Interesting yet shady finds in a video game store...

jeez.. just get an xbox and do it yourself.. every tutorial you could possibly need is at www.xbox-scene.com

wait.. they want $500 and they don't even supply a new xbox?

hah!

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Originally Posted by johnk_

jeez.. just get an xbox and do it yourself.. every tutorial you could possibly need is at www.xbox-scene.com

wait.. they want $500 and they don't even supply a new xbox?

hah!

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Like I said, it's a rip. I wouldn't do it for anything even close to that price.

And that's right, you have to supply your own Xbox...

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Originally Posted by Dolemite

And that's right, you have to supply your own Xbox...

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HAH!

They're probably just trying to scam the uninformed.

In my experience, KI1 runs just fine, but KI2 runs like shit on an Xbox. I was just playing that last night actually.

Yup, I got all that and more for like a grand total of $180. $100 for the chip/switch to be installed and 80 for a hard drive.

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Originally Posted by Dolemite

I went into a gaming store a few towns over from me the other day and encountered a few interesting things. The store itself is a stand alone deal started by one guy, not part of a chain or anything. Here and there I pop in and browse around, not because he has great prices or anything, but because he carries just about anything you can think of, Atari 2600 games, Neo Geo Pocket games, imports, you name it.

So I'm looking around and the guy running the place asks me if I have an Xbox, to which I reply no. He's all like, "Dude, I have to show you something. It's like your very own arcade". He proceeds to show me Darkstalkers on his Xbox. And the the original arcade Killer Instinct. And Metal Slug 3. And Samurai Showdown 2. And Castlevania 4. And Capcom's Alien Vs. Predator. You get where this is going, right?

Turns out that, for the paltry sum of $500, they can send out your Xbox to a gentleman that loads up the HD with just about every emulator known to man. When you boot up the Xbox it goes to a list of the emulators, which the guy running the shop let me scroll through to see what games were available. I forget what emulators were included (I know there was MAME-X), but there were TONS. Basically, there must have been a few thousand games total- just about every American AND Japanese (and in some cases, the European versions were in there too)-released Capcom and Neo Geo game known to man, the arcade versions of Killer Instinct 1 (including the infamous attract screen that advertised it as being "ONLY on the Nintendo Ultra 64!") and 2, SNES (how hardcore is this? In the list was even the original Japanese version of Clock Tower with the English patch), Genesis, Virtual Boy(!) emulators...all perfect. No slowdown, no glitching, nothing, every game shown to me ran without the slightest flaw. Not just that, but the overall program that ran everything allowed full button config for the Xbox controllers (including a button for adding credits), a 'save anywhere' feature, the ability to take and save screenshots, hell, even a soft reset. I have to admit, it was fucking professional. Not very legal sounding, but professional. Still, an arcade-perfect version of Alien Vs. Predator running on a console...

$500, though? Kind of a rip, even considering how well done it is. Funny thing is the fact that this could be done was a complete suprise to me...I knew that the Xbox's HD opened up the avenue to piracy, but I didn't think it could be taken to this extent. The shop's owner told me that all the ROMS are out of production, so it's all cool (yeah, right), but he also said it's not a service that they go out of their way to advertise... ;)

Something that was even more shady, however, were the bootleg "120in1" GBA carts he was selling for over a hundred bucks a pop. They had cheesy Photoshopped covers that pictured a collage of different legit GBA game covers...one had pics from various EA games like Return of the King and Harry Potter. The back of each box had a list of all the games on the cart, in Japanese or Korean or something. Tsk tsk.

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ok, here's the deal. for that to be done the person that does the mod has to put in a bigger HDD(all those roms/emu wont fit on the stock XBOX HDD), so not only does he have to format the HDD to be compatible with the xbox, he has to instal the system browser(probably evox),the mod chip to activate it, and then all the roms(which has to be done via a ftp transfer). this takes quite a long time(especially the ftp transfer part), and is quite common a price for the professionaly done mod install(he's basically charging you labor, and for the chip+install, and for the HDD+install).

Actually your paying him for male prostitution, as hes fucking you up the ass.....

once again, jmet proves that completely useless posts totally "enhance" threads like this.

i understand as im sure everyone else here does as well the basis behind the price, but its still a helluva lot added with the price of buying an xbox on top of that. thats why people should not be lazy and do it themselves. thats what i did.

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Originally Posted by MrWhitefolks

ok, here's the deal. for that to be done the person that does the mod has to put in a bigger HDD(all those roms/emu wont fit on the stock XBOX HDD), so not only does he have to format the HDD to be compatible with the xbox, he has to instal the system browser(probably evox),the mod chip to activate it, and then all the roms(which has to be done via a ftp transfer). this takes quite a long time(especially the ftp transfer part), and is quite common a price for the professionaly done mod install(he's basically charging you labor, and for the chip+install, and for the HDD+install).

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Shit...didn't realize so much work went into it. Most of the replies to this thread made it seem like it was a joke. As for the time involved, the guy at the store said it would take a week.