Im getting an X-Box

[emsley]

So to play KAWA x will my Box have to be chipped?

Does it have to be chipped to play Xvid and Divx?

 

What can i do without modding it.

Anser now or taste the pain.

[ugenn]

Unless there's some xbox title you really like, here one nugget of advise:

 

DON'T.

[emsley]

Unless there's some xbox title you really like, here one nugget of advise:

 

DON'T.

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Uh, there are about 5 games i want, its mainly for the playback of Divx and Xvid, plus you can somehow play emus threw the thing which is whats really attracting me to it at this moment in time.

How?

[ugenn]

If it were up to me...i'd still say DON'T. the lowest end PC on the market today is much more powerful that the xbox and it does most of the stuff you need and more.

[ffynnon]

I'm still on the fence about an Xbox purchase, but I've asked the same question in the past. You'll need to chip your system. Probably need a new dashboard too.

 

http://www.xboxscene.net/

 

was recommended to me some time agao--maybe it will help you.

[emsley]

Thnx all.

:-]

[ugenn]

What's all this hype abt Xbox modding? It's like ppl don't realise that their cheaper but more powerful old PCs are perfectly moddable and instead choose to settle on

something that wasn't designed to be modded in the first place. An old baby form is easily more flexible, powerful and smaller in size than the clunky piece of luggage called the xbox.

[zhugeliang]

yeah but you can do all that emulator stuff AND play xbox games. Kill 2 birds with one stone. My xbox is the center of my entertainment when it comes to the telvision. It plays movies emulated games, music, xbox games, and much much more. It's a beautiful thing.

[ugenn]

yeah but you can do all that emulator stuff AND play xbox games. Kill 2 birds with one stone. My xbox is the center of my entertainment when it comes to the telvision. It plays movies emulated games, music, xbox games, and much much more. It's a beautiful thing.

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there's a lot more that can be done with a modded PC. emulation on xbox is limited by it's processing caps.

[Prican25]

if you are hoping to use kawa-x i hope you got old sets of roms as the emu hasn't been updated in over a year since mr.k aka mhz gave up on the emu and passed it on to razzola which has no intensions to port it to xbox.

[fleamncd]

if you are hoping to use kawa-x i hope you got old sets of roms as the emu hasn't been updated in over a year since mr.k aka mhz gave up on the emu and passed it on to razzola which has no intensions to port it to xbox.

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kawa-x has been edited by some people so it will play some of the new roms though

[zhugeliang]

The pc still can't play games like Halo and Jade Empire though. True the emulation on the xbox isnt as great as someone with a computer but for 149.99 you cant beat it. Add the 70 for the chip and another 60 for a 80gig hard drive and youre all set. less money then a computer. Of course you would need a computer to get all the stuff on there though.

[ugenn]

The pc still can't play games like Halo and Jade Empire though. True the emulation on the xbox isnt as great as someone with a computer but for 149.99 you cant beat it. Add the 70 for the chip and another 60 for a 80gig hard drive and youre all set. less money then a computer. Of course you would need a computer to get all the stuff on there though.

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280 can easily get you a budget PC which is many times superior than an xbox. Like I've said, unless you really like some of the xbox exclusive titles, there really isn't any reason to get this one.

[Vermillion]

The pc still can't play games like Halo and Jade Empire though. True the emulation on the xbox isnt as great as someone with a computer but for 149.99 you cant beat it. Add the 70 for the chip and another 60 for a 80gig hard drive and youre all set. less money then a computer. Of course you would need a computer to get all the stuff on there though.

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280 can easily get you a budget PC which is many times superior than an xbox. Like I've said, unless you really like some of the xbox exclusive titles, there really isn't any reason to get this one.

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That may be true, but sometimes you don't want all of the clunkiness of a computer.

 

I use my Xbox to play emulators, which takes less time than for me to boot my CPU up and load up the emulator. The GUIs on the dashboards are simply designed to make it easy to navigate once you set them up.

 

Plus I find my Xbox plays DivX & Xvid (not to mention a whole other slew of other types of video) better than my PC, plus I don't have to install 14 Million codecs as everything is in 1 nice package of software.

 

Finally, I use my Xbox as a portable multimedia machine when I go traveling. The same cannot be said about a Computer as I have to lug the tower AND the monitor with me. As for the Xbox, I just put it in it's portable case and I'm gone. Once I get to the place I'm staying, I hook it up and do whatever me or my friends want to do, from playing games, to watching Videos, to watching DVDs.

 

Oh and the Xbox way would still be cheaper since you don't have to even get a Hard Drive if you burn everything on disc, plus you don't even need a modchip if you do the TSOP flash.

 

So effectively you could look at $150 for a retail multimedia system that plays emulated games.

[Vermillion]

Uh, there are about 5 games i want, its mainly for the playback of Divx and Xvid, plus you can somehow play emus threw the thing which is whats really attracting me to it at this moment in time.

How?

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The machine plays DivX & XviD amazingly. I use the machine almost solely for watching DigiSubbed Anime. Out of about the 400 Episodes I've thrown at it, it only had issues playing back 1 of them. Pretty good odds I'd say.