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The Next Level of X-Box Modding

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the now-wait-a-minute dept.

nikitin2k writes "A swedish guy did a really sweet xbox mod. He moved the whole thing into an aluminium chassis, changed the dvd and hdd, installed a mod-chip, wireless lan, leds, switches and Linux. Meet the xXx-box. The site is in swedish, but the pics speak for themselves. Lots of pictures here." I gotta ask tho, at what point would it have made more sense just to buy a regular computer? The green lighting is a nice touch tho.

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  1. Well... by Hellraisr · · Score: 1, Interesting

    I'm behind a firewall so I can't see the pics right now, but Xbox modding is something that is a really interesting topic right now. The whole thing of MS not wanting you to do things to your own system etc. It is refreshing to see someone actually mod their Xbox and not just paint the plastic X on the top red and call it modding or hacking.

  2. Problems ahead by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    One Finnish XXX site called "XXX-Box" just got into trouble because of their name. MS lawyer contacted them insisting that the name needs to be changed. This poor Swede will most likely face the same problem very soon.

  3. uh.. well.nice, but.. by gl4ss · · Score: 3, Interesting

    ..why did he waste xbox on it? he wanted to play halo?

    after so extensive modding he could just have used a proper smallish motherboard for the job(mATX/itx/whatever), and then he could have also had more memory than xbox's 64mb.

    yea i'm bitchin and it yes it does look nice and is a cool project, but it's like modding a dodge neon into viper and leaving the neon's engine block in it.

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  4. Nonsense. Nobody has the Xbox to play games... by alexhmit01 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The game selection is far inferior in quantity to PS2 (if you dig quantity) or quality to the Gamecube. It's an oversized mess with lousy games and decent graphics. BTW: I have an Xbox, it was a gift. The gaming experience is SO inferior to by Gamecube (4 Wavebirds vs. a couple of clunkers). The games are inferior. And everything is built to appeal to sex-starved teenagers.

    Compare Beach Spikers (GCN), a really fun volleyball game with some over-the-top scenes, to DOA X Extreme Beach Volleyball, a collection of gratuitous scenes with casino, "hopping game," and volleyball miniggames.

    You get the Xbox as a gift, or the "wow, it's got a powerful video card" factor. Nobody gets the Xbox for the software, unless they already have a PS2 and GCN and wanted to play a particular game (Buffy is pretty cool).

    Alex

  5. Toaster PC by Beltway+Prophet · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I like this one:

    http://www.mini-itx.com/projects/toasterpc/

  6. Where's the mod that makes a PC into an XBOX? by What+is+a+number · · Score: 3, Interesting
    So we can PC-ize an XBOX, and, up to the point that it still plays XBOX games, I would still call it an XBOX. So the next obvious mod is a chip (or whatever is necessary - software in a VM?) to enable a PC to play XBOX games. Come on, where is it?

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    I type this every time.