Did you hastily plug in your 360 without reading the manual? Wondering what sort of things you can do with it? Here are a couple of simple tips to enhance your gaming experience (watch this space for more):Remote Power On
No remote control? Simply hold down the Guide button on your controller to power on the console without leaving your seat.
Appear Offline
Tired of all the messages? Press the Guide button, choose Personal Settings and Online Status. Select Away, Busy or Appear Offline to change how you appear to others.
Themes aplenty
The 360's hard drive is preloaded with a selection of themes from Halo to Kameo and beyond. Choose Personal Settings from the Guide button, then choose Themes to select your new look.
Notifications off
Those popups really getting in the way of your gaming? You've probably figured this one out by now, but you can turn them off by pressing the Guide button, choosing Personal Settings and then Notifications. Some notifications will appear regardless of your preferences, but you can turn off being told about your friends' every moves.
Multiple Gamertags
Just like the original Xbox, you can have more than one gamertag on your console, but you can't link them. Each will need its own Passport account, which you can set up from within the Xbox 360 Dashboard, and you'll need the credit card number and billing details used for the accounts. You can check this on your old Xbox, if you've forgotten which name or address you used. Plug in a USB keyboard to make filling out the details much easier.
Music Mayhem
Enhance your games by playing your own music instead of the in-game soundtrack. (Only available for Xbox 360 games, not emulated Xbox games.) If you're running Windows XP, download Windows Media Connect and share your music between your PC and your 360, or plug in your favourite portable music player via USB and the 360 will do the rest. Press the Guide button to access the music player options while you're playing a game.
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12-04-2005 @ 5:40PM
Wiser said...
Do you know if it's possible to have the Xbox Live subscription count for more than one account on the Xbox 360? My brother and I each have our own seperate accounts. If I were to get an Xbox Live Gold subscription, would it only work with one account but not the other, even if they're on the same Xbox?
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12-04-2005 @ 9:29PM
Don Wilson said...
I wouldn't be surprised if the XBL Gold account would work with only one account. You probably have to sign in every time to download demos, videos, etc.
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12-04-2005 @ 11:33PM
Joey said...
Can I download music from my mp3 player onto the hard drive?
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12-04-2005 @ 11:41PM
zenprism said...
#3 - No.
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12-05-2005 @ 1:13AM
D man said...
Without better support for xbox games, I'm prolly gonna have to keep mine. I'm unpleasantly suprised that you can't play other soundtracks on legacy games. Forza is going to suck without Initial D music.
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12-05-2005 @ 5:17AM
mrhugo said...
Can those of you who bought an X360 in Europe check your Hard Drive trailers?
I bought mine in Switzerland Friday but noticed that the following content is missing from the Hard Drive:
-A Look Inside Xbox 360, from Microsoft Corp
-Rebuilding Titanic, from Twentieth Century Fox/Paramount Pictures
The rest (adidas commercial and warren miller movie) all seem to be there, but it's strange that there is missing content from what microsoft lists on the US version of the site. The adidas commercial also comes in English and French versions, so maybe that's why.
Is this also the case in UK 360's? Or is it just Switzerland?
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12-05-2005 @ 9:25AM
the bastiche said...
Anyone know how to scroll through your music a page or more at a time using the remote that comes with the premium 360. Ive got thousands of artists on my pc but it takes too long to manually scroll down one at a time on the xbox360.
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12-05-2005 @ 11:12AM
Stephan said...
#7: You can use LT and RT to page through list of artists/albums
#6: I bought mine in Germany, I'm missung those movies as well.
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12-05-2005 @ 11:15AM
Stephan said...
#3: Get an external hard drive with a USB connector or a big usb memory stick, copy all your mp3's on it, connect it to your 360 and play them from there. :)
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12-05-2005 @ 12:10PM
the bastiche said...
its got nothing to do with where you play the music from ,external drive or pc, its a question of being able to scroll pages at a time through a large music library. So if you want to play zero 7 for example it doesn't take half an hour to get there.
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12-05-2005 @ 1:39PM
Stephan said...
That's what I said in comment 8: Use the left and right shoulder triggers to page trough lists of albums/artists. Works like a charm. :)
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