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To avoid the direction my blog is headed – a twitter repository – I thought I’d add a new post.

This weekend I wanted to move all my content between an old Xbox 360 & a new Elite Xbox 360.  At first I thought this would be easy…  Essentially I’m transferring data between to PC’s.  And what’s this?  They both have USB ports?  The plan formulated quickly…  Just get a USB cable and attach the two Xbox’s together.

I was wrong (also a great Social Distortion song).

There’s a special Xbox 360 Hard Data Transfer Cable.  Of course there is.  And it’s ONLY $20.  Only.  When a USB cable transfer method (which it appears this mostly is) would have been free.

So – first complaint – that’s all sorts of lame.  Thanks Microsoft.  For nothing.

Second complaint – and I’m not sure who to blame this on – is DRM.  Since I’m not paying for a transfer kit I’d only use once, I used my memory card to transfer over ALL my save data.  There were several gigs so this probably took about half an hour.  Which is fine, I saved $20.

The problem came when I was trying to move my DANTE’s INFERNO save from my hard drive to my memory card.  And I could not.  It tells me I can not transfer data from one storage device to another.  Even though I’m signed in with my account (I realize that portion of DRM might make sense).

I don’t know which company’s fault this is…  Either way, even though I paid money for BOTH products, I cannot move my data around.  So it really doesn’t matter where the fault is – it really doesn’t.  I’d LOVE to not be sold software and hardware that cripples simple tasks like that.

In the end I had to boot up the game and then select a save from the hard drive.  I then was able to create a new save on the memory unit.  But guess what?!?  I’ll then have to launch the game, select the save game from the memory unit and then save a new game onto the hard drive.

Awesome.

Way to go everyone.

Hey Internets.

It seems Tiger 10 has some issues when chipping from the lip of a deep bunker.  It appears there are only animations for characters to stand on a FLAT SURFACE.

This is not what I’d consider a ’shippable bug’.

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This was seen on 3 consoles trying to play a private online game  on a 2-3 different courses.  This happened 2 different times.  It will continue to happen if you don’t reset ALL the Xbox systems that it firsts appears on.

This was seen on 3 consoles trying to play a private online game  on a 2-3 different courses.

Sloppy QA EA.