Xbox Live and China

by **Olorion** » Mon Jun 25, 2007 5:54 pm

I have been surfing forums and internet, and never actually found a answear.

1. Does Xbox Live work in China?

2. What happens if I connect a "hacked" xbox console to xbox live but with a orginal game?

by **CoffeeHawk_0** » Mon Jun 25, 2007 9:33 pm

1. yes, but often the lag will noticably decrease your game skill/capabilities, but you can still play
2. Msft gets better and better every year about banning people with hacked boxes, maybe you can get one of those free 30 day xboxlive trials and see what happens.

by **Olorion** » Tue Jun 26, 2007 11:08 am

Since you know so much about it, Is it just to put the wire from the router to the xbox? And register on the xbox.com?
I think my xbox is a japanese xbox, but I can register it as like a australien account or something.. Maybe swedish account would be
better since I am swedish. But you know..

by **CoffeeHawk_0** » Tue Jun 26, 2007 2:48 pm

yes, just plug in the ethernet cable that is coming out of your modem or router. the xbox will tell you everything you need to do after that. you do not need to register online/internet, it's all done via the xbox. You can also plug in a wireless adaptor to the xbox ethernet port if you're using wireless. All the options in the 'connection' menus are self-explanatory. You may not be able to use a hotel's internet connection to access xboxlive (network configuration issues), but using a personal account is no problem.

by **Olorion** » Tue Jun 26, 2007 4:49 pm

you rock!

by **CoffeeHawk_0** » Tue Jun 26, 2007 9:24 pm

good luck, get a 360 if you have the spare cash, although I hear that soon, with windows vista, people will be able to play xbox360 games on xboxlive with only a PC..............

by **Olorion** » Wed Jun 27, 2007 10:20 am

yeah, well its more fun on a console then on a pc. =)

by **therockinshanghai** » Wed Jun 27, 2007 11:00 am

I wonder if we can form a group and have some xbox games like a GAME NIGHT? This way we can unwind from our mondat to friday jobs? Maybe its also good for networking...? What you think guys?

by **Olorion** » Wed Jun 27, 2007 1:44 pm

Cool idea, Coffehawk, i already bought the xbox long ago, I have a shitload of games..
Game tip, released 2 days ago, The Darkness.. kickass game,, BADASS graphic.
Released yesterday, but not in our stores yet, either today or tomorrow is the new REAL good game..."Overlord"
which will be a baaaaad ass game. With my 50" tv, it just u know.. to good.

by **therockinshanghai** » Wed Jun 27, 2007 1:57 pm

Hey Olorion,

What brand of TV did you get? I'm also planning to get a 37 or 42 inch but i dont want to spend a lot... a lot like more than 15k RMB...

I dont know if local brands are good!

by **Olorion** » Wed Jun 27, 2007 2:12 pm

The local brands are good, I didnt buy it, it came with my apartment. And its not a LCD its a hmm.. whats it called.. Back monitored? They are cheap as hell, this is a SAMSUNG and its really good. I saw them going for 2500-3500 at fuxing lu /xiang yang lu crossroad.

by **ocryan** » Wed Jul 11, 2007 5:17 pm

hey olorion

did you buy the darkness here? I have two copies, and both have a problem near the end of the game. they stop when im trying to enter the Lower East Side in Chapter 5.

just wonder if all china discs will have this problem.

by **CoffeeHawk_0** » Wed Jul 11, 2007 8:24 pm

Real 'China' discs are either from Honk Kong or Taiwan. Xbox is not sold on the mainland. Fake discs on modded boxes are always a risk.

by **Olorion** » Thu Jul 12, 2007 1:25 pm

Ocryn: I did play Darkness alot, don tknow how far I got.. I got pretty far but cant remember. Then Overlord came out, and friend came to visit, I visited the old lady and she told that I have her blessing to do whatever the **** i want.. have you been there or not? =) But I have seen NO problem so far.

