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March 25, 2006 12:03 AM
Broken: Xbox message
Nathan Davis submits a picture of a message from his Xbox:
I don’t know what happened on my Xbox, but I thought it was ironic!
It's like KERNEL32 error 0: The operation completed successfully. Rejoice!
--I kid. Broken fails to describe this. Has the 360 given similar errors? I don't have one, so I'm curious.
Microsoft is broken. Consoles never used to have error messages, but they've brought that over from their sub-par OS.
One should point out that's not an XBox error, its an Xbox Media Center (XBMC) error. One of the pieces software run by modified XBoxes.
BlastYoBoots: You're right, consoles didn't used to have error messages. They'd just fail in strange ways giving you no hint of the problem? Remember NES games glitching or not booting, and the only troubleshooting technique was blowing on the cartridge connector? How about when saved games got corrupted, and you only noticed this because all your progress (in all save slots!) was erased?
Let's face it: today's consoles are much more sophisticated, with a higher chance of something going wrong. Back then, a console with just a CPU with a ROM and a few kilobytes of memory attached, plus a video display processor. Now, consoles have USB, network, IEEE 1394, and WiFi interfaces, DVD-ROM drives, and so forth. Consoles have to deal with many more external influences. I'd much rather have a console tell me it couldn't obtain an IP address rather than silently fail to work online.
As for the introduction of error messages in consoles, I'm pretty sure that started with CD-based consoles, such as the Sega CD. The errors were pretty limited ("Cannot read disc." or "Invalid game disc."), but they existed.
My favorite of all errors on Sega Genesis and NES was the every other row of the game showing up and it squeaking some of the intro music... "oh damn danny blow on the catridge again.."
That x-box isn't "modded" the 360 is supposed to communicate with a media center PC over the network -- BROKEN
No, actually it is modded, cause its running XBMC (Xbox Media Center), and you can't run that one any xbox without modding it, since it is not signed. And obvioulsy this is not a 360 because it looks exactly like XBMC, and the 360 interface is not like this. There is just something wrong with the code, so this is broken though.
On the other hand, the XBox 360 does seem to be pretty broken in its own right. Yesterday is the first time I'd ever played one, and halfway through a course in Project Gotham Racing 3, the system suddenly decided that the disc in the drive was for the wrong region and put up an error message to that effect, then after 5 seconds rebooted and went back to the main menu for the game (which was apparently now the right region again). Brand-new system and disc, too.
Also I really hated how the center button brought up the dashboard. It was too easy to hit by accident while trying to just press the 'start' button.
Damn, someone beat me to the atari comment. Still playing with the same one I've had for 25 years. (Yes, atari is that old). And no error messages!!
I think it's broken to use a *dialog box* on a video game console with a title bar and a little OK button.
There is no mouse and no window manager!
How about a large box or bar with the rest of the screen dimmed out, and "An error occured: (useful description of error here). (Suggestion on how to fix it or try again). Press any button to continue.".
"On the other hand, the XBox 360 does seem to be pretty broken in its own right. Yesterday is the first time I'd ever played one, and halfway through a course in Project Gotham Racing 3, the system suddenly decided that the disc in the drive was for the wrong region and put up an error message to that effect, then after 5 seconds rebooted and went back to the main menu for the game (which was apparently now the right region again). Brand-new system and disc, too.
Also I really hated how the center button brought up the dashboard. It was too easy to hit by accident while trying to just press the 'start' button."
You fool! You'll start a console-fanboy war! Now you've done it!
Remember kids, God hates console fanboys.
The fine wood grain finish, the simple 1 button joystick, the ability to switch between color and B&W depending on your TV.....nothing beats the 2600
There are probably people reading this who have absolutely no idea what an Atari 2600 (or even an NES) is. *sigh*
Microsoft's programs are always flawed just so you buy their patches to fix those problems...and then those patches come with problems so you buy the OTHER patches to fix THAT problem...
So you modded your Xbox and it gave you that?
Intresting. And i know it's not a 360 because i have one, and it has a offical media center on it, and it doesn't do that.
And NES owns you, i can't deny that.
Warranty voiding... Fun :). I particularily enjoy the ability to play NES, SNES, Atari, N64, PS1...etc.
somthing is wrong with my xbox it has a error that comes up. i cant do anything with it. it wont play games or read discs. the little light that turns it on and off blinks red and green. and at the top it says this xbox needs service or somthing like that. and in the top left hand corner there is a # 13. can somone tell me what the problem is please.
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First!
Funny, guess they have some bugs to work out in that mod.
Posted by: James at March 25, 2006 12:08 AM