Xbox 360 Very Unstable 1113
fmwap writes "There have been several postings over at Xbox-scene complaining of crashing Xbox's on new games, with default settings on single player. Crashes on Xbox Live and on startup have been reported too, and Project Gotham Racing 3 crashes before finishing the first lap. Screenshots and Video are available showing the crash."
1699 parts ok (Score:5, Funny)
http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/18
and it seems to be the same in other forums too:
http://forum.teamxbox.com/showthread.php?t=391764 [teamxbox.com]
Have you tried.. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Well... (Score:2, Funny)
And in todays news... (Score:5, Funny)
Pope is discovered to be a Catholic
Family of bears accused of defecating in forested areas
here's my surprised look (Score:4, Funny)
hmmmm .... (Score:5, Funny)
Sounds like someone needs to improve their driving skills and stop blaming the system.
Could be worse... (Score:5, Funny)
So the new XBoxes are crashing...let's just hope they've addressed the problem of the XBox bursting into flames and killing you [theregister.com]. ^_^
Well... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Have you tried.. (Score:1, Funny)
you have to put a matchbook under the cassete!
Maybe Microsoft bought the chips from... (Score:2, Funny)
what does MicroSoft call an alpha-tester? (Score:5, Funny)
Furthermore, "geek up" the product so the alpha-testers will wait in line for 18 hours and pay twice as much as for competitor's hardware for this "priviledge".
Hoax (Score:5, Funny)
Windows ME (Score:2, Funny)
funny (Score:3, Funny)
I knew it! (Score:2, Funny)
Rumors (Score:5, Funny)
Re:And in todays news... (Score:1, Funny)
=Smidge=
duh... (Score:3, Funny)
You're playing a racing game. You're gonna crash.
Or how about? (Score:5, Funny)
Cool crash screens though. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Well... (Score:1, Funny)
typical MS response (Score:2, Funny)
Re:And in todays news... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Cool crash screens though. (Score:5, Funny)
>out a Atari 2600 game cartridge with the power on. Hey wait, the crashes themselves look better than atari
>2600 games. Oh no!
Why didn't they color the crash screen using Microsoft's trademark blue?
Re:And in todays news... (Score:5, Funny)
Family of bears crashes
(...for the night? crashes the party?) Anyway every camper knows to shut the flaps against the bears.
Pope is accused of defecating in forested areas
Hey, when you gotta' go, you gotta' go. Nature calls.
But this?
Microsoft discovered to be Catholic
I call bullshit - don't let the tithing (MS tax) / real charity done by the Foundation throw you off. No way Gates would let his workers wear his crucified corpse around their neck. (Though I'm sure Balmer has thought of it...)
Also 0 hits on this search. [google.com]
Re:Or how about? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:hmmmm .... (Score:3, Funny)
Nah it's just their new 4th dimension virutal reality feature.
Oh, and I HIGHLY recommend you don't play Mortal Kombat.
Re:What is this? A tabloid? (Score:1, Funny)
That's where you're wrong. There is such a *concept* as quality control. In the computer world, quality control means that someone checks to make sure that there's no mayonaise in it.
I'd like to thank the guinea pigs (Score:5, Funny)
We salute you!
Re:I wish I had a dollar (Score:5, Funny)
hmmm..
DANTE: All right, so even if independent contractors are working on the Death Star, why are you uneasy with its destruction?
RANDALL: All those innocent contractors hired to do a job were killed--casualties of a war they had nothing to do with. (notices Dante's confusion) All right, look--you're a roofer, and some juicy government contract comes your way; you got the wife and kids and the two-story in suburbia--this is a government contract, which means all sorts of benefits. All of a sudden these left-wing militants blast you with lasers and wipe out everyone within a three-mile radius. You didn't ask for that. You have no personal politics. You're just trying to scrape out a living.
BLUE-COLLAR MAN: Excuse me. I don't mean to interrupt, but what were you talking about?
RANDALL: The ending of Return of the Jedi.
DANTE: My friend is trying to convince me that any contractors working on the uncompleted Death Star were innocent victims when the space station was destroyed by the rebels.
BLUE-COLLAR MAN: Well, I'm a contractor myself. I'm a roofer...(digs into pocket and produces business card) Dunn and Reddy Home improvements. And speaking as a roofer, I can say that a roofer's personal politics come heavily into play when choosing jobs.
RANDALL: Like when?
BLUE-COLLAR MAN: Three months ago I was offered a job up in the hills. A beautiful house with tons of property. It was a simple reshingling job, but I was told that if it was finished within a day, my price would be doubled. Then I realized whose house it was.
DANTE: Whose house was it?
BLUE-COLLAR MAN: Dominick Bambino's.
RANDALL: "Babyface" Bambino? The gangster?
BLUE-COLLAR MAN: The same. The money was right, but the risk was too big. I knew who he was, and based on that, I passed the job on to a friend of mine.
