Just soft modded my Xbox, I've got a new question.

[Mourningstar]

I have the Samsung drive....I think Im gonna do this when zi get the money.....

WHat emus have yall used?

Im mostly interested in SNES, GBA and N64.....do any of those work 100%????

[Hawq]

The Snes emulations great XSnes9X is the one I use if memory serves, havent used it for a couple of weeks so I forget a bit, runs brilliantly though & of course full speed.
The GBA emulation is also good though I dont use it very often
N64 emulation is covered well by Surreal64 a collection of 1964, PJ64 & Ultra HLE ports that do most games quite well & at a decent speed, theres a choice of 3 vid plugins to use in it so that helps a little as well. Of course theres a few unofficial ones of it that are ahead of the official, though some people have mixed views on them, it runs most of the games I want though with decent results, be aware that the controls in Blast Corps dont work right but many may have passed that game by & wouldnt be bothered anyway I guess, GE & PD are a bit slow on it as well.
Mame0X is worth a look if you like yer arcade games, note that its based on Mame .84u3 though so the current Mame set wont work right in many cases.

[Mourningstar]

Cool...Ive already downloaded the files...now I just have to get one of the games, some cdrs and borrow a credit card to order Action Replay...

So with softmodding you can do everything that a modchip would do? This seems way too easy...but Ill try it!

[plungmonies]

from what I hear from freinds is that surreal is a real pain in the ass to get working on a soft mod system as most versions do not support the soft mod. For the price of buying all the $#@! to do a soft mod with, why not just buy a mod chip.
and then there is xbe signing and other tricks to get things working properly.
Trust me when I say that you will want to use surreal.......its f#cking brilliant.

[Hawq]

from what I hear from freinds is that surreal is a real pain in the ass to get working on a soft mod system as most versions do not support the soft mod.

Wonder what theyve been smoking then, its a doddle to get working & all versions work with the soft mod, hell I've gone through em all so far official, freakdave, xxx they all work perfectly fine with the softmod

For the price of buying all the $#@! to do a soft mod with, why not just buy a mod chip.
and then there is xbe signing and other tricks to get things working properly.
Trust me when I say that you will want to use surreal.......its f#cking brilliant.

A modchip plus fitting would work out as more & the only thing I've ever had trouble starting has been GTA:SA & Red Ninja that I imported, a quick change to NTSC in the evox settings fixed that, actually I left it at that as it seems to be happy with everything anyway like that. Gotta agree on the surreal comment though as long as you arent after prolonged Blastcorps due to the control issue it has then its great, hopefully a future release will fix blast corps controls.

[Cap'n 1time]

SoftModding = same results as Chip Modding... seriously, all they both involve is replacing some files. One has hardware, the other dont. Any app compatible with a chipped system is going to work the same way with a softmodded system. period.

[plungmonies]

hey I dont have a soft mod system myself,all I have to go by are certain friends who I have to wonder myself what they are smoking, I just heard it had something to do with the bert and ernie fonts. I have performed a hotswap to mod my half brothers xbox and he has had no probs,that is also by far the cheapest method.
I guess the price of a modchip plus installation is vastly different geographicaly as where I live you may be looking at about the equivelant of maybe 25 us dollars....a hell of a lot cheaper than an original copy of a game such as mechassault and a memory card.

I am also talking about the first official version of surreal which is well known not to work on a softmod. I guess I should have been more specific......sorry dudes

[Hawq]

It always worked fine on mine, though some surreals can have issues with the dvd dongle being plugged in at times from some stuff I've read, never seemed to make much differance to me though.

[Cap'n 1time]

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I am also talking about the first official version of surreal which is well known not to work on a softmod. I guess I should have been more specific......sorry dudes

hey dont apologize. I commend you for looking into it and asking questions.

[Mourningstar]

Im still planning on doing this.....just dont have the money to spare yet.....

Are there any negative affects of softmodding?

Or I could get a DC for around the same amount....which one would be better?