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powerben5000

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« on: July 30, 2002, 11:09:00 AM »
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The files are 127 kb/sec .WMA files.  When I networked my box to my pc and played them in winamp, they played just fine for me.  As for dumping your pc's .wma or .mp3 to the box and making them work, well, I've just never tried that.  Let me know if you do somethin like that...wink.gif

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powerben5000

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« Reply #1 on: July 30, 2002, 11:42:00 AM »
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Yeah, I can't much blame you for being squeamish about opening up a $200 investment and saying, 'I'm gonna void the warranty and stick my soldering iron on that motherboard..'  smile.gif

I've actually had more fun modding the xbox and making it do what it isn't supposed to do, than I have playing xbox games. biggrin.gif

But yes, the .wma doesn't appear to be proprietary, as I played them on my windows 98 machine easily.  I do wonder if you could rip lower bitrate wmas and copy them to the box and have them play properly.  The only problem is that the songs title info is stored in a separate database file not the wma file itself (like mp3s with id3 tags), so I don't know how the box would handle ripped wmas.     : ^ \

Hope I don't confuse you too much, I know I was confused not that long ago, I've been there d00d.

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powerben5000

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« Reply #2 on: July 30, 2002, 12:36:00 PM »
Yeah, Agent under Fire does blow donkey balls. biggrin.gif

Of course, it's a GayCube port so that's to be expected.  smile.gif

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powerben5000

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« Reply #3 on: July 30, 2002, 12:47:00 PM »
Good point...I think Halo's control scheme is going to be the one every developer of FPS games uses (unless they're stupid).  HeLL, HALO is going to be the overall level of quality that people are going to be looking for in future xbox releases. biggrin.gif

And I don't know what's up with EA, giving XBOX people inferior/dumbed down ports of their sports games.  I heard there's a petition drive going to make EA cater more to XBOX fans.  :^/

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powerben5000

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« Reply #4 on: July 30, 2002, 02:11:00 PM »
D00d...

The BEST site for anything Halo-related is http://halo.bungie.org.

There's some really intelligent discussions about the Halo universe, back-story, ideas for the future, wallpapers, videos...Not to mention the Halo Warthog Jump Experiment (LOL) smile.gif

I'm going to get the book Halo:The Fall of Reach, it's $7 on amazon.com and it gives a lot of back story from what I've heard.

I hope the MS buyout doesn't affect Bungie badly...my hope is that they'll be an independent division of M$.



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« Reply #5 on: July 30, 2002, 03:16:00 PM »
I don't care if it's from mycrosoft smile.gif Cause all i see is the good-games come from MS-paid divisions... See Halo, and Gotham Racing. They both came out under MS name. Or am i wrong?
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