Let the mods begin: The folks at Llamma.com have a created a disassembly "how-to" for the Xbox 360 HD DVD player add-on.
A brutal reset, a smarter story, and a return to what made it great—Mortal Kombat (2011) revived the series.
Underrated comment. I used to hate that game so much that any time my siblings asked me to play it, I just picked Hom and shut myself down mid-match.
15 years went by so fast. I remember playing through the story mode at launch.
The name "Hewson" carries a special weight for anyone who grew up during the golden age of British computing. As the son of Andrew Hewson—the man behind legendary publisher Hewson Consultants—Rob Hewson didn't just grow up playing video games; he learned to spell his name from their title screens. However, Rob didn't just rest on his family's 8-bit laurels. From leading major LEGO franchises at TT Games to tackling the high-stakes world of technical porting at Huey Games, Rob has carved out a unique path in an ever-evolving industry. In this candid interview Rob to discussed the burden and beauty of a family legacy, the technical "scar tissue" left by the ambitious Hydrophobia, and why porting a masterpiece like Inscryption to consoles is far more than a simple copy-paste job.
To celebrate Tomb Raider: Legend's 20th anniversary, the official channels have shared an early in-development gameplay demo.
obviously the drive is designed for internal use of 360 (in case if it is needed later or when HD DVD wins or whatever...), it is just slightly modded to make it work as external...
in case microsoft does want to produce HD DVD xbox360, they can probably do it by having a 15mins change in the production line...
You Xbots crack me up. HD DVD is'nt going too win the format war. Blu-ray is the outright winner so far, can't see that changing anytime in the future.
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Wonder how much hotter than the std. DVD drive the HD drive gets? If it's about the same it'd be nice to mod. it to an internal drive.
All we'd need is a firmware update to let it read game disks, and some room in the 360 to hide that adapter board. Connect the USB internally and done.... In theory ;)
I always like seeing dissected electronics.
if microsoft did that than they would defeat the purpose of advertising the xbox as affordable unless they add "another" sku (like sony) and if they made hd-dvd games (as in the games are on hd-dvd disc) that is screwing 14 million people. personally, my box just RRODed and ii could return it within around 8 months and get one of these if they got one. my $0.02