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XBox Media Center installed on a modded xbox really is all you need. Plug it into your hub/router/whatever, and with a little bit of config you can get it to run directly off of a samba share from your desktop.

Get the DVD package, and you have remote control access. The thing also plays DVDs (I haven't got XBMC doing DVDs yet, but running the xbox dash to watch it isn't bad) so that's most of your video bases covered.

The main purpose of a modchip, like it or not, is to pirate games.

The main purpose of a handgun in the hands of a non-police officer, like it or not, is to kill police officers.

If you make a modchip that does not let you pirate games, but just lets you play homebrew ones, it might be legal -- but nobody would want it.

That's why they're the biggest news on the PS2 scene and why all the popular modchip makers have jumped onto the homebrew bandwagon, right? And that's why all legal XBOX modchips sold in the USA (yes, not *all* modchips are banned in the USA, just *most*) are preloaded with cromwell flash firmware, or just plain cromwell firmware, as well as a suite of popular homebrew utilites, right?

Honestly, I don't think you know what you're talking about. I make a living selling modchips legally (thank God for Canada) and there definately *is* a demand for modchips for homebrew software. There's also a larger demand for modchips for backups, and I'm happy to sell them for that purpose (thanks to our sane copyright laws). As far as a demand for pirated games, let's put it this way, I turn all customers to even mention warez away at the door, and my shop does $1/4 million+ sales per year. Seems to me there's plenty of demand for modchips for legal purposes. I would say I turn away about 1% of my customers for this reason. It's far less than I'd have to turn away if I were running a video rental store.

I've never made a dollar from piracy and I intend to keep it that way. And so do all the other places selling modchips. In the entire history of Canada, only one modchip store has ever been "shut down" for piracy. Or at least that's the only one that made the news.

Oddly enough, you'll find shops like mine MUCH more concerened with piracy than *any* other gaming store (some of which I happen to know are selling pirated games right now -- morons!), because unlike them, the corporations with big money send hired goons to my store to try to get us to sell them products for illegal purposes (this has happened to us, the hired goons that is, not the sale of illegal products) because the big money doesn't like the idea that their hardware might be used in a manner they didn't want it to be used in.

Now, I'm busy modding another PS2 so it can play imports... TTYL!

This is a reply to the Xodus Chip story.

Yes.. www.teamxodus.com is temporarily down. It wasn't when the story was posted however.

Is this a new chip? no.

But they've released a new OS for it, which has pleased it's current users, and should attract new ones I suspect.

With this chip, it;s current OS, and with an easy to find hacked bios an Xbox can easily be turned into an excellent media center.

Networked with a pc, it can stream all manner of audio and video and pictures from a pc to the xbox to be displayed where and when you wish.

This same modded xbox, can also be used to surf the web with native clients like Linksbox, or linux in many flavours can be installed to accomplish the same feat.

People weighing the value of a modchipped xbox, need to consider their entertainent needs. For some, this is an incredible investment.

For more info on Modded Xbox' check out http://www.xbox-scene.com/, and to find out more about this specific modchip contact their site at http://www.teamxodus.com/

In order to utilize the HD's , users will require an upgrade device , the best one on the market by far is the Xenium , it comes in a no solder form , so anyone can install it.

To make use of the extra hard disk drive's you will require an upgrade device , the best one on the market is the Xenium , it comes in a solderless form for those who are in-experienced with soldering.