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post #1 of 6
5/12/10 at 11:27am
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Looking for assistance and hoping some of the fellow chewers can help. I recently purchased a bricked xbox360 at a cheap price and I want to be able to install game patches, is it possible? Before I get the "you shouldn't be pirating games" speeches, let me state that I purchased this system because it was cheap and because I have several games I want to play system link. I have already purchased spare copies of ShadowRun (guilty pleasure) and Crackdown and they work great, but when a friend of mine brought over Left for dead and border lands we found out that my main system (online) is patched and the bricked one will not run with it. I didn't know if it was possible to download the patches and put them on a thumb drive to install, or some other kind of solution exists. Even if this was not a bricked console, I wonder how someone with no internet access would system link with a visiting friend. Additionally, I am aware I could just play these games online but It can be fun sitting in the same room with friends and playing with them. So, any ideas/suggestions?
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post #2 of 6
5/12/10 at 11:42am
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Originally Posted by xuldinga View Post
Looking for assistance and hoping some of the fellow chewers can help. I recently purchased a bricked xbox360 at a cheap price and I want to be able to install game patches, is it possible?
You keep using this word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

Either way, what I'm guessing you mean is that the console's been banned from XBox Live. In which case, you're SOL/JWF for getting updates.

For a system link, you need two 360s, 2 TVs, and an ethernet cable to connect the two. The problem is, if the other 360's taken any of the games online, and it has the updates the busted 360 doesn't, you can't play against it, in a continuing SOL motif.
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post #3 of 6
5/12/10 at 11:45am
I'd assume the issue is that the one that can't go online is running a different version so the two versions won't work together.

Well, if you want to get updates, can't you install the updates to a thumb drive on a non-banned system and then move the thumb drive back to the banned one?

Not sure if there is any sort of 'locking' per-system that is done on the patches.
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post #4 of 6
5/12/10 at 11:48am
I don't know if this applies to the updates, but I know that pretty much everything else you download off XBox Live is linked to your account. If the DLC can't verify itself online, it refuses to run.
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post #5 of 6
5/12/10 at 11:58am
Well, patches could be different. There are at least three ways that Microsoft encrypts things: per system, per account, or for all systems. Downloaded XBLA games are encrypted using the first two but discs are encrypted using the last one. It's possible that patches are encrypted in the same way since there is no need to link them to one specific system.

So the easiest way to find out would be to download the patch onto a memory card/thumb drive on one machine (with the same profile that you'll play on the other) and then just move it over. If that doesn't work then there really isn't probably going to be a way to do it.
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post #6 of 6
5/12/10 at 11:59am
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Justin- Yeah, bricked isn't the right word, it functions fine (except for the banned part). I know going in to this that I wouldn't be able to play online, but I didn't know the updates is tied to the XBL account. As of right now, both consoles are hooked up in the living room with 2 tv's and a ethernet cable connecting them. Crackdown was fun as hell, as was saints row II, I just didn't even think about the games I have that are updated on my good system. I guess I could try to delete the updates on the good machine if the thumb drive trick doesn't work.
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