Og Xboxes just had like…a normal PC hard drive built in. So they are super super super easy to homebrew. Even when they were newish most kids I knew who had it had it cause their older brother got it and then never paid for a single game. For ps2 you had to have a dvd burner and a gameshark
I thought you had to screw around to flash it with a JTAG connector or something but that makes it convenient. I didn’t know about gameshark either tbh. They used to sell pirated video game cd/dvds for pennies on the street here since the late 90s but I assumed they were all for PC. Magazines always gave free cds which was nice. I didn’t know any kids with playstation or xbox personally but nes era stuff is something I did see. The old psp was kind of common as well when it came out.
If you had an old enough version of an old pop, those things were amazing to homebrew cause it took an incredibly simple hardware mix to open it up. You just severed one specific pin that was pretty easy to access.
I sure do remember that one. A lot of people didn’t want it to do it themselves and would buy those batteries. I think they called it Pandoras battery.
That sounds so cool. I remember hearing so much about homebrew stuff back then.
Og Xboxes just had like…a normal PC hard drive built in. So they are super super super easy to homebrew. Even when they were newish most kids I knew who had it had it cause their older brother got it and then never paid for a single game. For ps2 you had to have a dvd burner and a gameshark
I thought you had to screw around to flash it with a JTAG connector or something but that makes it convenient. I didn’t know about gameshark either tbh. They used to sell pirated video game cd/dvds for pennies on the street here since the late 90s but I assumed they were all for PC. Magazines always gave free cds which was nice. I didn’t know any kids with playstation or xbox personally but nes era stuff is something I did see. The old psp was kind of common as well when it came out.
If you had an old enough version of an old pop, those things were amazing to homebrew cause it took an incredibly simple hardware mix to open it up. You just severed one specific pin that was pretty easy to access.
I sure do remember that one. A lot of people didn’t want it to do it themselves and would buy those batteries. I think they called it Pandoras battery.
I think I recall that as well. Seems like it would be harder and riskier to replace a built in battery.
I think I also recall them being fatter than the original battery but I might be wrong
Never dealt with one. Being able to mod a system using random shit that was available in school got me paid tho
Sweet!