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xbox mod chipping?

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The Watcher:
xbox uses a standard ide hard disk, didn't know you could put laptop ones in there. i have mine chipped, with a 250gb drive in there. you can use your imagination as to whats on there

Don Seer:
a laptop is standard IDE just smaller.. you just need small convertor board on the end to convert between the pin layouts. i have one that u put the laptop disk into that makes it the same size as a normal 3.5" ide disk. until recently i was using this in my server machine.

vitodeluca:
Yo seer, done this myself as well, the most important thing is the initial alignment over the d0 pin.  For all those that say that it's only good for pirating and illegal stuff, you have no idea how useful it is to be able to stream music and movies over your home network to your xbox and your tv.  Plus, the xbox has component video out so you can stream high res .ts files, xvid, ect.  The funny thing is, you see a lot of people sayin "dirty pirates" for people doing this, but microsoft would be perfectly happy to sell you their "media extender kit" plus their "dvd playback kit" to be able to do the same thing.  Getting the xbmc set up can be a little tricky, let me know if you have questions (although there are many good websites for this as well)

The Watcher:

--- Quote from: Overseer on May 13, 2004, 06:46:48 AM ---a laptop is standard IDE just smaller.. you just need small convertor board on the end to convert between the pin layouts. i have one that u put the laptop disk into that makes it the same size as a normal 3.5" ide disk. until recently i was using this in my server machine.

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yeah i have a laptop hard disk in one of my servers @ home, just didnt know you could do it with the xbox

Trauma-san:

--- Quote from: Overseer on May 13, 2004, 03:16:09 AM ---If
ohh and i gotta set up Mameox since i'm a big r-type fan :)

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Man.  I own a ton of arcade games (full size arcade games).. I work for an operator (I collect, repair games, etc.) basically service/sales... I have a route I own.  Anyways, I go to auctions, every two months with everybody just to kind of hang out and have fun.

Anyways, all these operators show up with old games they don't want anymore, and they just auction them off for whatever they can get.  There's usually, about a thousand games!  So, I'm looking around for stuff to buy for my house, and what do I see getting auctioned off?  R-Type II, working 100%.

So, there's all these little fanboys there that attend all of them, hoping to buy a ms. pac man or something, but apparently none of them liked R-type... so I bought the fuckin' thing for 30 bucks.  30 bucks.  Full size, fully working, in my house.

I've bought some for as cheap as 15 dollars there, but I thought I'd mention that one since you mentioned R-type.  

My brother and I sell video games (playstation, etc.) at the flea market, and we have a permanent booth there for the weekends, I took 2 arcade games up there and had them just sitting around plugged in for Ambience... I never really thought I'd sell either one of them, they just looked good... well, Sunday, this guy comes up, says he's from Maryland, and he's all giddy.... apparently he's got all kinds of money, and handed me 225 bucks for the R-type 2, we loaded it in the back of his landcruiser, and he took off, LOL.

I *KINDA want a dedicated R-Type (the original, in the kick-ass Nintendo cabinet with the original R-type sideart!)... this one was just a conversion in a plain black cabinet.   *FUN* game though.  Won't really miss it, though, I've got like a dozen fuckin' games... I need room for the next auction!

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