• KindaABigDyl@programming.devEnglish
    6 hours

    What now?

    Play some of the greatest games of all time for like $10 a pop. Don’t even gotta hack. The 360 is the most affordable console in terms of bang for buck in 2026

    You’ve got:

    • Skyrim
    • Portal 2
    • The og Halo trilogy
    • Assassin’s creed II and IV
    • Forza Horizon

    And more!

    • Soulphite@reddthat.comEnglish
      17 hours

      I was going to go with make pasta with it… but this might be a better option.

  • EarMaster@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11 hours

    If you have a chair or a table that is really wobbly you could use it to balance it out…

  • LiveLM@lemmy.zipEnglish
    13 hours

    Buy Guitar. Play Guitar Hero & Rock Band. Enjoy.
    Buy Kinect. Play Dance Central. Enjoy.

    • imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      13 hours

      As far as I know, there is Clone Hero homebrew.

      I used to have full rockband set and an jtagged phat console. It was epic!

      I also own rocksmith cable with pc version of the game. Hope I can use it with Xbox too.

  • Widdershins@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13 hours

    Play Skate 2 and enjoy the soundtrack that I believe is the reason it never made it to PC

  • UnPassive@lemmy.worldEnglish
    14 hours

    Halo 3, and black ops 1 zombies were my favorites. Halo reach and ODST are great. We also used to play Left 4 Dead 2 at LAN parties

    Those are all on PC though (BO1 PC port kinda sucks)

    • Bluegrass_Addict@lemmy.caEnglish
      11 hours

      this… I only buy consoles when they are like $5-10 at thrift stores and crap, then I mod them and download the entire game library and throw emulators on it

      haven’t bought a new console since PS3 and never will again. it’s at a point where I won’t even buy old used ones because of how shitty they are compared to the old ones

      • BigBananaDealer@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2 hours

        when youre ready, xbox series x can play practically any game off any system. not sure how many other consoles can do that

  • balgruuf@nord.pubEnglish
    17 hours

    There are bunch of good games for it. You could also mod it and look into homebrew and emulators.

    • imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      17 hours

      I am specifically looking into modding. Is there anything cool I can do with it besides ABadAvatar? I am planning to expand storage to 1TB SSD. Drive also can be flashed but it seems to be super expensive to get flashing tool for that.

      Also, if I go ABadAvatar route, is there a way to lock xbox into autobooting directly into Aurora without waiting for ABadAvatar to perform unschackle?

      • Jestzer@lemmy.worldEnglish
        14 hours

        If you want a mod that persists, you’d need to do a hardware modification called the RGH exploit. It’s doable on an Xbox 360 S, but you need decent re-soldering skills to pull it off. I haven’t done it in years, but it sounds like ABadAvatar could make the process a lot easier than it used to be.

        • imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          14 hours

          I possess soldering skills so that is no issue.

          I been reading and things are confusing for me. Some say that I only need 2 wires to run across the motherboard and run ABadAvatar. But if I read ConsoleMods wiki, it seems that I need a programmer. I have ordered rpi pico for this and will dive into it once I figure out the process.

          • Jestzer@lemmy.worldEnglish
            14 hours

            I know things have changed since I last did an RGH setup, which is probably where the confusion comes from; things are changing even though the scene was most active 10+ years ago.

            I imagine you don’t need a NAND flasher now that ABadAvatar exists, but I could be mistaken. The process used to be, at a really high level: solder the NAND flasher/dumper, dump the original NAND, solder the RGH timer, then flash a NAND with a good timing profile for that console.

          • milk@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
            11 hours

            With RGH3 you technically don’t absolutely need a flasher since you can technically flash from within the BadUpdate jailbreak, but a flasher is nice if you need to recover the nand if something goes wrong.

            But you may want to consider just going the BadAvatar route. My soldering skills are above average after university but if you’re not used to SMD stuff you will struggle. BadAvatar takes less than a minute and will boot you into Aurora right after it finishes.

            Its also worth noting that some later slims can’t be hardmodded at all so just look out for that. I would recommend the consolemods wiki and if you look on YouTube you’re bound to find some resources

      • TachyonTele@piefed.socialEnglish
        15 hours

        I don’t know the program names anymore, but a buddy had his 360 homebbrewed with emulators and that was a good time

    • lime!@feddit.nuEnglish
      13 hours

      i really like the delidded image that shows that the “combined chip package” shows that it’s literally just two chips in the same package

  • dan1101@lemmy.worldEnglish
    15 hours

    Play old Minecraft and Forza Horizon 1 and 2. There are lots of good games for the 360.

    • imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      16 hours

      I have heard servers for xbox TF2 are still there. Man, vanilla release-era classic TF2 gameplay 🤤