For Sale: Modded Xbox

Gai-jin · **For Sale: Modded Xbox -** 01-26-2007, 09:10 PM

1 Modded Xbox
1 Power Cord
1 AV Cable
(Possibly) 1 Component Cable
1 Controller-S

Also I have a bunch of backup copies of games. As long as you can confirm you own all the originals of these, I'd be glad to send the backups with to save you the trouble.

I'd like to get $100 including shipping.

markz · 01-26-2007, 11:24 PM

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Originally Posted by Gai-jin

1 Modded Xbox
1 Power Cord
1 AV Cable
(Possibly) 1 Component Cable
1 Controller-S

Also I have a bunch of backup copies of games. As long as you can confirm you own all the originals of these, I'd be glad to send the backups with to save you the trouble.

I'd like to get $100 including shipping.

Other than gaming, what can the modded XBOX do? I don't have any experience with game systems since the Atari days. However, I am interested in the multimedia functions.

Otto · 01-28-2007, 02:46 AM

I use mine with XBMC to play back video from my PC on my main entertainment system. Plays pretty much any format I've been able to throw at it. I also have a lot of emulators on it, so I can play a lot of game roms and such. Very fun, I've been playing a lot of old Zelda's the last week or so.

David · 01-28-2007, 11:04 AM

I'd venture to say that my modded Xbox (also with XBMC) is the A/V component I get the most use out of (second to my TiVo, of course).

As Otto said, it can play damn near video format you throw at it from your computer. It can even play ISOs of ripped DVDs from a computer hard drive, which I've found very useful. If you download a lot of torrents, the Xbox is a must-have, IMO.

I don't use it nearly as much for audio, but it's pretty full-featured. It's played EVERYTHING I've tried-- Ogg, FLAC, Shorten files. It even played a concert I had downloaded as one long mp3 with a cue sheet used to split the file into songs. The Xbox handled it without a hitch, even splitting the file into songs like it should.

Gai-jin · 02-01-2007, 08:03 PM

Personally, I loved the emulators. Hundreds of NES & SNES games, I believe there are also emulators for sega and other systems as well.

You can backup copies of xbox games to DVD to play later, or copy the games direct to the hard drive so you never have to bother putting a disc in. In Theory, you could rent a game, copy it to the hard drive, and keep playing it after you return the game, with very little effort. Of course, that would be illegal, so I wouldn't recommend it.

XBMC is quite popular, as others have already said.

Personally, this xbox has been sitting in a closet for some time because my wife didn't like our son playing it, the games I had were a bit too mature for a young child.

markz · 02-01-2007, 08:39 PM

I am interested mainly for the media center features, but I don't know anything about XBOXs (modified or not).

I do have Easy Mame on my PC with lots of ROMS although I haven't played it lately.

I also download torrents of episodes I miss occasionally, but I usually burn them to a CDRW and watch them on my DIVX DVD player.

How do you interact with the XBOX? Is it on a network? Does it have a remote? How big is the hard drive?

Is anything missing to make it usable? Anything else I should know?

Otto · 02-01-2007, 10:44 PM

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Originally Posted by markz

How do you interact with the XBOX? Is it on a network? Does it have a remote? How big is the hard drive?

Is anything missing to make it usable? Anything else I should know?

You can interact with it with XBox controllers.
It has a 100 mbit network connection.
You can buy the DVD Remote kit for it for like $10 or so if you look around ($20 retail). This includes an IR receiver which plugs in a controller port, and a remote which is easily learnable into any universal remotes you may have.
The standard hard drive is small, but you can put bigger ones in with the right tools. The one I bought off Marc has a 200 gig in it.
Downloading the software is tricky, since the binaries are not technically legal (the compiler used is not free and it has license issues), although work is being done on an open source compiler to make it 100% legit. Thus far Microsoft hasn't taken any major legal actions about it that I am aware of.

mercurial · 02-02-2007, 11:50 AM

This reminds me (and it will be about the third time I've said it), I need to update the XBMC version on my hacked Xbox... Maybe I should start a new thread...

Otto · 02-02-2007, 11:56 AM

You can usually find the latest XBMC builds on the pirate bay.

Gai-jin · 02-02-2007, 09:38 PM

Xbox has built in ethernet, so you just plug it straight into the network.

They come with either an 8GB or 10GB hard drive, with (rougly) 4-5GB for system and scratch partitions, IIRC. If anyone wants a bigger hard drive than the factory, I'd be glad to install it and load all the software before shipping, just add the cost of the drive.