came home from a short break to find the dreaded 3 lights of doom on my 360
at least the guy on the microsoft helpline was nice lets hope they sort it out quickly.
on a brighter note though i managed to pick up a copy of srikers 1945II for £3 in gloucester this week.
if you are ever in gloucester its worth checking out a shop called rGames on westgate street, they are probably the best retro games store i know,
good for megadrive, snes and ps1 in particular
I hope mine doesn't die.. I've purchased too many gamerpics and themes already. In fact I'm probably going to buy some gamerpics tonight, haha. D:
On the bright side, it's pretty much entirely stored on the HDD, which you don't have to send in. That said, don't send it in! Unless you want to receve one that's blank. It happened to someone I know.
Apparently Microsoft also wipe HDDs because "possible corrupted data" could cause the RRoD. Sounds like BS to me though.
That's not the case any longer. If you report a RROD to them, they specifically tell you not to send the HDD in with the console.
Before they officially acknowledged the shitness of the hardware, it was a different story - they made you jump through hoops when reporting a failure to them. I had my second PAL machine die on me last weekend, though, and there were no quibbles. What's the nature of the fault? Three red lights. Ah, okay, we'll email you the packing slip.
It took them a while to email me a UPS returns slip link that actually, worked, mind you.
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on a brighter note though i managed to pick up a copy of srikers 1945II for £3 in gloucester this week.
if you are ever in gloucester its worth checking out a shop called rGames on westgate street, they are probably the best retro games store i know,
good for megadrive, snes and ps1 in particular
Yeah, I live in Gloucester and rGames is pretty good for retro stuff. They had a Virtual Boy on display for a bit and an old Vectrex too. JPJ who frequents these forums also work at another game store a few doors up Westgate St. called Chips.
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i was in there too checking out dreamcast titles. didnt buy anything though
my gf is from gloucester and i lived in cirencester for a few years so i know gloucester quite well
gloucester has some cool shops, i cant think of another small town centre with such a good variety of independent retailers across a whole range of products
as far as the dodgy hardware is concerned, im guessing that the range of software makes up for it and as long as ms deal with it well and dont leave me too long without a console i will have no complaints
Hmm... strange the kind of luck some people have. I've personally never had a console/computer fail for any reason other than my own ineptitude, with the exception of once blowing the fuse on a Dreamcast's controller ports. I don't currently own any of the current gen systems, though...
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