DANTE: Based on personal politics.
BLUE-COLLAR MAN: Right. And that week, the Foresci family put a hit on Babyface's house. My friend was shot and killed. He wasn't even finished shingling.
RANDALL: No way!
BLUE-COLLAR MAN: (paying Dante for coffee) I'm alive because I knew there were risks involved taking on that particular client. My friend wasn't so lucky. (pauses to reflect) You know, any contractor willing to work on that Death Star knew the risks. If they were killed, it was their own fault. A roofer listens to this...(taps his heart) not his wallet.
Re:Last minute change in the BIOS? (Score:5, Funny)
+4 interesting on speculation? wtf (Score:1, Funny)
-everphilski-
Re:Cool crash screens though. (Score:5, Funny)
What people really want to know is "does it run the Sony rootkit?"
Re:And in todays news... (Score:5, Funny)
Another crash scene (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Have you tried.. (Score:4, Funny)
What's "a trace of a crash?" (Score:5, Funny)
What, exactly, is "a trace" of a crash? Sounds like "a little bit pregnant" to me...
Re:Cool crash screens though. (Score:4, Funny)
--- A Ballmerable Snowman ---
Steve Ballmer is led onto a stage in chains and shackles. The audience looks aghast at the hideous creature. Although he is clearly dangerous, he seems to be pacified by a rather large contingent of middle managers.
On the other side of the stage, Bill Gates is demonstrating the XBOX 360. The press is eating it up. The audience is on its feet. Suddenly the XBOX bursts into flames. Ballmer sees the flames and reacts with a violent primal rage. He explodes from his restraints with the strength of a hundred men. Rampaging through the audience, he effortlessly tears up rows of chairs, heaving them in every direction. Then, he turns on the people. He grabs each person by their ankles, turns them upside-down, and shakes the money out of their pockets. Bill Gates is speaking over the public adress "Please remain calm. The situation is under control." It's of no use. Panic has ensued.
By this time, Ballmer is stomping around the arena, masturbating wildly, and crushing everyone and everything. Few survive. Finally, sweat-drenched and exhausted, he returns to the stage where he cuddles with his harem of developers.
Dummies (Score:3, Funny)
Re:And in todays news... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:And in todays news... (Score:4, Funny)
Stop me if you heard this one...
Catholic: Who do you confess your sins to?
Baptist: God. So, who do you confess your sins to?
Catholic: A priest.
Baptist: I heard about that, who does the priest confess his sins to?
Catholic: A bishop.
Baptist: Who does the bishop confess his sins to?
Catholic: A cardinal.
Baptist: Who does the cardinal confess his sins to?
Catholic: The Pope.
Baptist: Okay, who does the Pope confess his sins to?
Catholic: God.
Baptist: Oh, so the Pope is a Baptist!
Re:Polls (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Rushed to market? (Score:2, Funny)
So you're saying it's going to take them 359 more versions to get it right? That sounds about par for the course from Microsoft.
They'll have to come out with Xbox 361..... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Have you tried.. (Score:0, Funny)
I don't understand, have you tried severing and boiling your own penis?
Xbox 360 Repair (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Have you tried.. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:And in todays news... (Score:5, Funny)
Fixing Your XBox 360 (Score:4, Funny)
Step 2: Stop playing Sony music CD's in your new XBox. Everyone knows by now only MS O/S's are vulnerable to being rooted by Sony malware.
If Heat is the Problem... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:I wish I had a dollar (Score:2, Funny)
Don't flatter yourself, nobody in the entire world cares what is on your gaming console.
Re:Have you tried.. (Score:2, Funny)
Re:What's your silver bullet? (Score:3, Funny)
The best one I've heard was for the manager to take from the developers how much time it would take to complete the project, then double that, then take it to the next unit of measure.
Developer: 1 day
Manager: OK, that means 2 weeks.
Developer: 1 month
Manager: 2 years
Seems reasonable to me. At the least, its very conservative
Re:Polls (Score:5, Funny)
Oh, come on. We^WThey'd never dream of doing something so low.
Re:And in todays news... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:And in todays news... (Score:1, Funny)
Oi veh
Never mind that... (Score:3, Funny)
...can anyone tell us what the Comedy Manual Phrase is for Xbox 360?
i.e. the warning phrase that is repeated throughout the manual in a worrying but also amusing way.
For Xbox, it was something like "...or the Xbox may fall and injure a small child". (pretty good)
For Dreamcast, it was "...otherwise the Dreamcast may catch fire." (the original, and still the best)
What is it for Xbox 360? :)
Re:Cool crash screens though. (Score:3, Funny)
Xbox team (Score:2, Funny)
developpers : "Are you serious about the crash mode?"
Xbox team : "Ya, put a crash mode in"
developpers : "huh, oh, ok!".