Where were YOU when you heard about a modchip
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i came across the xecuter 3 about 3 months before release by a miss type in google
next thing you know im modding like theres no tommorro
next thing you know im modding like theres no tommorro
i heard about modchips when i was in the 6th grade...lol they were for playstation, ahhh the good ole days. i acutally got into xbox case-modding first, then moved to hardware modding. been doin it for bout 6 onths now 
Seriously…. It was sometime just after I bought my first Xbox on release night. At some point in 2002 I heard rumors and reports of hacking the Xbox. I investigated and started reading many sites. Then I heard of the first few who had started making chips, including Team Xecuter. Shortly after that I purchased an Xecuter chip. At that time I was the Admin of a very large Beta/Tech site and I didn’t have the time to fully delve into the Xbox scene.
Lets see 1996, in math class. I was 16. Some guy said he saoldered a chip to his Playstation to play copied games. I thought he was blowing smoke up my ass so I decided to look it up. What do you know he wasn't. I bought one online like a year later. I still have it too. Anyone else have a modded original Playstation. As for the Xbox somewhere around 2002.
I was watching the X-Box mod scene for a year or two, then the X3 specs came out. The rest is history. We will be answering the same question in 2 years or so about the Xbox2 ;-)
I had my first modchip... back in the day of NES
J/k of course...
I remember... Going to K-mart when Playstations first came out... And they had one 90% Off because they were closing out, and it was returned due to non working. Figured hey... Thats not a lot of money even if it doesn't.... opened it up, and someone unplugged a wire.... On my way home... I seen they had modchips out for them already... Was shocked Never bought one tho... Went with one of the external boot CD options -_-
I was at home... following the Xbox scene when I found out about xbox modchips.... then... a year/two years later, I decided... hey,might as well... and plunged and bought one and an xbox
J/k of course...
I remember... Going to K-mart when Playstations first came out... And they had one 90% Off because they were closing out, and it was returned due to non working. Figured hey... Thats not a lot of money even if it doesn't.... opened it up, and someone unplugged a wire.... On my way home... I seen they had modchips out for them already... Was shocked
Never bought one tho... Went with one of the external boot CD options -_-I was at home... following the Xbox scene when I found out about xbox modchips.... then... a year/two years later, I decided... hey,might as well... and plunged and bought one and an xbox
A good friend at work was telling me that his friend was going to do his. So I jumped on and we both bought Chameleons. Did one other friends then got my X3, done 6 X3 boxes for friends since then.
It's all about passing the word. Once any Stock Xbox owner hears, its an addiction (at least for me)
It's all about passing the word. Once any Stock Xbox owner hears, its an addiction (at least for me)
I was searchin for a broken xbox on ebay and then I saw why it was broken, did some research on the thing and now I've modded more than I can count.
Watched Kevin Rose advertising XBMC.
http://www.g4techtv.com/techtvvault/features/39872/Preview_Xbox_Mods.html
http://www.g4techtv.com/techtvvault/features/39872/Preview_Xbox_Mods.html
Thats when i found out to i was watch ttv when it was good and saw about xbox hacking.Scudworm said:
yeah..
thats the same time when my ps2 went out of service..
I just didn't have time to play with my ps2 anymore.
thats the same time when my ps2 went out of service..
I just didn't have time to play with my ps2 anymore.
I was just browsing around the internet when I decided to do a little bit of reading on what people were saying about the xbox and that's when I stumbled on to websites that told how you could chip it. All people mentioned at the time was the X2 and that's when I bought the modchip and the xbox online. The xbox came first and then the modchip a day later. Just recently upgraded to the X3 and it's definitely one of the best toys I could have bought.
i had the flew for a week in like 6th or 7th grade, i was into pc sh*t at that time and just reading what i could. I stumbled into techtv's website where they were showing how to keep you pc cool and how to put dampeners and heatsinks.
In the related articles or whatever i saw something about the darkside, xbox mods i think it was called. I thought, hey i like xbox, ima check this out. I did and saw how to add another hdd and they were using like a solderless xecuter 1 (green pcb), and had evox showing so i got into it right there.
Found my way to www.ratemyxbox.com which is where i got started. Then someone told me about xbox-scene.com so i checked that place an hung out there alot and then i later found xecuters website and logged onto the forums here which is where i've been for the past year or so i guess.
