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kanezfan	Oct 29 2004, 07:20 PM Post #1
X-S Young Member Group: Members Posts: 34 Joined: 27-October 04 Member No.: 160803	ok so i'm a total newb to the scene and all, although i've managed to get UDE working and am now running dvd2xbox and xbmc. awesome stuff! but what advantage does a modchip have over an exploit?

DaddyJ	Oct 29 2004, 07:25 PM Post #2
X-S Messiah Group: Dev/Contributor Posts: 3919 Joined: 8-July 04 Member No.: 129500 Xbox Version: unk 360 version: none	hardware control

total_ass	Oct 29 2004, 07:29 PM Post #3
X-S Hacker Group: Members Posts: 3000 Joined: 6-June 04 From: England Member No.: 124000 Xbox Version: v1.4	before anyone flames him, remember, he is asking a modchips advantages, not which is better like other people have in the past and ended up leaving while crying. basically a correctly working modchip will almost always mean that your xbox is protected against any updates or changes to the hard drive that MS or you may have accidently made. they do not require as much knowledge or understanding by anyone. like i mentioned earlier it is safe against updates. but they cost more and most of the time require a fair bit of effort to install and ensure that they are working correctly. you dont have to worry about updates to the MS dash. an exploit's advantage is that it can be removed much more easily if for whatever reason you need to take advantage on your warranty. it is much cheaper and generally easier to install than soldering and whatnot. however a softmod can simply be killed by an update to the xboxes dash (most of the time). also if you have a softmod unlike a modchip if you screw up something on your hard drive then hotswapping or unlocking the hd is required.

kanezfan	Oct 29 2004, 07:31 PM Post #4
X-S Young Member Group: Members Posts: 34 Joined: 27-October 04 Member No.: 160803	i don't use xbox live, nor do i plan to. i guess the only thing i need to worry about is my hard drive dying?

total_ass	Oct 29 2004, 07:34 PM Post #5
X-S Hacker Group: Members Posts: 3000 Joined: 6-June 04 From: England Member No.: 124000 Xbox Version: v1.4	not 'dying' as such, just make sure you don't delete anything that you shouldn't. my xbox has been softmodded for 3 months i think? maybe a bit more, and i have never fragged my xbox.

kanezfan	Oct 29 2004, 07:46 PM Post #6
X-S Young Member Group: Members Posts: 34 Joined: 27-October 04 Member No.: 160803	ok thanks for the advice. i want to install a larger hard drive anyway, so i'll keep the original stored safely just in case. btw, useing ldots' Memcard UDE1/UDE2 installer/uninstaller is it possible to swap in a bigger hard drive? thanks!

total_ass	Oct 29 2004, 07:52 PM Post #7
X-S Hacker Group: Members Posts: 3000 Joined: 6-June 04 From: England Member No.: 124000 Xbox Version: v1.4	yeah you can upgrade your hard drive. but you need to use your pc to make it and it has to be a lockable hard drive. then you download xboxhdm from the usual places and make a cd with that, then you put your hard drive into your pc, boot with the cd, then build it to make it xbox compatible, you need a backup of your eeprom which ltools makes anyway.

Scaramanga	Oct 29 2004, 08:41 PM Post #8
X-S Expert Group: Members Posts: 630 Joined: 3-June 04 Member No.: 123419 Xbox Version: v1.4	Modchip advantages: - Loading a diffrent bios (instead of patching the bios in memory) - Easily disable the chip and boot with the original bios. - Store more than 1 bios at a time and easily switch between them - Custom boot screen - You don't need a memory card (Yes I know you can hotswap but you can't with PAL xboxes, yet) - Hard drive doesn't have to be locked. This post has been edited by Scaramanga: Oct 29 2004, 08:41 PM

YoshiKool

Oct 29 2004, 09:46 PM

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QUOTE

- You don't need a memory card (Yes I know you can hotswap but you can't with PAL xboxes, yet)

with UXE now you can

krayzie

Oct 29 2004, 10:22 PM

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QUOTE (Scaramanga @ Oct 29 2004, 09:44 PM)

Modchip advantages:
- Loading a diffrent bios (instead of patching the bios in memory)
- Easily disable the chip and boot with the original bios.
- Store more than 1 bios at a time and easily switch between them
- Custom boot screen
- You don't need a memory card (Yes I know you can hotswap but you can't with PAL xboxes, yet)
- Hard drive doesn't have to be locked.

- you can load a different bios just fine with softmods

- true you can easily disable the chip

- a hd can store a lot more bioses than a chip and there are easy ways to switch between them

- true you can edit the boot animation

- like yoshi mentioned you can hotswap fine on pal xboxes. Also you can mod thousands of xboxes with just one mem card while you can mod just one xbox with a chip.

- another advantage of a chip is indeed that it can run unlocked drives just fine.

So basically the main advantage of a chip is just that it is more stable than an exploit and less hard to mess up since no hd files are required and the ability to run unlocked drives.

The advantages of a softmod is that it's cheap, much faster to install, flexible and a hell lot of more fun than a chip.

YoshiKool

Oct 29 2004, 11:13 PM

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QUOTE

The advantages of a softmod is that it's cheap, much faster to install, flexible and a hell lot of more fun than a chip.

mmmhh... you like fixing error screens or something krayzie?
hehe jk..

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