Change Xbox Name


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We overwrote the default name somehow with our name, but a friend played some games on it and now the Xbox box is called his name. How would this of happened? What games would affect the name of the Xbox?

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if you to go xbox-scene.com and look in the tools section, there's an xbox name changer utility. i don't know how it could have changed without using that...

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if you have Dead or Alive 3 whatever the name you enter on the score board ends up as your xbox name.

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Some games will change the xbox's name, the most common one being dead or alive 3 high score list - it calls your xbox whatever the last high score name entered was.

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that's stupid; i don't want a game changing anything on my xbox. just like i don't want a program on my computer installing **** everywhere. :crazy:

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Its not like it matters, the only place I've ever seen the xbox's name is in halo multiplayer (can't remember if it's lan only)

The xbox does not initially have a name, but as halo is generally the first game played, it assigns it a random name from a list of 30 or so, just like you get in multiplayer if you choose the "Default" or "Inverted" player.

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The xbox has a nickname list that is shared among all games. The idea is, the list will hold all your nicknames and you just pick the one you want off the list for highscores or whatever in the games. Halo uses the top nickname (lastest one) on the list whenever you do system link (or online with xbconnect) to be the name of your xbox, and this name everyone sees.

So if you play a game with a highscore list like DOA3 which puts nicknames in this list, the last one you use will be used by Halo as your xbox name. You can change the list manually with a program if you have a modchip or using one of the savegame hacks.

Now do you get it? :)

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