Modding an Xbox 360

Arrow · February 05, 2011, 10:32:05 AM

Anyone here done this? I think we all know I'm hesitant to do anything like this without quintuple checking. It took me seven months to get a damn flash cart for the DS.

If anyone here has done this, I'd like some insight. Difficult? Easy? Am I gonna need to put down any money? I'm studying this up myself right now, but I'd appreciate someone with some knowledge.

Holkeye · February 05, 2011, 11:17:09 AM

I did mine. It wasn't easy, but it wasn't super difficult, either. If you can build a PC, you can mod a 360. There are a few ways to do it, but I chose the drive replacement/flashing bios method. Mine isn't Jtagged, and I can still play on Live.

Arrow · February 05, 2011, 11:30:59 AM

Alright, I dunno what Jtagged is.

I just wanna play emulators and shit since my computer is becoming less and less able to do so, and I miss playing playstation games and shit. I'd prefer to be able to play downloaded 360 games too since the damn thing won't read actual games anymore.

Holkeye · February 05, 2011, 12:19:28 PM

Jtagging allows you to fake licenses from the marketplace, effectively letting you play live arcade games from the hdd or a flash drive without having officially downloaded them. I modded mine to play burned 360 games, because I already have a computer for emulation, and PS1 emu on anything but a PC or a PSP is shitty. The only real reason to mod a 360 is to play burned games. If you're looking for perfect PS1 emulation, pick up a PSP. Its the easiest thing to mod, and it runs every PS1 game perfectly. If you really need a console for classic game emulation, I would say to look for a Dreamcast, or softmod a Wii. Or just use a PC, since it doesn't get easier than that.

Kokowam · February 05, 2011, 05:23:44 PM

Plus the PSP has some pretty good games, and cracking that is really easy/safe/cheap, too! 8D (phat only and it's free unless you eff up and need to get Pandora MMS but then you also need a decently sized memory stick to play games since PS1 games are usually at least a gigabyte...

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strike · February 05, 2011, 06:18:50 PM

I've heard the original xbox is great for ps1 emu's as well but i've got no idea how to mod it.

Holkeye · February 05, 2011, 07:29:50 PM

Fat is not the only one that you can mod. They all work the same, except the go.

Also, yeah, the original Xbox was great for emulators. I forgot about that one.

Kokowam · February 05, 2011, 08:11:17 PM

Phat is not the only one, but there's a lot more support for it, it's easier, and even if you somehow brick your PSP, it's still completely fixable.

Arrow · February 05, 2011, 09:18:17 PM

Only reason I wanna use a 360 at all is I already have one, if I had a PSP I'd definitely do it first. I just don't have the case for one. The wii in this house is my brother's so that's a no go. I use my computer for NES and SNES already, it's just stuff that runs 3D that it hates.

Playing burned XBOX 360 games would be plenty enough pay off for me.