Lik-Sang: Datel's Memory Transfer Kit Hands-on and Related Developments
Published by patto on Friday, March 17, 2006
Tagged: Hardware, Xbox 360,
Some interesting newsbits about Xbox 360 Memory/HD Transfer Kits over at Lik-Sang.com:
* Preliminary Scene Developments: 360MemoryAdaptor
We have witnessed some efforts here and there from people like William Gonzalez, who have been assembling PCBs. William actually shared a couple of his prototypes with us in the week prior to Datel's announcement of the Transfer Kit, and for the low-price of US$ 5, they do their job quite neatly. Of course, there is no casing on them and that might represent a problem for many of you out there, both cosmetically and because of the risk to damage the pins in which you slot your Xbox 360 Memory Card (since the pins are completely naked and not protected by any kind of plastic connector).
* Hands-on with Datel's Memory Transfer Kit
The Transfer Kit is the first professionally mass-produced adapter of its kind. It comes in a nice clamshell blister packaging as brick and mortar retailers like them. Out of the box, you'll get the Transfer Kit itself, an installation CD, a professional user's manual freshly baked by Datel's printing factory, and, as a free bonus, a complimentary adapter for Xbox1 Memory Cards.
From the installation CD, you can furthermore install both Action Replay Xbox (for the complimentary Xbox1 Mem Card Adapter mentioned above) and the Xchange360 software that the UK based peripheral company prepped up for their new Transfer Kit. Xchange 360 allows you to back-up a complete Memory Card image to your PC hard drive, or, going the other way around, to restore an image back to the Memory Unit. Xchange360 does not extract or isolate single files. You will always have to transfer a complete "image" back and forth with the PC, which kinda limits the fun.
Luckily, the Xplorer360(info) freeware comes to the rescue on this. The latter does let you play around with separate files, be them pictures, game saves or others.
Read On (Datel's Memory Transfer Kit Hands-on):
lik-sang.com
* Upcoming Concepts: Madrics' Memory Transfer Kit
Our friends at accessories maker Madrics Europe have already informed Lik Sang that they also have a similar product coming down the pipe within the next couple of weeks. Final release date and price point will be unveiled soon, stick to these columns. In the meantime, here are the first photographs of the adapter, which, as you can see, comes as a handy connector rather than under the form of a long cable:
* Upcoming Concepts: 360SATA (mentioned on Xbox-HQ & 360-HQ)
Jonathan Kutz and his crew over at 360SATA have been working around the clock on an adapter to connect your Xbox 360 Hard Drive with your computer. It allows you to download and upload files with the HDD [using the Xplorer360 software]. We have a sample making its way to our desk as we speak, while the first very limited batch of assembled PCBs have been pre-sold through 360SATA.com directly. We are looking forward in checking the prototype when it comes in, and we hope to be helpful pushing the project forward. Stay tuned for more info on this converter, either when it reaches us, or by the time mass-production brings the supply to a sustainable level.
News-Source: X-S
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