ToCA has just released a new Xbox 360 controller emulator (a wrapper library that translates the xinput calls to directinput calls).
"Xbox 360 Controller Emulator" allows your controller (GamePad, Joystick, Wheel, ...) to function like "Xbox 360 Controller" on a Windows PC. For example it allows you to play Grand Theft Auto (GTA) game with Logitech wheel.
360-Hq Homebrew Database: x360ce 360-Hq Download: here Official Site: here
The very next time you turn on your Xbox 360 console and connect to Xbox LIVE you will be prompted to download and install the latest dashboard update which will enable a new dashboard option.
Update:
Rumors are also circulating that the mandatory xbox live update contains AP 2.5 security updates.
After you have accepted the update, you will have access to a new option where you can set your Xbox 360 to "Boot to Disc" OR to the Xbox 360 dashboard. This option can be found in the System Settings blade.
Team Xbox.com have also updated the look of Xbox LIVE gamercards removing the gamerzone portion from the card. Other than the removal of the gamerzone portion of the card it should still hold the same amount of information.
Here is an example of the new Xbox LIVE Gamercard from Major Nelson:
We also now have our own exclusive Xbox LIVE gamercards for everyone to use for FREE! Register for free on 360-HQ, add your Xbox LIVE gamertag, and then choose from over 20 different designs to embed.
Get the latest Xbox 360 news from 360-HQ using our FREE Toolbar for Internet Explorer & Firefox. The FREE 360-HQ Toolbar has over 150 FREE online hi-score flash games built in, with local weather, radio stations, Xbox LIVE features, 360-HQ Site menu, news, achievements, trailers, facebook and much much more.
Have a Samsung drive? iPrep is a tool that simplifies the whole process.
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The Xtreme firmware is not included, you must obtain this yourself.
iPrep is a .NET application and collection of MSDOS applications
for use in flashing Samsung TS-H943A DVD drives.
- Can detect your SATA/RAID controller and HEX-Edits MTKFlash for your chipset.
- Formats your floppy/usb drive and copies all necessary files over.
- Can be used with NTFS cd's, creates a folder on your hdd.
- MD5 checker when selecting your firmware lets you know your firmware is legit
- Updateable Firmware definitions.
- Provides simple to use on screen instructions in MSDOS.
- Works with iXtreme v1.0 and future releases. (Can be made backwards compatable)
- Can be used to spoof a Hitachi GDR3120L Key to a Samsung TS-H943A DVD drive.
- Nolonger uses MSINFO32, should now work in Vista and other WMI capable OS's.
This program contains no firmware or pre-coded patches.
You may link to this publicly and redistribute it freely.
!!NOTE:
BE CAREFUL! THIS PROGRAM USES A FORMAT COMMAND. THIS WILL DELETE ALL FILES ON
THE REMOVEABLE DRIVE LETTER YOU CHOOSE. IF THERE ARE FILES ON YOUR FLOPPY OR USB
DRIVE YOU WANT TO KEEP, GET THEM OFF THE MEDIA FIRST! THE FILES WILL BE
DELETED. DOUBLE-CHECK YOUR DRIVE LETTER BEFORE RUNNNING THE PROGRAM. NOBODY
WANTS TO ACCIDENTALLY FORMAT THEIR WORK! A CHECK HAS BEEN INPLEMENTED TO PREVENT
HDD ERASURE BUT I CANNOT GUARANTEE IT.
How to Use:
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1. Load your floppy disk or connect your USB Flash Drive. (optional)
2. Run iPrep.
3. Detect your sata chipset, if required.
4. Open your Xtreme Firmware's .bin file.
6. Click "DO IT!".
7. Boot from your prepared drive or your NTFS cd.
8. Type "iDump xxxxxxx xxxxx" to backup your 360's original firmware and create you hacked firmware.
9. Type "iFlash xxxxxxx xxxxx" to flash the hacked firmware.
(Don't include the quotes, and replace x with your 360's Serial Number.)
Thanks:
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Caster420 for SamTool.exe.
Bart for make bootable. (mkbt.exe)
Textbook for the initial Idea.
HP for the "HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool".
*Micro$oft for the Xbox 360*
Requirements:
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Microsoft .NET Framework V2
Serial ATA Drivers Installed in Windows for the SATA Detection.
