hansolo77

If we can vote, so far my favorite is Mikenificent's...

Oh sorry about the repost then. I don't frequent here enough to notice. I just glanced over the first couple of pages in the forum and figured my issue was related to the NEW version and wouldn't have been posted about prior to Feb 25 or so. I guess i probably should have done a search. Attempting fix now... It did the trick! Thanks for the help.

I just updated my FSD and Dashlaunch, then when I booted up FSD it showed a popup that updates were available, so it downloaded them and switched to a console screen to install them then rebooted. Everything is up to date now, but when I go to try to access LiNK it says a Plugin Update is required... what gives? I can't access LiNK now. Also, I know I have the latest version of FSD because I was able to configure the WorldWeather APIKey to get the weather, which is only available on the latest version of FSD. Lastly, when I check the configurations in LiNK's plugin, I have all the ports set to the same they've always been, and confirmed in my router, but when I test, the TCP's fail but the UDP's pass. Login passes though too. Any Ideas?

Whenever I go and add a new game to my console, FS always seems to download a different region for the box art. It's really annoying to go looking through your game list, and having all the box art be in PAL and the languages be different so you can't read about it. I live in the USA, and speak English, but 90% of my covers are from France or something. For instance, I have Lego Lord of the Rings. But rather than grabbing this art: http://covers.jqe360.com/getfile.php?file=4331&type=0&show it grabbed http://covers.jqe360.com/getfile.php?file=4411&type=0&show and this is very annoying. The covers on the wesbite both have the same TitleID, so I assume the only reason it chose the wrong one was because it's listed first alphanumerically on the website. There needs to be a way to override the region and tell FS to download a specific region you want, ie NTSC over PAL. I don't think it's such a huge deal and can't be that hard to implement into the setup menu somewhere. Or there should be some way to have it ask you which art you want to download if there's more than one version available. Just saying....

Apprently they can also reset your gamerscore if you earn a lot of achievements offline. I had over 30,000 but they reset me for no reason. I asked them why 4 times and they chose not to respond. I only play Halo on my live console because it's the only game I truely feel was worth the cost. I still play all kinds of games, and even take my profile to my brothers and friend's house to play and earned all my acheivments that way, but they think you're "cheating" if you get a lot apparently. I don't even think 30,000 is alot considering I saw a guy on halo with over 150,000 and only 2 years of live service to count for it. I didn't suddenly go from 1200 to 30,000 either. I been slowly adding to it for the last 4+ years. I don't know what they thought I did. I was pissed for a while, but I'm pretty much over it now. In a way, I AM cheating them with my backups/GOD's but that's no reason to reset you.

Just move your profile onto a USB jump drive.. thats what I did. You can then plug it into your LIVE console and plug it into your OFFLINE console, and still have the same profile. Just be careful. For some reason MicroSoft felt it was necessary to reset my gamerscore because they thought I was somehow cheating. Granted I never play anything but Halo on my LIVE console, but they felt all the achievments I earned offline didn't count for squat. So they reset me and then put a lockout on them so I can't re-earn them. I was royally pissed, but I got over it considering I am CHEATING them out with my backups.

I attempted to modify illume myself so that when a disc was in the drive it wouldn't have the artwork cut off. I didn't do such a good job though since I've never made a theme/skin before. Also I had issues with the transparency I couldn't figure out how to fix. Here's my thread on the forum where they author posted the theme: http://spiffy360.com/forum/thread-884.html I contacted the author and asked about getting an update but he said he's not able to since his xbox died and he can't test his themes anymore.

Ahh, just chimed in my confirmation of the same lag on another thread. Glad to see it is indeed related to the weather app. Strange they would ban you for over usage. It's not like you're spamming, and the whole idea of having an api is for many people to easily access it. I use GameEx on my PC for emulators and such, they have a weather plugin, as does Media Browser. I'll ask around and see what service they use and see if you can incorporate it in a future FSD update.

I also noticed the lag while browsing through the game list. I thought it was just something on my end where it was buffering the lists, but it would come and go. Perhaps it's related to the weather app, and the xbox is polling the website for the data, causing the game lists to lag. I will try to disable the app and see if it makes a difference.

I was about to report a similar issue, but I think the weather app in FSD is broken at the moment. I've had mine configured for a while now, and the last couple days it's not been pulling the info. I think the problem you're having is directly related to the app not functioning. It's probably something with the API backend of the host server. I suspect TeamFSD already knows about this and is working on a fix. It was broken before the F3 updates and was fixed, so I'd just wait it out.

I'm curious too about the online functionality.. it says in the details that the online works, but how? Does it work through LiNK or is it something else? I'm gonna install this tonight, just wanna know.

Cool, thanks for the info! You guys all rock.

