MC360 By Team Blackbolt - Coming Tuesday June 6th 2006 Options

[Xbox-Scene]

MC360 By Team Blackbolt - Coming Tuesday June 6th 2006 -- Posted by XanTium on June 2 23:56 EST
From blackbolt.x-scene.com:
[QUOTE]
It's now official, Tuesday 6th June 2006, a final release date for MC360, the X360 Reproduction skin for XboxMediaCenter(info) 2.0. The team has finalized a name, going with their original codename, 'Team Blackbolt', so this will be the team's collective name from now on. MC360's release on Tuesday marks the first public beta for the skin. As some of the close followers to the forum topics will know, its been a long winded process but the team is very excited to offer this first glimpse at their hard work. Myself, (Blackbolt), have spent many hours working away on many things, most of my work was done in the first months of design, but at the moment the main coder, Los93soL has been the hardest working team member, much to the dismay of several forum users who challenged his knowledge of MC360's production a few days ago! Bet they feel silly now. Los93soL has created nearly every one of the 164,442 lines of code in the skin, and we still haven't finished our goal of the ultimate 360 gui reproduction. Then we have Donno, our super scripter who for the first time also created XMLs. Kotix (Orbs Creator) and Smokehead (PDM & PM2 Reloaded) also covered us at the read and then there was JMarshall, helping us with XBMC code as we went. We also had help from Deanparry with catching some bugs. Because its taken over 5 months to bring this skin to the public, I will be creating a Developers Diary sort of thing with quotes from MSN and IRC chats between the developers of the skin and screenshots of bugs we found and other cool things, one funny day was when we first did the Full screen vis and video behind the blades in the home screens, the conversations where much like "omfg, the vis r0x0rzzzz!!!111". So until Tuesday, the team will be hammering away at the skin polishing the edges and making sure everything is ready for Joe public to download and slam into his Xbox and get running, so till then, enjoy the wait! :D

[/QUOTE]

Official Site: http://blackbolt.x-scene.com

[wdew123]

let me be the first to say this looks awesome i just cant wait

[blackchild1101]

Speachless....

[Odb718]

looks great from what they've shown.

[gordita37]

*Speechless*

[jC!]

I just want to say congratulations guys! I've been a silent watcher of your skin since it announcement so many months ago.
I’ve been out of the modding scene for almost a year now, but watching the development of XBMC360 has re-sparked my interest.

Thank you guys! I can't wait for June 6th!!

[xboxexpert]

You have no idea....until you've messed with it...

[gordita37]

You have no idea....until you've messed with it...

sure I do, its a just a beefy skin. Plus ive had experience with the 360

[Heet]

The 6th cant get here soon enough.

[xboxexpert]

sure I do, its a just a beefy skin. Plus ive had experience with the 360

Even with that comment. I'll tell you again...You have to see it to believe it. The work and effort that this team bought to the table is unbelievably crazy.

[Aphex242]

Looks amazing. Great work by them.

[adversekarma]

don't be too surprised when MS copies team blackbolts slick ass ideas.
this is the dashboard the xbox 360 should have had, my hat goes off to the team.

[pepe2004]

This will be something to see

[quarky42]

don't be too surprised when MS copies team blackbolts slick ass ideas.
this is the dashboard the xbox 360 should have had, my hat goes off to the team.

That is in fact the only sad thing about this project. This is what the XBOX360 Should have been from the START! The Fuxors at MicroShaft weenied away a huge potential for adoption of the 360 by not including MUCH better support for multimedia formats. I certainly hope the 360 gets broken at the deepest levels so that homebrew runs. I'd replace MicroShaft's dashboard with something like this in a heart beat!

I love the XBMC project and this idea to create a skin that looks like the 360 is inspired. It really does show up the 360 dashboard in so many ways! "Here look what I can run on my XBOX... Hey that's a new 360 dashboard? When did they update that? No dude... that is running on my XBOX. It is what MicroShistz should have done the first time!"

[JoBlo69]

This is freakin awsome!!!!!

the xbox 1 has a way better dash than the microshaft guys want to do with the 360...

Why doesnt MS want the 360 to be all it can be??? they can still offer an offcial dash that could be way cooler than anything they have out now...

MS talks about there new update that alows for simultainius (spelling) downloads... thats somthing that should be taken for granted.... not an aw inspiering break through, like there hyping it up to be...

The work these guys are doing is fantastic!!! this is the start of a beutiful thing!

Im sure once the 360 gets torn open that these guys's work will definatly be used....