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I remember the old way of ripping original Xbox games was to use a modded Xbox that would serve the game disc over FTP. You'd connect to the Xbox and copy the disc contents off of it. You could then burn them to a blank DVD and your modded Xbox would happily play the xex executable. You could have quite the library of games by borrowing from friends or renting from Blockbuster. The next upgrade was to drop in a larger HDD so you could play games off the HDD instead. Games loaded so fast and could load even faster with a high speed ribbon cable.

Now you can pull almost every retail Xbox game off of internet archive and throw nearly all of them on to a massive multi TB HDD.