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Microsoft to Nat: You’re Screwed

December 7, 2009 by Nat 7 Comments

Well, the family just acquired LEGO Rock Band. Popped it in, navigated past the main menu, and lockup with Three Red Lights. This is the second time it’s happened. Before Christmas? Wonderful. Out of warranty? Possible. We got the thing in 2006. If it is, I’m NOT GETTING A NEW ONE. Sometimes, the console company makes it easy for you to decide whether or not to buy their exclusive games. Kind of a bummer too, because we just cracked open Forza 3 and played it once.

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  1. Jason O says

    December 7, 2009 at 10:26 pm

    I know it’s not exactly a cheap option, but there is always switch Rock Band over to the PS3. You can probably find the original instrument bundle and game for a song.

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  2. Nat says

    December 7, 2009 at 11:01 pm

    The only thing that is making me think about the $100 repair is all the Rock Band investment we’ve made. The DLC songs don’t transfer.

    I’ve found a repair guide online that I can use. It may cost me $6 total to do it.

    I’m pretty sure that my 3 year warranty is passed. xbox.com says my standard warranty has expired 7/30/07. I assume this would be the 1st year of my three year warranty for 3RL. So my 3 year would expire on 7/30/09 correct?

    I can buy an arcade for $200 if I had to. I don’t know what moving the hard driver over would do.

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    • Will says

      January 4, 2010 at 8:01 pm

      Hey Nat, Rock Band DLC is playable on other systems. I was playing my RB1 and DLC tracks with Rock Band 2 on the new 360. Everything played just fine.

      Are you saying that you can’t do the license transfer thing to another console? If that is the case, it certainly sucks, but as long as you are connected to LIVE it’ll be usable.

      Or did I misunderstand the situation?

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      • Nat says

        January 4, 2010 at 9:22 pm

        I mean they don’t transfer from 360 to PS3.

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  3. Nat says

    December 8, 2009 at 1:08 am

    Well, there’s no way I’m sending it in now.

    This sucker is in pieces. It looks like I may try giving it some new thermal paste. We’ll see how that goes. What have I got to lose now?

    In no way is Microsoft getting another console from me at this point in time.

    There might be a buttonmashing fire sale on 360 items in the near future…

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    • Tony says

      December 8, 2009 at 9:36 am

      What repair guide did you use? Can you share pictures so we can see?!

      Bummer it died on you with all your RB DLC and Forza 3. I’ve loved what I’ve played of it so far.

      By the by, moving a hard drive over from your old console to a new arcade would be a seamless transition, I don’t think you have to do anything special to get it to work.

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      • Nat says

        December 9, 2009 at 11:15 pm

        Oh, I’m certainly taking pics of the process.

        Reply

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