Softmod users need to use NKPatcher to enable LBA48 support for large drives, or the space beyond 137GB will be unusable. Since BIOS is unmodified you will still be required to lock your new hard drive with your system’s unique key and will be limited in the partition layouts you can choose. It modifies unsigned font files used in the system Dashboard that exploit a buffer overflow to allow execution of unsigned code. The Ndure softmod is available as a save game for three exploitable games. Softmods will work, but the font exploit they use happens late in the boot process when the Dashboard loads. If you want an upgraded hard drive you need a modded Xbox, preferrably a hard mod. Parallel ATA drives like the one used in the Xbox aren’t widely available these days, so I used a WD Green SATA drive and this adapter.
On a hacked Xbox console it’s possible to upgrade the drive to any size within the limit of the 32-bit MBR, up to 2TB, leaving room for ripped game discs, digital media, emulators and ROMs, and homebrew like StepmaniaX. All Xboxes have an internal 8GB ATA hard drive for game saves, custom soundtracks, and DLC.
Xbox has better third-party support than Dreamcast and Gamecube and better specs than PS2, roughly equivalent to a 733mhz Pentium 3 / GeForce 3 gaming PC of the era except much easier to maintain.
Few people seem to care about it these days, but it’s basically Dreamcast 2, home to all the last post-Dreamcast pre- Sammy iterations of SEGA series like Panzer Dragoon, Jet Set Radio Future, Gunvalkyrie, House of the Dead, Otogi, Outrun, Crazy Taxi, Sega GT, and Shenmue. It’s time for my unpopular opinion of the day: Xbox is the best sixth-generation game console.
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