X-Box Mod advice needed.

[njmartyn]

Excuse my ignorance but this is all new to me.
I'm about to buy a modded XBox with a 200gb HD.

Now theres a range of mod options available for this and i have no idea what any of them are for. All i want to do is to be able to play any format of DVDs (copied or otherwise) and record games to the HD.

What else is there to do?

 

[da_supa_fish]

get a dash (ex avalaunch) and a xbox game copy software (ex dvd2xbox) both can be found on xbins. then u can ftp games into the xbox or just copy ur legally purchased games onto the hdd.

 

[kowrip]

Excuse my ignorance but this is all new to me.
I'm about to buy a modded XBox with a 200gb HD.

Now theres a range of mod options available for this and i have no idea what any of them are for. All i want to do is to be able to play any format of DVDs (copied or otherwise) and record games to the HD.

What else is there to do?

If you want the most flexibility for DVD media types, make sure you get a good DVD drive ! The newer Samsung drives will read just about any DVD+R, DVD-R and CD-RW out there. With other drives (including the older Samsungs) you will find that your drive will not recognize certain media types or particular brands of media. The new LG / Hitachi drive is very good too and the newer Philips is decent. Other than that, "da_supa_fish" is right. If the BIOS is not flashed, flash the BIOS. Have Slayer's installer disc prepare the HD, install the dashboard and load all the important applications onto your HD. After that, you are good to go. You can either FTP games/applications to your HD or you can backup games from the DVD drive using DVD2Xbox.