Coffehawk:
So, if I hook it up live and play those "real" discs in china, will they royaly **** me over and like send some magic electric bolt and burn out my xbox? And ban the number..

by **CoffeeHawk_0** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 6:05 am

real discs on an unmodded box are no problem for hooking up to xboxlive in china, there is just some extra lag.
fake discs means needing a modded box, so that or just a modded box will be detected and they will ban your Live account. they won;t do anything to your box.

by **ocryan** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 10:42 am

about darkness: no dude u need to get much further before encountering the problem i did. but if you are playing on a legit disc, you probably are okay either way. im playing cheap china discs

and yeah. i am modded and banned and it sucks.

back when i was on Live, the lag was pretty bad. the only game that i could play online was gears of war, because that was so popular and i could find a game from HK or japan. but for most other games, we are kind of out in the cold

by **Olorion** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 1:16 pm

I played cheap chinese discs to, Im wondering how long time it takes to get banned if use a real disc in a modded xbox.

by **ocryan** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 4:19 pm

ooh, yeah if the machine is modded, it will have some slightly different rhythms that the microsoft servers will pick up on. i dont think it matters if youre using a real or a fake disc.

if yours is modded and hasnt been connected to Live yet, you might want to check out xbox-scene.com

by **uppereastside** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 4:27 pm

hey guys, not to pirate your thread here, but i just moved to shanghai from ny and being a dummy with electronic, i might have fried my xbox 360 by plugging with a wrong converter.

does anyone know where i can fix my xbox 360?

by **CoffeeHawk_0** » Sat Jul 14, 2007 10:48 am

hong kong and taiwan have authorized stores, mainland china does not have authorized distributors. If u r using a US xbox, you need an 650~800W voltage transformer, not just a plug convertor (no offense meant if you knew this already).

the 'electronics malls' always have one or two shops that carry modded xboxes, they may be able to replace a power supply or internal component, but it will likely be a trial and error exercise, and good luck negotiating a price

by **uppereastside** » Sat Jul 14, 2007 11:06 am

thanks coffeehawk, can i get transformer at best buy?

by **CoffeeHawk_0** » Sat Jul 14, 2007 11:23 am

go the electonics mall next to that, there's more selection and lower prices, but I don't know if bestbuy sells them anyway.
voltage transformers are very simple, they are literally just 2 coils and maybe a fuse. I can't imagine there's any way to get ripped off when buying one in terms of quality, but an 800W one. Mine is model XY 207A, 800W, a beige box with a silver front face, the name is not in english, but i think the compnay logo is a Y thingy. I forgot how much i paid, but if u know the pries in the US, just knock 25% to 50% off of that.

by **uppereastside** » Sat Jul 14, 2007 11:52 am

coffeehawk, can you accidentially fry your xbox. when i first arrived 2 weeks ago, i used only a converter and my xbox powered up and then shuts down and then a smell of burnt electronic came out, and then i had to reset the apartment's fuse box.

is that that a sign that my xbox is hosed?

by **uppereastside** » Sat Jul 14, 2007 11:53 am

the burnt electronic smell emitted from the wall socket.

by **CoffeeHawk_0** » Sat Jul 14, 2007 1:19 pm

no way to tell for sure if the fuse blew before the xbox was damaged without trying a proper 120V transformer. First I would unscrew the wall socket cover and look for burnt or especially bare wires. don't touch any bare metal/wires, or call a service person, the 220V here will hurt you, you don't want to know the difference between 220V and 120V. If the insulation was burnt or melted off any of the wires it could be a fire hazard.
A transformer does not cost a lot, and u know u'll buy a new xbox if u fried this one, so no money lost

by **ocryan** » Mon Jul 16, 2007 11:01 am

if you go to a video game shop they will know exactly how you messed up your xbox and can probably sell you the xbox power brick (which probably took the damage) and a suitable converter (which will a big one -- also like a brick)

I paid Y200 for the converter.

Taobao is selling the xbox power brick for Y215
http://auction1.taobao.com/auction/20/i ... 2b99.jhtml

by **Olorion** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 4:59 pm

In china everything is possible... Another question abut xbox, what is the average price for a controller? Where is it cheap?

by **YorkshireKing** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 5:25 pm

There's no average price, just what they want to sell you it for in the shops, But you can try 3rd floor(or bottom floor) of electronics shop in xujiahui(the big glass ball) or there's game at Jiaozhou lu/Beijing lu, dont pay more than 250rmb
If you read chinese-
http://search1.taobao.com/browse/0/t-g, ... opsearch=1

by **Olorion** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 5:52 pm

I read a bit, and at xujiahui is where I bought the xbox.

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