Tag: Xbox

Xbox Game Collection

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Xbox game collection

Because I’m a lame nerd I also made a spreadsheet of them all so I don’t buy dupes. Oh dear.

I’m thinking I need to add digital games too, since Games with Gold and numerous sales has gifted me a whole load more games in the last couple of years. Physical games have a greater charm though, I think. They take up space but I like having them, especially Xbox 360 and prior where games still had manuals (pretty enormous manuals in some cases!)

 

Any recommendations you don’t see on the list and that haven’t been given away via GwG? Let me know!

— B

Upgrading an Xbox 360 hard drive, the cheapskate way

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I bought my Xbox 360 just after Christmas 2006 – £300 for the console with two wireless controllers, Project Gotham 3 and the first Gears of War.

Since then it’s been painted, it’s red ringed and taken a holiday to Frankfurt where it was repaired over Christmas 2009, lived with me in five different houses, and generally been run in to the ground; but although all the internals were replaced with the RRoD repair in 2009, the hard drive was still the original 20Gb unit it arrived with.

Until the last couple of years this hasn’t been a problem, but now it’s annoying.

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Xbox Mods Part Deux

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Hopefully this week I’ll be recieving LEDs and some replacement chips for ones that were fried in my first attempt and I can finish off my new Xbox mod. I pulled it apart and figured out all these problems over the weekend, and fixed a few small glitches while I was there, as well as finally switching the ROL lights in my 360 to blue so they match the Xbox1.

Here’s a quick photo of my colour matched beauties.

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