First modded XBOX 360

spitfier

Should be more than enough inspiration for our budding XBOX 360 modders



See more mindblowing images and read the full article from llamma.com here.

plonk

How cool is that. Microsoft will make a mint

Laguna

plonk wrote:

How cool is that. Microsoft will make a mint

I don't know about that now. Most mods (like the one shown above) are custom made hombrew jobs, nothing to do with Microsoft..

spitfier

Yes but they're still going to make a mint from selling them and people putting images online of their modded XBOX won't hurt sales.

Laguna

spitfier wrote:

Yes but they're still going to make a mint from selling them and people putting images online of their modded XBOX won't hurt sales.

Well that's a bit of a given really, that they're going to make money selling consoles, I think only the hardcore folks who are buying the console anyway (those who would dare to tamper with their console) would be impressed by this.

plonk

but arent microsoft selling mods in shops and ebay will be covered in them

Laguna

You're thinking of the fascias they're selling, like the phone fascias, they're detachable faceplates for the 360 (just the front tray - not the whole console).

plonk

Laguna wrote:

You're thinking of the fascias they're selling, like the phone fascias, they're detachable faceplates for the 360 (just the front tray - not the whole console).

my bad

Laguna

plonk wrote:

my bad

It's no problem!, I thought the same myself when I heard about these 360 fascias, MS didn't make themselves crystal clear until recently that you can only modify the faceplace with them!

spitfier

Would you say the guys at llama.com took the original casing of the XBOX 360, sprayed it, and cut away the side panel for the transparent window or engineered it from scratch? I'd like to mod mine when I get my hands on one some time next year but I'm not so sure I will be able to get access to access to a workshop to engineer a casing, though in saying that there will probably be kits all over the internet like for those who modify the exterior of their cars.

gline

looks really cool, wonder when they are gonna start overclocking them

Gegerty

There's only one kind of mod that'll make me go oooo and go out and buy one and thats a chip mod

Endurance Man

spitfier wrote:

Would you say the guys at llama.com took the original casing of the XBOX 360, sprayed it, and cut away the side panel for the transparent window or engineered it from scratch? I'd like to mod mine when I get my hands on one some time next year but I'm not so sure I will be able to get access to access to a workshop to engineer a casing, though in saying that there will probably be kits all over the internet like for those who modify the exterior of their cars.

I doubt they built a new case from scratch. That mod would not really have been that hard tbh. Take the covers off, cut a shape out with your dremel. Spray it and stick some plexi over the cut area .

commited

I'd wait until the warranty was up tbh! Looks good though

po0k

Laguna wrote:

Well that's a bit of a given really, that they're going to make money selling consoles, I think only the hardcore folks who are buying the console anyway (those who would dare to tamper with their console) would be impressed by this.

Well, actually they make quite a substantial loss selling the consoles. They make money selling peripherals, games, and Xbox Live!. As for who will be impressed by XB360 casemods - pleasing aesthetics can be appreciated by anyone.
Personally, I don't think the paintjob is all that good, but it's a decent mod for 7-days turnaround.

gline wrote:

looks really cool, wonder when they are gonna start overclocking them

Well they may wish to achive sufficient cooling to keep it stable under load at stock speeds first...and I doubt it'll be easy to hack/mod/overclock.

unklerosco

You can buy this HERE if ur mad enough... Little bit more expensive than the original

gline

SyxPak wrote:

and I doubt it'll be easy to hack/mod/overclock.

thats what they said about the original xbox

gline

unklerosco wrote:

You can buy this HERE if ur mad enough... Little bit more expensive than the original

that is a crazy price

art

Don't get it. Someone has cut away a bit of an XBox so that they can show the bar codes on the hard drive. Doesn't seem all that cool to me

unklerosco

art wrote:

Don't get it. Someone has cut away a bit of an XBox so that they can show the bar codes on the hard drive. Doesn't seem all that cool to me

Thats what i thought,. i think the original looks better

WizZard

unklerosco wrote:

Thats what i thought,. i think the original looks better

It's a bit of a crappy mod tbh, if someone wants to give me one I'll show you what a real mod will look like.

Although they did make a nice job of the controllers and the remote.

spitfier

art wrote:

Don't get it. Someone has cut away a bit of an XBox so that they can show the bar codes on the hard drive. Doesn't seem all that cool to me

It's not just the casing they've modded:

Window mod
4" cold cathode
12V fan mod (increase air flow)
Silver and blue paint scheme
Blue ring of light
60GB laptop drive upgrade (this is in addition to the 20GB normal 360 drive both can be accessed from the dashboard and the upgrade drive can be updated with media from a PC)

Redrocket

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=8238748332

7 days left, and already 60 bids!!!!!!!!!!!!
holy crap

KdjaCL

There's only one kind of mod that'll make me go oooo and go out and buy one and thats a chip mod

Check out Anandtechs under the hood article going to a while before its modded to run warez. Unless someone can make Xbox cpus cheapish.

http://www.anandtech.com/systems/showdoc.aspx?i=2610

kdjac

Ebonyks

I'm pretty sure he's missing one vital component here...



why no image display?