The Red Ring of Death (RROD) was the bane of many an Xbox 360 owner. The problem was eventually solved, mostly, but memories of that hellish era lurk in the back of many a gamer’s mind. For a more cheery use of those same status lights, you might appreciate “Lightshow” from [Derf].
The concept is simple enough. It’s a small application that runs on an Xbox 360, and allows you to test the individual LEDs that make up the Ring of Light indicator, along with the main power LED. If you want to test the lights and see each segment correctly lights up as green, yellow and red, you can.
Alternatively, you can have some fun with it. [Derf] also programmed it to flash along to simple four-channel MIDI songs. Naturally, Sandstorm was the perfect song to test it with. It may have been the result of a simple throwaway joke, but [Derf] delivered in amusing fashion nonetheless.
Lightshow is an entry for Xbox Scene Modfest 2024; it’s nice to see the community is still popping off even in this era of heavily-locked-down consoles. We’ve featured some other useful 360 hacks in recent months, too. Video after the break.
if someone isn’t already adapting this code so you can use those LEDs to play a version of SIMON using the xbox 360 controller, I might just have to do it myself.
You could probably reuse old XBox 360 as a beehive. Japan government did this with old VCRs in early 2010s. They ripped out electronics, leaving metal body and installed them on buildings and in parks.
I kicked around the idea. Definitely wouldn’t be too hard to tack onto the LED testing app I made (Lightshow). If you’re interested in doing it, I can help you. My discord is @derf
I kicked around the idea. Definitely wouldn’t be too hard to tack onto the LED testing app I made (Lightshow). If you’re interested in doing it, I can help you. My discord is @derf
Finally some actually Xbox 360 homebrew that isn’t a mod menu
You’d think with the Kinect you’d see a lot of very interesting shit …..
Nope selling modded lobbies and stealth server (but you really don’t need a stealth server to spoof xosc bootloader checks, just a dash launch plugin)
Finally some actually Xbox 360 homebrew that isn’t a mod menu
You’d think with the Kinect you’d see a lot of very interesting shit …..
Nope selling modded lobbies and stealth server (but you really don’t need a stealth server to spoof xosc bootloader checks, just a dash launch plugin)