how do I get a halftime show with no xbox harddrive?

[BIG GREEN]

I got the ring of death with my old xbox 360 so I went out and I got the 4 gig xbox 360 elite. There is over 2 gigs free right now...yet 2k doesnt let us view the halftime and player of the game shows. My game feels muted without it...can anyone help? I tried renaming the "memory unit" to "hard drive"...lol..unsuprisingly no luck.

[JaoSming]

sorry man, I don't know of any workarounds other than buying one of the actual harddrives.

[benji]

You don't have your old hard drive still?

[BIG GREEN]

I do but it's the old plug in hard drive from the original xbox 360. I took it apart and tried plugging it into my new xbox but I got the stupid error screen. I use my ps3 for watching movies so getting a HDD for the xbox just feels like a waste of money.

[Patr1ck]

Got any sd cards with usb adapters or a usb flash drive? I can't confirm whether they will give you half time shows, but if you have one, its worth a shot. It will have to be formatted in the 360, so you will need to move the data off of it.

[fumanchu]

are you guys talking about the HP Halftime report? or is it a different halftime show?

[JaoSming]

yea, when you dont have a "real" harddrive in the 360, it doesn't use any video highlights.

[Patr1ck]

The game regularly uses up several GB of cache on the PC. I can only assume that it uses a similar amount on the 360.

There has to be a way around it because I put demos on a usb thumbdrive and it would tell me it isn't fast enough to play games, but didn't say you couldn't do it, just that you would see performance issues. Maybe a USB hard drive would allow him to see the half time show.

http://roosterteeth.com/archive/?id=1205

The issue seems to be only with ripping the game to the hard drive/thumbdrive. Get yourself a 16gb(maximum supported external drive by the 360) USB thumbdrive and see what happens. Actually, if you don't have one, I think I can test this for you if I can find my thumbdrive.

[BIG GREEN]

that would be cool if you can test it Pdub..that way i'd know if it's worth it to buy a thumbdrive. thats way more useful than a 360 harddrive.

[Patr1ck]

Fail. My usb thumb drive did not meet performance expectations, but my mini sd card through a usb adapter did. I tried it, but no replays and a tiny halftime show, no game track, no spark of the game, either.

There is another solution. I read about a hack that will convert a certain model hard drive so it is usable with the 360. It costs less, but requires some unscrewing and hard drive bios flashing and things on a computer. If you want to save money, http://digiex.net/guides-reviews/consol ... -slim.html

[BIG GREEN]

thanks for the info brother.

[justace]

yo im having the same problem and i went out and got a 500 gb external hard drive and its still not working...am i doing something wrong?

[Patr1ck]

No idea. When I used a fast sdcard that passed the xbox speed test for playing games on it, I didn't get any replays. I would assume a hard drive would be even faster.