Since Xbox Live's online gaming network launched in November 2002, gamers have spent over 1.5 billion hours on the network playing games online with their friends around the world. This is equal to 65 million days of gaming or close to 200,000 years. With our top title, Halo 2, which is being played on both the Xbox and Xbox 360, gamers have spent over 500 million hours playing online.
Not only are the majority of our owners connected, but they are also spending more time connected to the Xbox Live community on Xbox 360 than ever before. The average number of gaming sessions on Xbox Live on Xbox 360 is currently at 25-a-week, which is up dramatically from the average of 6 sessions-a-week we saw on the original Xbox.
Xbox Live on Xbox 360 continues to grow as a social community; we are seeing an average of 600,000 text messages sent every day between members on the service.
We have already had over 10 million downloads on Marketplace in the first 4 months on the market, reaching this milestone faster than iTunes did when it launched. Playable game demos remain the most popular item with over half of our consumers downloading these.
Xbox Live Arcade has been an instant hit on the Xbox 360, with over 60% of all connected consoles already downloading and playing Xbox Live Arcade titles.
Every Xbox Live Arcade title has a free trial version. To-date, we are seeing on average 20% trial to purchase conversion rates across all Arcade titles, with our top title converting at 39%.
The guys from ConsoleSource have just given the team at 360-HQ the opportunity to review Talismoon's new Whisper Legacy Fans. A big thank you to the guys from ConsoleSource for sending us a sample to review for all our members here.
PRODUCT DESCRIPTION Banish heat forever with the new Whisper Legacy. Sporting a newly designed, front mounted "Nitro Switch", the Whisper Legacy makes it easier than ever to expel unwanted heat. The Whisper Legacy continues to come with blue LED lights installed, although you can use no LEDs or switch to red or green lights (also included).
The Whisper Legacy also enjoys the status of being the "quietest rated fan" that Talismoon has ever produced thanks to the newest mechanism available, a sealed oil chamber that provides less friction than ball bearings.
Every Whisper Legacy comes with a bonus: the "Abzorber" noise vibration reduction system, in every package. To help reduce DVD drive vibration noise.
PRODUCT SPEC'S
No Ball Bearings: specially lubricated "sealed chamber" axis
Lighter impeller blades provide less resistance than earlier Whisper models
42,000 hour lifetime - nearly 5 years of continuous uptime
Interchangable Blue, Green, and Red lights included (blue lights installed)
68 CFM per fan in "Nitro Mode"
Full color instructions included
Bonus "Abzorber" vibration noise reduction system included
OK so i know this post lacks hard facts and info about the downloadable content and what it is going to be but seeing as i am one of the 50% that seems to really like this game i found the news to be exciting over all, now all thats left to do is find out what the content will be.
Mtv.com's Stephen Totilo reports: Get ready for a twist, “Call of Duty” fans.
Even though the new “Call of Duty: World At War” is succeeding with consumers and critics by sticking to the successful adrenaline-fueled formula of its franchise predecessor, new downloadable content coming to the game in 2009 will represent a break from 2007’s “Call of Duty: Modern Warfare.”
How much of a break from the “Modern Warfare” DLC will it be?
In a phone interview with MTV Multiplayer just before Thanksgiving, “World at War” executive producer Daniel Suarez confirmed that the game’s development team is working on downloadable content that will exceed the single multi-player map-pack offered for “Modern Warfare” earlier this year. “We want to do at least — the hope is — potentially two, maybe three packs out before we’re all said and done.”
Suarez said announcements of the downloadable content would be coming at the beginning of the New Year. While he declined to provide a release schedule, he offered this surprise: “It’s not going to be what we’ve done traditionally. I’ll leave it a little bit mysterious.”
What was “traditional” for “Call of Duty” would have to be what was done for “Modern Warfare.” That consisted of four multiplayer maps released five months after the base game launched. What could the new approach be? Downloadable content for the single-player campaign instead of just multiplayer map packs? New armament? New music? A map editor? “Call of Duty” fans should start guessing.
But here’s one option fans shouldn’t consider: the content won’t involve a cross-over with “Modern Warfare.” I asked if the development team on “World at War” was exploring an option to bring the weapons and maps of these two most recent “Call of Duty” games into one meshed, generation-spanning experience. Suarez said nothing like that is in the works.
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Banish heat forever with the new Whisper Legacy. Sporting a newly designed, front mounted "Nitro Switch", the Whisper Legacy makes it easier than ever to expel unwanted heat. The Whisper Legacy continues to come with blue LED lights installed, although you can use no LEDs or switch to red or green lights (also included).
