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I have successfully modded an X-Box :)

In hardware.

Not a girly 1.0 xbox mind you, I’m talking about a 1.6 version, for which modding involves soldering wires to microscopic pads littered around the board.

And I didn’t use a kit either. I etched a PCB for the mod and a PCB (double-sided!) for the chip programmer. I didn’t go as far as designing those myself but hey.

I must say it was awesome to see the modified startup screen, the one that signifies “your X-Box is officially pimped”, after all that work.

Now to turn it into a linux box and media player. Unf unf unf.