ShortyTHEone Posted February 6, 2013 Share Posted February 6, 2013 Hey Guys, i've read something about the so called "usb trick" for the hardcore mode, but actually dont get how it work. could someone PLEASE explain it to me step by step how this works and what i need to do? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nevander Posted February 6, 2013 Share Posted February 6, 2013 Very simple, provided it isn't patched. Worst case scenario is to clear cache and play completely offline. Start Hardcore. Reach a checkpoint. Save and quit. Go to dashboard, and then to storage. Copy Hardcore checkpoint save to USB. Continue playing. Reach a new checkpoint, repeat steps 3 to 6. Die before reaching a new one? Copy old checkpoint save back to hard drive, or other storage device you are using. Continue from step two. I would not use cloud, personally. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShortyTHEone Posted February 6, 2013 Author Share Posted February 6, 2013 Very simple, provided it isn't patched. Worst case scenario is to clear cache and play completely offline. Start Hardcore. Reach a checkpoint. Save and quit. Go to dashboard, and then to storage. Copy Hardcore checkpoint save to USB. Continue playing. Reach a new checkpoint, repeat steps 3 to 6. Die before reaching a new one? Copy old checkpoint save back to hard drive, or other storage device you are using. Continue from step two. I would not use cloud, personally. sounds easy to me, thank you so "save and quit" wont let me loose any story progress if proceed on a checkpoint? (how do i know i reached a checkpoint? sorry if this sounds stupid) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vlass1s Posted February 6, 2013 Share Posted February 6, 2013 in the corner of your screen a blue circle will be flashing and showing progress saved Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JuSt BLaZe Posted February 6, 2013 Share Posted February 6, 2013 Very simple, provided it isn't patched. Worst case scenario is to clear cache and play completely offline. Start Hardcore. Reach a checkpoint. Save and quit. Go to dashboard, and then to storage. Copy Hardcore checkpoint save to USB. Continue playing. Reach a new checkpoint, repeat steps 3 to 6. Die before reaching a new one? Copy old checkpoint save back to hard drive, or other storage device you are using. Continue from step two. I would not use cloud, personally. That's the only annoying part about the entire thing but other than that it saves you a lot of stress! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xhunterrrr Posted February 6, 2013 Share Posted February 6, 2013 Very simple, provided it isn't patched. Worst case scenario is to clear cache and play completely offline. Start Hardcore. Reach a checkpoint. Save and quit. Go to dashboard, and then to storage. Copy Hardcore checkpoint save to USB. Continue playing. Reach a new checkpoint, repeat steps 3 to 6. Die before reaching a new one? Copy old checkpoint save back to hard drive, or other storage device you are using. Continue from step two. I would not use cloud, personally. Thank's for this nice step-by-step. Why would you not use cloud? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nevander Posted February 6, 2013 Share Posted February 6, 2013 Thank's for this nice step-by-step. Why would you not use cloud? Reports of it auto-overwriting certain files and loading those instead. I've never used it myself as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xhunterrrr Posted February 6, 2013 Share Posted February 6, 2013 Reports of it auto-overwriting certain files and loading those instead. I've never used it myself as well. Okay, thanks for the info. I'll stick with a flash drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VIII OLFIO 81 Posted February 6, 2013 Share Posted February 6, 2013 So is the same method that i used for medal of honor: warfighter..... very good even if i was expeting a more challenging road fo 1000g...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
k1lls1gn Posted February 11, 2013 Share Posted February 11, 2013 Can it be any Flash drive or does it have to be the Xbox 360 brand one? Also, if you can SAVE and quit, why not when you die, just reload your save real quick? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NewFoundTerror Posted February 12, 2013 Share Posted February 12, 2013 Very simple, provided it isn't patched. Worst case scenario is to clear cache and play completely offline. Start Hardcore. Reach a checkpoint. Save and quit. Go to dashboard, and then to storage. Copy Hardcore checkpoint save to USB. Continue playing. Reach a new checkpoint, repeat steps 3 to 6. Die before reaching a new one? Copy old checkpoint save back to hard drive, or other storage device you are using. Continue from step two. I would not use cloud, personally. Thanks for explaining this! