What the XBOX is to you?

[Cospefogo]

"What a curious man you are, my friend!

 

Only the cold, heavily lidded eye of the moon sees you

making your way through the darkened streets. The records

indicate that you are a man of light and reason, a learned man

steeped in the discipline of scholarship.

 

Yet here you are, driven by your curiosity, pulled by your

insatiable desire to figure out just what the Xbox really

is to you. You begin with a statement and set the stage for a

speech. But underneath you have a million questions.

 

So do we."

[fumanchu]

well im not very philosophical but the xbox to me is a cheap emulation machine and thats it! i dont get any deeper than that.

[GodPigeon]

a game system counting its days till its RRoD

[fumanchu]

a game system counting its days till its RRoD

xbox1 hes talking about not 360.

[basilbr]

a large, heavy, blunt doorstop which can also be used as an electric heater.

[Lucandrake]

A classic which set the road towards greater things which currently owns the gaming market.

[- kenshiro -]

It's a pretty cool way to run old arcade games, and she's stronger than iron

 

In case of nuclear assault, i'm sure she will resist , like rats.

[(XBOX)]

IF YOU ASK HE WILL COME, WHAT IS XBOX?..ME......I AM GOD!!!!

[mtsaint]

A media center a emulation machine a video game game machine all rolled into one.Im with kenshiro on this one the xbox is one tough bastard. hmm what else is the xbox to me.. I learned alot about programming from using and modding it. Ive even made stuff for it. If i get around to it im going to make custom soundtracks for some of my games

[hellsfury]

To sum it up in a Nutshell.... A poor mans dream come true!

[GodPigeon]

I have Failt =\

[XtecuterX73]

a big black time machine cospefogo. Its really awesome even till this day!

[9tendo]

When I was 11 years old I had a dream that I had every single NES game ever made. I was so happy.. until I woke up.

 

Now that dream is a reality. The Xbox 1 was and still is (due in part to 1emulation), the golden age of modding. No console has been more hackable, more versatile than a modified Xbox 1. This console has even outlasted it's own death, long after MS pulled the plug.

 

A new release from team XBMC every other week..

 

A new XBMC skin every now and then..

 

Constantly updated python scripts..

 

An occasional new emulator or compilation from a 1emulation or xbox-scene member..

 

Have you done everything there is to do on a modified Xbox? I haven't. Some things on my list

 

- Install newest GentooX

- Install and play with DSL epsxe

- Find Quake2, Decent, and Duke Nukem

- Install latest StepmaniaX and get it working with latest content

- Test the HD resolution options in all of the Xbox emulators

- Test some sega CD games

- Complete and properly configure my DaphneX collection

- Revive ninjahacker.net (anyone have $25,000 I can borrow?)

 

Some things I wish for:

 

- Frets on fire for Xbox

- More interesting Linux based applications or emulators released for DSL

- A better xbe browser than linksbox

- HTML and flash integration with XBMC

- A branching out to new application ideas (not just media and emulators)

 

Yeah, so the Xbox is only 733MHz PIII with 64MB RAM and Geforce3 graphics. But so much as been done with this hardware. I hope the Xbox community never loses it's steam. May we see new ideas, applications, and updates for years to come.

 

It's a shame to see the beefy hardware in these new consoles go to waste. I hope one day, we get something just like the Xbox 1. Exactly like it - PC based, current technology, with onboard video and sound and a development environment open to Homebrew and anyone that want's to create things for it. Imagine an XBMC comfortable with HD. Emulation taken to a whole new level because of 3GHz+ speeds and current GPU technology.

 

For now, we can only dream for that day and hope it becomes our reality.

Edited September 3, 2008 by 9tendo