First Time Chipper / Modder, could use a hand

[Mord]

Hello, my names Mord (waves to everyone) and recently got my hands on a second hand X-Box, now as a games machine its fine, but ive read about X-Box Media player, region free DVD play etc and being able to use homebrew movies / software.

Only problem is I have no idea where to start, my soldering skills are naff but do exist, Which Chip do I go for? Idealy one I can "turn off" for live play, but there seems to be about 3-4 diffrent type of UK chip, from what ive read X3 is pretty much the latest and greatest, but cannot find anywhere that will sell a solderless version or that has a switch for it!

Please help! Noob in need

[Cap'n 1time]

If you have a modchip, its pretty much inevitable that your going to get banned from xbox live... they detect everything now it seems. A good place to start is www.xbox-scene.com forums. come back when you know a bit more, or better yet, stay with them. They can help you alot more then any of us probably could (or at least take the time to).

You can buy a solderless chip but the majority of homebrew and Emulators availible for the Xbox are coded in the Stolen XDK and are thus illegal. While no one supports warez here some small acceptions are generally made where the xbox is concearned.

so my advice: either go to the xbox-scene.com forums or be more specific.