~360 Homebrew: XNA Game Studio Express

Guru-Meditation · Post by **Guru-Meditation** » Thu Dec 13, 2007 2:16 am 0

Gamasutra also have an article about it.

Guess it's going to be one of Microsofts midnight on the West coast releases

Dave · Post by **Dave** » Thu Dec 13, 2007 2:36 am 0

There's some sort of code conversion process involved, to migrate 1.0 stuff to 2.0. Part of it is automated with a tool, and another part is manual.

MS had a KB up on it for the 2.0 beta.

Guru-Meditation · Post by **Guru-Meditation** » Thu Dec 13, 2007 5:43 am 0

Up now. Microsoft have done a rollout of various SPs so I guess they needed time to upload everything.

Edit: Ok apparently it will be up early tomorrow morning, which I guess means around midnight PST

benedictw · Post by **benedictw** » Thu Dec 13, 2007 11:20 am 0

Its up now chaps.

http://creators.xna.com/Education/GettingStarted.aspx

benedictw · Post by **benedictw** » Sat Dec 15, 2007 6:30 pm 0

benedictw wrote:Its up now chaps.

http://creators.xna.com/Education/GettingStarted.aspx

Impressions: The code converter was pretty spot on - I had to change one line of code.

XNA2 did break one of my shaders that (cough) hadn't been written correctly in the first place.

PaulCunningham · Post by **PaulCunningham** » Sat Dec 15, 2007 7:33 pm 0

I had a little bit more agro due to not using SpriteBatch but I'm pretty much all converted now.

I'm really hoping they concentrate on getting the YouTube for games running ASAP.

Guru-Meditation · Post by **Guru-Meditation** » Tue Dec 18, 2007 12:49 am 0

More freebies from the creators.xna.com site, targeted at those who want to build multiplayer games.

For the rest of you, there are some free fonts. Ain't nothing wrong with free!

Oaf · Post by **Oaf** » Tue Dec 18, 2007 11:21 am 0

Guru-Meditation wrote:More freebies from the creators.xna.com site, targeted at those who want to build multiplayer games.

Bugger! Need more arms and brains!

polyhex · Post by **polyhex** » Sun Dec 30, 2007 3:59 pm 0

Can you use a Core Xbox360 for XNA deployment or is a hard drive requred?

Was thinking of picking up a cheap(er) arcade pack for use with this.

PaulCunningham · Post by **PaulCunningham** » Sun Dec 30, 2007 4:32 pm 0

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb203925.aspx

To develop XNA Framework games for Xbox 360, you will need to have a hard drive connected to your Xbox 360 console.

polyhex · Post by **polyhex** » Sun Dec 30, 2007 5:07 pm 0

PaulCunningham wrote:http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb203925.aspx

To develop XNA Framework games for Xbox 360, you will need to have a hard drive connected to your Xbox 360 console.

Thanks... looks like I will have to save a few extra pennies then/wait for the price to come down.

Sir_LANs-a-lot · Post by **Sir_LANs-a-lot** » Wed Jan 09, 2008 12:45 am 0

Decided to grab GSE 2.0 (Final) today and installed it all along with VisualC#2005 (as recommended) - However, In the VC#2K5 "News channel" I see you can download the 2008 editions of the tools now...

Should I stick with Visual C#2005 Express w/ GSE 2.0? or is it better to upgrade to Visual C# 2008 Express?

Dave · Post by **Dave** » Wed Jan 09, 2008 5:47 am 0

Sir_LANs-a-lot wrote:Decided to grab GSE 2.0 (Final) today and installed it all along with VisualC#2005 (as recommended) - However, In the VC#2K5 "News channel" I see you can download the 2008 editions of the tools now...

Should I stick with Visual C#2005 Express w/ GSE 2.0? or is it better to upgrade to Visual C# 2008 Express?

I think I read somewhere that the 2008 versions of things are not compatible with XNA 2.0. Correct me if I'm wrong...

PaulCunningham · Post by **PaulCunningham** » Wed Jan 09, 2008 8:55 am 0

What is the status of VS2008 support for Game Studio (Express)

The ZMan wrote:There is currently no support for Visual Studio 2008 for Game Studio Express 1.0 or Game Studio 2.0

See http://forums.xna.com/thread/7263.aspx for more details

Any announcement on compatibility will not be made in these forums so asking the question will as best get you a link to this FAQ and at worst bring out the sarcasm and bitterness of the moderators who have answered this question many times for people who do not search the forums or browse the FAQs.

For information on what is new in Visual Studio 2008 see http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudi ... 31331.aspx and http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/deta ... 96674B2F38

The ZMan is usually pretty quick to update the FAQ.

Save yourself the agro and stay on 2005 for now.

Oaf · Post by **Oaf** » Wed Jan 09, 2008 8:56 am 0

I had the same dilemma when I came to install it all the other day.

Quick search on the XNA forum reveals it's not 2008 compatible - they decided in order to ship XNA 2 asap, they'd build against 2005.

I'm sure there'll be an update soon, though!