Does anybody even play the old Xbox anymore?

[Deleted User]

I got a mod chip put in the day I got it. I'm still tryimg to get through Black on hard level. I just finished the Asylum the other night.

 

[kellyan95]

You can softmod it easily with a hotswap. The reqs are: Knowing what an IDE cable is, and being able to see the color red.

Yeah I got those right but the fucking CD won't boot at times. I really don't know what I'm doing wrong now.

Need a little more than that. What guide did you follow? Got nDure's mod from xbins and XboxHDM, right?

 

[darkgunsou86]

i still haven't finished KOTOR 1 and 2. and the xbox ran into problems. the booting into startup menu and loading is very slow. i'm having it checked now.

 

[cenotaph]

I use it to run XBMC every now and then. However, as soon as I get myself an HD set, a proper HTPC is going to replace it.

 

[Zesto]

You can softmod it easily with a hotswap. The reqs are: Knowing what an IDE cable is, and being able to see the color red.

Yeah I got those right but the fucking CD won't boot at times. I really don't know what I'm doing wrong now.

Need a little more than that. What guide did you follow? Got nDure's mod from xbins and XboxHDM, right?

Yeah I followed that guide. I'm wondering, is hotswapping to get a gamesave on the Xbox easier?

 

[SomeGuyGG]

I use mine on a daily basis. I haven't played a game on it in over a year though, just xbox media center for streaming shows/movies from my computer

It does everything I need it to do.

 

[ocarson]

Yeah i use mine, but like most of the posters, mainly for xbox media center. picked my xbox up for £30 (around $60) about 8 months ago, not too hard to mod, and has good emulators. Quite good as you can play pretty much any media you have on it, and at a price around the same as an average divx/dvd player

As a side note, I'd recommend panzer dragoon orta to anyone with an xbox, the game is still graphically beautiful, and plays well.

 

[nloding]

I use it as a way to play DivX and Xvid TV rips and movies. It's the best quality way and most reliable way I've found to play them. I also use it for some emulators.

I very rarely play an original Xbox game anymore. I still find myself playing some of the great ones, like Psychonauts, but very rarely am I playing Xbox games.

 

[kellyan95]

You can softmod it easily with a hotswap. The reqs are: Knowing what an IDE cable is, and being able to see the color red.

Yeah I got those right but the fucking CD won't boot at times. I really don't know what I'm doing wrong now.



Need a little more than that. What guide did you follow? Got nDure's mod from xbins and XboxHDM, right?

Yeah I followed that guide. I'm wondering, is hotswapping to get a gamesave on the Xbox easier?

Gamesaves? The gamesave method to boot exploited linux to install the mod is the most popular way to softmod, but you need more stuff (AR, memory cart, correct game..) with the hotswap, you hook your xbox HDD into PC and tranfser the files over that way. What did you do?

 

[Zesto]

I tried installing Ndure's softmod.

 

[kellyan95]

The files for nDure's mod can be tranfsered via the savegame exploit or a hotswap, which did you try?

 

[Zesto]

I tried the first one, but it's not a problem anymore. I finally got it to work. Just burnt a new CD and changed one IDE cable around and I installed ndure's 3.1.

Now I have an UnleashedX +Ndure dashboard, which looks ok but could look better.

 

[kellyan95]

XBMC is the best dashboard by far

 

[superlars]

xbox as xbmc is in use nearly all day.
some games i sometimes play is the max payne series, halo 1-2, black and burnout.
loved these on the xbox.

 

[FAST6191]

Before I start to mess around with stuff kellyan95 do you know of any way to run xboxhdm (I grabbed a copy of v1.9) via something like qemu (or another, preferably free linux emulator) as I presently lack a CD drive and would rather not mess with any of the windows drivers if I can avoid it (read too many horror stories).
I do not mind plugging stuff inside my case but if it could use my USB-IDE adapter that would be even better.

Either way I will continue on my own but if you had a link to hand that would be nice.

 

[kellyan95]

Hmm, sorry but I do not. Would seem to be rather dangerous, the IDE standard is not meant to be hotswapped at all....

 

[Cermage]

I've found a new use for my xbox these days: PSX and N64 ^^ brings back memories of old when you used to hold a controller to play the game instead of tapping some buttons on a keyboard.

 

[ShadowStitch]

Yeah! My beautiful tricked-out xbox is the centerpiece of my media center here...it streams TV shows and movies for me, and emulates pretty much everything I ever want to play pre 1995... My friends and I love getting together for beers and MAME'ing it up.

 

[FAST6191]

I finally got around to modding my xbox (I got lazy and assembled a softmod kit, I will get around to posting it up in the trade forum but I am willing to share the wealth). Evox dash with XBMC ready to be loaded at a moments notice. I also grabbed one of those autoinstaller packages that comes with just about everything needed: well worth the half hour that took.

So far it is one of those occasions where you finally get around to seeing what everybody else is ranting about (i.e. something other than I.E., something other than Nero, something other than office......)

 

[jalaneme]

i mgiht get a modded xbox one day for n64 stuff.