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<blockquote data-quote="Brandon Debes" data-source="post: 17599" data-attributes="member: 229"><p>As has been mentioned here several times already, the technical certification process is not aimed at finding software bugs like those with which every Bethesda title is rife. It is about looking for things like how the software handles peripheral removal in various states. They explicitly state a list of every thing they are looking for and then have a QA tech. walk each submission right down the list ticking off boxes. As Mike said, this is a long list, and I respect the fact that it is probably pretty easy for a small team to miss something.</p><p></p><p>But I think one clarification that seems needed is the fact that USB drives are considered by the system to be "Memory Units" in addition to the proprietary plastic solid state memory cards that fit in the old form factor 360 consoles. I keep all my DLC on a USB stick so that I can move it around to different consoles throughout my house and take it to friends' houses. And the USB drive I have won't physically fit into the front USB ports on the older console revisions (behind the little flappy door; meant for controllers), so I have it on a little 3" USB dongle cable. And guess what, pets and children and tripping passers-by alike can easily pull this thing out of the console. My point is that while it's perhaps not a <em>common</em> scenario, it is a more realistic one than the image being repeated here of some mental incompetent pulling an old school 64Mb MU directly out of the console just as he clicks on a DLC table in the menu. My kid is fairly liable to yank my USB drive out while I'm playing. So to Matt McIrvin's point, Microsoft are just protecting their brand from bad user impressions of the way XBLA software reacts to these situations.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Brandon Debes, post: 17599, member: 229"] As has been mentioned here several times already, the technical certification process is not aimed at finding software bugs like those with which every Bethesda title is rife. It is about looking for things like how the software handles peripheral removal in various states. They explicitly state a list of every thing they are looking for and then have a QA tech. walk each submission right down the list ticking off boxes. As Mike said, this is a long list, and I respect the fact that it is probably pretty easy for a small team to miss something. But I think one clarification that seems needed is the fact that USB drives are considered by the system to be "Memory Units" in addition to the proprietary plastic solid state memory cards that fit in the old form factor 360 consoles. I keep all my DLC on a USB stick so that I can move it around to different consoles throughout my house and take it to friends' houses. And the USB drive I have won't physically fit into the front USB ports on the older console revisions (behind the little flappy door; meant for controllers), so I have it on a little 3" USB dongle cable. And guess what, pets and children and tripping passers-by alike can easily pull this thing out of the console. My point is that while it's perhaps not a [i]common[/i] scenario, it is a more realistic one than the image being repeated here of some mental incompetent pulling an old school 64Mb MU directly out of the console just as he clicks on a DLC table in the menu. My kid is fairly liable to yank my USB drive out while I'm playing. So to Matt McIrvin's point, Microsoft are just protecting their brand from bad user impressions of the way XBLA software reacts to these situations. [/QUOTE]
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