I love getting old Xbox consoles because they tell a story of who owned it.
>>719270057This blogpost is better than 70 percent of the threads on the log right now
>>719270191Thanks, have a version with audio so you can listen to Simple Plan. https://streamable.com/356jb4
>>719270057>tfw no Elyssa gf
>>719270057this seems like a setup for a movie plot>anon is collecting old consoles (legally distinct pseudo-Xbox), trying to guess at the kind of person who used it back in the early 2000s, what their life must have been like>becomes obsessed with a particular person and tries to find him or her irl>from here it could branch out into different genres like a murder mystery (turns out that person is dead and anon will solve the cold case by buying all the old electronics the person owned) (the parents are like, you know what, take it all, the memory is too painful and we've had it for long enough) or a romance (the person is a woman, no homo, and still alive, no necro)>listens to early 2000s music like Linkin Park, Lost Prophets, Thrice>rejects modernity, embraces only pre-2007 reality>windows XP / old Apple aesthetics make an appearance of course. present day characters refer to is as "frutiger aero", I guess.>at least one scene in an empty mall to give that "liminal space" nod for zoomers>basically a meta-nostalgiabait movie that portrays fictional nostalgia for the 2000s while also being authentic nostalgia for the early 2000sand yes, I know this is /v/.you know what I remember of my original Xbox? TAK TA TAK TAK TA TA TAK TA TAK TA TAK TAK TAK TAK TAK TAK TAK TA TAK TAK TA TA TAK TA TAK TAK TA TAK TAK TA TA TAK TA TAK TAK TA TAK TAK TA TA TAK TA TAK TAK TA TAK TAK TA TA TAK TA TAK that fucking disc drive
>>719270727imagine solving a murder by going through ICQ chatlogs on some dusty windows XP PC that hasn't been turned on since 2006.
>>719270057>>719270410I'm glad that this is a thing that can happen, but I would never sell any of my old consoles or memory cards. Way too much sentimental value has accumulated for me to consider it, I would have to become homeless to even attempt.>t. old idort
>>719270410>buying a used xbox>scroll through all the old music they ripped
found an old original xbox at a thrift store, it was already modded and the owner had stports, racing and shooter games on the 40gb hard drive. also had emulators and rom hack that were simple recolors like 'smiley batman' and 'nigger mario'.
>>719270410soul... alyssa had good taste in games and music
>>719270727>>719270815>>719270908>These mysterious ancient ruins, long forgotten by time and the civilization that built them no longer exists. Can it be brought back to life? Is what comes from the past destined to be forgotten?
>>719270908What about when you die?
>>719271506They're going in the coffin with me.No one else will know that I embarrassingly named characters in games after my friends and crushes in elementary school. Or said/sent a bunch of incendiary hateful shit when online gaming was really starting to take off.
>>719271905>no one will knowExcept for me because you just told me…and now I’m going to tell your family and they’ll be at your door any minute, asking if your nephew can play “one of those thousands of games ya got, anon haha”
>the music player visualisation>adding your songs to games soundtracks>the random sounds if you left the console on the home page for a whileSuch a good console
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>>719270057that UI. why can't modern software look like this?
>>719271286>just remembered i still didnt desolder the clock batterywelp there goes my xbox
>>719272691What's stopping you? Just do it
>>719272932Should I do it? I don't want to mess up anything. It was working fine last time I used it 7 years ago.
>>719272932im just too lazy at this point
>>719271905Can't be worse than archeologists knowing that you were a tranny.
Does anyone still play online with modded consoles? Any games still being played and can you do multiplayer on emulators on the box?
>>719273451Yeah if it's a non 1.6 Xbox. The time keeping functionality on these things was always crap, 1.0-1.5 consoles should always have it removed.>>719274007Isnignia brought back online for 200 games so far and there's weekly events for some of the biggest ones. I was playing rainbow six 3 a few days ago, played like 2 hours in 8v8 matches. Even got to try Urban Chaos online which is really good but only had a few players. Halo 2 is always active of course but it's also fun to arrange small games like gauntlet seven sorrows or doom 3 co-op, or mortal kombat/dead or alive/tony hawk matches.
>>719273649kek
>>719273513It's fun try it out some time. I still have to recap but this xbox is turning out nicely.
>>719274132I bought it at launch, didn't get any problem so far :^)
>>719270057I have an old xbox rom the early 2000s but the disk driver is jammed. I thought I had fixed it but it got jammed again.>>719270628Who is Elyssa?
>>719274007Wouldn't the servers for pretty much all Xbox games be down by now??
>>719275694They're back somehow
>>719274286I changed out those 5 caps last weekend. First time soldering or messing with internals, but it was fun.
>>719275739Which ones
>>719276189They're tedious mostly due to how thick the ground plane is. But hey if it saves an xbox.
Nobody I knew growing up had an Xbox.
>>719270057Utterly soulful UI
i got a used ps2 and when deleting saves of the previous user, in one of the games the little 3d character had a crying animation upon deletion.
>>719276369https://insignia.live/games all of these
>>719277245>https://insignia.live/games>Sid Meier's Pirates!How does live work for that?I guess it's just a lame leaderboard.Imagine an actual multiplayer game with Pirates!, I bet the game mechanics can support it.
>>719270815>>719270727wasn't there some faggy game about this called some shit like "a normal lost phone" or something
>>719275584we'll never know
>>719278816Just imagine some late bloomer chubby girl, listening to all american rejects playing Halo 2 just waiting for anon from 20 years in the future to sweep her off her feet.
