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About a year
ago I got an X-Box for Christmas, after reading Bunnie Huang's
excellent book 'Hacking the X-Box', and wanted to learn more.
After getting the box and doing the 'normal' stuff I branched out, and it now does a whole lot more!
X-Box version 4.0
Xecuter 2.3b Lite + pogopin adapter (no longer available)
Avalaunch Dashboard
10/100 LAN with outside WAN link (permenant connection)
1x standard (small edition) controller
1x extended controller1x dance mat
After
getting a LikSang dancemat, we looked into various dance packages.
Stepmania was the best by far, and was freely available (for PC and
XBOX). It's an easy two-step installation: 1) Get the stepmania archive [from the usual places, for example xbins]
2)
Unpack the archive into a temporary location on your PC. You can then
either burn it onto a DVD (don't forget to put all the music into the
music folder), or you can install it to your XBOX hard-drive. The HDD
method is preferred, as it provides faster loading, and lets you keep
adding more songs to the collection.
More recently I did a HDD replacement on my brothers Xbox (that he bought cheap off eBay). The biggest challenge being that the DVD drive was playing up and so it only occasionally worked. Hence fitting a bigger HDD to save games onto, and to use a custom dashboard to load games from his desktop PC over the LAN.
Fitting the HDD was easy, as the xbox uses standard IDE drives and connections, so a simple molex power to plug in, and the IDE cable.
I'll put more steps/info when I get time.
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