ODE for Xbox?

[fxmech]

Just wondering if, in theory, an optical disk emulator could be made for the original Xbox.

Like the XODE available for 360, except for our beloved old school Xbox.

Thoughts?

[GhostlyGamer]

It already plays DVD's that are ripped as .iso, and you can just use an extracted game ISO to play games. So its not really necessary. But it would be a cool project, especially for slims.

[fxmech]

I was pondering it as a way to offload the xiso collection to a second HDD, thereby freeing up a ton of space on the HDD. Basically, a way to get a second HDD in the box that can run simultaneous with the "main" HDD. It struck me as a possibility this could circumvent the 1 active HDD limitation.

[cashonly]

I was pondering it as a way to offload the xiso collection to a second HDD, thereby freeing up a ton of space on the HDD. Basically, a way to get a second HDD in the box that can run simultaneous with the "main" HDD. It struck me as a possibility this could circumvent the 1 active HDD limitation.

that would be a great thing.

[xman]

Yes I agree. I always thought it quite as shame to have a spare IDE lead just sitting there doing nothing in slims. In my later slims I actually started cutting off the long lead that used to go over to the HDD and used the old DVDplayer end to hook the HDD up to. I had to stop doing this as the slims grew in HDD sizes up to and over 1TB and then I needed the lead for Thomson DVD boards to simulate the machine having a working DVD. For those that aren't aware, the limit that the non DVD bioses stop functioning at simulating a working DVD is somewhere between 600 and 700GB. At that size of HDDs in slims, going into filemanger in XBMC results in the machine looking up solid requiring a power down/ power up reset. The only way I could get around this issue was to use a DVD board out of a DVD drive much the same way you need to on a softmodded slim. I choose Thomson boards for the job because most Thomsons fail and they also were the smallest and easiest boards to mod.

[asbo]

Rather than wishing for something that probably won't happen its easier to put all your videos/music on a NAS/server and use the xbox hard drive for just games etc almost certainly cheaper too

[fxmech]

Humbug!

But not a bad assumption asbo. Maybe some crazy villain will take on the project so he can stake claim to the first *real* 4-6TB Xbox.