Things to do with an xtra Xbox360
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I have a spare 360 and would like help finding a way to re-purpose it. It doesn't matter how technical it is-I just want to find another use for it.
"Give it to me." is not a viable reply and, yes, I already have a doorstop.
Any serious help is appreciated.
Any friends you could let borrow it?
After I ungraded to an Elite I let my girlfriend use my old one, though she doesn't use it near as much as I did.
This is the kind of thing I'm looking for. Just one question: What the heck are you talking about?
http://xbmc.org/
It's a super slick media center mod with codecs galore.
But again, it only works with a modded Xbox (original, not 360) so I don't think it applies to you.
How's it rate against TVersity?
Not sure, but it was super well received (back when Xboxes were popular - I think it's kindof dying off in the days of 360 and dime-a-dozen Media center platforms like Apple TV, WMC, etc.)
I think it was quasi-legal in that it requires a modded Xbox, which I believe does technically violate the EULA, but whatever ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XBoxMediaCenter
ETA: Ahh, Tversity does run on 360 - so that's a great option for the OP for his extra console
http://tversity.com/
I think it was quasi-legal in that it requires a modded Xbox, which I believe does technically violate the EULA, but whatever ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XBoxMediaCenter
ETA: Ahh, Tversity does run on 360 - so that's a great option for the OP for his extra console
http://tversity.com/
Any serious help is appreciated.
Flog it on eBay and buy some new games with the proceeds? Easy & practical! Not very technical though, I admit.
Xbox Media Center does indeed require a modded Xbox. Once I bought my 360 I stopped using my original Xbox online so I didn't care about the EULA. Luckily for me I had a copy of Mechwarrior which contains an exploit that allows other software to be installed via a hacked saved game.
With the 360 locked down a lot tighter than the Xbox ever was, the developers of XBMC have started projects to create a XBMC Linux distro and versions that run on Windows and Mac OS X.
With the 360 locked down a lot tighter than the Xbox ever was, the developers of XBMC have started projects to create a XBMC Linux distro and versions that run on Windows and Mac OS X.
Any serious help is appreciated.
Flog it on eBay and buy some new games with the proceeds? Easy & practical! Not very technical though, I admit.
Sadly, I'm manic-compulsive about games. I pick one and stick with it until the next big thing. The daisychain looks like this:
Ghost Recon to Crimson Skies to Halo2 to Halo3(briefly) to COD4 to COD5. And that covers 5 years of gaming. Like I said, sad.
I bookmarked TVersity but what is it for?
A buddy modded his xbox and replaced the drive-he loaded 3000 movies on it-I'd love a mod for my 360 like this.
Any serious help is appreciated.
Flog it on eBay and buy some new games with the proceeds? Easy & practical! Not very technical though, I admit.
Sadly, I'm manic-compulsive about games. I pick one and stick with it until the next big thing. The daisychain looks like this:
Ghost Recon to Crimson Skies to Halo2 to Halo3(briefly) to COD4 to COD5. And that covers 5 years of gaming. Like I said, sad.
I bookmarked TVersity but what is it for?
A buddy modded his xbox and replaced the drive-he loaded 3000 movies on it-I'd love a mod for my 360 like this.
TVersity streams my media of my computer over my network to my 360 to watch on my TV. I have a lot of my DVDs and TV on DVD stored on my computer so instead of getting up and playing with discs, I just go through the menus with the remote. The ultimate in lazy bastardness!
Well, it's quite likely that you didn't get the same console back anyway.
When you send an RRoD'ed console in for "repair", it really goes into a "repair queue" and they "quickly" (I use the term loosely
) send you a different console that has already passed through the repair queue. Your actual console will be sent to somebody else some time down the road.
I think your console ID is attached to the mother board and that's what they use for the DRM.
