Between soldering LED's into the controller ports, making the xbox logo in the center of the console light up and the xecuter3 modchip, I had so much fun modding the OG xbox. I was first exposed to IRC and FTP through the Xbox modding community. I thought my multi-colored boot screen[1] was the coolest thing ever. Anyone else make the golden warthog skin[2] for halo 2?!
My main high school income was from modding Xboxes. It was all just local kids but one of my friend’s brothers worked for a celebrity and one of the Xboxes was apparently featured on MTV’s Cribs so I called it quits.
Our modded Xbox was done by my dad's friend at his work. Somehow I stumbled upon a halo modding forum and learned what I needed to do the most basic mods: ftp to pull the halo2 map files off of the box, using the signing tools to allow for modded maps to be played, and using a hex editor and modding tools to make the smg shoot tank rounds!
