Bought a xbox 360 now what?

[heyskull]

I landed myself a very very cheap xbox 360 which as the owner said "overheated after a while".
Well once dismantled I could see the reason was all the cooling fins around the processor were blocked solid with fluff.
I have it running now for the last 12 hours with no problem.
The question now is...
What can I do with it?
Can I make it play media of my nas drive?
will it do more than my original xbox?
Is their a site like this one to help as this one even in its new incarnation is the tops?

Cheers
SC

[AZImmortal]

You'll want to visit Xbox-Scene to get an idea for what you can do. The homebrew scene definitely isn't as good as the original Xbox's. I use mine mostly just for playing 360 games even though it's JTAG-hacked (the 360 equivalent of flashing the TSOP). There are a few homebrew media players but they're not very good. You'll want to read up on the JTAG hack and the newer reset glitch hack (the 360 equivalent of installing a modchip) if you want to run homebrew.

[GhostlyGamer]

yeah, All the 360 is really good for is playing 360 games

[evan_almighty]

yeah, All the 360 is really good for is playing 360 games

I'd suspect it's the only one of a number of consoles that can! lol!

[professor_jonny]

XMPlayer on the 360 is quite good for movies it plays most things just not fancy like xbmc4xbox.

milkytracker is a blast also if you are into that sort of thing.

i have mine setup with amiga360 with netbsd socket emulation and picasso gives me the ability to use it as a computer browse the net etc.

[AZImmortal]

I had no idea that that XMPlayer even came out. Must have been during the time when Xbox-Scene wasn't reporting any news, which is where I get pretty much all my homebrew news. I'll have to check it out.

[professor_jonny]

one thing is ced2911 has droped form the 360 development scene and the current releace will be final unless someone takes over his project

[Dom DXecutioner]

can a mod move this to the off-topic forum as this isn't xbmc4xbox related? thanks!

[Xphazer]

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