Show off your modded xbox! /controllers

[silVa]

I have a thompson and mine just plain crap. Example - thrown in a brand new disc today, completely - brand new, literally took the wrapper off and into the tray, It didnt work, reading errors... It also did exactly the same behaviour several months after I bought the unit brand new with another brand new disc.

 

No wonder why I leech warez, thanks M$!!!.

[Madi]

yeah thats true inky my thompson reads any type of dvd but no cd-r or cd-rw at all! i dont even have a dvd burner! but my friend has one so i get like a couple of backups

[kaioshade]

Do Not forget that there are two different brand of thomson drives. One of them is complete crap, the newer ones are much better.

[Thraxen]

I have an older Thomson and it still works just fine... BUT since I have a 250 GB HDD it rarely gets any use since I run all my games/software off the HDD. I use it to rip games from time to time, but never for actually playing a game.

 

dude I got a thompson and I don't know what people are complaining about. sure it only reads cd-rw but it reads every dvd-r I've thrown at it. my sisters phillips drive won't read 80 percent of my discs. I still haven't figured out what dvd-r brand to get for her xbox. I hear the philips only reads dvd+r if so that sucks

 

I've worked on some friends XBoxs that had Philips drives and haven't had any issues getting them to read DVD-R. I was using Ritek DVD-Rs at the time. I've since switched to Taiyo Yuden DVD-Rs, but haven't had the opportunity to try them on a Phillips drive yet.

[kaioshade]

There are also two versions of the philips drive as well.

 

there have been two revisions of all 3 drives, alternating between crappy and excellent.

[kaioshade]

And here is my modded crystal xbox. well not really modded, but painted.

 

Edited January 4, 2005 by kaioshade

[Inky]

is that a real crystal case or one of those 20 dollar after market ones? all those mold circles looks pretty crappy

[kaioshade]

Real Crystal. notice the microsoft logo on the top of the case (backwards, as it was engraved from the inside) and those "crappy circles" are present on all xboxes, just since its clear you can see them.

[Inky]

you'd figure they woulda reworked the mold so the circles were less noticable. anyways I like the special edition white xbox better. clear electronics always remind me of the early 90's when everyone had a swatch watch. lol

[Ghosty]

Ok, My One Of My Friends At School, Wants Me To Try To Mod His Xbox For Him, And Suggestions?

[Madi]

my thompsons is now officially flocked