Its either on the power brick itself, or the last number above the barcode on the box. Unfortunately from the info you've given i'd say its unlikely you have a falcon console. Most of them have a lot # of over 139 and a team of FDOU
You do need to download the emulator which is done automatically when you run an xbox game. Bear in mind you need a hard-drive to store it on and it wont work with a memory card.
You have a Visa electron card which is a debit card. You have entered your information into the section for Visa cards, which are credit cards. The two are totally different and thats why it wont work. Either enter your information into the Visa Electron box (lots of places online don't take this card, so it may not exist), apply for a credit card or just buy one of the redeemable cards from a shop.
Nope, and i have no plans of getting one either. I'm tempted by some of the exclusives, but it seems blu-ray is winning the format war atm and it seems silly to buy an addon that may be obsolete this time next year. It also doesnt help that i own a PS3 as well, so i have a HD movie player already.
So why do we treat these armies and people like enemies so often in video games? Because to our culture, they ARE the enemy. Nazis were the enemy. During the Cold War, Soviets were the enemy. Right now, (predominantly) Arab terrorists are the enemy. Now you can debate morals and motivations all you like, but games are out there to entertain and make money doing it. The large majority of Americans simply want to play a fun game where you get to shoot bad guys. As such they want someone to identify with, and that large majority is going to identify with an American or European soldier fighting a group that has been established in their culture as the enemy. That is simply how markets work..
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My thoughts exactly. The bad guy in a game needs to be easily identified as such by its player. When you play games like Halo the enemy is easily identified as it is the alien, but when the game becomes about human vs human war things get a little more tricky. This is when things like market audience and stereotypes come into play. The vast majority of the audience for these games is the American/European audience, and people like to support their own "team" if you like. Think about sports games, do you pick your favourite team or their rivals? Since the audience is set as the USA/EU the enemies are limited by those we have had hostilities with, or stereotypes of these cultures. Unfortunately this leads to the same old characatures being used of the Nazis, Soviets and Islamic Extremists. Ultimately, videogames is in its infancy as far as a form of media, and as it matures it will be able to branch into other directions. Think back to the early days of cinema, and there were an awful lot of films portraying germanic people as the enemy, due to the conflict at the time (i could be wrong on this, i'm no film expert). As film matured more "unusual" subject matters could be covered, such as portraying conflicts from the view of the other side. As for videogames being a form of propaganda tool, i'd have thought their audience would be fairly limited. Admitted this audience is the one that the military would be interested in, so it could have some affect.
Virgin media is very reliant on your area. I'm in an ex-NTL area and our service is pretty bad. I pay for 20mb and sometimes get as low as 300kb. On the otherhand my parents live in an ex-Telewest area and pay for 2mb yet actually get 4mb at times! When they work they're very good, but when they dont their terrible. Shame their the only cable company in the UK anymore, cable is capable of ridiculously high speeds with the right network (see japan or scandanavia's connection speeds, based on similar fiber optic cable) but without competition i doubt we'll see much of it.
Then how would the audio dongle work at all? If its one or the other then surely the dongle wouldnt output any sound when the HDMI is connected? I want to get video from the HDMI lead and audio from the optical output via the AV out. Surely the component lead (with only the optical lead connected, no component leads connected) would allow me to do this?
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