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My old modded Xbox still works and boot straight to XBMC.

I use Kodi on my Raspberry Pi as a media player, and it seems to do everything now. even PlayStation Vue works on it.

I wonder if this means that PlayStation Vue will work on Xbox One now...

boot up the old xbox so we can play some Halo2 on x-link kai!

I have my old xbox around here somewhere. For its time, it was an unbelievable unit, and the modding scene was amazing. The last modded xbox I gave to a friend had an LCD scroller and a bunch of really annoying lights.

What did the LCD display?

Usually temperature, free disk space, network io (anything the patched bios and os could reasonable get at). Once the ability to flash via JTAG (and eventually via in-game exploits), the Xbox became a really fun homebrew target.

yeah, subway pretty much summed it up. It was one of those mods I thought would be cool until I had it... then it was pretty much useless since I sat far enough away that I couldn't read it.

Such a fun system, though. I really miss running a MAME emulator.

Heh, I had soft-modded the original Xbox via the plug-the-running-harddrive-into-another-system trick. XBMC ran great on it for a while, until one day popping in a new game disc it auto-updated the dashboard and un-modded itself :(

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