image caches go on the HDD/Memory CardFlunkie said:
what monitor?beelulzebub said:
Great update. I'm just installing Table Tennis now for a test-drive. Lost Odyssey was silky-smooth when I played it from the HDD.
I love this leak. I'm pretty sure I'll live without XBL, although I may regret it when GoW2 comes out (hopefully the single-player will keep me occupied long enough).
I love this leak. I'm pretty sure I'll live without XBL, although I may regret it when GoW2 comes out (hopefully the single-player will keep me occupied long enough).
Well, I went ahead and tried it. Only a 7mb download. Random observations and impressions:
-You need to be online in order to create an avatar. But even if you don't have an avatar, you'll have this generic silhouette of an avatar blocking part of the view. Will probably be an annoyance for people who don't use Live at all (and get the update via a game).
-Generally navigating the interface is not faster than the original dashboard. Actually, going through the icons on the interface is slightly slower. There's also a few artificial delays (quick animations here and there). Certain things seems to be much faster though, like navigating your achievement lists. And I'm fairly sure the game library is finally cached, so that's a billion times faster.
-Graphically it looks plain and... plain. It's an improvement of the original dashboard, but then again the original looked pretty bad in my opinion. Compared to something like PS3, I'd say it's still slower and not as visually appealing.
-Everything in the dashboard is stupidly big. They could easily have had space for 5 or 10 icons on one screen but there's only 3. Navigating the achievement list via the dashboard is just a nuisance because you can't quickly select games. But you can still navigate achievements the old way via the guide.
It feels like it was designed for a 480i resolution with a crappy TV and they didn't bother to make it work well for highres. And the guide seems to be only rendered in low res., probably so it takes less memory while playing games.
-Speaking of the guide, it looks like the old dashboard but it functions like the old guide. You have more options, but almost all of them leads to "This will exit your current session. If you are playing a game, you will lose any unsaved progress." Although the one new feature is for running the disc in the console, or running any game on the console. Which is insanely useful for quickly switching between games.
-The guide button sounds are suspiciously identical to the interface sounds from Resident Evil 1 and 2.
And well, that's it. Of course there's stuff I can't even test like online-related functionality and installing games. The dashboard is definitely better than the old one (especially considering the new quick way of launching games), but it's not such a big advancement as I had expected.
-You need to be online in order to create an avatar. But even if you don't have an avatar, you'll have this generic silhouette of an avatar blocking part of the view. Will probably be an annoyance for people who don't use Live at all (and get the update via a game).
-Generally navigating the interface is not faster than the original dashboard. Actually, going through the icons on the interface is slightly slower. There's also a few artificial delays (quick animations here and there). Certain things seems to be much faster though, like navigating your achievement lists. And I'm fairly sure the game library is finally cached, so that's a billion times faster.
-Graphically it looks plain and... plain. It's an improvement of the original dashboard, but then again the original looked pretty bad in my opinion. Compared to something like PS3, I'd say it's still slower and not as visually appealing.
-Everything in the dashboard is stupidly big. They could easily have had space for 5 or 10 icons on one screen but there's only 3. Navigating the achievement list via the dashboard is just a nuisance because you can't quickly select games. But you can still navigate achievements the old way via the guide.
It feels like it was designed for a 480i resolution with a crappy TV and they didn't bother to make it work well for highres. And the guide seems to be only rendered in low res., probably so it takes less memory while playing games.
-Speaking of the guide, it looks like the old dashboard but it functions like the old guide. You have more options, but almost all of them leads to "This will exit your current session. If you are playing a game, you will lose any unsaved progress." Although the one new feature is for running the disc in the console, or running any game on the console. Which is insanely useful for quickly switching between games.
-The guide button sounds are suspiciously identical to the interface sounds from Resident Evil 1 and 2.
And well, that's it. Of course there's stuff I can't even test like online-related functionality and installing games. The dashboard is definitely better than the old one (especially considering the new quick way of launching games), but it's not such a big advancement as I had expected.
jordan0386
Member
Sectus said:
It will be awe inspiring to most, which will lead to positive word of mouth around schools and work. IMO, it'll be great for Xbox.