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So I have been hacking my xbox all weekend long. I found this awesome link at the almighty afterdawn.com forums (place where you go to learn how to do fun things like transcode dvds and hack xboxs). The tutorial shows you how to take a softmodded (no modchip) xbox and put a much higher capacity drive inside of it. I went to fry’s electronics and bought a 500GB HD for 90bucks, followed the instructions on this afterdawn page and blamo! Now I am playing halo2 off of my gigantic hard drive… fun times in brad town.

Along with doing this hard drive upgrade I also downloaded a newer version of the Auto Installer Deluxe disc. This is a disc that some xbox modders use to install all of their hacked xbox software. Well on this disc was an updated version of the AMAZING software Xbox Media Center (XBMC). It has taken me to new levels of happiness with HD support and new visualisations. But the thing that has me wanting to jump out of a window in happiness is the inclusion of a new ability to edit your menu configuration inside of the program itself! In other words I can now change, add and modify any address or folder either local or network as a place to be scanned as soon as XBMC opens! oh happy day. Much love to the Xbox hackers who made all of this possible… for more info read the forums and tutorials here, here and here.