In the related articles or whatever i saw something about the darkside, xbox mods i think it was called. I thought, hey i like xbox, ima check this out. I did and saw how to add another hdd and they were using like a solderless xecuter 1 (green pcb), and had evox showing so i got into it right there.
Found my way to www.ratemyxbox.com which is where i got started. Then someone told me about xbox-scene.com so i checked that place an hung out there alot and then i later found xecuters website and logged onto the forums here which is where i've been for the past year or so i guess.
WOW , this goes way back....
I remember buying my PS1 , then after the warenty went, i modded it.....
Since then i started modding everyones PS1....
Now after that periode i bought a new PS2 ( GT3 pack) .... chipped that one too.....
Now just recently i bought a 2nd hand (5 months old, i have the receipt) Xbox.....
And when my salary comes in........... WOOHOOO modding time !
I allready decided to put in a X3
Ill take the combo pack with LCD and Switch..... That so rocks.....
and when the custom front will come out .... i so have to have that too.....
Cant wait
tty all laters !
I remember buying my PS1 , then after the warenty went, i modded it.....
Since then i started modding everyones PS1....
Now after that periode i bought a new PS2 ( GT3 pack) .... chipped that one too.....
Now just recently i bought a 2nd hand (5 months old, i have the receipt) Xbox.....
And when my salary comes in........... WOOHOOO modding time !
I allready decided to put in a X3
Ill take the combo pack with LCD and Switch..... That so rocks.....
and when the custom front will come out .... i so have to have that too.....
Cant wait
tty all laters !
Summer of 2003, I was at this camp in Massachusetts, and these two cousins who were there told me about how they had installed a modchip in there xbox. They didn't mention much more other than that you used a bios called evox and some sort of application called evolutionx.
I got home from camp and was a bit nervous about soldering so I went online, and found the best chips to be from TeamXecuter. I therefore got the X2.2 Lite Plus.
I didn't know how to use IRC, so I used bittorrent and emule to find a bios (I learned that the best was the Xecuter bios). I got the bios flashed, but for some reason I couldn't figure out how to get the EvoX disks that I burned to boot. This was because I wasn't reading tuts and stuff. I got frustrated and left the modchip alone, deciding it wasn't worth the time.
Anyway, I decided to try again this past August (2004). I read some tutorials, learned how to use IRC and burned a succesful evoX on my first try. After that, all the software stuff became amazingly easy.
I quickly heard about a new chip coming out soon called the Xecuter 3. I learned how to solder, preordered one, and since succesfully soldering one in, I have modded the xboxes of a bunch of my friends... And the rest is history!
I got home from camp and was a bit nervous about soldering so I went online, and found the best chips to be from TeamXecuter. I therefore got the X2.2 Lite Plus.
I didn't know how to use IRC, so I used bittorrent and emule to find a bios (I learned that the best was the Xecuter bios). I got the bios flashed, but for some reason I couldn't figure out how to get the EvoX disks that I burned to boot. This was because I wasn't reading tuts and stuff. I got frustrated and left the modchip alone, deciding it wasn't worth the time.
Anyway, I decided to try again this past August (2004). I read some tutorials, learned how to use IRC and burned a succesful evoX on my first try. After that, all the software stuff became amazingly easy.
I quickly heard about a new chip coming out soon called the Xecuter 3
. I learned how to solder, preordered one, and since succesfully soldering one in, I have modded the xboxes of a bunch of my friends... And the rest is history!
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I had heard of them for the original playstation but it was not until I saw a week long segment on TechTV (The ScreenSavers) about mod chips in an Xbox about 2 years ago that I was really interested. The media play caught my attention
i wish I got TechTV, stupid cable TV. Too bad I don't have digital cable. Anyhow, didn't they get rid of tech tv or something? change it's name maby? Last time I watched TV at my friends house, I couldn't find tech tv on his satellite (direct tv) for some reason.
i knew about them (and had them installed) from the days of PS, but i actually started to mod myself about 6 months ago when i heard about evox (i had a modded xbox back then) and did some googling that led me to x3, and soon found out that the guy that modded my box actually ****ED ME UP, the SOB installed a matrix for more than 100 $, and he also installs evox (with really BAD confiuration too!!) for more than 50$. but now (and after some xbox education ) the guy is begging me to do anything with his xboxs. thats what pushed me to extreme modding
) the guy is begging me to do anything with his xboxs. thats what pushed me to extreme modding