So I have an Elite and my buddy has an Arcade with removable memory card. If he brings his card to my place, can I temporarily transfer my profile to his card, bring the card back to his place, play on his machine and get gamerpoints and then transfer the profile and additional gamerpoints back to the hard drive on my Elite? Does that make sense? Thanks.

I kindof have a similar question, because I've never messed around trying to play on someone else's box.

I am going over to someone's house for a "Rock Band 2 party"....unfortunately she never hooked her box up to the internet, so not only does she not have any DLC, she hasn't even transferred the RB1 songs onto it.

So I'd like to just take my HDD over there (with all the DLC), but I guess I can't sign into my profile if I do that, so I'd need to take my profile, right? I don't have a memory card, but I can I use a thumb drive?

Of course, I suppose I could just take my whole XBOX, but that would be a hassle to unhook.

Yes, to answer the OP. Or if you both can connect to Live, you can recover your account on to his 360 and then recover back to yours.

Yea Propers, you can do that with your hard drive. Your profile is on the drive too.

So I'd like to just take my HDD over there (with all the DLC), but I guess I can't sign into my profile if I do that, so I'd need to take my profile, right? I don't have a memory card, but I can I use a thumb drive?



No thumb drive.
The 360 won't write to them, remember?

No problem, though; if you don't have a memory card then your profile is on your HDD (the only other place it can be).

All you need to do is plug your HDD into the alternate xbox and make sure the alternate box has net acess and it'll boot up as if it were your home box.

If the alternate box does not have net access there *may* (or not) be trouble if the dlc needs to verify the license the way XBLA games do. Or it may not; I don't have RB so I don't know how restrictive their dlc is.

Have fun!

I've taken my HDD to a friend's house for Rock Band, but his Xbox was already setup to access Xbox Live. Signing in to Live worked great.

However, I think you have to sign in to Live to access your DLC on any Xbox other than the one it was first downloaded to.

I've taken my HDD to a friend's house for Rock Band, but his Xbox was already setup to access Xbox Live. Signing in to Live worked great.

However, I think you have to sign in to Live to access your DLC on any Xbox other than the one it was first downloaded to.

Oh ok...won't do me any good since she isn't on the net with her box. Guess I could just pack up my box....kindof a hassle. No big deal though.

I wasn't sure where the profile was stored at since I know there are 360's without HDD's....I guess you need a memory card if you don't have an HDD? I figured they were stored in some kindof on-board flash memory or something. Never really cared before now.

How does the "Recover Tag" work? If a friend with an Xbox comes over and recovers his tag on mine, what does he need to do? Then he just Recovers on his own box later? Can he do this every week or two and not screw up his or my accounts?

Good question. How do you put your gamertag back on your machine and have it "sync" with the tag that was originally there?

How does the "Recover Tag" work? If a friend with an Xbox comes over and recovers his tag on mine, what does he need to do? Then he just Recovers on his own box later? Can he do this every week or two and not screw up his or my accounts?

Yea, that's the way it works. I have 2 360s and I do it all the time. It overwrites the old one with the latest when you recover back to the other 360. It's just like using a memory card to transfer your profile except you do it through Live.

I guess you need a memory card if you don't have an HDD?


Yes.
On everything except the Jasper Arcades; those have a 256MB "Memory Card" built-in.
The 360s do have built-in flash RSM but it is only for the firmware.