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Xbox mod
lloydcom:
--- Quote from: shmokes on December 08, 2006, 12:12:05 pm ---My god, Lloyd, you're obnoxious.
I said it once, but here it goes again. This thread is named "Xbox mod" That's the title of the thread. That means it's what shows up in the list of threads in the console section. It's six pages long. Does it occur to you that maybe . . . just maybe . . . Saint and all the mods are perfectly aware of the existence of a thread that might have something to do with *gasp* modding xboxes? Give it a ---smurfing--- rest.
Guess what? There's a thread in EE right this very second that is all about Chad getting a ticket for speeding. What? A thread about illegal activity? Call in the mods!!!
Even if modding an Xbox turns out to be technically illegal you have to be a ---smurfing--- ignoramus to not be able to wrap your head around the difference between modding an Xbox compared with modding a Gamecube or PS2. And, frankly, there are perfectly legitimate reasons to mod those consoles too, such as backups and defeating region lockouts.
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The whole thread is called Xbox Mod. To my mind xbox mod means to modify the xbox than it was originally intended. We are good with that right?
What I call a xbox mod is different to what you guys are suggesting. My xbox mods are new cases, changing the controller ports to utilise USB connections. Adding lights like case mods, putting in a fan that sounds a lot quieter than the current vacum cleaner sounding types.
That is modding a xbox.
The other "mod" is chipping the xbox to play homebrew and pirated games. Its well documented was on TechTV, have lots of sites dedicated to adding larger drives, XBMC, and the emulators etc.
But you have to understand that this site forbids such topics, so like we all do when we visit the site, we behave ourselves and follow the rules. If you want to mod a xbox go to those sites that cater for it. I shouldn't have to explain it to you guys time and time again.
It just ticks me off when you guys promote activity which breaks the law. You always say before a sentence: "it probably is" or "most likely does" but never a link or a factual statement. Its always from your point of view which cannot be justfied "illegal". It sounds so childish.
When you guys argue without facts - you just look dumb. :laugh2:
Geez
ChadTower:
Well, from a technical user's standpoint - and this is a technical user's forum - you've just described a bunch of mostly useless m0dz. You're ricing out your Xbox with lights and a pretty case and various other things that don't make it any more useful than it was when you took it out of the box. The USB mod is useful in some ways but not all that many.
Given the nature of this forum, which is to build things, open things up and change them functionally, repair things from a broken state, or to restore things from a diminished state, an Xbox mod thread can be expected to include modchips and other such functional changes (the USB port changes would apply here).
The social onus is on you to digest the culture of this forum and integrate. It is not the other way around.
clanggedin:
YeahLLOYD.... Technically you can install a mod chip inside an Xbox without having to solder it to the mainboard. Then you can remove it whenever you want without any evidence of the Xbox ever having a modchip inside. It's called a SOLDERLESS ADAPTER.
The only thing you you break by opening up your Xbox case is the warranty. With my mod chip and without having to install any hacked bios I can FTP data to and from my Xbox. I can move MP3s my save files. I can back up my EEPROM and hard drive data I can even install a new hard drive if I run our of space on the stock 4GB drive the microsoft provides. All of that can be done without removing or changing the existing XBOX bios at all. It's when you install another bios that you may be crossing the line in certain countries.
My PS2 plays games off an external harddrive and all I needed was a CD that I put in that lets me do this. The CD only lets me copy and play games stored on the harddrive and does nothing else. Even though I am not altering the arcitecture of the PS2 I can play "backups". To me that CD is more illegal than any modchip is because its sole purpose is to make copies of games, but by your logic ,(unless I misunderstood), it's OK to use because I didn't have to crack open the case and install it.
shmokes:
--- Quote from: lloydcom on December 08, 2006, 01:46:33 pm ---
When you guys argue without facts - you just look dumb. :laugh2:
Geez
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STFU. I linked you to an Australian court case in which Sony tried to shut down mod chips (the court felt the same way as us, btw), and pointed out that no games companies have attempted to use the provision of DMCA that you incessantly refer to. Your dismal reading comprehension skills do not amount to us refusing to back up our opinions with fact. And your dismal attempts to talk in legal language do not make you a lawyer ("I want proof that someone in standing in law says it is LEGAL TO USE MODCHIPS.").
ChadTower:
Man those solderless adapters look sketchy. Like if you picked up the Xbox and Etch a Sketched it the modchip would fly off and short out a bunch of random stuff.