Topic: bros, talk to me about modding my xbox. (Read 458 times)

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i got an xbox 360.

how do i mod it so that i can play my totally legal backed up games on it.

i got a lotta backups.
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Once upon a time...
In a small hut, right in the middle of the forest, lived a man, his wife, three sons and a daughter. For some reason, all the animals seemed to have left that part of the country, and food grew very scarce; so, one morning, after a night of snow, when the tracks of beasts might be easily seen, the three boys started off to hunt.

They kept together for some time, till they reached a place where the path they had been following split into two, and one of the brothers called his dog and went to the left, while the others took the trail to the right. These had not world of warcraft power leveling gone far when their dogs scented a bear, and drove him out from the thicket. The bear ran across a clearing, and the elder brother managed to place an arrow right in his head.
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They both took up the bear, and carried it towards home, meeting the third at the spot where they had parted from him. When they reached home they threw the bear down on the floor of the hut saying,

Now these bears were the servants of the great bear chief who lived in a high mountain a long way off. And every time a bear was killed his shadow returned to the house of the bear chief, with the marks of his wounds plainly to bee seen by the rest.
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At this moment the second brother came up--for the mountain had been left open on purpose to tempt him also--and cried out breathlessly: 'Don't you see that the bear is lying close to you? Why don't you shoot him?' And, without waiting for a reply, pressed forward to drive his arrow into the heart of the bear. But the elder one caught his raised arm, and whispered: 'Be quiet! can't you tell where you are?' Then the boy looked up and saw the angry bears about him. On the one side were the servants of the chief, and on the other the servants of the chief's sister, who was sorry for the two youths, and begged that their lives might be spared. The chief answered that he would not kill them, but wow Power Leveling only cast a spell over them, by which their heads and bodies should remain as they were, but their arms and legs should change into those of a bear, so that they would go on all fours for the rest of their lives. And, stooping over a spring of water, he dipped a handful of moss in it and rubbed it over the arms and legs of the boys. In an instant the transformation took place, and two creatures, neither beast nor human stood before the chief.
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Meanwhile the mother at home was wondering what had become of her two sons, and as the hours went on, and their father never returned, she made up her mind to go and look for him. The youngest boy begged world of warcraft power leveling her to let him undertake the search, but she would not hear of it, and told him he must stay at home and take care of his sister. So, slipping on her snow-shoes, she started on her way.

Not knowing quite what to make of it all, the boy continued on the trail, and went down the right-hand fork till he came to the clump of bushes where the bears used to hide.
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As he came along, the bear chief's sister was looking out of the window, and took pity on this little brother, as she had on the two elder ones, and waited to see what the boy would do, when he found that the bear servant and the dog had already entered the mountain.

As the arrow touched the ground a rumbling was heard, and with a roar wow power leveling a fire broke out which seemed to split the whole mountain into pieces. The bear chief and all his servants were burnt up in the flames, but his sister and all that belonged to her were spared because she had tried to save the two elder boys from punishment.

As soon as the fire had burnt itself out the little hunter entered what was left of the mountain, and the first thing he saw was his two brothers--half bear, half boy.
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'Little boy, gather some moss from the spring over there, and let your brothers smell it.'

And this the boys did, and took such good care of their wow gold sister that, as she was very small, she soon forgot that she had ever had a father and mother.

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just a heads up if you mod it, you've gotta be careful going on live for dlc or for playing against other people, 'cause if you're not up to the latest update microsoft'll ban your console etc, rah rah rah
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'Little boy, gather some moss from the spring over there, and let your brothers smell it.'
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i got an xbox 360.

how do i mod it so that i can play my totally legal backed up games on it.

i got a lotta backups.
http://www.xboxscene.com/ has all the stuff you need. Modifying the xbox to play backups involves wiping the DVD drive's firmware and flashing a hacked version on to it. There's been several revisions of the xbox hardware and drive changes so you need to find out which drive you have before you even start. It's a pretty easy process once you know what you're doing.

I wouldn't go online with it once it's hacked because every few months or so MS finds a way to detect systems with hacked firmware and bans the console(preventing you from logging on to Live, installing games to the HD, and corrupting your save files).
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i saw some stuff about external dvd drives.

Would that keep me from having to modify the interior drive and let me go online with legit games if i want?
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no dude you can't go online if you modify your dvd drive period. correct me if I'm wrong, but there aren't any external dvd drives for the 360, unless your'e talking about the hddvd drives which are discontinued and nonetheless can't play games, they are solely made for hd movies. Your best bet would be to buy an extra internal 360 drive and hack the firmware on it, then switch the cables everytime you want to go online. You can make your own enclosure too, check out this dudes>> http://forums.xbox-scene.com/index.php?showtopic=668920 .
as Dietcoke said, http://www.xbox-scene.com/ is the  best place for your modding needs. they've got tutorials and if those get a bit confusing you can always make an account on the forums and read up the noobie posts.

Basically modding the 360 requires flashing the firmware on the dvd drive of the 360. This exploits called the iXtreme v1.x (well there are others). Now you have to be careful because loading games all depends on what firmware version you get. Since each game has ap protection, microsofts made different kinds to load up the video on each disc. These are the waves. Older games were wave 1,2,3 etc. but as time's progressed, so have the waves. the latest wave to my knowledge is wave 6, and thats on games like BF:Bad Company 2, Just Cause 2, FFXIII etc. You can always get a program called Xbox waves patcher, which I use since my hacked firmware is not the latest one. It pretty much lets you take a wave 6 game and turn it into a wave 3 game. But beware that changing up the waves on your discs can ban you off xblive much faster. If you hack your firmware to the latest one, then you shouldn't have problems with loading any waves.

To get started, you should get info off of your xbox360, such as it's make, what kind of dvd drive it has. I think there are 4 types, the benq, liteon, samsung and hitachi. the liteon (or benq I dont remember) is the biggest hassle to mod cus  you need to do extra steps. Knowing my luck, I ended up getting the liteon. Cus of this I couldn't mod it myself (not enough knowledge '/ equipment). So I paid some guy 20$ to get it done.

This site will show you how to determine what drive you have >> http://www.llamma.com/xbox360/Xbox_360_DVD_Drive_Comparison.htm
Now be aware that the benq and liteon are very similar and the only way to tell which is which is through this picture here >>>
http://img65.imageshack.us/img65/9461/benqliteondvddrivesundesb5.jpg

Once you get it modded, your xbl account might be banned pretty quickly. Much quicker if you play games that haven't been released yet!! Microsoft checks your achievements and what not too.  Just start off by checking out the xbox-scene, you will get a lot of info from that site. Good luck in your endeavors dude, and I hope to see you happily playing backups in the near future!
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Actually brown, they released ixtreme LT recently which can play any backup regardless of "wave" and is currently undetected on live for now. However if you're on live and playing an altered backup or game out of region then you might get caught