zombiecraig

Stopped by today, just to check. There was an endcap with a few games and a sign advertising the $10 price drop ($60=$50,$50=$40). They did not go through and re-label each individual price label in the cases, or anything, but the sign was there.

Just for the record, there is also a PS3 version.

Thanks for the advice, everyone. I really appreciate it. I still haven't decided what I would like to do. I think that I will hound Microsoft over the phone a few times, like Chickybaby suggested. Other than that, I don't think I'll rush right into it. I do want another 360 and I'm thinking about upgrading to an Elite, and selling this one for parts/repair, like moycon and a few others suggested. But, I'm too damn busy right now to be in any hurry. I think that I'll let things ride until after the holidays and see how things pan out. This is the first console that I've purchased that has ever gone bad, and I have quite a few. So...not too bad, if you look at it that way. Gee thanks, Microsoft.

My 360 finally bit it tonight. No red rings, but it no longer outputs video. It had been acting up over the last month and finally went out this evening. I had a spare cable to check it, but nope, nothing. I checked with Microsoft's website and it looks like my warranty expired long ago. 2007. I can pay them $100 to have it repaired. But is that recommended? Will they just repair this system, or substitute a new one? I'm just concerned that if they repair this one and something else goes wrong, I'll have to pay another $100 due to no warranty. I had been considering upgrading to the larger HDD, anyway. Maybe I should just buy a new one? What are your opinions?

I hope that someone can help me. I've been trying to load Turbo CD games and play them on my Xbox using HuGoX and keep getting an error message: "Could not read TOC from CD - aborting" The discs work fine on my PC using Magic Engine. Any ideas?

Just write cancel on the invoice and send it back. You should be fine. You just won't receive any further issues of Nintendo Power. Which is probably not such a terrible thing.

I don't smoke, but that Mega Drive lighter is incredible!

Well, it's certainly pretty subjective. My gut reaction is to say PS3. But I like many of the features of the 360, as well.

I have to go NES.

I'll have to take a look at that. I honestly haven't opened it all the way, yet. Thank you for the info! Okay, I've got that removed. Any idea where I could get a replacement part for that? I'd appreciate any suggestions. Thank you!

I'll have to take a look at that. I honestly haven't opened it all the way, yet. Thank you for the info!

No lights. Nothing. It appears to be completely dead. Actually, upon further review, it looks like one of the prongs is broken off the back of the power supply. In theory, I may just be able to swap out the power supply? I mean, that is certainly a primary issue. I wonder if there are any other problems?

No lights. Nothing. It appears to be completely dead.

I was given one the will not power on at all. Any suggestions on what I should look for? What does Sony charge for repair? I may consider using it as an emulation machine, if that's a possibility.

Brand new NES & SNES games always smelled the best.

I'm an NFL nut, so I feel compelled to purchase Madden year after year. I have friends out of state that like to play online, otherwise, I would probably skip this year. However, since the series made the jump to the current generation of consoles, I just don't like the series as much as I used to. Either, I tired of the formula, or they just don't seem to be quite as solid of products as they used to be, or perhaps a combination? I really used to enjoy the single player franchise modes in the PS2 & Xbox era. I like the management aspect of developing players and whatnot. However that franchise modes on the current gen of consoles have sucked, so far. There always seems to be some portion of it that is essentially broken. Last year was player progression and maybe the draft, also. The draft worked, but the rookie selections were all out of sorts. It seemed like anyone in the league could get a new franchise QB in the first round, there were TONS of GREAT players to be had at certain positions. It was simply unrealistic. I think that was last year, but maybe it was the year before? And Lord Helmet is right, once you get used to the CPU AI, you can generally blow them away pretty easily. Lately, EA always seems to release it full of bugs and issues and then finally gets around to correcting a few of them with updates by the time the real season is about half over. If you are hopelessly addicted to the NFL, you may enjoy it to some degree. If you're picky like me, you'll buy it and then just piss and moan about it later.

I like Entombed, also. I'm actually also a fan of the paddle game, Piece O' Cake. However, that gets redundant fairly quickly.

I've been hoping for some of the more classic guitar heavy KMFDM songs for some time. If they ever did get a pack, I'm afraid it would all be the more current stuff, which I'm not a huge fan of. Skinny Puppy would agree with me, as well.

I was just happy to have some of the more current stuff. If they were to release a classic Ministry pack, I may die instantly due to excessive euphoria.

This is a really cool idea. I'll definitely keep an eye on it.

Definitely will be getting the Iron Maiden pack. Ministry recently and now Iron Maiden? Rock Band has new life for me!

Yeah, I couldn't have taken anything, even if other people were, like you said. I'm not trying to personally attack your decision. People are different. Me personally, it just wouldn't feel right. It makes me a little sick to hear about that happening to someone.