XBox Modding And You.
May 22, 2007 Posted by Jessica in : Hacks , trackback,
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I was reluctant at first to mod my Xbox, because I was nervous that it would get messed up and I wouldn’t be able to play the Xbox at all. It turned out to be my best gaming decision yet.
All you have to do is Google “modded Xbox†or “modded Xbox <your city here>†and you will find all the information you need. Basically, modding an Xbox entails soldering a mod chip onto the motherboard of your Xbox. This allows you to play unsigned games, back up your games to your hard drive and have access to the Xbox’s file system. Now, maybe you are like me and don’t know a thing about soldering let alone soldering a chip onto your Xbox. Well you are in luck. Remember that query “modded Xbox <your city here>� This can be your gaming savior. I found a guy in my area that would not only solder the chip, he installed a new hard drive (200GB) and gave all kinds of great software to maximize my Xbox’s potential all for a cool $250.
What does that mean exactly? It means he installed a couple of emulators, game burning programs to rip games to my hard drive, media players- so I can also keep music, photos and movies on my Xbox hard drive. He also installed a kick a** dashboard that makes it easy to access all of my new features. But, the best part my friends, over 14,000 game files for almost every system under the sun. The only thing missing from the package were Nintendo 64 games but he helped me out with that too. He installed an emulator and then walked me through transferring games from my computer to my Xbox using FTP. So all I had to do was a little leg work on the web to find the games, FTP to my Xbox and BAM! I’m on my way. Now if you will excuse me, I think Dr. Mario is calling my name.
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that is so cool! i dont really get into all of the new games, but i loved tetris, mario bro.’s, etc. and we have an X-Box! consider me sold. great article, Jessica!
The ability to mod the XBox was my favorite thing about it. It’s risky; I’ve currently got a 200 GB doorstop sitting under my TV and I’ve long since been banned from XBox live, but I was doing it back before there were softmod options and XBox live work-arounds. Plus the problems I have are with old components. If I ever had some free time I’m sure I could get it back up again.
Having someone with experience take care of it is probably the safest approach, but I’d definitely recommend looking into the current softmod options and XBox live alternatives if you’re interested in doing it yourself.
I haven’t had a chance to look into modding for any of the newer generation systems, but I’m curious what’s out there and if the companies have tried to encourage or curtail it.
The guy I went to for modding my Xbox also mods the Wii and is going to be modding the Xbox 360 as well. He doesn’t do the PS3 but recommends someone that does. As for Xbox Live, I have never used it mostly because for a long time I didn’t have a connection I could use. But the chip that I had installed does have a work around for Xbox live that is supposed to work really well. I’m thinking about getting an Xbox 360 but I probably won’t mod that one since my box pretty much has all I need.
I’ve modded my Xbox already but I’ll I have is super nintendo. I’m having a really hard time finding the n64 emulator. Can anyone help me out?
Editorial note: Unfortunately, copyright issues don’t allow us to talk more specifically about where to obtain emulators. I am posting this comment with this note to prevent future requests of this nature.