If you don't know what I'm talking about, please allow me to explain.
Back in 2005 my dad bought a little chipset that hangs out of the side of the Xbox which overrides the "Genuine Product" check on Xbox disks so that you can burn a disk with an Xbox game on it. So if you use Easynews or something, each game download is about $2 USD (plus one DL DVD) instead of $40 or $60. I burned games all the time.
Then my original Xbox started to get the Red Ring of Death, and very rarely could I play games on the Xbox.
Then the Xbox 360 came around in 2007, and my dad still wanted to burn games for me instead of buying them, so when I got my Xbox 360 he immediately cracked it open and installed the modification program. Then that Xbox got the 3 Red lights of doom, and we later discovered that it was from the pointless X-Clamps on the motherboard. So we removed those, and the Xbox worked for 3 months before crapping out again. We once again went in and diagnosed the problem as broken circuitry from the X-clamps preventing the board from slightly flexing under heat. So even after removing the X-clamps, it continued to cut its own wires.
So, after two years without an Xbox 360, my grandparents won $10,000 from a scratch ticket and got me an Xbox 360 Arcade in 2009, which I still use to this day. No hacking or modding with this one though, and it works phenomenally.
Has anybody had a similar story? Let me know in the comments.
Well, I bought a wii and installed a software mod that added a ton of functionality. I could have used burned disks but, instead used it for emulation.
I never modded on consoles... I was too young, and my dad wasn't much into tech. I do however, still have the old Xbox in my basement, still works, still have the box, 2 controllers, and 65 games for it.
I softmodded a ps2 a few months ago. It allows me to install games to the ide hdd and play burned and imported games as well. It was a pain but it was totally worth it.
Never modded, but way back in the day my uncle would burn pc games for me. Only reason I played Rainbow six (up to RS 3), and he even overclocked my mom's computer lol. He would throw in some games that were way out there too. One of them had a plasma pistol of some sort, and three different firing modes. One fired a square of plasma. That game was badass, but buggy as hell. I think it may have been a mod. Was a space shooter of some sort.
Well, this isn't my story, but my girfriend ATM told me that when she was little she had a dreamcast and she played it all the time. Her dad (Who worked for the disc manufacturer at the time.) brought home the dreamcast disc and she played those. She still has the somewhat working dreamcast and the disc. She even has copies of some of the games too, usually one being scratched and the other being playable.
I modded my original xbox back in 2006. I upgraded to a bigger HDD, installed emulators, installed games, linux, modded halo 2, and various other things. I still use it to this day, mainly for emulation and Morrowind. It's one of those small things I'm proud of and actually value over my 360. Way too many good memories. I had planned in installing a 6-ethernet hub in it as well at one point, but our LAN parties started to die out. Every now and then (like once a year) the gang gets back together for a LAN party and I break out my pride and joy.
Yip original xbox was a champion, best memories of any console. Mod chiped with 200gb hdd. Waay to many hours of unreal championship 2 to be healthy, Rest of its life was spent running xbmc as and awesome media center for around 5 years while my 360 gathered dust... : ) If microsoft kept making consoles to that standard i would have never bothered with PC gaming. And thats a hard statement to make!
Only thing I have ever done is Jailbreak my iphone... I remember my dad brought me a PS2 game once and you can guess how disapointed I was when he pulled it out and it was a copy which I knew straight away wouldn't work... atleast he brought it for dirt cheap xD
I remember when I tried to softmod my ps2 with software called Action Replay only to find out that I had bought the newer version that had the feature patched.