“The popularity of the Xbox inspired efforts to circumvent the built-in hardware and software security mechanisms, a practice informally known as modding” (Wikipedia). There are two different types of Xbox users: the modders and everybody else. The modders take the Xbox and use its full potential while customizing it, while everybody else uses the Xbox to play games, watch movies, and listen to music. There are many ways to mod an Xbox, but some of the favorites are software, case, and hardware.
In the modding scene there are two well known ways to mod the Xbox’s software functions. The modchip and the softmod are two of the main ways to mode the Xbox’s software. Although the modchip is hardware based it is considered a software mod because it changes the software’s functions. The modchip is a hardware based mod for “elite” (X-B-O-X.com) modders, while the softmod is for n00bs.
The modchip is one of the most commonly circulated mods for the Xbox. “A Modchip, a portmanteau of......
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