I ordered the tranfer cable from Xbox.com. Works like a champ. Fax in the request and you'll have it in a few days.
I ordered the tranfer cable from Xbox.com. Works like a champ. Fax in the request and you'll have it in a few days.
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Question about upgrading to the Elite...
Those of you who traded in your Premiums for Elites, how did you transfer all of your data?
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Here's the form... http://www.tralfazxmg.com/MigrationKit-OrderForm.pdf
You might want to hold off on upgrading. My friend upgraded and used the transfer cable only to find that his DLC was locked and only worked when his profile was online (connected to the net). Since he has kids who like to play the DLC games with silver accounts, this has essentially broken all his games.
The same thing happened to me when I sent in my first (of three) failed Xbox 360s. All my old games would work, but only with my gamertag and only when it was connected to the net. Even deleting and re-downloading won't fix the problem. It's a "feature" of the Microsoft DRM ... locking content to a combination of the gamertag AND the original console ID. The only way around it is to call support repeatedly until they refund you enough points to redownload the games and tie them to your new console. And this won't work if you bought things that are no longer available (like one of the Lumines songs).
There's a long thread on Xbox.com forums about the issue ... the transfer cable, at least from what they say there and what my friend has unfortunately experienced, does not transfer permissions. Microsoft did not implement an iTunes-style authorization system where if the system dies you can authorize the games for the new system.
I haven't bought any new DLC in 6 months since I realized I couldn't play the games when I took it home to my parent's place, which doesn't have a net connection near the TV.
The same thing happened to me when I sent in my first (of three) failed Xbox 360s. All my old games would work, but only with my gamertag and only when it was connected to the net. Even deleting and re-downloading won't fix the problem. It's a "feature" of the Microsoft DRM ... locking content to a combination of the gamertag AND the original console ID. The only way around it is to call support repeatedly until they refund you enough points to redownload the games and tie them to your new console. And this won't work if you bought things that are no longer available (like one of the Lumines songs).
There's a long thread on Xbox.com forums about the issue ... the transfer cable, at least from what they say there and what my friend has unfortunately experienced, does not transfer permissions. Microsoft did not implement an iTunes-style authorization system where if the system dies you can authorize the games for the new system.
I haven't bought any new DLC in 6 months since I realized I couldn't play the games when I took it home to my parent's place, which doesn't have a net connection near the TV.
Ahhhh, the future is DRM, don't you just love it?
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Originally Posted by nbuubu /forum/post/0
You might want to hold off on upgrading. My friend upgraded and used the transfer cable only to find that his DLC was locked and only worked when his profile was online (connected to the net). Since he has kids who like to play the DLC games with silver accounts, this has essentially broken all his games.
The same thing happened to me when I sent in my first (of three) failed Xbox 360s. All my old games would work, but only with my gamertag and only when it was connected to the net. Even deleting and re-downloading won't fix the problem. It's a "feature" of the Microsoft DRM ... locking content to a combination of the gamertag AND the original console ID. The only way around it is to call support repeatedly until they refund you enough points to redownload the games and tie them to your new console. And this won't work if you bought things that are no longer available (like one of the Lumines songs).
There's a long thread on Xbox.com forums about the issue ... the transfer cable, at least from what they say there and what my friend has unfortunately experienced, does not transfer permissions. Microsoft did not implement an iTunes-style authorization system where if the system dies you can authorize the games for the new system.
I haven't bought any new DLC in 6 months since I realized I couldn't play the games when I took it home to my parent's place, which doesn't have a net connection near the TV.
Ahhhh, the future is DRM, don't you just love it?
I bought and used the 512MB memory card. It took awhile, and I couldn't transfer any of the demos I had downloaded, but I figured I could just download those again if/when I wanted to play those.
For some reason, I couldn't transfer my game saves for Perfect Dark Zeo, but no great loss there. It also wouldn't let me copy Hexic over, but since that was on the 120G drive, not a big deal. Also, the 512MB card had Geometry Wars on it, but I couldn't copy that to the hard drive. I guess they don't want people passing the card around to their friends to copy. Again, no big deal.
For some reason, I couldn't transfer my game saves for Perfect Dark Zeo, but no great loss there. It also wouldn't let me copy Hexic over, but since that was on the 120G drive, not a big deal. Also, the 512MB card had Geometry Wars on it, but I couldn't copy that to the hard drive. I guess they don't want people passing the card around to their friends to copy. Again, no big deal.
same here then returned the card.
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Originally Posted by dbburns /forum/post/0
I bought and used the 512MB memory card. It took awhile, and I couldn't transfer any of the demos I had downloaded, but I figured I could just download those again if/when I wanted to play those.
same here then returned the card.
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