Hacking the X-box

[Grinnin Reaper]

I Love this kinda stuff http://web.mit.edu/bunnie/www/proj/anatak/xboxmod.html

[rivergod]

SSHHHHWWOOOOMMMmmmmmm..........
Thats the sound of that article going right over my head.......
I hope I never find out what an Aerogel Capacitor is for or never ever mess with a JTAG pin. SPAMlol ;D

[Uranium-235]

Savage do you ever go by the name Skeletor666? Just must be a coincidence that i've been linked here twice today

[Grinnin Reaper]

Nope sorry. SPAM Just coincedence. SPAM

[Omega]

Did anyone else notice the aerogel capacitor on the Xbox?
Why yes, of course I did. I thought that was the first thing everyone noticed.

How is this significant?
This opportunity has allowed geeks with entirely too much time on their hands devote countless hours to very carefully breaking a very expensive children's toy.



I don't get why anyone would buy an X-box, and then have some major desire to break it open and modify it. They built it specifically to be able to support a specific range of games, and the software coders write their games specifically to interact with that hardware configuration. If the game writers wrote software requiring people to mod their EEPROM, it's at least good to know that this guy over at MIT would be in the running to buy it.

[Grinnin Reaper]

Isn't half of what we do here trying to improve on what we get. SPAMBeit a PS2, a printer, a compter, or a x-box. SPAMThe first thing that comes to mind is a mod-chip capable x-box thanks to some of what this guy found. SPAMAnd what if microsoft comes out with a hardware revision and only the new hardware can run some of the new games. SPAMYou can't possible think that microsoft is above that. SPAMMaybe with stuff like this people with the older gear won't be left behind. SPAM
This opportunity has allowed geeks with entirely too much time on their hands devote countless hours to very carefully breaking a very expensive children's toy.

I don't get why anyone would buy an X-box, and then have some major desire to break it open and modify it.
If people had that additude to computers 5 years ago we could all be setting in front of I-macs and store bought IBM- clones. SPAMHalf the fun of getting new things is seeing how they work.

[rivergod]

SPAMIf people had that additude to computers 5 years ago we could all be setting in front of I-macs and store bought IBM- clones. SPAMHalf the fun of getting new things is seeing how they work.

I feel Savage is right-on here. SPAMIf he has the guts to rip open his X-box and the intelligence to mod it, I'd like to know what happens. SPAMCould it wind up busting it? SPAMSure, thats why it takes guts. SPAMDid Tom Edison stop his mods when his 100th filiment burned out? SPAMNo, he knew there were 100 less things to test till he found the one that would work. SPAMIf it plugs in, you can mod it. SPAMIf it takes batteries, you can mod it. SPAMAll it takes is imagination and being willing to take the chance.