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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.
> So you'll agree with me, El Robin, that your games will not get
> scratched if you look after them, keep them in their cases, and not
> use them as coasters then?
I havnt answered full because i know you are gunna say something along the lines of "Well if the originals are well looked after then why have backup coppies"
So now i will be saying that i lied and i dont have 1 single backup copy, i totaly dissagree with it.
If you totally disagreed with it, you wouldn't be willing to show others how to do it.
> Why don't you learn spell properly?
Im a bad speller mate, always have been.
> I hope SR have read this topic and made a note of your membership
> number at the very least...incase you try to return any games.
I wouldnt do that i only borrow of a mate, i wouldnt buy it, coppy it and take it back. Not fair on that shop.