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ketua Posted February 14, 2013 Share Posted February 14, 2013 Can it be any Flash drive or does it have to be the Xbox 360 brand one? Also, if you can SAVE and quit, why not when you die, just reload your save real quick? Any USB flash drive can be formatted to work with an XBOX. If you have a standard XBOX memory card that will work also. The reason you can't reload the save is the game instantly "saves your progress" when you die on hardcore mode... meaning it immediately wipes all your progress on the save and forces you to start over. That's why you have to keep a back-up save if you want to bypass this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goku1552 Posted February 15, 2013 Share Posted February 15, 2013 i believe the "flashdrive trick" is against the ToS by getting achievements illegitimately and can get your account banned/gamerscore reset. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ColdSpider72 Posted February 15, 2013 Share Posted February 15, 2013 i believe the "flashdrive trick" is against the ToS by getting achievements illegitimately and can get your account banned/gamerscore reset. No, it's not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xhunterrrr Posted February 15, 2013 Share Posted February 15, 2013 i believe the "flashdrive trick" is against the ToS by getting achievements illegitimately and can get your account banned/gamerscore reset. That is so far from the truth that I find it ridiculous that you even took the time to post that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charincol Posted February 18, 2013 Share Posted February 18, 2013 i believe the "flashdrive trick" is against the ToS by getting achievements illegitimately and can get your account banned/gamerscore reset.You can believe anything you want, but it still doesn't make it so. It makes you paranoid and irrational. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thud17 Posted February 19, 2013 Share Posted February 19, 2013 (edited) i believe the "flashdrive trick" is against the ToS by getting achievements illegitimately and can get your account banned/gamerscore reset. Falling back on an old game save is nowhere near against the terms of service, and there is no way that it will get you banned. Ever. It could be considered a "backup save" in case your file gets corrupted, or, as I've done countless times in games, making a save before a choice in a game to go back to and choose the other option(s). If they didn't want that to happen, they should have made it so we can't copy or move files at all, which is dumb. *Also, I feel safe to say there is no way they can track this, or will waste time and money trying to. Edited February 19, 2013 by thud17 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ttdrevan Posted February 19, 2013 Share Posted February 19, 2013 Its your own personal save on your own game, its riddiculous to think its illegal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Carrot Cake Kid Posted February 27, 2013 Share Posted February 27, 2013 i believe the "flashdrive trick" is against the ToS by getting achievements illegitimately and can get your account banned/gamerscore reset. LOL too funny Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zeppelin 856 Posted February 27, 2013 Share Posted February 27, 2013 (edited) i believe the "flashdrive trick" is against the ToS by getting achievements illegitimately and can get your account banned/gamerscore reset. That just made my day. BTW thank you so much for this tip. I was more worried about one of the stupid repelling sequences killing me more than a necromorph. This deffinitely helped. Edited February 27, 2013 by Zeppelin 856 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Creasy47 Posted March 8, 2013 Share Posted March 8, 2013 Thanks for this tip. I used Cloud when going for that irritating MoH: Warfighter achievement, so I'll probably do the same for this. Haven't had a problem with it yet. *Knocks on wood*. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fiery Phoenix Posted April 17, 2013 Share Posted April 17, 2013 I don't mean to bump, but can anyone confirm if this still works after the patch? I would hope I don't have to play offline. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ickeris44 Posted March 4, 2014 Share Posted March 4, 2014 How does this work with dead space 2, you only get 3 saves won't the game recognize it if you save more then 3x even if you save it somewhere else or make a copy somewhere else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Big LT Posted March 5, 2014 Share Posted March 5, 2014 (edited) How does this work with dead space 2, you only get 3 saves won't the game recognize it if you save more then 3x even if you save it somewhere else or make a copy somewhere else. This doesn't work with Dead Space 2, this trick is for Dead Space 3, so if you die you can copy backup the save file back onto the HDD without having to restart the entire game again. Edited March 5, 2014 by The Big LT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ickeris44 Posted March 5, 2014 Share Posted March 5, 2014 Ok, thank you. I've already beat ds3, this came up when I searched for ds2 USB trick. Oh well Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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