Sorry, I didn't mean to sound upset. It was just an idea, I don't really need it, I'm just sure theres other people out there that would like to have it too.

Since RGH/Jtag and the whole FSD thing is really a hack to the system, I was wonder if there are any plans to incorporate Xbox 1 compatibility to the LiNK. As it stands right now, you can't press the Guide button in Xbox 1 as there was no function linked to it. However, Pre-LiNK had the ability to play linked games (like Halo 2) through XLink Kai. Since the latest builds have removed XLink Kai, theres no way now to play them. If there weren't plans, I'd like to add this to a feature request.

This is what I had to do... Download the update from here: http://www.realmodscene.com/index.php?app=core&module=attach&section=attach&attach_id=299 Use the FSD3 install ISO/USB and do a clean install of FSD3 by checking the box "Remove Previous Version". Do NOT select to download updates in the install program. WAIT FOR INSTALL TO FINISH Enable Samba server in the FSD3 settings. Extract the downloaded update into the Freestyle folder on the Xbox.

I had this problem yesterday and posted about it. There is something buggy with the hosting url. JPizzle was able to do something to fix it for me and I was able to download the update from the website here. In my case, I had to use the original F3 install ISO, checked the box to remove previous install and then installed it fresh and clean (without downloading updates). I then enabled SAMBA on the xbox and extracted the update into the Freestyle folder on my HDD in the Xbox.

I had to manually download the update from here. I don't know what the deal is with the iso/usb causing the xbox to shutdown. That's the strangest thing I've ever had happen to me.

Yeah its working now.. wierd, musta been something with the website. I only wish I was more patient. I even tried to do a "remove previous install" on the install disk to start from scratch thinking maybe the older beta was messing up the internal FSD updates. Now I got to redownload all the extras. Oh well, probably a good thing to refresh everything anyway. Thanks!

Whenever I try to get the latest update, it always fails. When I try to get the updates through FSD, it very quickly says the updates have finished downloading, but when it reboots to install it says an error occured and restarts FSD. When I try to use the F3 install CD I made, the xbox fades to black and shuts down while attempting to download. When I try to download the update via the website here, it sits at 0% for like 2 minutes, then 'downloads' suddenly; however when I go to up the archive it says it is unsupported or corrupted. Can somebody help me?

I have not been able to create a room (limit 1 per hour error as well)

1) I think because the LiNK system is still in BETA, not a lot of people are taking advantage of it yet. Theres not really been a huge announcement on any of the other sites, so it's just a kinda 'thing' right now that smart people are learning about. 2) I'm sure the ability to create lobbies is something being worked on, as somebody was able to create a lobby for zombies in BlOps 2. I think it's just a dev-only ability at the moment. Again, this is still BETA so theres lots of stuff still being worked on/tweaked/added/etc.

Are you sure you're not joining? The icon with a globe and the controller in it is the lobby you're in. If you change, the icon will change. Also it says what you're currently in the the 'center' tab.

You can host a game in any lobby. The lobbies are just there to help spread out the userbase so it's not all crowded. I think there is a limit of like 35-40 users per lobby. As for creating a LOBBY, that doesn't seem to work for anybody at the moment. I think dev's are the only ones able to make lobbies. Would be nice if we could have a method of locking lobbies we create (when we CAN create) so we can keep people out that we don't want. As for logging into link or covers, it was the exact same username/pass for me; I didn't need to create a new account or anything. What I'd like to know is if LiNK is working (tests pass, etc) can we have access to the LiNK system outside of the game we're linked in? For instance, if I make a friend, or my brother is listed as a friend, would I be alerted to him signing in (like XB Live does) if I'm playing a game? Also, can we send/receive messages from friends? I've not actually setup any friends yet, so this is probably already easily answered.

This is my process for hosting: 1) Start Game 2) Load/Sign into LiNK 3) Choose Lobby 4) Click System Link in Game 5) Start hosting in Game 6) People Join This is my process for joining: 1) Start Game 2) Load/Sign into LiNK 3) Choose Lobby 4) Click System Link in Game 5) Join game in progress if listed 6) If not listed, go back to main menu in game and repeat steps 3-5 in a different lobby. So basically, you wanna make sure you're in the LiNK lobby prior to opening the System Link menu item in the game. This has always worked for me, provided all tests pass in the LiNK setup. If you change LiNK lobbies while still in the System Link screen, it may not refresh after you change, thus you might have to click the refresh button if it exists.

I also have noticed that if somebody is playing and goes to play another game, LiNK will keep their inactive profile in the room until they log into a different one. So there is a possiblity there are really 25-30 inactive people, and only 2 active ones. This is something I've already made note of in another thread, although I don't know if anybody in the dev department noticed since they never responded.