Anybody Have Trouble Softmodding An Xbox?

Post by **abeisgreat** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 1:26 am

Has anyone ran into any complications when soft modding there xbox?

Post by **fuctfuct** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 3:12 am

I have done 5 softmods and upgraded the HDD on 3 (Pain in the ass with softmods).. never had a problem. Its super easy.

What happened when you tried?

Post by **abeisgreat** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 11:39 am

Nothing happened, Im probaly getting an xbox and was seeing if it was harder to do then they make it seem

Post by **selfdestroyer** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 1:07 pm

I have done quite a few also.. HDD and all. I use this site as a reference to refresh on it if its been awhile since I have done one.

http://www.techfreaks.org/articles/modxbox.shtml

Don't buy a USB to xbox adapter.. its SO easy to make your own from a bad or old xbox controller and a USB extension cable.

Post by **abeisgreat** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 1:31 pm

seems pretty straight forward. Have you had any trouble putting in a larger HDD?

Also what type of HDD did you install? brand, model, etc

Post by **Zombie_X** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 2:47 am

I wouldn't soft mod a Xbox, do a hard mod. I have modded over 10 Xbox's and hard mods are far superior than a soft mod.

Post by **Flak Beard** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 3:00 am

Does soft modding affect all your current save files on the HDD? I never modded my original Xbox, but it'd be cool to turn it into and emulation box now that I've got a 360.

Post by **vlame** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 3:01 am

Zombie_X wrote:I wouldn't soft mod a Xbox, do a hard mod. I have modded over 10 Xbox's and hard mods are far superior than a soft mod.

what's so much better? lol?

Post by **Niode** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 6:34 am

Soft mod and hardmod are equal. So long as you don't fuck your drive up. Hardmods are moderately easier to recover as you can flash the bios to ignore the kernel missing files problem. (when you get a cold boot and it doesn't load the kernel and just shuts itself off). Other than that the mods are exactly the same. You can do everything a hardmod can do in softmod.

I've modded 4 xbox's so far and plan to mod another one to put in my arcade cab. It's very easy.

I agree with selfdestroyer, don't bother buying an action replay usb dongle. The xbox-usb converters are really cheap, or you could even make your own converter with a spare usb cable. With the right drivers (under windows) you can use the memory card port in the controller to write saves to and from with the free action replay software thats knocking around the web.

Post by **ImportBoy** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 11:23 am

I had no problems softmodding my Xbox. If I recall correctly I used Splinter Cell, Datel Action Replay Memory Card reader, and softmod software called Xecuter or something. Only issue I had was the softmod package was slightly larger then the 8mb memory card capacity. So I just removed a couple of included programs, no issues.

I later upgraded the hard drive, I ran a program to get the old hard drive locking code. I then attached the new hard drive to my PC and ran a program to lock it. Copied over the contents of the old hard drive to it, installed the new one in xbox, worked great.