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I modded a lot of different consoles over the years. I don't console game at all anymore though. I still think the original xBOX was really intended to be a HTPC or something. It worked great for streaming movies/etc. (After you modded it and put xbmc on it).

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>For a late-1990s engineer with good soldering skills, many a free pint of beer could be earned by installing modchips on the game consoles of the day. Modchips were usually a small microcontroller connected with a few wires to selected pins on the chips or pads on the board that masked or overrode the copy protection and region locking. This scene was brought back for us by a recent [Modern vintage gamer] video looking at the history of console hardware mods, and it’s worth a watch (see the video, below).

I modded a lot of different consoles over the years. I don't console game at all anymore though. I still think the original xBOX was really intended to be a HTPC or something. It worked great for streaming movies/etc. (After you modded it and put xbmc on it). Archive: https://archive.today/fkwv3 From the post: >>For a late-1990s engineer with good soldering skills, many a free pint of beer could be earned by installing modchips on the game consoles of the day. Modchips were usually a small microcontroller connected with a few wires to selected pins on the chips or pads on the board that masked or overrode the copy protection and region locking. This scene was brought back for us by a recent [Modern vintage gamer] video looking at the history of console hardware mods, and it’s worth a watch (see the video, below).
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Good video BTW (youtube.com). Some were so complex with a ton of wires. I installed modchips on my friends' PSX consoles back in the day. CD-Rs came at the perfect time.