softmod'ing an xbox?

[Austin Bingham]

Has anyone in this group done a softmod on an old xbox? I'm interested
in picking up a second-hand xbox (kr 400 on finn) and giving it a try,
so I thought I'd see if this group had any experience with it.

Fredrik: Is there a PC in the barn that I could use for this? The core
of the process involves booting a PC with a custom linux ISO, and then
hotswapping an IDE cable from the xbox to the PC.

My ultimate goal with this is to create a upnp media server (e.g. with
xbmc), but I'm also curious just to try it out.

Austin

[Bjørn Hegle]

I did mine with hard moddin...works like a charm.

http://www.xunlock.no/product_info.php/cPath/62_78/products_id/230

 

2011/7/5 Austin Bingham <austin....@gmail.com>

[Austin Bingham]

I'm being cheap :) But if the softmod looks like it's going to be too
much of a hassle, I may do that.

Have you tried xbmc or any other media center software on yours? I'm
primarily interested in streaming movies from a NAS to my TV via the
xbox.

Austin

2011/7/5 Bjørn Hegle <bhe...@gmail.com>:

[Bjørn Hegle]

Yes, long time ago.....was some cool features there, like watching  TV and free movies.

2011/7/5 Austin Bingham <austin....@gmail.com>

[fenre]

You can use my laptop. It's bricked atm, but will boot from CD or USB.

[Bjørn Hegle]

He needs a pc with "normal" IDE connector. Maybe there is some at work...

2011/7/7 fenre <fsud...@gmail.com>

[Kjell Kristian Torgersen]

I do have an USB->IDE converter, is that sufficient?

2011/7/7 Bjørn Hegle <bhe...@gmail.com>:

[Austin Bingham]

I was wondering about that, too...it might be perfect. I say that we
give it a shot.

Austin

[Kjell Kristian Torgersen]

I could bring the USB->IDE converter next time, but the
powersource(which is also included) doesn't work properly(too weak I
think), so we need another power source. When using this converter,
the drive pops up as an regular usb drive device in the /dev-folder in
linux.

2011/7/8 Austin Bingham <austin....@gmail.com>:

[Austin Bingham]

Well, it looks like mod'ing won't be necessary. I picked up an xbox
from finn, and when I plugged it in I found out that it was already
modified!

So, would still be a fun project if someone has an xbox they want to
"upgrade", but I won't be doing it next week.

Austin

On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 12:28 PM, Kjell Kristian Torgersen

[fenre]

I've still got my original xbox if anyone wants to give it a try..