Hi DinohScene!
First of all thanks for this helpful guide. I once possessed a Phat Xbox 360 and thinking about buying one again in the upcoming future.
Basically I just want to use backups of Xbox 360 games and XBLA games - all the other stuff with online does not matter to me at all. What sort of Xbox 360 would you recommend?
[AGE]
Since JTAG and RGH are more or less the same thing, it does not really matter which age my console is.. right? Or is this connected with the time of booting? (Sorry if I read over that if already mentioned)
From what I read I can count Zephyr out, cause it's hard to archieve. Opus for the reason of RRoD repair only.
Leaving Xenon, Falcon and Jasper. Would you agree?
[DASH]
1888, 2241, 4532, 4548 seem all unlikely. Dashes below 14717 (7371 / 14699) should be fine. Is the time to boot really that worse in higher dashes?
[ODDE]
Since I plan using an HDD only for playing backups, I would go with this. And here comes the part where I must dissamble my Xbox 360.. which I can't do. So the only choice I have here is to send it to someone who can. You took an Xkey as an example. Is this the best solution?
[JTAG / RGH]
Added to a JTAG you'll probably want to prevent it from dieing quickly so setting the fans to a minimum of 75-80% in FSD*
..so the JTAG kills my console slowly?
And that's the other part where I mus send my console away I guess.
Did anything happen on the R-JTAG side?
You cannot play XBLA/XBLIndie/DLC or use Avatar items downloaded from the web on a retail 360, if it's not released on disc then you're only able to boot that stuff on hardware hacked consoles!
Retail = unhacked?
Thanks in advance! =)
Bimmel