Dec 24 - Dec 28
It's going to be a quiet week around these parts as we take a little break for Christmas - though we will have a podcast up on Wednesday with a special home-brewed batch of awesome-sauce baked right in. I was personally planning to settle in with my freshly repaired Xbox 360 which arrived this morning, but I quickly discovered that the "repaired" machine is incapable of detecting wireless _controller_ signals and I'll be packing it up to re-send to Microsoft, a company which I'm beginning to assume has no meaningful understanding of the acronym QA . It's called Quality Assurance guys, and it means making sure the damn thing works before firing it off to your customers.
This disappointment imbues me with Scrooge-like frustration, and so I offer a link to the much ballyhooed Star Wars Christmas Special *pt 1 and pt 2*, which is certain to ruin your Christmas as much as Microsoft has ruined mine.
Yoda says, "Bah, humbug!"
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All you need is the Star Wars Holiday Special Rifftrax to turn the pain into entertainment.
Sorry to hear about the console. But thanks for the links. I don't think I have seen the holiday special since it first aired!
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You might have to sync it to the new console. I thought my 360 was messed up when it arrived refurbished, but I had forgotten about having to resync the wireless controllers. There's a little button on the front of your 360 and the same button is on the front of the controller. You hit the button on the 360 and the green lights around the power button start to circle. Then you hit it on your controller and the green lights around the xbox guide button start to circle. In a second or two they'll find each other and both will flash at the same time, and it's synced up.
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Merry Christmas everyone!
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I just want to second Brizadh's advice to re-sync your wireless controller to your new unit. Your refurb system won't just wake up to any wireless controller, they need to be synched to each other.
I had the same initial reaction as you. My repaired unit also did not recognize my wireless controller which was looking in vain for my original 360 to turn on, until I hit the re-synch button simultaneously on both the controller and the unit for them to start talking to each other. Green lights started twirling, a match made in heaven, problem solved.
Please try the two button re-synch and let us know if it was user error so we can throw snowballs and do that "Loser in 3D' hand-forehead gesture simultaneously across the globe.
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I found the Holiday Special last year and inflicted it on all of you. I still haven't heard the end of it.
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Wireless controller re-synch advice thirded.
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Yes, you have to re-pair the controllers, if you didn't try that. I think there was a little paper that tells you how.
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4thed, I was going to post to try that, and see I've been beaten to it, repeatedly.
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I heard that the cartoon was getting some interest because it had Boba Fett so I watched it. My reaction was.. catatonic, to put it mildly.
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Isn't there a law against posting links to the Star Wars Holiday Special? No? Who do I talk to in order to get one passed?
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i 2nd and 3rd having a law against posting links to Star Wars
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I will lose all faith in our Overlords if the re-sync hasn't been tried. I'm laying the blame on the QA department at MS.
Merry Christmas everyone!
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Not my first day with a wireless controller guys!
Seriously, though, it's a malfunction. The button on the console to sync the controller is faulty. It won't go into the detection mode (ring of light stays dark) to find wireless controllers. Went through tech support and everything. Even pulled off the face plate and poked at it with a pointy stick to no avail.
"I think Elysium has the right of it" - Certis
Oh, and as an added twist of irony, wired controllers do work so I was able to bust out my freshly replaced Rock Band controller which arrived a few weeks ago.
The strum bar on that promptly broke too.
"I think Elysium has the right of it" - Certis
If you have the play and charge kit hook it up with the wire. That always works for me.
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Quote from Billy Madison popped in my head immediately after watching Pt. 1 (yes, I sat through part one).
"At no point, in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points...and may God have mercy on your soul."
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That's the problem with wireless technology. Wiggling the cord used to fix everything. What will you wiggle now?
JUST PUZZLED YOUR ASS UP, SON! -Mr Crinkle
Legal threats over the phone to a CSR?
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I agree with Edwin. I'm pretty sure you can get the wireless control to sync, by hooking it up with the play and charge kit. Just do em, one at a time. And the next time they should be paired just fine.
Not to say you don't have an issue with the machine, but at least you can use it for the holidays?
I don't have a play and charge kit.
"I think Elysium has the right of it" - Certis
You're still using disposable/rechargeable batteries? Might want to invest on a play and charge kit.
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And some new shoes. Treat yourself!
Certis beat me to it. - Elysium
And a new car!!
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And shave that beard you hippie!
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I'll be the nice guy in the crowd of Old Meanies and give Elysium a break. Sorry to hear it... technology sucks. The good news is there will be plenty of deals and sales after Christmas, so once you return Rock Band to the store spend those give cards. Also, here's a hearty "That sucks dude, but at least your voice is sexy."
...what?
Yet even then we ran like the wind,
whilst our laughter echoed under cerulean skies...
It disheartens me to see that anti-beard prejudice has even infected GWJ. What was once a symbol of masculinity and wisdom reduced to such a squalid state, forcing countless men into denying a natural function of their bodies because of the thoughtless mores of modern society.
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I second this.
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