Xbox Live Market Place - General Discussion Thread 1

[ChrisF]

Sorry, yeah, didn't mean to imply they were weekly

There was a bit on the MN podcast about the Classics being a frequent thing. They didn't give any ideas of how frequent though.

[chopemon]

Don't you need ANOTHER addon to turn it into the full game or something though?

The standard game will give you loads of single player stuff. I think you need extras for multiplayer but not sure.

There are a couple of great free skins by the Genki Rockets available as well.

[egparadigm]

There's the standard game which is presumably what you'll be paying 800 MS points for.

Then there are the advanced skins which basically amounts to little more than extra music/themes. Another few hundred MS points.

There is also some puzzle modes and vs. modes which cost extra. Puzzles are pretty fun.

[Yoshimax]

No update yet but the price of the XBLA games has dropped - tempted by BB2 now though another 200 will bag me an xbox game - think I'll wait and see what we get today

[Yoshimax]

Didn't somebody mention that 360 doesn't do h264 file format ?

If so, what's this :

Improved robustness when shutting down console during h264 video playback

http://blogs.msdn.com/xboxteam/archive/2007/11/30/december-2007-system-update.aspx

[fahrenheit]

h.264 support is required spec for HD DVD playback. Without h.264, the HD DVD addon would not exist.

You are probably thinking about x264.

[Yoshimax]

Ah cool - cheers for clarifying.

So I can run h.264 files from a DVD-R or memory stick post-update then or always have been able to ?

[Bleeders]

Brilliant, no fart-arsing about with MPEG4 convertors to watch the programs anymore.

-1 reason to own a PS3.

[sj33]

Erm, the 360's done H.264 for about 6 months now.

It is, however, a bit crap at it, and your lucky if it even sees your files, so the improvements are appriciated! Shame it won't play them in .mkv container.

[bignige]

Xbox originals now up on the USA market place. I thought the update was needed to play these? Indigo Prophecy?! Is this Farenheit?

[Yoshimax]

Yes it is indeed.

Probably not a good idea to download them from the US marketplace Nige.

The update will sort them into their own area I'd imagine nothing more - where are they showing up just now ?

[bignige]

Yes it is indeed.

Probably not a good idea to download them from the US marketplace Nige.

The update will sort them into their own area I'd imagine nothing more - where are they showing up just now ?

Now up on the UK store too. Earlier it was just themes, now its the games!

[Yoshimax]

Update cometh......................

[mt50]

update is up now

just got kicked off live and it needs to update before you can get back on

update is done, and the dash/blades seem to switch a lot faster now. layout looks ok, shame they didn't put the hidef movies up

[Jebus]

Jesus christ how quick are the menus are sidebars etc now? Holy ****!