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So my mate got a modded xbox from a site on the internet. I'll not say which one, as
a) they are in a way in competition with SR
b) use of such consoles could be illegal (I don't know to be honest)
Anyway, it comes with a choice of HD's up to 250gig, a choice of DVD Rom drives (Samsung one is £10 extra), and a choice of mod chips.
It's all professionally done, included with your package is several emulators, such as MAME, N64 emulators and the like. Windows Media player is on it also, which allows you to play MP3's copied over from your PC.
You can copy games onto the HD and play them straight from that, drastically cutting load times. It's multi-region also, has a choice of dashboard skins (which can also be replaced by images on your PC). It plugs directly into your PC via a parallel port, and you can switch off the chip to use live if you wish. You can also watch your DVD's without a remote (something that should have been available with the standard box)
This may be the norm - I don't have much experience with modded boxes, but I just wanted to say it is all very professional looking indeed. The menus you use to navigate between your games, applications and music is very polished and asthetically excellent. It almost feels as though Microsoft themselves did it. It begs the question - why haven't they done it? It lets you see the true potential of the console, and when you look at what you get with the standard package, it's not a whole lot in comparison.
Sure, the modded one is a little more expensive, and you only get a 3 month guarantee, but surely it's worth it for all the extras you get.
As it is I'm going to upgrade myself I think when cash allows, and providing my mates doesn't explode 2 days after the guarantee runs out.
Maybe this is a taster of what microsoft have planned with the XBOX2? I surely hope so.
a) they are in a way in competition with SR
b) use of such consoles could be illegal (I don't know to be honest)
Anyway, it comes with a choice of HD's up to 250gig, a choice of DVD Rom drives (Samsung one is £10 extra), and a choice of mod chips.
It's all professionally done, included with your package is several emulators, such as MAME, N64 emulators and the like. Windows Media player is on it also, which allows you to play MP3's copied over from your PC.
You can copy games onto the HD and play them straight from that, drastically cutting load times. It's multi-region also, has a choice of dashboard skins (which can also be replaced by images on your PC). It plugs directly into your PC via a parallel port, and you can switch off the chip to use live if you wish. You can also watch your DVD's without a remote (something that should have been available with the standard box)
This may be the norm - I don't have much experience with modded boxes, but I just wanted to say it is all very professional looking indeed. The menus you use to navigate between your games, applications and music is very polished and asthetically excellent. It almost feels as though Microsoft themselves did it. It begs the question - why haven't they done it? It lets you see the true potential of the console, and when you look at what you get with the standard package, it's not a whole lot in comparison.
Sure, the modded one is a little more expensive, and you only get a 3 month guarantee, but surely it's worth it for all the extras you get.
As it is I'm going to upgrade myself I think when cash allows, and providing my mates doesn't explode 2 days after the guarantee runs out.
Maybe this is a taster of what microsoft have planned with the XBOX2? I surely hope so.
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I feel the need to contribute something to this discussion, so I will.
*clears throat*
Boobs.
*clears throat*
Boobs.
Edgy wrote:
> El Robin, an answer?
He must do if were thinking along the same lines.
> El Robin, an answer?
He must do if were thinking along the same lines.
Edgy wrote:
> El Robin, an answer?
To what, the looking after disks thing?
Still dont know what you mean.
Do i put them in cases?
If so then yes.
> El Robin, an answer?
To what, the looking after disks thing?
Still dont know what you mean.
Do i put them in cases?
If so then yes.
Valentino Rossi wrote:
> EL ® ö B ì Ñ, I want to send you an email,
> please send a blank message to [email protected] and I'll reply.
>
> Cheers
Done.
> EL ® ö B ì Ñ, I want to send you an email,
> please send a blank message to [email protected] and I'll reply.
>
> Cheers
Done.
El Robin, an answer?
The middle one was better.
It's not all that if you can't get on Live with it.
Look at the specs on this baby ...
http://xbox.upgrade123.com/contentid-2.html
http://xbox.upgrade123.com/contentid-2.html
EL ® ö B ì Ñ, I want to send you an email, please send a blank message to [email protected] and I'll reply.
Cheers
Cheers
ßora† SagdiyeV wrote:
> 185 for the xbox,
Xbox is about £130 then chip is about £50 so that works out good.
then up to 175 extra for a bigger hard drive.
Na, normal PC HDD will do, open it up, swap a few cables around and ta-da you have a 200GB HDD.
> 185 for the xbox,
Xbox is about £130 then chip is about £50 so that works out good.
then up to 175 extra for a bigger hard drive.
Na, normal PC HDD will do, open it up, swap a few cables around and ta-da you have a 200GB HDD.
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