Using Multiple 360’s
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I’ve never really had to mess about with such things, but if anyone on the web can help me, they’re probably on here!
I currently own an old-style 360 Elite, with a 250 Gig drive (I filled the 120 in no time!) and am looking to buy a second 360 to stay at my workplace, for Rock Banding with staff and customers!
At the workplace, there is currently no internet, so only the machine at home would go online. I’m thinking that my original XBox should be the one to stay home, as it was the unit that first downloaded/purchased everything.
THE HEART OF THE MATTER: Does this mean I can copy games and DLC from the home machine to the new one without restriction, and use it on both? Are there any complications I should know about?
Due to the license restrictions on Xbox DLC, if you took your HDD and slapped it on another Xbox, it wouldn’t play your songs unless you were signed into XBL.
You could always use your flash drive and take your customs with you though.
EDIT: Also, what kind of job lets you play RB with your customers? I want it.
So if I had my ORIGINAL 360 at work, and the new one (connected to the internet and signed in) at home, the DLC and downloaded games would work on both. But I would HAVE TO REMAIN ONLINE at home? Would this mean I couldn’t play customs at home?
Perhaps taxi-ing it back and forth is the only way
” src=”/wp-content/uploads/invision_emoticons/default_SA_frown.gif” />(I run a bar. Not the sort of place where we can often get a game going during opening, but after hours is another matter..!)
You could make a silver account on XBL and then just licsense transfer your songs so then you don’t need to be online to play the DLC. That’s what I’ve done because I have multiple 360s.
But I would HAVE TO REMAIN ONLINE at home? Would this mean I couldn’t play customs at home?If you wanted to play your DLC, yes, unfortunately, unless you got another flash drive and put TU5 on it, then swapped whenever you wanted to play customs or DLC/online, respectively. However, I’m still not sure how the license transfer stuff is supposed to work, so you could try transferring the licenses to a Silver account. You can only do that a few times a year though, so I’d be careful about it.
I know there’ll be no problem playing customs on both consoles; but it looks like my (700+ songs) of official DLC, and the selection of downloaded multiplayer games I’d want on there, would be out of reach?
Never quite got my head around all the license-transfer stuff, and only ever used one gamertag, but I hoped/wondered if I could do some sort of one-off transfer to get everything onto the offline machine, then reactivate it all on the other one online (without relinquishing the rights to use it on the offline console, naturally)
If I’m reading your advice right (and forgive me if I’m being stupid) the DRM won’t allow that? Bah
” src=”/wp-content/uploads/invision_emoticons/default_SA_frown.gif” />I know there’ll be no problem playing customs on both consoles; but it looks like my (700+ songs) of official DLC, and the selection of downloaded multiplayer games I’d want on there, would be out of reach?Never quite got my head around all the license-transfer stuff, and only ever used one gamertag, but I hoped/wondered if I could do some sort of one-off transfer to get everything onto the offline machine, then reactivate it all on the other one online (without relinquishing the rights to use it on the offline console, naturally)
If I’m reading your advice right (and forgive me if I’m being stupid) the DRM won’t allow that? Bah
” src=”/wp-content/uploads/invision_emoticons/default_SA_frown.gif” />If you’re asking if you can still use it on the old console, yes you can it doesn’t deactivate any of your DLC, it’s sort of a cheat you can use once a year! But why don’t you just convert them to CON’s and save yourself a huge headache?
why don’t you just convert them to CON’s and save yourself a huge headache?Can LeFluffie deal with that alone or is Magma the one to use here?
Can LeFluffie deal with that alone or is Magma the one to use here?Probably gonna have to use Magma.
I know I had to use Magma when converting Nightmare into a CON (Just to get an uncensored version of the song… The whole censor thing in that song was driving me nuts!).
why don’t you just convert them to CON’s and save yourself a huge headache?Can LeFluffie deal with that alone or is Magma the one to use here?
Can’t you just import your LIVE files into Le Fluffie and then convert them to CON files? I thought that’s how it works.
Yes, it’s all very much possible and very simple to do, but will be time consuming.
Considering how many songs you have, I would recommend getting a USB Transfer Cable. That way you can plug in your Xbox hard drive directly to your PC. Or just use a large USB drive. Whatever method, just get the DLC files to your computer. Use Le Fluffie C3’s Batch Renamer if you’d like to rename the files into something that makes sense, if you want. Otherwise you’re just looking at hash names.
Now you got three choices:
1) Open each file in Le Fluffie C3, at the bottom of Song Explorer it’ll be set to LIVE, change it to CON. Save. That’s it. But it’s time consuming with so many files.
2) Find and download DLC Xplorer, browse to the folder where you have your LIVE files, select them all, and Sign and Unlock.
3) Use Le Fluffie C3 to package the songs into packs. This is my recommended option.
how to make the packs
It’s how I have all my files. There is a limit of 4GB per pack. I have every single DLC song in about 13 or 14 4GB packs. At loading time, instead of loading 1000+ items, the game is only loading 14 files, so that speeds up loading and rebuilding of the song cache considerably. You can also do this with all other customs and / or DLC. In total I have 2,930 songs or so, and all contained within 320 files. I know of one of our users here who has less than 30 files at runtime, but he’s taken the packaging thing to an extreme. I only package things that I’m fairly confident won’t be getting updates…so the RB1 export is a bunch of loose files…now I have that in one pack. All my RBN DLC is in one pack. All the GHtoRB3 files are packed by game, etc. You can make packs in any method you like.
To do this, create folders and fill them with all the files you want as long as they don’t add up to more than 4GB. Open Le Fluffie C3, go to Pack Creator, drag one of those files there, and it’ll pick up all the files in the folder. You can change the name of the pack, the description, even the thumbnail. Then click Begin. It takes all the files you have there, whether they’re LIVE (as in your case) or CON (customs), or a combination of both, and puts them into a CON package that goes in your Xbox. Because of the file size, make sure you’re using a program that will allow it like Party Buffalo. Modio does not work with files this large.
Fair enough.
” src=”/wp-content/uploads/invision_emoticons/default_SA_smile.gif” /> I’m gonna start using option 3/ soon because yes those folders are a mess right now. xD Even if I have “only” ~1500 songs so far.I was asking if Le Fluffie was ok because I had trouble with Blue (Da Ba Dee) by Eiffel65 which, as you might know, is a RBN 2.0 song but is located in the RB2 folder. So it shows up in-game in RB2 and, when you try to load it, it just crashes the game.
So one day I used Le Fluffie to turn it into a RB3 file with the Song Explorer (but I kept it as a LIVE file because I didn’t understand the difference with CON at that time). When I loaded it back on my Xbox, it said “damaged content” or something like that. I also should have turned it into a CON file, now I’m aware of this.
And btw, the Pro Bundler option is really useful too to tidy up folders.
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