My Xbox 360 is on the way


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Yesturday, my brother inlaw bought the Xbox360 for me from east asia and he should be back day after tomorrow. I've just relised that it's a modified Xbox360.

A friend of mind told me that it will not allow me to play online although I have the original games here with me.... :cry:

Questions:

1)I thought there isn't any modified Xbox360s.... so is it true?

2)If I can't play online as my friend said... can I unmodify my console?

3)I have an LCD HDTV, will the default cable be component or normal AV cable? and do you recommend HDMI cable? will it be that different?

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3) There isn't a HDMI cable for the 360 as of yet. Your only other alternative is the VGA cable, which I personally prefer over the component cables.

which cable I will get in the box ?

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My European 360 (and the US ones as far as I'm aware) come with the component cables and composite/scart connections for those without a HD set.

Not so sure about Asian consoles, don't they use different inputs? :s

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My European 360 (and the US ones as far as I'm aware) come with the component cables and composite/scart connections for those without a HD set.

Not so sure about Asian consoles, don't they use different inputs? :s

will since all TVs we have here support both PAL/NTSC, it won't make any difference... here in "Bahrain" we use what ever Europe does. So I hope I won't have any problems with it...*praying for that*

last year I bought my GameCube from the US and the only thing I need is a power converter since US uses 110/120 power and we have 220/240 power, but other than that... it really works fine :D

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"east asian"? where? there's Japan, HK/Singapore and Philippines versions to my knowledge. the HK/Sing pacakges come with the regular component cables, you need to buy the VGA ones just like anywhere else.

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As far as I know, the only modification that can be done to the Xbox 360 at the moment is that the firmware can be changed on some drives, so it can play backups (copies) of games. Microsoft don't appear to be doing anything about this at the moment, meaning you can play on Xbox Live with the modified firmware, and you should be ok.

This may change in the future though, so you should probably be careful when new updates are released, etc.

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"east asian"? where? there's Japan, HK/Singapore and Philippines versions to my knowledge. the HK/Sing pacakges come with the regular component cables, you need to buy the VGA ones just like anywhere else.

to be honest I don't know really... LOL all I know that he got it really cheap for me -primum package-

ynnoj also recommended it... but I already have my PC hoocked to the TV... so the VGA is used at the moment... thanks for both you for the info

As far as I know, the only modification that can be done to the Xbox 360 at the moment is that the firmware can be changed on some drives, so it can play backups (copies) of games. Microsoft don't appear to be doing anything about this at the moment, meaning you can play on Xbox Live with the modified firmware, and you should be ok.

This may change in the future though, so you should probably be careful when new updates are released, etc.

Good to know that... I really can't wait to play GOW, read lots of reviews and it appears to be very good

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If the x360 youre getting has components manufactured by samsung/toshiba - you can play online without getting caught..yet

If its by hitachi/LG - you cant play online without getting caught.

Its easy identifying which one you have:

http://www.llamma.com/xbox360/repair/dvd_d...22806%20073.jpg

If the x360 is modified as in firmware flash - you can flash it back to normal.

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If the x360 youre getting has components manufactured by samsung/toshiba - you can play online without getting caught..yet

If its by hitachi/LG - you cant play online without getting caught.

Its easy identifying which one you have:

http://www.llamma.com/xbox360/repair/dvd_d...22806%20073.jpg

If the x360 is modified as in firmware flash - you can flash it back to normal.

great info... thanks...

but what do u mean by caught? so once I get caught I won't be able to play online any more?

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great info... thanks...

but what do u mean by caught? so once I get caught I won't be able to play online any more?

nope not with that console atleast

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