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Re:How the Xbox 360 knows if your hard-drive is genuine by jcpham2 on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @06:37PM (#34512221)
I had an xecuter mod on the first Xbox and a 2TB hard drive, you could do so many many things with Xbox Media Center on the very first Xbox - FTP your games over.

TBH the Xbox 360 console was like a refresh of XBMC. One of the greatest things about the 360 out of the box was it played popular video codecs directly from USB storage - unmodded!

Unheard of at the time.

I had an early model PSX console in high school and bought the plug and play mod chip online in 2000 or so. Rented a lot of games and bought a lot of verbatim blue bottoms

Later a USB plus 1 wire mod chip for the PS2 that let me play backups and homebrew

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Re:How the Xbox 360 knows if your hard-drive is genuine by Jerrrry on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @07:25PM (#34512624)
>TBH the Xbox 360 console was like a refresh of XBMC.

According to sources, a modified original Xbox running the latest XBMC was put on the center podium, was shown off, and the executives had ordered the engineers to "make the new xbox do this"...and it was.

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Re:How the Xbox 360 knows if your hard-drive is genuine by IntelMiner on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @09:16PM (#34513550)
The 360's early media capabilities were absolutely unheard of for the time

I was blown away when half way through the setup of my 360 my desktop running Vista helpfully chimed in saying it found the 360 and offered to let me stream all my MP3's right to it while playing games

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Re:How the Xbox 360 knows if your hard-drive is genuine by dpiers on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @11:53PM (#34514559)
Apple and Amazon are only now adding the group watch functionality that Netflix had on the 360. I really don’t know why this fell off because it was really popular within my friend group and we’d watch a movie together a couple times a month.
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Re:How the Xbox 360 knows if your hard-drive is genuine by RulerOf on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @11:56PM (#34514574)
I have an Xbox 360 that has never played a game in its life, but served many years as a media center extender. Microsoft really did get that thing right.
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