I got another reply today. Hello Andy, Thank you for writing Xbox Customer Support! I understand that your “Viva Pinata” and “Eternal Sonata” game discs got scratched even if your Xbox 360 console was not moved in any way, and now your disc won‚Äö?Ñ?¥t play properly. I deeply apologize for the inconvenience that this might have caused you. Andy, we are very sorry to hear about what happened. Movement of the console or strong vibration while the console is reading …
Yes. That is correct. Let me use this strange opportunity to inform you that my site is scheduled to vanish from the internet at some point late Monday night or early Tuesday morning. Not forever though, so worry not! My provider is upgrading things or something. You’ll just have to do something else for those 15 minutes. Like have a wash – you bloody stink.
We got a couple of Philips Freevents 11NB5800 laptops at work this week, and they’re actually very nice. Of course, they come with Vista installed, so we had to remove that. Problem #1 There are no XP drivers for the Freevents 11B5800. There’s nothing in the box (not even a Vista restore disc), and Philips have no mention of any of their laptops on their website. In fact, outside of PC World’s online store, the Freevents doesn’t appear to exist. …
I got this email today at work: Sorry to be pedantic but whoever did the pop-up for interview day has spelt pracitse wrong. I should point out that it wasn’t me that did the pop-up.
Yesterday, I emailed Microsoft with the problems I’d been having. Today, I got this reply: Hello Andy, Thank you for writing Xbox Customer Support! We have received your email and I understand that you found that your game discs got scratched while they were inside the Xbox 360 console. I deeply apologize for the inconvenience. Scratches on a game disc can occur for several reasons. However, scratches do not necessarily prevent the disc from working. If you move or reposition …
Like 16% of other Xbox 360 owners, I too now have a dead console. Unusually, mine doesn’t suffer from the “red ring of death”, but instead seems to dislike playing games. You might recall the problems I was having a couple of months ago with Eternal Sonata, crashing and freezing. Well, a couple of nights ago, Viva Pinata Party Animals started doing the same thing. Last night, it froze completely, and will no longer play at all. Here’s what I …
Well, we played it for a bit, at least. Got a couple of competitions done (I won both), but then it crashed. And that was it. It no longer plays at all. I put the disc in, the screen goes black, and the 360 freezes. When I take the disc out, it’s marked. If I clean the marks off and try again, exactly the same thing happens and the disc gets marked again. Gah! I think my 360 is knackered.
This arrived today, so my wife and I played it a lot this evening. It’s very easy to unlock achievements, isn’t it? I got 200-odd points in the first game! It’s much better than I recall the demo being, but it’s no Mario Party. Still fun though, especially as I won every game. Then it crashed and told me there was no disc in the drive. Pff.
Really getting into this now, even though it is almost entirely guesswork. I think it’s the high rating it scores on the Quirkometer. And I do like games with high quirkery. My bodyguard died, and I hired another (a clown) who was totally useless. Hurrah! And I found a load of pearls, sold them, and made loads of money. And paid the Village People construction worker bloke to fix a bridge. And mapped some stuff. Amazing scenes!
It’s odd, but I seem to start new games on Sunday evenings more often than at any other time. So today, in this strange tradition, I started Tomb Raider Anniversary. It has been a long time since I played the Saturn original, but it certainly is different. Of course, it has the Tomb Raider Legend engine behind it now, and the graphics are much improved, but so far it isn’t really all that familar. The grid-based areas are much less …