[NCLUG] Re: xbox install - anybody got a dongle/game DVD

[John Gilmore]

How expensive was that chip? Sounds a great deal simpler to me... I'd rather
solder something that mess around with a save game. Especially since messing
around with a save game may mean I need to borrow a game, and a DVD drive,
and the saved game hardware. And then return them all.

On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 4:14 PM, <mrbrown8 at juno.com> wrote:

>
>
> On Tue, 23 Dec 2008 12:00:05 -0700 (MST) nclug-request at nclug.org writes:
> >
> > From: "John Gilmore" <jgilmore at glycou.com>
> > Subject: [NCLUG] xbox install - anybody got a dongle/game DVD?
> > To: "Northern Colorado Linux Users Group" <nclug at nclug.org>
> >
> > I have a xbox and was planing to install mythTV on it and use it as
> > my media
> > center. I recently quit working for TiVo, and so I had to give my
> > TiVo back,
> > and have nothing - my kids especially are disappointed. I have no
> > intention
> > of ever running any xbox games on it, the box should boot directly
> > to
> > mythTV, so I'll be flashing the cromwell BIOS.
> >
> > I though I could just pull the HDD, dump linux on it and go, but it
> > turns
> > out that I need a certain game and a hacked saved game. Does anybody
> > have
> > those that I could borrow for long enough to flash the BIOS?
> >
> > I don't know if that will be enough though - the DVD drive on this
> > xbox is
> > reportedly not working... which may make it a lost cause anyway... I
> > don't
> > have any xbox games to test it with.
>
> With the help of a co-worker, I modded my xbox to run XBMC. I ended up
> buying a chip that helped to bypass the onboard BIOS.
>
> I did hear about a couple of games that would help with xbox modding and
> I did get a couple. Because I used a chip, I didn't try out using the
> games. Plus I read a couple of places that mentioned that even for a
> certain game to use, there may be various versions of that game that will
> work and others that had 'bug fixes'.
>
> That said, you're more than welcome to try out what I have:
>
> Mechassault - Platinum Hit edition
> 007 Agent Under Fire - Platinum Hit edition
> Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell
>
> --
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> mrbrown8 at juno.com
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