New Xbox owner

HiTechRedneck · **Posted:** Tue 08-24-2010 2:16PM

Just bought a refurb 20gb off of Amazon.

Suggestions for good places to find games? XboxLive worth the subscription? You know, the usual stupid noob questions :lol:

LostBoyz · **Posted:** Tue 08-24-2010 3:59PM

watch for deals on live cards, i just picked up a couple for $30 each.

games get from the game store?

dar9q7 · **Posted:** Tue 08-24-2010 4:34PM

if you like multiplayer games then live is essential and yes check for deals. When I bought BC2, it came with 3 months of xbox live for free but then for 12 more dollars I could get a year. Worth it.

HiTechRedneck · **Posted:** Tue 08-24-2010 5:40PM

LostBoyz wrote:

games get from the game store?

True, but if anyone on here has some games they've grown tired of and would like to sell/trade, that'd be cool...I hate to give money to GameStop.

I'll do some searching on Live cards, thanks for the head's up with that.

And, yeah, the whole point of grabbin' an XBox is for the live gaming. I've a buddy who has a 6' (yeah, six foot) Mitsubishi TV and watching him play MW2 online really gave me the bug. Shitfire, it was like life-sized! :lol:

ShadowCat38 · **Posted:** Wed 08-25-2010 8:14AM

Check pawn shops for 360 games too. Especially in towns like Salem, St. James, and Sullivan where the college students are rare, gamer populations are really young, and the pawn owners are really old and don't really understand the value of the games.

It has worked out very well for me.

zeroluck · **Posted:** Thu 08-26-2010 8:25AM

fw mod console and download games from usenet

HiTechRedneck · **Posted:** Thu 08-26-2010 10:07AM

zeroluck wrote:

fw mod console and download games from usenet

Hrmmmm...will Google this, o' wise one

blitzvergnugen · **Posted:** Thu 08-26-2010 3:35PM

HiTechRedneck wrote:

zeroluck wrote:

fw mod console and download games from usenet

Hrmmmm...will Google this, o' wise one

Don't even bother if you plan on using live.

cmptrnrd16 · **Posted:** Thu 08-26-2010 6:15PM

Pro tip: get Live then cancel it except when you call get someone who doesn't know what he is doing. I have live for free for 5 years now.

LostBoyz · **Posted:** Thu 08-26-2010 8:16PM

zeroluck wrote:

fw mod console and download games from usenet

fw mod is for little nublets

protip: have 2 360s, one for live, one jtag for homebrew

zeroluck · **Posted:** Sat 08-28-2010 11:54AM

LostBoyz wrote:

zeroluck wrote:

fw mod console and download games from usenet

fw mod is for little nublets

protip: have 2 360s, one for live, one jtag for homebrew

except, who wants to mess with 2 360's? also, most jtag units are launch units and 2nd generation. Most of these units will eventually fail to solder joint fractures, and most of the ones available online are old RROD boxes that have a half ass hack fix done to them.

LostBoyz · **Posted:** Sat 08-28-2010 1:01PM

yes it is so difficult turning on one box rather than another, and if the box fails no big deal. I also get to run homebrew, emulators, arcade games, and load retail games from the harddrive without risking my live account.

el_lorenzo · **Posted:** Sat 08-28-2010 6:56PM

cmptrnrd16 wrote:

Pro tip: get Live then cancel it except when you call get someone who doesn't know what he is doing. I have live for free for 5 years now.

Hmm... I didn't know that xbox live had a save team... I will have to explore this option.

zeroluck · **Posted:** Tue 08-31-2010 9:14AM

LostBoyz wrote:

yes it is so difficult turning on one box rather than another, and if the box fails no big deal. I also get to run homebrew, emulators, arcade games, and load retail games from the harddrive without risking my live account.

Congratulations, you turned a gaming console into an unexpandable computer with a shitty Macintosh PPC processor that will fail.

LostBoyz · **Posted:** Tue 08-31-2010 3:34PM

wait so since mine is more capable than yours, mine is worse....

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