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The Next Level of X-Box Modding
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.
Apparently he's serving the images from his Xbox too...
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zee svedeesh meet bull X-Bux.
bork bork bork!
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I mean, how dumb do you think we are? I checked the site, and there's not a "bork bork bork" anywhere!
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Sometimes, as most geeks out there know, it's OK do to something silly just because you can. Sure, it probably be smarter to just buy a PC or buy the parts to build one, but many people get into either the 'coolness' factor or the 'because it was there' reasoning. Nothing wrong with that.
I gott ask tho, at what point would it have made more sense just to buy a regular computer?
probably at the point where imagination gives up, I think most mods are useless from a practical point of view but feh, you have fun doing it
I gott ask tho, at what point would it have made more sense just to buy a regular computer?
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If you ask me, yes. First of all it's a nice feeling to buy something and give it a personal touch. On top of that a comparable sized PC hardware would probably be hard and or expensive to find (can't look at the pics,
And it's always nice to do something which is supposed to be impossible and or has been made hard to do.
It's all about the sense of accomplishment
.: Max Romantschuk
You ask why? I think the question is, why not?
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Running a webserver on an X-Box or a GBA, we geeks do it because we can. It was the same with the Linux Dreamcast and the laptop Amiga 600 before it. I mean, at least now the X-Box is good for something - heaven knows it's already the SIZE of a server case...
I gott 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.
What's the point? Well, since the site is slashdotted, I was unable to read the article.... but, the point is, to have a nice looking machine... that, get this, plays X-BOX games. I'm sick and tired of the "buy a $300 Walmart PC", for most people a $300 Walmart PC doesn't DO what the want to do. Believe it or not, hardware doesn't mean squat if it doesn't run the software you want.
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He changed the DVD!
.. But he got slashdotted.
He changed the HD!
He inserted a wireless network card!
He installed Linux on it!
Note to self: get smarter troll to guard door.
I gott ask tho, at what point would it have made more sense just to buy a regular computer?
Since when did heavy case modding ever make sense? Isn't the point to do something frivolously cool?
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I gott ask tho, at what point would it have made more sense just to buy a regular computer?
Right about when a regular computer is capable of playing Xbox games.
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Kathleen has finally done it. She's turned Rob into a normal guy. Let this serve as a warning to all you geeks out that, this is what marriage will do. It'll strip you of your desire for case mods, installing Linux on anything with an electronic pulse or ability to see if articles have already been posted! *shudder*
Rob. Put the mouse down, move away from the computer, leave the room, turn the lights off, get your sixpack and ride your lawnmower around the yard (or w/blade, plow driveway.)
I knew this day was coming. I've also noticed Gabe at Penny Arcade has begun to lose his hand to eye coordination, so vital in video games. Next thing you know, he'll be playing strategy games.
Come to think of it, loss of hand to eye coordination is probably as good an excuse as any to convert that old Xbox into a server.
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
Maybe you wouldn't like my mod then....
I rotated the XBOX decal on the top so it now says XOBX. I tell people its the cheap knock-off of the Xbox made in the Soviet Union (where apparently Xbox pays you...or some such crap.)
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He forgot to add the 8-track!
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Mirror here.
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wget --page-requisites --convert-links 'http://www.sweclockers.com/html/artikel/art_0302
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... whenever I see one of these modding projects I get this odd taste in my mouth and it all reminds me too much of my gawky teenage years and the mech-geeks that would mod Puch Maxi mopeds to go 100km/h either by using illegal german tuning kits or by drilling or filing various parts of it.
... pratical vehicle. With its slim bycyclish appearance it looked kinda stupid with a death-defying teenager on top of it at a hundred kilometers per hour.
To those who don't know the Puch Maxi let's describe it as a
Whenever modding is brought up I come to think of these things.
Sorry, flame me to death now.
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Er, CmdrTaco, are you quite sure this is about hardware?
Being at work, it put me into a dilemma: to click or not to click?
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Translation courtesy of The Dialectizer". For effect, here's the Slashdot summary:
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Pusted by CmdrTecu oon Tooe-a Feb 25, '03 08:04 EM
frum zee noo-veeet-a-meenoote-a dept.
Um de hur de hur de hur. neekitin2k vreetes "A svedeesh gooy deed a reelly sveet xbux mud. Bork bork bork! He-a mufed zee vhule-a theeng intu un eloomeenioom chessees, chunged zee dfd und hdd, instelled a mud-cheep, vureless lun, leds, sveetches und Leenoox. Meet zee xXx-bux. Zee seete-a is in svedeesh, boot zee peecs speek fur zeemselfes. Um gesh dee bork, bork! Luts ooff peectoores here-a" I gutt esk thu, et vhet pueent vuoold it hefe-a mede-a mure-a sense-a joost tu booy a regooler cumpooter? Zee greee leeghting is a neece-a tuooch thu.
Yet when a case mod is posted without that disclaimer, everyone claims "this is sooo non-news... why, oh why would anyone bother doing this?"
Poor /. editor's ain't gettin' no respect...
..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.
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
Pictures only here. Please be gentle...
Who did what now?
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
But I just don't understand why people who don't get the concept of modding a case as fun keep posting about it every time something like this makes the front page. Sure, there may have been other more technically inclined posts that could have made the front page instead, but why worry? If they're really important enough, they'll get posted whether this goes up or not.
I like to see this kind of news, I find it amusing and kinda cool. I haven't gotten into the case mod thing yet myself, but have been seriously considering a few ideas that come very close. I'd like to propose a new section of Slashdot for the kinds of news that don't quite fall under the other categories. The "It's funny, laugh." category here doesn't seem quite right. How about a "Geek Culture" section to catch the items that keep getting responses like this? Sure, some people will debate the specifics of Geek Culture, but I think it's pretty easily defined.
Unfortunately, I'm at work so can't really put the time into it (started this paragraph three times already) so maybe someone else can pick up the slack?
I'd like to point out that modding the Xbox would be quite fun. I've wondered just how much I could get away with on mine since I just got it. Perhaps trying to build a megaconsole might be in the cards soon, taking the boards from a PS2 and an Xbox and seeing what I can stuff in one case...
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For most people, a $300 Walmart PC does do everything they want it to do.
Slashdot readers are not "most people".
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Bullshit. I have an Xbox, and I've got more games for it than for my PS2 and Gamecube put together. Sure, there's one or two crap titles, but I've got crap games for the PS2 as well (The Bouncer - WTF was I thinking?)
On top of that, Xbox Live is a lot of fun. Load up MechAssault, Ghost Recon, or Unreal Championship and blast away with full voice support, so you can talk trash while you're lighting people up.
And, there's Splinter Cell, which isn't even out for the other two consoles yet.
In short, don't dismiss the Xbox just because you think people don't play games on theirs. I don't even have a modchip in mine, let alone Linux, and I'm perfectly happy with it.
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I type this every time.Thanks to comment http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=55018&cid=5378 313 I've set up a mirror of his/her mirror at http://www.fibrespeed.net/~mbabcock/mirrors/www.to mmarsh.net/xmod/
It is still downloading from the original site, so some pictures may not come up when you initially visit.
Good luck. I'll be throttling it in case it gets Slashdotted too badly. And yes, the server penalizes rapid reconnections.
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