Wow, nice one NeSchn. See, we were talking on IM the other day and I was telling you about my 360
I gave you Xbox luck.
Haha yeah! Thanks for that!
QUOTE(FAST6191 @ Dec 14 2008, 12:53 PM) no homebrew? The original xbox is probably the best homebrew console ever (the wii looks set to take the crown though, if only because of the large USB devices and SDHC).
Emulators for the 16 bit era and backwards are as good as any PC emulator I have use, the PS1 one is decent and the N64 can play more than a few games.
On the other side of the coin XBMC is a top flight media player, the only thing it struggles with is some of the high end H264 stuff.
shtonkalot's is sound about the method by which there are installed and I have no experience with the chip either (by the time I got around to it softmods were as good as chips with a few provisos). However this appears to be what you want:
http://www.modchipstore.com/support/index....=16&nav=0,3
My suggestion then is to get something called autoinstaller deluxe aka AID (AID 4.40 is the latest), it contains all the best xbox homebrew in a nice installer package. XBMC updates fairly often so I suggest the "t3ch xbmc" builds instead.
Next get one of the tearaway cables for the controller and a USB extension lead (you could get away with something that only has a female socket but the ability to use the controller on a PC would be lost). Open up the wires and solder (or join if you have to) like coloured wires to each other, I prefer not to cut the wires but to expose the copper and join that, insulate it and repeat. The xbox lead will have a wire left over, yellow if I recall correctly, but it is not important.
You can now use a fair few USB sticks for XBMC, not all will work and you can not use things larger than about 4 gigs (basically no external drives worth a damn).
If using xbmc and you can leave the xbox in the router set up file sharing on your machine (I have done it with SAMBA and windows inbuilt) for while FTPing is nice and burning discs is also easy enough (note use of that chip means you likely have a older xbox and the older drives did not like DVD+R* all that much) the ability to simply grab it off the drive is one I would not give up easily.
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http://www.xbox-linux.org/wiki/Xbox_Linux_...D_Burning_HOWTO , note you can quite easily stick a cheap PC drive that can read things onto the xbox (
http://www.xbox-scene.com/xbox-tutorials.php ) and you can always set the booktype to the one you want (there was a guide around here the other day but it is not that difficult).
Lastly you might consider a bigger drive, the xbox comes with either an 8 gig drive or a 10 gig one formatted as 8 (which you can then make into 10, guide at xbox scene link above) but you can stick an IDE drive into the xbox quite easily. This however is one of the provisos of the softmod, when softmodding an xbox you have to lock the drive and some can not do this
http://xboxdrives.x-pec.com/?p=list but a lot of chips have the ability to just stick a new drive in and bypass the need for locking. You chip has the patch to allow big drives (not a problem on softmods) but I do not know if it has the bypass option. The main reason for this is to store games on but multi iso discs are easy enough to make and the stock drive is usually big enough to store a game or two.
