Hey where have you been?! To buy everything new, the bare minimum for hardware would be about $240 (Xbox 360 Arcade is $200, 512MB memory card is $40... both from Amazon.comfliptopbox wrote:I just realized that I'll have to buy an Xbox if I want to play this. Ugh.
How much will I need to spend total to get this all up and running? $400?
). If your TV uses HDMI then buy a $5 HDMI cable somewhere.You could, or you could do what i did...fliptopbox wrote:I just realized that I'll have to buy an Xbox if I want to play this. Ugh.
How much will I need to spend total to get this all up and running? $400?
Ummm Menthol...you're short about $15 for the most important part.MentholMoose wrote:Hey where have you been?! To buy everything new, the bare minimum would be about $240 (Xbox 360 Arcade is $200, 512MB memory card is $40... both from Amazon.comfliptopbox wrote:I just realized that I'll have to buy an Xbox if I want to play this. Ugh.
How much will I need to spend total to get this all up and running? $400?
Thanks! I'll buy that when my 3-month subscription is almost over.Knoxximus wrote:Here is a link for a 13 month card for $40.
http://www.gp2xstore.com/xbox-360-live- ... month.html
Will do!Knoxximus wrote:Menthol, you better post up ur impressions with the Twin Stick mod ASAP on Wednesday, my friend! The sooner I know, the sooner I can get modding!!
EXCELLENT!!!velocity7 wrote:http://www.xbox.com/en-US/games/v/virtu ... efault.htm
Release date updated, now says "4/29" rather than TBD.
I think this is false, as I didn't get a month of free gold with mine....lame.Dreamcazman wrote:Don't forget you get a one month free Gold when you sign up with a new Gamertag anyway, so it's not imperative that you buy a Live subscription now.
This is actually true, I can vouch for it. All new 360s come with a free month of Gold membership for three XBL accounts created on the said console.Testament/Seven7 wrote:I think this is false, as I didn't get a month of free gold with mine....lame.Dreamcazman wrote:Don't forget you get a one month free Gold when you sign up with a new Gamertag anyway, so it's not imperative that you buy a Live subscription now.
Right, but does that include the L/R stick "clicks"?MentholMoose wrote:There is a ton of new info to go through. On the system page, the first paragraph explaining the controls confirms that you can customize the key assignments!!! This was actually already confirmed in a previous column, but there were some reports that this wouldn't be included, so it's nice to have additional confirmation.
I think so, since on the screenshots showing the controller config, those buttons are included, but they have no functionality under the default control schemes. To me it doesn't make much sense to have those unused buttons on the configuration if it was not possible to use them.Knoxximus wrote:Right, but does that include the L/R stick "clicks"?MentholMoose wrote:There is a ton of new info to go through. On the system page, the first paragraph explaining the controls confirms that you can customize the key assignments!!! This was actually already confirmed in a previous column, but there were some reports that this wouldn't be included, so it's nice to have additional confirmation.
Just to go back a little bit in the discussion. I discovered they went a weird way about implementing the free month of live subscription. When you create a gamertag it will ask you to sign up for a gold account. If you say no they will give you a free month. If you say yes you buy however much you want but you dont get your free month. I bought a card and straight away used it and was suprised when i didnt get my free month. But basically if you've bought a card, when you create your gamertag just say 'you don't want to sign for a gold account' and then they will give you a free month worth of gold account. And when you have your free month, then you can use you card to purchase another 12 months. I hope that made sense, but yeah i was bummed out when i just used my card straight away and didn't get my free month.velocity7 wrote:This is actually true, I can vouch for it. All new 360s come with a free month of Gold membership for three XBL accounts created on the said console.Testament/Seven7 wrote:I think this is false, as I didn't get a month of free gold with mine....lame.Dreamcazman wrote:Don't forget you get a one month free Gold when you sign up with a new Gamertag anyway, so it's not imperative that you buy a Live subscription now.
I hope it's ok to post this question about modding here but since we're on the topic. I've been working on making my twin stick and im a lil dissapointed im not finished yet. But it's no biggie, i'll get used to the controllerKnoxximus wrote:Right, but does that include the L/R stick "clicks"?MentholMoose wrote:There is a ton of new info to go through. On the system page, the first paragraph explaining the controls confirms that you can customize the key assignments!!! This was actually already confirmed in a previous column, but there were some reports that this wouldn't be included, so it's nice to have additional confirmation.
But my plan is to wire up my buttons to the clicks but i wasn't sure how to go about it since those two big boxes that hold the thumbsticks are there. Does anyone know if i have to remove these box things to wire buttons to the L/R clicks? or can i just solder the wire to the back of the pcb?
