Comments on: planning your xbox retirement

By: pyrite

pyrite — Tue, 02 May 2006 21:57:17 +0000

To the guy that replaced his start.wav file in xbmc…

I did the same thing and had the same problem. For me it was worse because I had setup XBMC as my dashboard. When I did this and got the black screen, the FTP server wasn’t working either.

To fix this, I booted the Xebian CD, connected to it via SSH as root, mounted the E partition (hda50), my XBMC was installed in e:appsXMBC, luckily I had renamed my original start.wav, so i deleted the new one and renamed the old one back, sync, umount, reboot. Presto!

I think replacing your start.wav will work if you replace it with another wav file with the exact same specs as the original, but haven’t tried ;)

By: ZERO

ZERO — Mon, 06 Feb 2006 00:18:53 +0000

the xbox will be around long after the xbox 360 hype is over but when they make the xbox 360 chip i’ll be getting one to see if its any good

By: Sánta

Sánta — Thu, 24 Nov 2005 17:04:00 +0000

I’v put Gentoox on my xbox (i flashed the TSOP with the cromwell bios) and it runs great.
(it’s ust sitting there nexst to my tv lately, but the project was realy fun to do).

anyway thads the story off my xbox

By: david gerardi

david gerardi — Sat, 05 Nov 2005 03:40:15 +0000

hey,i have a problem with my XBMC.
I tried to change the start.wav with one of my own wav’s,but now my XBMC won’t load anymore… :(
My xbox starts fine, but then i get a black screen.
I tried to undo it but I can’t connect to my xbox anymore :s (I use flashFXP)
I can still play copied games.
I’ve been searching for 2 months now to fix it but still no progress…
PLEASE HELP ME!!!!! any ideas or solutions are welcom
thanks, David

By: frank

frank — Mon, 31 Oct 2005 01:30:34 +0000

I finally decided to get an xbox a while back just for the sake of XBMC. With the hdtv connectors and my bigscreen, I can watch hdtv rips of tv shows and nicely upconvert DVDs. $150 for a media center like this is a steal.

By: david

david — Wed, 03 Aug 2005 05:55:45 +0000

hey i am deciding to softmod my xbox for halo 2 using action replay and splinter cell. since this is a hacking website, i assume you guys wont be like all the other cocksuckers who want to rid xbox live modding. if anyone knows of any sites that could help me with this, or if you could help me yourself, i would greatly appreciate it………thank you

By: Ej

Ej — Thu, 19 May 2005 22:49:11 +0000

how easy is it to install mythtv on your xbox? and what’s really required?

By: stevecrozz

stevecrozz — Sat, 14 May 2005 01:06:48 +0000

sorry 21, the 4-6 xbox thing was really not intended to be a pricise calculation. My intention was to overeggagerate the lack of power in these xboxs.

anyone reading my post was supposed to quickly translate my words to read, “xbox is comparitively slow these days and not really worth clustering because old computer parts would provide more power for less cost”

Hopefully that finishes my thoughts, im not going to bother with any further clarification.

By: the_baboon

the_baboon — Fri, 13 May 2005 15:28:04 +0000

#1 The power goin off doesnt corrupt the bios. The mod exploits files neded by the dashboard to load. When it looses the clock it wants to reset that but can’t because the needed files were modified and won’t work. It’s called a clock loop and if you let it sit for a few hours it some times fixes it self. A better softmod is the UDE2. Goto xbox-scene.com and look in the tutorials and for more up-to-date info ask in the forums.

By: The2ndclory

The2ndclory — Fri, 13 May 2005 12:17:47 +0000

Won’t be throwing mine out either, XBMC is just too good. I’ll be waiting for the coming hacks of these next gen consoles though.

Eh hem, sorry to push myself all up in here, but #12/19 you said 4-6 xboxes would equal one xbox according to your comment in post #19………really don’t get that.

By: stevecrozz

stevecrozz — Fri, 13 May 2005 10:25:19 +0000

thanks for pointing that out, im glad you think I’m an idiot, but dear sir did you realize that on the contrary you my good man are the idiot because that is precicely what i meant. good day to you, dear sir! :)

By: Jessevd

Jessevd — Fri, 13 May 2005 10:20:00 +0000

dear #12…sir, you are an idiot…did you stop to think that an Xbox is a 3(or slightly more)-year-old celeron??

By: andrew

andrew — Fri, 13 May 2005 05:28:59 +0000

i read that they may have halo 3 come out when playstation3 comes out.

it would make sense but can we reqally wait that long for halo3

By: raikura

raikura — Fri, 13 May 2005 03:35:41 +0000

amazing really, i dont have an xbox but i can tell the new xbox is bound to kill consoles.

By: Brunel Merleau-Ponty

Brunel Merleau-Ponty — Fri, 13 May 2005 00:31:55 +0000

Seriously, you would have to be completely bonkers to get rid of your xbox.

In conjunction with Xboxmediaplayer, there simply is no other media playing device that offers as much bang for the buck. It’s a networkable, any format playing little bundle of joy. You will probably want to swap the fan for a larger, quieter one (swapped mine out for an 80mm), but we’re all hardware hackers here, right? If you don’t already have a standalone DivX player or HTPC, this is the cheapest route to go…

I haven’t even mentioned emulators yet. I actually boxed up my SNES and Megadrive (that’s a Genesis :) and put them back in the attic. Nearly every imaginable platform is well emulated, although it doesn’t really have enough grunt to do a N64 or PSX impression.

BTW, you can mod it complete free without mechwarrior (or any other exploitable game) if you’re willing to open it up (Torx 20 required) and hotswap the hard disk.

I plan to pick up a few before they disappear off the shelves completely – you might call me mad, but it’s every retro game console and the perfect entertainment system rolled into one for me.

The new Xbox won’t be as easily moddable I fear – it’s dissimilarity to PC hardware will probably cripple a lot of homebrew dev :(