DreG_02

Bought an Xbox from a friend recently, got it modded within one week. It's really interesting the things you can do with a modded xbox.
Cant wait for halo 2 to come out, I'll tell ya, it's really fun .

Any of the rest of your xbox gamers out there? want to mod your box or just talk xbox lingo? come one come all!

aftermath

I am fairly certain modding is illegal :P I modded my playstation. it was great. but i think it breaches copy right laws, making it illegal. so i discarded my ps when someone told me that.

I'm not a huge fan of the xbox because i'm more into rpg's. the xbox does have some great rp titles, but ,ost of them are for the pc, and i already have one. halo 2 does look cool, but i bet it'll be on pc a year after its released.

Has anyone heard rumors about the next gen systems yet? is microsoft going to continue with the race, because a xbox 2 just mite tempt me enough....

I, Brian

Excuse my ignorance, but what improvements or features are involved in "modding" an Xbox or PS 2?

aftermath

When you 'mod' a console system, it will allow you to play burnt games. the only problem with modding the new consoles is that it with sometimes fry the motherboard or overheat the system, melting it.

and you need a dvd burner to copy the games properly.

Bigmacscanlan

The modification of consoles is something of a grey area, it is perfectly legal to modify something that is your own propery, however, the purchase or use of "backup" games which you do not own the originals to, is illegal.

Anyway enough of that, Hi Dreg, can I ask which mod chip you went for, and how much did it cost? Did you send it away to be modded, or did you do it yourself? If you sent it away, was the company that did it reliable? I have been half considering modding my box for years now, but when the mods first came out, it was a case of using a soldering iron to reroute connections on the motherboard, i had just forked out £300 for the X-Box and didnt want to mess it up, the companys that did the mods were all too expensive too, but I would guess thats probably changed.

To answer your question Brian, a remarkable amount! There is a Unix based operating system now available for the box, it can play DivX and Xvid movies as well as VCD. There have been emulator releases allowing you to play SNES, NES, Gameboy, Genesis, Master Sytem, Gamegear ROMs on it, all well as practically every other console before them, from the Atari 2600, to the Amiga, to the Intellivision and the C64. As aftermath points out, it also allows for copyed DVD games, but its uses are far more extensive than simple piracy! If you wanted you could do desktop publishing on the X-Box, and run it as a fairly simple PC. If you had the programing knowledge, you could even turn your X-Box into the hardware workings of a MAME emulator based home-built arcade machine!

I, Brian

Ah - now that makes sense.

I remember when people talked of modding the Playstation 1 with chipped versions, or else buying from Japan. But those were the days when a bit of blutack on the eject would do the trick.

Spirit_Caller

Sony have been in uproar about folks chipping or modding their sets and have taken the issue to the courts. Sadly it has now been found to be illegal to modify your set from its original state. Though the still is the grey area about having backup copies of your original, as the law at present says you can. Why you would want to have a backup when it wont run on an unmodified set I dont know!!???? Personally speaking we have had both our PS1,2 and XBox tinkered with and haven't looked back. Maybe the producers of the games should look at their pricing and think why people do do this.

DreG_02

Geeze, it's been so long since I last posted here, got to remember which boards i sign up for

To answer you long since posted question, modding an xbox console provides many worthwhile things,
that one doesn't neccesarily have to break the law to do. For instance I used my mod to backup my own games which
I still own. Since they are on my harddrive their loading times have been cut by a factor of 10, a halo loader that would've taken 30 seconds, takes about 3, no joking. In addition, DVD's can be played without the addition of a clunky dvd remote. And as Bigmacscanlan posted, a mod can convert your xbox into a virtual pc if you know what you're doing.

Although admittedly using the mod for illegal purposes may be useful, modders should remember that copying games does violate federal copywrite law and is therefore wrong and illegal. I am unsure if this covers software YOU OWN AND CONTINUE TO DO SO like I have or not. But I don't think backingup games I own and still do is illegal, I'm just moving my property onto a different medium. If I ever trade in any games, etc. I will erase them from my xbox.

Leto

Depending on the country you are, it's illegal. In terms of software (as games), buyers are not owners but licensees. If your federal or state law doesn't explicit say you have right to one private copy, burning your own CD (of games, music or video) is illegal.
Hence the many court fight due due to CD and DVD protected against copy.

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Alexa

My supervisor bought the DVD for Star Wars III with $ 1 in Maroc ! An many other DVD for the same price. I thought chinese rule the market with copies.

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