Late Night Consoling
The interview with the ESRB president Patricia Vance by GameSpot revealed an interesting piece of information; the IEMA (Interactive Entertainment Merchants Association) and nationwide retailers are pushing hard to have a carding system in place by the 2004 holiday season. She couldn't really expound upon the topic, but it basically means that within the next few months, expect to be asked for ID when you're purchasing that new M-rated title. I've seen this action in a few places already and have been carded myself, despite being well above 17. I'm a proponent of this change as a huge benefit will help shift the burden of responsibility if and when something tragic happens. It's not the developer's or the store's fault the minor picked something up from a violent game; the burden is now placed on the guardian(s) for not monitoring the kind of activities the minor was engaging in. I think it's a right step in the preservation and advancement of the industry.
| US/Europe PSX Delayed In an interview with Bloomberg, Sony Electronics America president Hideki Komiyama revealed that the PSX uber-system has been delayed in both the US and European markets until sometime in 2005. The reasoning behind the delay is to make the device more enticing to buyers in those regions since the product hasn't been that hot in the Japanese arena. I have a feeling this is going to go the way of the 64DD. |
| Weekly Bungie Update Why is it that Friday is the day of choice for a weekly event? The Bungie update, Prime Time Friday at IGN, Football Friday at TeamXbox...what's up with that? This week's installment doesn't disappoint with the most interesting bit being that the Covenant Elite has 881 animations all by itself. They're an animation machine over there at Bungie! Also in Halo 2 news, it has been revealed that the game will see a European launch on November 11th. |
| Misc. Q&As/Interviews GameSpot has a video interview with Kevin Gill about Backyard Wrestling 2: There Goes The Neighborhood. They also chat with ESRB president Patricia Vance. Eurogamer speaks with the man behind Onimusha and Mega Man, Keiji Inafune. |
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| Game Informer spends the evening going hands-on with Star Ocean: Till The End of Time. They also have the opening cinematic to Ace Combat 5: The Unsong War. GameSpot has a trailer for Forgotten Realms: Demon Stone. They also have screens for the firefighting game Hard Luck, the brawler WWE Smackdown! vs. Raw, and new details on Samurai Warriors: Xtreme Legends. GameSpy goes Berserk with these screens. |
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| Some official trailers for Sudeki coming your way care of GameSpot. They also have an exclusive hands-on look at Dead or Alive Ultimate. Games Domain previews Kameo: Elements of Power (is Kameo the new ToS?). 1up takes a look at Blinx 2: Masters of Time & Space. IGN goes hands-on to provide us impressions, screens, and movies of Yager. GamersHell has a first impression of Iron Phoenix. |
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| Prime Time Friday at IGN and this week they have a video showing Samus stepping through a portal in Metroid Prime 2 Echoes. Totally groovy! |
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| More media for football fans by GameSpot in these vids for ESPN NFL 2K5 (PS2, Xbox). They also have screens for TimeSplitters: Future Perfect (PS2, Xbox, GCN). TeamXbox pimps new shots of Colin McRae Rally 2005 (PS2, Xbox). New shots of Def Jam: Fight for NY are at GameSpy. IGN has new images of Test Drive: Eve of Destruction (PS2, Xbox, GCN) and Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2005 (PS2, Xbox, GCN). |
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replyIs there a way to transfer copy-protected save files from one XBOX to another without installing a mod or even opening the XBOX to get to the HDD? Is there perhaps a 3rd-party peripheral I can buy to allow me to do this? TECMO angers me with their habit of making copy-protected saved games. I want the save moved (Ninja Gaiden, DOA: XBV, DOA3, etc), but don't want to void my warranty.
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The option in the memory management menu to simply copy the save to a memory card is not present with TECMO's game saves (as well as some others, but mostly TECMO's game saves). I've seen places selling the Mad Catz "GameSaves" for XBOX which apparently is merely a tool to interface an XBOX memory card with a PC for save-swapping purposes. I was hoping maybe there's a similar product out there which would be an XBOX software disc bootable to its own proprietary game save manager to allow me to transfer game saves with no restrictions. I'm sure I can't be the only frustrated person out there due to these copy-protected saves... I just don't want to lose my effort put into these games when moving to a new XBOX (I purchased a new XBOX to stop the game disc errors which surface periodically when using newer games with an old XBOX).
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You don't have to save directly to the memory card, you can go into the system (no disc inserted) and go to memory, find the TECMO game there and transfer it to the memory card, and then to another machine.
It might still be copy-protected, as you fear, but chances of that are very low. There exists the Mega-X-Key that you can get for a similar price to the xbox memory card, and it holds 32mb (4x that of an xbox memory card), and lets you copy them to the PC and vise-versa.
http://www.lik-sang.com/info.php?category=85&products_id=3034&
But really, who doesn't have a mod in their xbox? The Media Player alone makes the endeavor worthwhile. (I mod xbox's, btw)-
Sorry, I didn't read your previous post well enough, it seems. I kinda just stated what you said already, except with different products.
I'm not entirely sure, maybe you can't copy the save game to the memory card because the data is too large? (KotOR for instance, has an average of 16mb per save-game file)
So if it is locked, the Mega-X-Key won't help you at all, since it acts like a normal (albeit larger) memory card while in the xbox.
The only way I can think of to get the save off there is to mod the machine, or hotswap the hdd into your pc and copy it. (unless it's just the size issue, then a larger memory card might work)-
Thanks for your input, FaMiNe101. Unfortunately, the problem is that the saves give no copy option, despite being tiny enough to stick many copies on a 500-block Microsoft-brand memory card. Anywho, I was just hoping I wouldn't have to open the XBOX and void my warranty for the transfer of the saved game. I have multiple consoles I've stuck MODs in, but I just tend not to do it on machines which are still under warranty (my old XBOX is out of warranty, but my newer one still is under warranty). If only one of those torx screws wasn't under that sticker... I wonder if I can peel away the edge of that sticker and put it back in a way that noone could tell... FaMiNe101, is that practical, or would it leave obvious wrinkles in the sticker? Would I have to re-apply adhesive?
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There are a couple ways to do it, the most popular being to use a hair-dryer to heat the glue a little bit, so it comes off easier. Then you can remove the entire sticker and place it back on (that way the whole thing looks uniform)
But the newer xboxen (I'd say mfg. date 2003+) have a shiny silver sticker on the top right of the bottom of the box, instead of a dull silver one. The shiny silver sticker has small squares you can see if you tilt the box in the light. That sticker is designed to leave checkerboard squares on the box itself if you peel the thing off (Though I've found that if you're careful and use the blow dryer, you can get the whole thing to come off without leaving the squares, and it looks untouched).
But I have yet to see a job that looks 100% untouched afterwards. Though with the small wrinkles you leave when you're careful, you can blame on the box rubbing against stuff during normal use.
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