What do you do when your Xbox is red-ringed? You cope. For me, that meant blowing the dust off of the PS2 and hunting up some of the few PS2 games I still had lurking around my home. I still had a few review copies of some Atlus games that I had never finished: Shin Megami Tensei: Digital Devil Saga (heretofore abbreviated to SMT:DDS) and Stella Deus. I also went to Gamestop and traded a few games that had lost my good graces (Civ Rev, I’m looking at you) and picked up a game I wish I had never traded in, Full Spectrum Warrior: Ten Hammers. From deep in my vault, I retrieved Front Mission 3 from the original PlayStation.
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It’s always a shock when you see those three flashing red lights on your Xbox 360. It happened to me last Friday. One moment I’m chilling with the wife, having a conversation with her while periodically entering commands into my Culdcept Saga game. The next, I’m wondering why the sound effects on the game have stopped. Then comes the realization that the game is frozen. I figured it was no problem and probably just some odd glitch that’s occurred between the 360 and the mp3 player I had plugged into its USB port. So I reboot it. And it’s a lot quieter than it usually is. And then I get the red rings.
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