Archive for the ‘Xbox 360’ Category

I know I know

Tuesday, January 27th, 2009

It’s been well over a year since my last post, good gosh! One of the reasons I haven’t posted is because I was to lazy sometimes to fix the site due to old plugins messing with the new wordpress, and I had a bad import of the database, then I’d get to busy and completely not have anytime for the site. So my lazy butt finally fixed it and well so much has happened in my life since then and so little at the same time well in my gaming world that is, as I don’t play nearly as much as I used to when I first started the site.

So X5 is back sort of and I’ll definitely try to keep you updated a bit more then once between 2 years haha. Anyways as you can see below in my last post I always had problems with my Xbox 360 dvd drive, and it finally crapped out on me a few months ago which isn’t to bad considering it was a launch 360 so it lasted me a good 3 years! I’m currently borrowing a 360 to curb my xbox gaming needs until I can afford to buy another 360 and I’m thankful for that!

Wow there’s so much more I want to say! But I’ll spread it out over upcoming posts, and for those of you who still read this thank you and I hope to keep you entertained and informed as much as I can in the future.

Who’s the man?

Monday, October 8th, 2007

As some of you know I messaged you on Xbox Live and told you my 360 dvd drive was toast and I would have to buy another….Well I got my 360 going again, you heard that right! In a last ditch effort and with some spare time I tore my 360 apart, then took the dvd drive apart, and cleaned the hell out of it and then oiled the motor that spins the dvds. I then put it half way together to throw a game disc on the tray and close it…..Voila! I hear the disc spin up and then the game pops on my screen! woohoo!

Now I don’t recommend anyone does this to there own 360 if there dvd drive goes out, I just figure since I already voided my warranty last year by taking it apart to paint my 360, I had nothing to lose and something to gain, Sure enough I gained my 360 back. See you guys on Xbox Live!

PS I took these pics with my iPhone and it has no flash that is why some are so dark
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My Xbox 360 VGA Mod

Wednesday, December 6th, 2006

Now this mod was crazy, I got the idea to do it after I saw this Article How-To: Turn a standard Xbox 360 video cable into a VGA cable and I’m glad I found it, BUT after I started in I was telling one of my friends on here you should get brain surgery certification after you finish this haha, but seriously you got to have some pretty good patience, a steady hand, and other super human abilities, and being me of course that wasn’t a problem j/k but in the end it was well worth it and it’s a pretty cool accomplishment, it took me a good 2 days because I had to do it after work, and a few times I had to make a compromise in materials, but as you can see it’s all together and working, I even added in a few different outputs, like the Headphone jack, and the Dolby Digital Coax, I’m hoping to paint it black someday also, now on to the pics!

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My Black Painted Xbox 360

Wednesday, December 6th, 2006

I did this almost a year ago now, around the end of February 06 to be exact, but I don’t know why I’ve never posted about it on my site! I did this by gutting the 360 completely and taking apart anything that I wanted painted black on the outside, for the paint I used Black Krylon Fusion, the stuff works great! My 360 looks just as good as the day I painted it, anywho here’s the pics, and there’s more in my Flickr Album if you’d like to take a look
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First Halo 3 TV Commercial

Tuesday, December 5th, 2006

All I have to say is F^&*ng wow! I know this wasn’t made in game but I love the commercial! That shield grenade was just awesome, and I’m also thinking before they show Master Chief get up he was having a flashback, so that one of those little kids in the beginning of the trailer are him and some other kid on Planet Reach, That’s the planet where John (Master Chief - Spartan 117) was born and raised. And if you’re wondering how I know that I’ve read the books, and if you haven’t read them yet or don’t feel like reading them all, do yourself a favor and AT LEAST read The Fall Of Reach you won’t regret it! Anyways onto the video, enjoy

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