Xbox mod advice

[Jubal]

seems like an appropriate time to bring these up

hard drives and your xbox 5/18/04 (good but a little old)
http://www.xbox100.com/tutorials/hdfaq/hard-drive.html

Xbox Hard Drive Compatibility Chart
http://xboxdrives.x-pec.com/


also found this one about softmod HDD swaps, but seems fairly sketchy to me
http://www.xbox100.com/tutorials/HDwsofthacks.HTML

-Jubal-

[rattboi]

I was just thinking about how you could do this softmod larger harddrive without hotswapping, as Racketboy seems pretty wary of this.

It seems that once you install the savegame softmod, you should be able to use UnleashX or EvoX to unlock your stock harddrive. This is scary to do though, since it won't work on the xbox again until you lock it again.

So... make sure you have your eeprom. I'd recommend making an Xbox HDM linux cd w/ your xbox'x EEPROM on it. Once you have your EEPROM on the Xbox HDM cd, it should be very simple to do w/o hotswapping. You'd put the xbox stock HD on primary master, and the larger drive (one you know is lockable, try LiveInfo, like Jubal's link says) on Secondary Master. Boot Xbox HDM, and there's a clone option. Clone your smaller drive to the larger one. Then use the EEPROM on the CD to lock the larger harddrive. Seems like a weird idea, since then you'd be limited to the same amount of room as the stock drive, but once you start up the xbox with the larger drive, you can easily add F and G partitions to use the extra room.

[Jubal]

i have done a little searching on it, but havent found anything definative...

what are some good EEPROM tools?

how do you save it without chipping your xbox? or even how do you if you are chippin it heh

-Jubal-

[tatoon]

Hi, racketboy. I'm an spanish reader of your weblog. Great job, congratulations. (sorry for my bad english)

About xbox, i've got soft-modded xbox (previously chipped but now i prefer exploit option) and i'm very satisfied with so many posibilities: XBMC (xbox media center), emulators, games, xbox Live!...

In my opinion, if you wan't play online live! games, is better softmod option against chip. Don't worry about hotswap method. It's very easy.

Like says other people, best info at xbox-scene.com

[racketboy]

thanks for your contribution

I'm not so much worried about the difficulty of the hotswap, but the potential of damaging hardware. As a person experienced with PC hardware, I'm very wary of just yanking out harddrives while the machine is running. I'm sure in most cases it will be fine, but I'm not ready to take that chance.

So what I'm kinda thinking now is that I may just mod it and have most of my content on a server.
A stock 8-10GB drive might be OK with me for now. Sure it would be nice to backup all of my XBox games onto the harddrive, but I could just do my favorites of the moment on the HD and then have my emulators and video content on a server.

Most 2D games should be fairly small (1GB or less), so I should be able to fit a few of those on the drive at once. Does that sound correct?

[rattboi]

Yeah, sounds right to me. I think Alien Hominid was only like 300mb, same with that Capcom Allstars game (not a good game, that's why I don't remember the name).

Also, both Guilty Gears were under 500mb, if I recall.

[racketboy]

This looks like a mod that I would like to try:
http://www.xbox-scene.com/articles/80mm-fan.php

Silence is golden

[racketboy]

>I would recommend a Xecuter 3CE.

looks like the Xecuter 3CE goes for about $55, Duo X2 is going for $15

what does the Xecuter 3CE do that the Duo X2 doesnt?

from my surfing the xbox-scene forums I see the Duo gets good reviews for those that are on a budget. Im not worried about running LCD screens or any such, which i know the duo wont do.


anyhow thanks for the help!

-Jubal-

just looking back on this older post -- why would a chip make a difference on what kind of display would work?

[Jubal]

from my surfing the xbox-scene forums I see the Duo gets good reviews for those that are on a budget. Im not worried about running LCD screens or any such, which i know the duo wont do.

Xecuter 3 has the ability to display extra info on a small LCD screen added to the front of the xbox.

http://www.bmmods.com/customer/product. ... 262&page=1

it fortunately doesnt have anything to do with the video capabilities =)

-Jubal-

[Jubal]

So what I'm kinda thinking now is that I may just mod it and have most of my content on a server.
A stock 8-10GB drive might be OK with me for now. Sure it would be nice to backup all of my XBox games onto the harddrive, but I could just do my favorites of the moment on the HD and then have my emulators and video content on a server.

this might help out

http://www.seedwiki.com/wiki/xport_emul ... torial.cfm

-Jubal-