Chipped xbox original games

A bunch of things happened that are worth noting. Xbins , the home brew release FTP, was released to help support all the software being built. The technical breakdown occurs for this hack, which starts many many more:. This lead to the famous 3 game save exploits being developed which were used for years and years to come. These 4th generation chips had quite the feature set and became very easy to install. Normally just laying on top of the LPC ports and soldering 0 to a few wires.

Most of these chips also had an extra price point if you wanted a truly solder-less install. I still have the reminder on my finger decades later from a soldering accident, so maybe I should have used the solder-less. Around this era the final set of hardware was released. Xbox's could now come in between v1.

All 4th generation mod chips easily supported all types of hardware. The legality of each mod chip in this generation was also a point of discussion. Some software was based on the XDK and others on pure Linux.

It was quite the legal gray area to include "hacked" portions of the Xbox onto software that was sold. This led to some chips being sold with a bare minimal legal OS and being told to " look in the usual places " for the real software. This became the phrase to refer to Xbins. If you wanted to obtain one of these. However, not all chips were listed on these sites and that meant if you wanted to buy like a SpiderGX - then good luck.

I have no idea where those were sold, but it sure wasn't any popular site that I remember. Once again, I have to draw attention back to the Xecuter series. They had a powerful public documented website for all iterations of chips. Team Xecuter continued to live on to more and more consoles.

They made a crucial mistake though. When devices for the Nintendo Switch that were clearly used for piracy went up for sale, they may have been marketed for running personal designed games, but the Xecuter website told a different story. You had to purchase a license to enable piracy on this software. So if we bring this back to the Xbox. Sure, the Xecuter 3 and nearly every other mod chip enabled piracy by running games you didn't own. However, with communities built around Linux, XBMC and Halo hacking - my personal experience with this hardware was piracy was never the intent.

I had different versions of Halo 2 on my Xbox. By continuing to use this site, you are agreeing to our use of cookies. Learn More. Original games always worked fine.

Well, my original games quit working. The only one that works is splinter cell. No new games work, no old games, friends games, anything. All games have been tested on other xboxs and work fine. The game starts to load, then quits out and goes back to the dash. I tried reinstalling evolutionx and unleashx and microsoft dash and softmod. Nothing worked. I know the drive works fine because xbox media player will read dvd disks for mp3s and videos n such. Also, splinter cell works fine. Any reason as to why its doing this?

The Wierd thing was I sent it in and it worked perfectly for a few years and then one day Halo 2 wouldn't a few different maps, slowly each of the maps started not loading until eventually no maps at all would load. Then slowly Halo 1 started to lag more and more during game play until it was unplayable. Keep in mind it played on everyone elses Xbox but mine.

And all of my games except for Halo 1 and 2 would play on mine. And still all of my other games would play. So I finally got a new Xbox and it works fine with all games. But I think our problems are very similar and I hope someone can help us or give us a logical explaination as to why our Xboxes do this. Spenman91 , Dec 26, I'm not a huge expert on Softmod, but I think there is a file that is corrupt or something. You may have to do your Softmod process all over again.

This is why I didn't go with the Softmod, because if something goes wrong, you have to start all over. So do the Softmod process all over, from the beginning. You may want to backup your HDD, because you may need to wipe it clean. DavGerm4 , Dec 26, I reinstalled the softmod, and I backed up to the original xbox dashboard.

Ah I'm going crazy. Is there any forums on how to reformat the hard drive without taking it out of the xbox? I can ftp it no problem. I'm not expert, it took me forever to figure out how to get emulators to work. Also, I want to see if anybody has a solution to this problem before I do it.

I agree with ps2gen, softmodding sucks when you screw up on something. Go with a Hardmod, and if you do, get the Xecuter 3 CE chip. DavGerm4 , Dec 27, I wouldn't think that it is broken. You just have to either start the softmod process over, or get rid of the softmod, and see if the xbox will boot up.

DavGerm4 , Dec 28, Every week when new games are released the Backup Forums and Newbie Chat are inundated with posts saying "Such and Such game locks up! What do I do? These problems are hardly ever game specific. There are only a few games that have specific problems. For the most part game freezes happen for the same reasons on every game.