Best Xbox console

[Ganoncrotch]

Ruler said:

Ganoncrotch said:

Not sure I would agree with that, The Crystal version of the original Xbox were very prone to just stopping reading disks and the way that the original Xbox wasn't set in stone which hardware it had meant there was lots of variants with little things like older types of PC harddrive which again were prone to dying for no reason. off topic though, was the original Xbox the only console which has featured a full 3.5" HDD in it? (with the exception of a original PS2 with network adaptor.)

As for the softmodding, agree with you completely, the original Xbox is a fantastic device for running MAME on a TV or any emulators up to the original Playstation quite well.

Outside of gaming, people have the original Xbox to thank for one thing which a lot on here probably make use of today, XBMC was created to stream content from your PC on a network in your house to the Xbox system, then people thought... hey couldn't you use that to stream content from other places on the internet, and many years later they said... hey isn't XBMC a strange name, we should call this... Kodi.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kodi_%28software%29

So yeah, you have the original Xbox to thank for possibly one of the best pipelines of pirated tv shows and movies on the internet... and MS thought they were being so creative with X1 being TV centric. (have to link this... I'm sorry, just love the cuts in the video lol)

 

PC hardware is a lot more reliable than other hardware like powerPC. I rarely see one being broken

Today is your lucky day then! This one is old disk drive that decided it wanted to end its own life, cracked case at the back because I was attempting to swap out it's drive later on.

With one of these two super perfect working Xboxs... that if turned on make a horrifying HDD grinding noise of death which you can only hope to never hear coming from your PC tower, but yeah, couldn't swap the DVD drives from either of these systems with the one which has the broken drive, both different systems inside from different revisions.

My main setup still has a brand spanking new Xbox original in it as well, these guys are just kept for the chance that I would be able to salvage some parts for repair if anything happens to my 4th original Xbox, but yeah.... they can break, more often than I've suffered RRoD's (2x). Hmmm find it a bit sad that my house probably has More original Xboxs in it than most of the town I live in ever had :< was a fantastic console, just PS2 was too much of a popular beast at the time for people to notice the glorious look of DOA3 next to the ps2 version of DoA, I mean it looks like there is a generational gap between those 2 games if you see them now.