Benefits of Modifying Xbox

Modifying Xbox can do more things to your Xbox than just playing games. This is the reason why Xbox players modify their console, and that is to enhance the experience and to perk up the game play.

One of the benefits that most modders like is that it makes it easier to change the hardware of the console and to install software. When it comes to software installation nothing beats installing the X-Box Media Center, or XBMC, which functions just as the name suggests. XBMC is a program that supports nearly all media codecs and it provides a media center that can stream from a PC. You can now add your Xbox to your home network and stream videos from another PC to the Xbox. Since these files can be transferred over to the Xbox or “streamed”, this gives plenty of room to experiment and play around with.

The Xbox Media Center can be installed as a dashboard or an application and you can play just about every video format and other files with it like Xvid, WMV and Divx. With the aid of File Transfer Protocol (FTP) software you can download Pod Casts, play DVDs and exchange and manipulate files over the internet and easily transfer them to your Xbox 360 in order to watch films or programs on regular TV. By installing XBMC, you have total control over the display, not to mention, that it will also play all types of music files.

A modded xbox could run a number of other applications too such as Linux or MAME (Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator) which can copy several thousand different classic arcade video games produced even from the late 70s.

Finally, by modifying your Xbox you could backup games to the hard drive so that you can play them without the need for the disc.