xbox 360 mods?
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you can go here its a place in waterloo they did my 360
http://www.gocybershop.ca/customer/home.php?xid=ad7aeb5901166029f7ca830c04a98aae
http://www.gocybershop.ca/customer/home.php?xid=ad7aeb5901166029f7ca830c04a98aae
mods
do you know anywhere u can just buy the chip>? after moded, do you just burn games and they are playable? thanks
do you know anywhere u can just buy the chip>? after moded, do you just burn games and they are playable? thanks
ak0831 said:you can go here its a place in waterloo they did my 360
http://www.gocybershop.ca/customer/home.php?xid=ad7aeb5901166029f7ca830c04a98aae
Hey ak0831,
do you know what kind of chip they put in your box? how much ?
you said its a 360, and that you can put rip games to the hd.
you mean you can put a full game like gears of war or other on there and play from the hard drive?
I thought that was only possible on the original xbox, as of now.
do you know what kind of chip they put in your box? how much ?
you said its a 360, and that you can put rip games to the hd.
you mean you can put a full game like gears of war or other on there and play from the hard drive?
I thought that was only possible on the original xbox, as of now.
ak0831 said:You can just buy the chip there but I would let them install it usless you know what you are doing since you a have connect to 23 leads, Mine works so you can put the games on the harddrive
Hi,
you said yours works so that you can put the games on the hard drive.what exactly do you mean by that.
and what do you mean about your friend has the one that can burn the games.
is his an xbox 360?
I just checked that site. seems a bit pricey.
I was just wondering why you would get a chip when the firmware flash does the exact same thing at a fraction of the cost.
If it allowed you to play the games off the HD, then it might be worthwhile.
That's why i was asking if yours could do that.
I was just wondering why you would get a chip when the firmware flash does the exact same thing at a fraction of the cost.
If it allowed you to play the games off the HD, then it might be worthwhile.
That's why i was asking if yours could do that.
I havent heard of a "chip" for the 360. Thought it was just a firmware flash that told the hard drive of your 360 to read burnt games. Should it be need, this can also be reversed down the road. I've read it's pretty easy to do, hook it up to your computer. I didn't want to risk it and had mine done, only cost $30.
You'll need a dual layer DVD burner as all 360 games are burnt to dual layer disks. Not sure about putting them directly onto the 360 hard drive, I haven't tried it. Why would you? The hard drive is 40GB and each game is around 6-7 GB, you'd only be able to store 5 games on it.
You'll need a dual layer DVD burner as all 360 games are burnt to dual layer disks. Not sure about putting them directly onto the 360 hard drive, I haven't tried it. Why would you? The hard drive is 40GB and each game is around 6-7 GB, you'd only be able to store 5 games on it.
The chip will work on all drives. The flash will not. You may also disable the chip when you go on live (if live can ever detect your firmware mod, this may be a good thing).islandman4567 said:
I do not think any mods will run off the hard drive. You would need to change the control program for that.
Note the chip mods tend to have a lot of solder points. This is pretty careful work on these boards, and having a pro do it for 100 bucks (+ chip + warranty) does not seem like too bad a deal.
I got a 360 a few weeks ago and just had a friend mod it. An expensive chip is not necessary. $30-$50 for a firmware flash. A cheap firmware flash does the same thing. There are two types of drives for the 360. A tashiba/samsung and a hitachi/LG. The T/S drives are far ahead in firmware releases and read burnt media better than H/LG. A few weeks ago the H/LG got a new firmware released that is supposed to be really good. Media that didn't work on the H/LG is now working. Plus the H/LG drives can be seen in windows so flashing is to be very easy.
The drive that came in mine was the T/S. This was a newer drive (manufacturing date July 24/06) that has some epoxy on the circut board inside the dvd drive. This is to prevent firmware flashing. It can be overcome by soldering some jumper wires or something like that. Don't know the detail as my friend did it for me.
The media used are DVD+R DL. Verbatim is supposed to be the best brand. I burned a bunch of games and thay all work. You can't rip games to the HD. There is no OS like EvoX for the 360. Besides, the HD only reads 12GB free space from the 20GB drive.
With regards to Live, I have not been on Live yet but my friends who all have modded 360's with H/LG drives have been on Live ever since the mod came out and have never been banned. Not to say it won't happen. They say that because MS is loosing money on every console, they make it up with Live subscriptions. Don't know if this is true or not.
If you have an older console it is an easy firmware flash. If it is an newer console then it might be more expensive to do.
All info can be found on Xbox-Scene
Cheers. Happy gaming. Don't forget to buy the original.
The drive that came in mine was the T/S. This was a newer drive (manufacturing date July 24/06) that has some epoxy on the circut board inside the dvd drive. This is to prevent firmware flashing. It can be overcome by soldering some jumper wires or something like that. Don't know the detail as my friend did it for me.
The media used are DVD+R DL. Verbatim is supposed to be the best brand. I burned a bunch of games and thay all work. You can't rip games to the HD. There is no OS like EvoX for the 360. Besides, the HD only reads 12GB free space from the 20GB drive.
With regards to Live, I have not been on Live yet but my friends who all have modded 360's with H/LG drives have been on Live ever since the mod came out and have never been banned. Not to say it won't happen. They say that because MS is loosing money on every console, they make it up with Live subscriptions. Don't know if this is true or not.
If you have an older console it is an easy firmware flash. If it is an newer console then it might be more expensive to do.
All info can be found on Xbox-Scene
Cheers. Happy gaming. Don't forget to buy the original.
