patchboston
Active member
I have lived under a rock (or in an arcade) for the last several years and I'm just now coming to terms with modern gaming. A co-worker gave me a nicotine-ridden Xbox 360 over the summer, and this morning I decided to finally take it apart and give it a thorough cleaning. Turns out, there was so much grime caked on the lens that it wouldn't even read game discs. After about 2 hours of cleaning, I have a great system and a free wireless controller!
Now where do I start? There seems to be a lot of cool things happening with the system, people are installing mod chips, using the system as a media server, and even playing others over the net! It all seems so cool, but I haven't the faintest clue on what to start doing.
I guess the first step would be to purchase a hard drive. As far as size goes, do you think I should go for a beefy 120gb drive? Also, would it be okay to purchase a drive off ebay? I would hate to buy something and find out that the hard drive is unlicensed and ends with me being kicked off of xbox live.
I'm not super big into FPS games, but I'll give them a try. I'd like to try the whole 'live' thing, but I think I'm more interested in any type of RPG or artsy games the system might offer. What else could you guys reccomend for the most bang out of my buck? Again, I'd be inclined to mod the system, but is that possible without becoming banned from the live portion?
thanks!
Now where do I start? There seems to be a lot of cool things happening with the system, people are installing mod chips, using the system as a media server, and even playing others over the net! It all seems so cool, but I haven't the faintest clue on what to start doing.
I guess the first step would be to purchase a hard drive. As far as size goes, do you think I should go for a beefy 120gb drive? Also, would it be okay to purchase a drive off ebay? I would hate to buy something and find out that the hard drive is unlicensed and ends with me being kicked off of xbox live.
I'm not super big into FPS games, but I'll give them a try. I'd like to try the whole 'live' thing, but I think I'm more interested in any type of RPG or artsy games the system might offer. What else could you guys reccomend for the most bang out of my buck? Again, I'd be inclined to mod the system, but is that possible without becoming banned from the live portion?
thanks!


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