Minimig VS softmod xbox

[Crom00]

The XBOX Mod chips are not illegal if they ship with legal Linux distributions. They're simply a flash chip with Linux stored on it.

The illegal part is installing a bios like Xectuer bios that uses parts of the MS bios and selling the chip with the hacked HYBRID homebrew/MS bios installed.

It's really bad if you sell super xboxen with 100 xbox games, emulators, roms etc. In that case you're asking for trouble and it's just bad news, there was a big raid this spring/summer in the east coast where many criminals were rounded up.

With all this legal trouble Team Exectuer, a leading mod chip maker is backing away from MOD chips and concentrating on accessories.

Running XBOX media Center and Amiga emualtors with adf's and roms you bought is once thing...

Copying 100's of commercial games and re-selling them is piggish.

[jj]

All I have done is copied a differnet dashboard to the HDD of the xbox.  There is no illegal sooftware on there.  I did not want to do this to play copied games, but so I could use it as a media centre and enable 1080i on the xbox which you can not do with m$ dashboard.

There were no mod chips used.  You basically just wait for the microsoft logo to appear and remove the data cable from the HDD and then the drive in unlocked.  You connect it to your pc and the use a FATX program to copy stuff to the hdd.

Once this is done you put the drive back in the xbox and switch it off.  Hey presto mediacentre xbox. Can even ftp to it now through the network connectio.

If discussing any of this is against the TOS and posting guidlines please feel free to moderate me.  I think however that I am on safe ground.

[tokyoracer]

Modding Xbox's isn't illegal, it's only what you do on it depends weather its legal or not.